Sunday, lovely Sunday

First in news -
Alan & Lorraine have gone and we are once again the three amigos.
My father had a heart attack last week, he's fine and was released today to go home.
Our second bike was stolen last week while I was at work! Now we have none :(
Bronson's new word is "Fish".
This Thursday & Friday we are gone up to the Owens Valley telescopes where Matthew will work and Bronson and I will play in the clean air.
Matthew leaves on Saturday April 12th for a 1and a half day meeting in Germany, then on to Oxford for a day, then back home on Thursday: Bronson and I will be here sulking.
Matthew and Bronson saw Joey Fatone from *N SYNC at the LA Zoo last Friday.

I am spoiled by the beautiful weather here, the past three days have been cloudy and I've been saying "Really, we shouldn't do anything in weather like this but curl up and read books!" Unfortunately, my boss has a difference of opinion. Despite the non-sunshine, we had a lovely family sunday, here is a video to illustrate:

***Note: no children or animals were harmed in the production of this video - thought one mom was reputed to have been bitten by a turtle and grossed out picking up a frog or two. (They were big!)

Bronson's egg hunt

Bronson is a pretty good egg hunter. He found all of his plastic eggs with one graham cracker in each in no time. He would have been even faster, but he was limited to 2 hands. Next year he'll do better with the spiffy Easter basket we bought him on sale on Monday :)

We spent Easter afternoon outside in Bronson's pool. The water was cold, but it was 100 out, so it was a nice change. We played with the plastic eggs closing water inside of them for Bronson to find. He'd squeal everytime he opened a water egg and got splashed.

Bronson and Matthew also got a cute Easter gift from mom, check out their matching "I want to rock" shirts.

This past week Matthew's dad and step-mom (Alan and Lorraine) have been visiting us. We took them to all of our favorite haunts, including the zoo on Saturday. You may remember that on rainy days we've found some animals to be more active, well, the same can be said for hot days - namely the gigantic tortoises were more active. All of the other animals were dozing in the shade.

So long...squeak squeak

Last week we had a visit from Aunty Teri and Uncle Jay who drove all the way down to see us from Alberta! It was a great visit, we had lots of good food and laughs. They shopped and golfed and explored Huntington and explored Kidspace and went to the zoo a few times. Also, they played board games with us :)

Bronson loved the visit - he got REALLY upset when we waved goodbye as they pulled away without him. He liked having friends sleeping on the floor of the living room and playing with him.

Hope that you had fun in Vegas and good drive home, guys. Thanks for the good time.

Here is a video that uncle Jay and Bronson collaborated on:

My Messy Kid

Because the only thing better than soup - is crackers. And the only thing better than crackers - is soup AND crackers.

The Emperor's new clothes

Last february was a big month for weddings - not only did we miss my good friend Christina's wedding in Port, but we also missed our friend Mansi's wedding in India.

Our friends Walter, Laura and Varun went to Mansi's wedding however. Varun then visited his parents for awhile and Walter and Laura did some sightseeing on their first trip through India. They were kind enough to bring back a traditional little outfit for Bronson and one for I as well, Varun brought back a traditional shirt for Matthew and a really neat tiger coat for Bronson which I'm sure you'll see next winter.


After many apologies, they also presented Bronson with a new pair of shoes - apparently all the kids in India have them and they thought Bronson might enjoy them. Watch the video to see how much he likes his new shoes.