Botanic Gardens

We took Mema and Papa to see the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens. We spent most of the time at Braedyn's favorite spot on the stream, throwing rocks and climbing around.

Mema & Papa visit

Mema and Papa were out for another visit this past week and got to spend a lot of quality time with Braedyn. Mom and dad skipped town for a couple days to have a nice weekend away.

 
 
 

Santa Barbara Fair

Last of the fair pictures

 
 
 

Dead Camera

If you've been wondering why it seems that our blogging has been slowing doewn lately, it's not due to a waning interest, it can mostly be attributed to a lack of pictures due to a broken camera. That's right, our camera has officially bitten the dust. It's probably a combination of getting old, a little too much sand, and Braedyn's growing interest in taking pictures that killed it off, but it doesn't work. We have a new one on order that I've been eyeing for a while, so we should be back in business again soon. This new one boasts 10.1 MP and a High Definition video recording feature, so be prepared for some better quality coming soon. I've been happy enough with Panasonic cameras that this will be our 5th Panasonic digital camera we have owned. You can check it out here.

Santa Barbara Fair

More Fair rides

 
 
 
 

Santa Barbara Fair

We headed out to the Santa Barbara Fair on Thursday evening for a fun filled time of roller coasters and spinny rides. Braeydn had constant ear to ear grin on his face except when he was stuffing down a healthy dinner of corndogs and funnel cakes! Mema and Daddy went on the rides with him and mostly felt sick and dizzy all night, but we all had fun none the less.

Easter Church Service

Easter morning we headed to Carpinteria High School for the Reality Easet service. There were a ton of people there. After the service they served a taco lunch, had bouncy castles a dunk tank and sno cones as well as some more live music, so we spent most of the day there and had a lot of fun.

 
 
 

imagination

Braedyn has been really using his imagination a lot lately. Since he really likes to take pictures he decided to use the ladder to climb up and take pictures of things from a higher vantage point, all with his imagenary camera. Daddy would sit in the hammock and Braedyn would climb the ladder, setup the camera, turn on the timer, climb down the ladder and run to daddy on the hammock and then we would both say CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE for the camera. It's just too bad we couldn't post those pictures because I'm sure there were some good ones in the 100's that we took that day...

 

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. We had a nice Easter weekend here with not a lot going on. Sunday morning, Braedyn got a little Easter basket and a new outfit (pictured here) and then we headed off to the Easter service at Reality which was held outdoors at the local high school. They had lots of fun bouncy castles and good food afterwards so it was a hit with Braedyn. We were able to snap this family picture before everyone got dirty!

 

Beach day

Another perfect day for the beach

 
 

More pictures from the slide archive... Michael as a little boy in Guam.

 

Nicole's Visit

Talisha's friend, Nicole, came for a visit with her twins. The weather wasn't on its best behavior, yes, we do occasionally have less than perfect weather, so we made the best of our inside time. We did get out a little in between the rain and wind. They were only in town for one full day and two nights, but they were very busy ones; keeping up with one very energetic little boy and two very active, curious, almost 18 month olds. Whew... it was a whilwind weekend, but so great to see my old friend. Little ones always sleep at some point so we got to have some good long chats on our downtime!

The Zoo

We headed to the zoo after church on Sunday and after a nice lunch at Jeannine's Bakery in Montecito. We looked at a few of the animals, but Braedyn has more fun just checking out all of the cool things to climb, jump, slide and run on, so we mostly just go with that!