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05/19/12
A new dishwasher!
We got a new dishwasher today...a Kenmore portable. This one is much smaller than our old one but fits in the kitchen better. It's also white and matches the fridge. Now we just need to get the stove replaced! (hint hint)
05/18/12
The Gifted Games!
Tyler had a great day participating in the games today. We went to Gilroy HS and they did such an outstanding job for the kids! Our cheerleader was so good with the kids! Wow...a big thank you to Alyssa! The kids all had a great time!
05/16/12
14 Years Today!
You're still the one who makes my heart pitter patter! Happy Anniversary!
For our anniversary....Scott gave me an iTunes gift card and I gave him two new iced tea pitchers for his ice tea machine!
05/15/12
King Day
The boys got to rule the girls at school today!
05/13/12
Happy Mother's Day
Scott and the boys got me my first rose bush to start my rose garden! It's so pretty! I can't wait to see it planted...I already picked out the perfect spot for them to plant it!
Happy 3rd Birthday Otto!
Otto is 3 years old today and is living it up! We've been singing happy birthday to him all day! Lily on the other hand is hating the cone she has to wear...her foot is finally healing but boy is it taking forever! She is on medication and the swelling is still enormous. It's back to the vet on Tuesday if things don't progress like they are suppose to by then. We are all pulling for a speeding recovery! Poor Lily. She is such a good girl but she really hates wearing that cone on her head.
05/06/12
An Early Mother's Day
We celebrated Mother's Day at the Brock's tonight...Norma made a wonderful Pot Roast! It was a really nice dinner. I also got a lovely rose center piece (the red ones are from Ken & Norma, the yellow ones are from my boys) and a gift card to go shopping!
05/02/12
Camp Photo!
Who knew getting a photo for camp would be so fun? What an experience! I had to take one picture to send with Jacob's package of info so they'd know who he was when he arrived...well, as you will see...he couldn't decide which angle he wanted to pose for the camera! We finally got a great shot! What a handsome dude!
04/25/12
Raymond starts Hapkido!
We have one happy dude on our hands! Raymond was so excited about starting Hapkido today in his new gee...he looked so cute!
04/24/12
Happy Birthday Maggie!
Miss Maggie is 14 years old today! That's like 98 in people years...holey toledo! She is such a good girl! Scott got her for my birthday the year we were married...and she has been my little shadow ever since! I love my Maggie Girl!
04/23/12
State Project
Jacob belted his state project board out last night...nothing like waiting till the last minute...but he finished it and that's what counts. Scott and he worked on it last night in order to get it in on time tomorrow. Good job Jacob! His state project was on New Jersey.
04/21/12
RoboGames!
We had such a great day! Our annual trip to the RoboGames in San Mateo was such an outstanding day! We saw Sewer Snake again...he was not a disappointment! It was loud, people were stopping their feet and shouting! He made the audience dance with his stream of fire...OMG...he was so exciting to watch! I hope he wins the competition again this year...but I have to wait till after tomorrow's competition to find out. The waiting is going to kill me! We all had a great day! The boys had fun too...but I had a ball! I love this stuff!
Sewer Snake - my favorite!
Lego Robot
Arena where the robots compete
Stands of people watching from other side of the arena
Jacob, Scott and Raymond in the stands watching the RoboGames
Trish and Tyler in the stands watching the RoboGames
04/13/12
Spring Break!
We could hardly wait to get in the car and go! School is out, we are packed and fun is just around the corner...or so we thought! Jacob and Raymond spent 3 great days with their grandparents up in Napa while Tyler and I had some fun at home. Finally though, we all climbed in the car and headed south, to Disneyland! Our first day was very wet but we managed to get a few rides in before leaving the park. Then we went to our hotel for awhile, changed and went back that night for a few more hours. Saturday was a much drier day...although the boys all went on water rides and got soaked! Go figure! We had a good time...but it was nice to come home and sleep in our beds! Although, Tyler wants another week so he can just play on his computer! :)
Right after breakfast, the boys all got balloons made for them. Jacob picked a monkey, Raymond picked a motorcycle and Tyler picked Mickey Mouse.
Well, some look ready for fun.
This was one of the coolest exhibits I have seen in a long time.
Tyler in front of the Millennium Tree.
Trish in front of the Millennium Tree.
Raymond rock climbing.
Tyler rock climbing.
Raymond smiling! OMG!!
Tyler on the slide.
Jacob getting his wilderness badge and thanking the ranger! :)
04/08/12
State Project
Tyler finished his state project today...his homework was on North Dakota. He has to present his project next week after spring break. His poster turned out really well...I am so proud of him. We wrote to the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce last week and they sent him a huge package of maps, a cardboard license plate and other interesting information that we glued to a poster board - as you can see. Then he printed lots of other pictures off the internet, like the state flag, their state bird, the state fish, the state insect, the state tree, the state motto. I helped him glue the poster together...boy what a mess that was...but it was fun. Tyler does not like to get his fingers gooey! :)
03/24/12
Lily turns 13!
Happy Birthday Lily Girl!
03/12/12
Jacob's Science Fair Project...
It's finally done! I didn't think he was going to make it...but he did it! I am so proud of him! It turned out so good too!
What makes popcorn pop?
03/10/12
Happy Birthday Tyler!
Tyler is 11 years old today! Man does time fly by when you are having fun.
And the party....what a day!
The birthday table in the kitchen.
Opening his presents after dinner!
It was a Harry Potter Birthday theme!
Otto invited himself to the party!
Tyler blowing out the candles...all 11 of them!
And finally, reading Nana and Granddad's birthday card...and saving his gift for Disneyland! :)
Tyler anticipating the removal of his braces!
The orthodontist taking off his braces!
The braces are gone!!
The first taste of Ruffles in a year...its celebration time! Look at that beautiful SMILE!!
Here is a picture of Tyler on a ski trip in Northern Arizona when he was 2. He's still my sweet boy!
So here is today's history lesson for March 10th ~
0515 BC - The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.
0241 BC - The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.
0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.
1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1656 - In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.
1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver.
1804 - The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.
1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.
1814 - In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon.
1848 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the U.S. from England.
1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1894 - New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first dog-licensing law.
1902 - The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.
1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake.
1902 - U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox announced that a suit was being brought against Morgan and Harriman's Northern Securities Company. The suit was enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Northern Securities loss in court was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, 1904.
1903 - Harry C. Gammeter patented the multigraph duplicating machine.
1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.
1906 - In France, 1,200 miners were buried in an explosion at Courrieres.
1909 - Britain extracted territorial concessions from Siam and Malaya.
1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
1912 - China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu Ch'ing Dynasty.
1913 - William Knox rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.
1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.
1933 - Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1940 - W2XBS-TV in New York City aired the first televised opera as it presented scenes from "I Pagliacci".
1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.
1941 - Vichy France threatened to use its navy unless Britain allowed food to reach France.
1944 - The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.
1945 - American B-29 bombers attacked Tokyo, Japan, 100,000 were killed.
1947 - The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.
1947 - Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.
1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1953 - North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
1955 - The last broadcast of "The Silver Eagle" was heard on radio.
1956 - Julie Andrews at the age of 23 made her TV debut in "High Tor" with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.
1959 - "Sweet Bird of Youth", a play by Tennessee Williams, opened in New York City.
1965 - Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in "The Odd Couple". It later became a hit on television.
1966 - The North Vietnamese captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.
1966 - France withdrew from NATO's military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.
1969 - James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998.
1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
1975 - The North Vietnamese Army attacked the South Vietnamese town of Ban Me Thout.
1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in Tehran.
1981 - The U.S. Postal Service announced an increase in first class postage from 15 to 18 cents.
1982 - The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism.
1986 - The Wrigley Company, of Chicago, raised the price of its seven-stick pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum from a quarter to 30 cents.
1987 - The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.
1990 - Haitian President Prosper Avril was ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
1991 - "Phase Echo" began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.
1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
1995 - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.
1998 - U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax.2001 - Tyler was born! One of the happiest moments of my life!!!
2002 - The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.
2003 - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers.2004 - Tyler gets his first laptop computer.
2006 - Tyler starts kindergarten and learns how to read.
2011 - Tyler gets his braces.
2012 - Tyler gets his braces off!
So what do you remember? I am not telling! :)
03/09/12
School Billboard...
The party continues...today Tyler got his name on the billboard at school! He was so excited! So here we all are...the birthday festivities continue...
03/04/12
Tyler's first party of the week!
We started the birthday celebration early with a birthday dinner at Gram and Paca's with the cousins. Tyler got to pick the dinner. His favorite was lemon chicken and wild rice from the Chinese restaurant and Mac & Cheese from Boston Market. But he liked the birthday cake with cookie dough ice cream the best! I knew he would! It was a fun night. He got lots of Bionicles for his birthday. He was one happy dude!
02/23/12
A trip to Arizona!
We drove east...to Tucson, Tombstone and Canyon Lake. I took the boys to visit Nana and Granddad for 4 days. We had a lot of fun...but it was a long drive in the car...14 hours to be exact. We celebrated a birthday with Sal and everyone the first night, then went down Canyon Lake in Dad's pontoon "party" boat the following day where we spotted mountain goats. There was a herd with babies...there were so cute. Then Monday we went to Tombstone and saw Boot Hill and a gun fight between some real cowboys. They were hilarious! The final day we spent at the Desert Museum checking out all the desert animals...that was really cool! Tyler got to see all his cousins, Aunts and Uncles again while Jacob and Raymond got to meet all of them for the first time. They fit right in...like they've been part of the family right from the start. We really had a great trip!
02/12/12
Super Bowl Prizes?
Ray wants to win some prizes so he asked me to shoot his picture for Pepsi and Frito Lay products...for a super bowl promotion. He is so funny! I hope he wins something....he'll be heart broken if he doesn't.
02/04/12
The Pet Expo!
Today I took the boys to see DockDogs at the the Pet Expo in San Jose. They were so much fun to watch. We saw so many different breeds of dogs at this place today...but I decided Otto was the cutest of all of them! I really want to get Otto into Dock Dogs. He would be so good at it...he's already a natural at running fast and loves the water! The boys had a blast watching all the dogs do their tricks. We also saw agility and K9 attack dogs. Wow...we were amazed!
This was a black lab that was so cool...a puppy that was fun to watch!
This dog tried so hard to get his bone...and everyone clapped when he finally got it!
OMG...this dog was so good....PERFECT form...and yes, we all clapped when he got the bone! They were so fun to watch!
01/29/12
The SFO Exploratorium!
What a fun weekend we had! We piled in the car around 10am and headed North for the day. It was so hard to leave the city. We had a blast. There was so much to do and see at the Exploratorium...and they all want to go back! We got us some smart dudes!
01/26/12
A walk down Fisherman's Wharf!
We went to see the sea lions and also got to see a bunch of star fish. We had a lot of fun!
01/25/12
Not a morning person!
Getting ready for school in the morning is not exactly the best time of the day around here! This is a very typical picture around our breakfast table during the week. You might have to guess who this one is though! I will give you a hint...it is NOT any character from star wars!
01/20/12
An Award Ceremony at School!
Today was the day they handed out the certificates at school for GPA's, Perfect Attendance and Perfect STAR Test Scores. We have a lot of bright kids at our school. There were over 300 awards given out! Tyler got his...another 4.0 Gold GPA Certificate for straight A's. We are so proud of him!
1/14/12
A nice surprise!
Look what we got in the mail yesterday! I was so proud of Tyler...he is one smart dude! Scott, Tyler and I all got straight A's last semester! We are waiting to see if a few more people got straight A's too...Jacob thinks he did and maybe Raymond. So we may have to hit Baskin Robins again before this semester is over! I am certainly game for that! :)
1/8/12
A Birthday Party!
We celebrated Scott's birthday last night and his brother's too. Dinner was super scrumptious! All the boys had a blast...it was a fun night! Scott got some nice gifts from everyone. I think he was a happy camper!
This is my favorite picture....all the boys helping blow out the candles...a real team effort! After all, there should have been over a hundred candles on that cake if the truth be told (55 + 54 = >100)! heh heh heh
1/1/12
Happy New Year!!!
2011 certainly went by quickly. This year is definitely getting off to a great start. We are a family of 5 now. It seems like this is how it has always suppose to have been, things just fit together so well. So we started off the new year watching football...well they guys did anyway. Then we went to Scott's families house for dinner. We had Lasagna...everyone loved that! They all loved meeting the newest members of the family and we had some laughs...it was a fun night! Then we came home and watched Rango. The boys loved it. I didn't make any new year's resolutions this year...I just hope this year is better than last year for everyone in so many ways!
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