Thursday, March 20, 2008

St. Patrick's Day!

Hunter has on green sideburns!


Yes, Hunter may look like he was up all night at the pubs, but really this was taken before school and he was tired!

Out in Dove Springs trying out the new RZR and Hunter's new quad!

Hunter riding his new quad!


Michael and Sabryn in the RZR


Michael with his mommy!


Hunter on his new quad!


Sabryn in the RZR!


Hunny and Jelly





Michael and Hunter in the red RZR and Scott
and Sabryn in the blue Rhino...

Sabryn (The Robot) being crazy waiting for her meal to come!



Sabryn got her round-off back handspring on the FLOOR!


For those who don't know, this is a really big deal! She has been working on it for a year! It is said that learning the back handspring is one of the hardest things to learn. Sabryn is in the middle of the video next to the dark white line...

Friday, March 14, 2008

Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown!

OK...I love watching the Food Network! I love to cook and I find the cooking shows very inspiring! Well, since I started watching it the kids have gotten hooked as well! How nice to have your child ask if they can turn on the TV to watch the Food Network instead of cartoons!

Anyway, one of the shows we watch is "Ultimate Recipe Showdown". This show brings people who have won recipe contests nationwide to prepare their dish in front of a live audience. The winner of each episode gets their recipe put on the TGIFridays menu.

Well, today I took the kids to Fridays and we ordered the winning the chocolate cake(that Fridays made into cupcakes). The kids were so excited to be eating something from the Food Network! And, the cupcakes were delicious!

Easter Bunny!

La Brea Tar Pits

Hunter has been learning about extinct creatures in school and is now obsessed with them! He loves dinosaurs, mammoths, saber-tooth cats (yes cats...we learned tigers is incorrect!), dire wolves etc. He even made his own Prehistoric Park with extinct creatures, mostly dinosaurs, where he plays with them, feeds them, talks to them, and he even punishes them! One day we were watching a movie and the dinosaurs kept "getting rowdy and were knocking the lid off their park" and when Hunter "found out" it was T-Rex causing all the mayhem...Oh boy! Knowing T-Rex is a meat eater, he punished him by feeding him rice for his next meal!


Michael and I figured this would be a great opportunity to take the kids to a couple museums. So, last Saturday, we went to the Natural History Museum. After paying for parking (money we never got back), we went inside to buy our tickets only to find a sign that said the dinosaur exhibit was closed! We asked for how long and we were told til 2010! What!?


Well, bummed, we next decided to go from there to the La Brea Tar Pits so Hunter could check out the mammoths! We had such a great day together and Hunter just loved it! At the gift shop he bought 2 mammoths(because they travel together), a saber-tooth cat, a dire wolf, and some tar goo to make another Extinct Park!

The kids outside with the mammoths stuck in the tar!


Hunter couldn't look at anything in the museum until he could see this mammoth upclose. It would move and make sounds, too!


Here the kids are putting their hands in a mammoth footprint!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Music!

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Hunter earned his Purple Belt!



Hunter started Chun Kuk Do last December. Chun Kuk Do is a form of mixed martial arts created by Chuck Norris! Hunter is loving it and is excited about his new purple belt!

Sabryn's working on her Round-off Back Handspring!

Sabryn's Round-off Back Handspring 2