Father's Day 2011

We decided to go to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Father's Day to spend some quality family time together.  The boys loved all the exhibits - each of them must have taken a 100 photos on their iPhones!

I also managed to take some great pictures of the boys and my wonderful hubby.  I hope to create some digital scrapbook pages when I have the time but for now I'm just going to post a couple of my favorites.

The boys' favorite exhibit was "Butterflies Alive" - a huge netted area with hundreds of butterflies fluttering about.  Since Daniel was wearing orange the butterflies were all over him.  Unfortunately his brothers were not as lucky - the butterflies were not at all interested in them.  Luckily, a kind museum worker came to their aid and everyone got to have a butterfly land on them :-)

My, How big You Have Gotten!

This past weekend we celebrated Daniel's 12th birthday.  He had a great day.  He got the Xbox 360 that he had wanted and we took him to dinner at his favorite restaurant.

I just cant believe how quickly he is growing up!

Summer Vacation is Here!

So, the boys got out off school two weeks earlier than they were supposed to this year because apparently the state of California did not have enough money left in the budget to pay the teachers to finish out the school year!

They are really enjoying the break from school and spent most of today playing the Wii - they even got along for a little while lol

So Why a Blog?

Well, I decided to create a blog in the hope that it would make it easier to keep family and friends updated on everything that is going on in our lives. With the majority of our family and friends either overseas or out of state I don't get so see them as often as I would like and my hectic life makes it tough to stay in touch.  Hopefully they will be able to feel more part of our lives through the posts on this blog.

The first bit of news that I have for everyone is that my oldest, Daniel, just graduated from elementary school.  I cant believe how the time has flown by - just six more years and he will be graduating from High School!