Baking Cookies

Fun In The Rain

When I was a kid i loved to race leaves in the gutter after a big rainstorm. I tried showing this game to Hannah. Here are the results:




The real craziness is this movie is me trying to stop the inevitable...

The Coop

What is the Coop you ask?

The Coop is an indoor play area in Studio City created by two moms who wanted to create a more adult-friendly play area.

For kids there's a rope tunnel (a little scary for little ones), indoor slide , bubble pool, step game pad and an indoor jumper! Although it looks empty here, it gets pretty crowded around 3:00pm, once school lets out.

Luckily there's a room in the back with a kitchen set that kids can play in if things get too crazy in the main room.

For adults there's a coffee/snack bar and some magazines.

With the rainy season coming, I'm sure we'll be coming back quite often.

Our Halloween

Guess what Hannah was for Halloween?

This year was Hannah's first year trick-or-treating! She went with Kaya, Colin, Amaya and Gavin, and their parents too! Excuse the lack of pictures -- the neighborhood was dark and spoooooky! Emphasis on dark.

Just who is that guy in the scary horsey mask????

Sharing loot.

This year is particularly special in that Dad usually has to work on this holiday, but this year his employer let him out for 2 hours to spend with family. One hour of that was commuting to Kaya and Colin's neighborhood and back. Believe me, it was worth it!

Harvest Festival at Underwood Farms

Our family needed a pumpkin for Halloween, so rather than go to the nearby pumpkin patch, we decided to pick one up at the Harvest Festival in Moorpark. This place is like the Disneyland of pumpkin patches!

See that tower? There's a goat on top of it! There's a whole network of planks that the goats can climb to walk between a few different pens. Just don't look up...

Animatronic Chicken Show!
Is this a yak?


Corn maze! Good thing it was warm that day, otherwise we would've ended up like Jack Nicholoson in the Shining.

Ok, we probably should have posted these pics before Halloween. But better late than never!

Hannah's 2nd Birthday Bash!

Hannah celebrated her 2nd birthday a few weeks ago! We had pizza, cake, arts and crafts, a jumper and more.

Thanks everyone for coming!

Hannah's Crib: The Flashback Edition

Hannah's Crib has reached a whopping 10,000 hits! So what if 9,987 hits of those are from her parents? Time for a retrospective!

2 Weeks


3 Months

4 Months

6 Months

7 Months

9 Months

11 Months

13 Months

16 Months

21 Months

Hannah's Sticker Collection

Sometimes Mom needs to bribe Hannah into brushing her teeth with a sticker. Watch Hannah show off her collection:

Hannah's Temporary Pet

It's summertime...time for relaxing vacations -- for everyone besides us. Mom, Dad and Hannah can't seem to get their schedules to coincide for a nice trip. One day...

Anyhoo...one of our friends took a trip to the East Coast and asked us to take care of Drago, their pet fish. Hannah and Drago bonded instantly!


Drago bonded even more with Cow...
Sadly, Hannah had to say goodbye to Drago a few days ago. Oh well, at least Hannah is still able to play with Shady...

...or not...

Her Own Biggest Fan

As you've probably noticed, there haven't been any video posts for a while. There has been some weirdness in blogger and i just recently found a workaround. It basically involves posting blind and crossing my fingers. Anyway, on to the movies!

Check out this Twinkle Twinkle Little Star/Happy Birthday medley



Believe it or not this is one of the tamer ones!

Hangin' With Cousins