Space Shuttle Endeavor

Is this making the news everywhere, or just here in CA?
Because it's pretty incredible!

So, the recently returned from space Space Shuttle Endeavor is being retired to a museum in Los Angeles.  It was attached to the top of a 747 and on Friday flew (very low and slowly) from Northern California to Southern California.  It went over the Golden Gate Bridge and a few other specific locations, but no plans to fly directly over here where we live.

After school on Friday, Addison tells me that during her recess, IT FLEW DIRECTLY OVER HER SCHOOL!  It wasn't scheduled to fly over us, as far as anyone knew, so it came as a surprise, and she just lucked out to be outside at recess.  I wish the school would have known so all of the kids could have seen it, but that didn't happen.

She gave a very detailed description and was thrilled to have witnessed this piece of history!  Very exciting!

Back to School

4th grade!

 Kindergarten!

Louisiana

We had a great time (no thanks to Hurricane Issac), and loved being with Bree on her wedding day!!!

 

Another week of fun (and work)

Kids have been having a blast in the pool every day.  We invited a couple of the girls from Addison's church class to come swim and have lunch last week.  They all had a great time!

 Carter got to play on his Kindergarten playground on registration day, and he can't wait to start school and be able to play on it every day.

 We had all of our carpet upstairs ripped up and now Marty is working hard to get ready for the carpet to go in on Monday.

 Last night we went to a GIANTS game.

SO MUCH FUN (although cold!) especially because we got to go with Rachel and Ben!  They are in town for the weekend and we were super happy to spend part of their getaway with them.  

Little Farm

The kids and I went on a little outing today to "Little Farm" in Berkeley.

 Carter's vision of heaven.  Dirt, water, sticks, rocks and sunshine.

 A beautiful view on our way home:

 And I was thinking someday when Carter quits getting chocolate all over his face when he eats ice cream, I will miss it.  Maybe.

summer in San Francisco

We took a fun, cold and foggy boat ride on the bay on Saturday.  This carrier ship was HUGE (and we learned these boats create 50% of all pollution, crazy!)

We went under the Golden Gate Bridge, which we could hardly see at all.

 Sadly we had to stop because there was a flare on the water, indicating a jumper off the bridge.  Once the rescue people showed up we left, but we never did see anyone (thankfully!).

 Alcatrez:

 And the highlight of Addison's life to this point (or the weekend at least) was riding in a LIMO!  She was so, so, so excited and cute about it.

 And then Carter who is always cute, even when he's being a stinker!  (Which he is both in this picture)

just moving...again...

Nothing terribly exciting going on here, just moving...again... :)  But we are here.  With lots and lots of little (and big) projects.

 Packing up the apartment.  (Carter of course built a fort, which wasn't in the way at all).
I can't believe how much work it was just getting from the apartment to the house, I didn't feel like we had that much stuff!!  But, it's us.  Of course we did

 The kids have been swimming every day and every night.  We do love the pool.  It's nice to have it while they are little so hopefully there will be lots of years of lots of use.

 Our storage unit is still packed!  We did go over yesterday and get some more of our big stuff, and as soon as our flooring is done we should be able to get almost all of the rest of it.

 And..someone very cute is turning TEN tomorrow!!!  We plan to spend the day at Six Flags.  She decided she wants an oreo ice cream cake and cake pops so we decided to make them tonight.