Friday, February 27, 2009

We're Off

Wednesday afternoon we headed down to Los Angeles and boarded a 9:00pm flight bound for Manila Philippines. The excitement wore off pretty quickly and Braedyn fell asleep. He slept for about 9-10 hours of the 17 hour flight. We made it safely and were able to recooperate quickly and have been having fun with Grandma and Grandpa as well as Aunt Michelle and her family.

 
 
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

out and about

Hanging out around our house playing in the dirt and buggy riding.

 
 
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art collection

surfboard and waves by Braedyn

 
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Just a little beach fun

It's been a bit cool and rainy lately here so we had to layer up to go to the beach...

 
 
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Happy Birthday

Happy 3rd Birthday Braedyn Owen Davis!

 
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Brownies

Braedyn helped out with making Brownies the other night. He mostly likes to sample each step of the process. This time he finally got up the nerve to lick the beaters, I think he always thought they would beat his tounge, but now he knows that there is nothing but goodness on those things!

 

Where did all the chocolate go?
 
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

SNOW?!?!

We had a bit of cold, rainy weather here on the coast the past few days and it dusted the mountains behind us with snow. It was a pretty site sitting on the beach looking at the snow capped mountains. On Saturday we headed up for a little hike and discovered that there was still a little snow left. This was at about 3500 ft elevation I think. All of the mountains behind had snow on them as well. We had some fun playing in the snow and hiking around and then headed back into town to go swimming at the YMCA.

 
 
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Marbles

Braedyn got a new train table for his Thomas train set as an early birthday present this year. The table has little holes the whole way around to stick little poles or track risers in, but Braedyn decided to use those holes to stick all of his marbles around the perimiter of the table.

 
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Running

Braedyn was out in the yard playing with Dori, throwing her ball and running around the yard with her.

 
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Manila

We're Off! We are headed to visit Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Michelle in Manila, Phillippines. We'll be there for a couple of weeks assuming we survive the 17 hour flight.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Bunnies

At the Valentine's Party there were some bunny rabbits that Braedyn had a lot of fun playing with. The pre-school he'll be starting at also has a couple of bunnies, and he's already mentioned getting one at home on a few ocasions. We'll have to see about that...

 
 
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Valentine's Party

Braedyn was invited to a Valentine's party and had a blast. There were a lot of kids there and all kinds of games to play, but the thing that he remembered the most was decorating his own cookie and then eating it.

 
 
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Bike Riding

For Christmas, Braedyn got a new Scoot Bike. This is a bike without pedals that is supposed to help kids learn balance on a bike before having to worry about pedalling as well. He's been having a lot of fun riding it around the loop by our house and is starting to get hte hang of it a little bit. He does like it the most when daddy pushes him so he can go "really fast"!

 
 
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

More Garden

THe last of our botanical garden excursion pictures... This place was really a blast, we ended the day with a picnic lunch in the gardens by the visitor center after a long stop at the little stream to rock hop, throw rocks in and just explore.


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Friday, February 13, 2009

Botanical Garden

Some more pictures from our day at the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens.



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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens

We headed out to the Botanical Garden in Santa Barbara recently. It was a great place with all kinds of neat, natural areas with a ton of amazing plants growing around. Braedyn had a ton of fun there and I think we will certainly go back. The Gardens themselves are broken into different climate regions (desert, Redwood forest, island, etc) so there is a lot of interesting things to see. It also overlooks the ocean off in the distance while butting up to the mountains.


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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Overlook

We found a nice little overlook at the bluffs near our house to take a picture. This also turned out to be about the time that our car was getting broken into back at the parking lot which kind of ruined our plans for the rest of the day...

 
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Short Legs

Elisabeth lost her legs and Rincon beach and so we had to build her some new ones out of sand.

 
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Monday, February 09, 2009

Starfish

With low tide comes tidepool and that means lots of critters like crabs, snails and starfish. Lots of fun for kids!

 
 
 
 
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