Monday, August 10, 2009

Kami loves the camera

The other day I noticed Kami playing with a baby doll. She had the doll in one hand and it's clothes in the other. She kept pushing the clothes on the doll like she was trying to get it dressed. It was very cute to watch her try to figure this out. So I quietly got out the camera to video her doing this. She heard the faint whir of the camera when I turned it on and was more interested in being on camera then what she was doing before. But she was still cute so I had to post the video. She's definitely figured out what a camera is all about.

Crazy Family

Justin and the kids had fun with the camera a few weeks ago. Here's some of their pictures. Daddy with Jason legs
Jason with Katie legs
Jacob with Jason legs
Jason with Jacob legs
Katie with Daddy legs

Cub Scout Day Camp

Justin was a parent volunteer and was able to take a few pictures of Jason at Cub Scout Day Camp last month, sorry it's taken me awhile to post them
Jason's in the middle with his arms folded.
Archery
BB guns (guess what he wants for Christmas now?)

Justin couldn't resist the opportunity to do some shooting too

Watch those fingers!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Stewart Heights Pool

Lisa and I took the kids last week to Stewart Heights pool. It's a public pool/water park in Tacoma. There's one water slide, one big pool, and a very small lazy river. But our kids had a great time cooling off in the heat of summer.
Jacob, Kami and Luke


Jason and Ellie in line for the water slide


Kober Kids

I recently took some really cute photos of my kids that I wanted to share. Jason 8 years old
Katie 6 years old
Jacob 3 years old
Kami 13 months old

Monday, June 29, 2009

Yard Work

We recently had some concrete poured in various places in our yard. Mainly, we widened our driveway and put in curbing around our flower beds.


The Front Yard

The Back YardThe Driveway
This use to be grass with a little dirt around the base of this tree. Now we want to make it a flower bed. Haven't got that far yet. We can't drive on it yet, but eventually the red car can be parked over more to allow easier accesibility in and out of the garage. This will also work out well when we get rid of the red car and get something bigger, like a truck.
The Side Yards
We got an estimate on pouring concrete in one of the side yards and decided it was too expensive for what we were getting. So we considered gravel. The landscape guy told us he could get us some rock at a good price. So he dropped a load of rock in our driveway and we hauled it into our side yard. He gave us way more then we needed so we did the other side too. Before this area was only a home for weeds.

Camping at Lake Cushman

We left on Father's Day for a few days of camping with my sister Lisa and her family.Kami and Logan spent a lot of time in this playpen keeping each other company. They didn't like it but sometimes entertained us with their cage wrestling.After dinner the first night we made apple pie on a stick. Lisa and I found the recipe online and it was so yummy! You just roast green apples like you would marshmallows until the skin starts to peel. Peel off all the skin roll it in cinnamon and sugar. Then put it back over the fire for a few minutes to carmelize the sugar. It really tasted like apple pie!The kids spent a lot of time riding their bikes around the campground. Here's Jacob on his tricycle trying so hard to keep up with all the other kids on 2-wheelers.
Katie and Ian had fun "offroading" it.Jason and Ellie were allowed to "do the loop" and go around the whole campground. The other kids just had to go back and forth and stay by our campsite. During the day we pretty much had the swimming area to ourselves, which was good because we took up a lot of space.All the kids had a turn driving the SeaDoos with Daddy. Katie enjoyed it more then we thought she would. Me and Lisa tearing it up. We didn't like to do donuts like the guys. We like to look for wake and catch some air. Which was hard to find because there weren't a lot of boats out.
Luke and Jacob floating close to the shore. Someone needs to tell them, when you wave at the camera, don't do it right in front of your face.
Logan had rough couple of days not being able to get down and crawl around very much. But he didn't mind being held by Mommy.
Justin helped all the kids swim out to this island.

On the last day the kids had their bikes at the beach, the water was really shallow so they had a good time riding their bikes right into it. It also helped wash off all the camping dirt.