Camping with Daddy/ Disney World!!!

Seth and Ryan went on a father/son campout the Friday before our trip. They brought their own tent, but ended up in our friend's because they had room.
This is Seth learning how to kindle the fire. Seth enjoyed playing with the "bigger" boys. They let him follow them around all evening.

They had lots of fun, although Seth's smile in this picture almost looks like an angry smile. Next year Zac will get to go too!!

Now for Disney World Pictures! We went this last week and had lots of fun. As with all vacations things did not go as planned, but oh well.

Here's Seth when we checked into our room at the Port Orleans French Quarter. The towels were shaped like Mickey. He was given a sticker and a button that says, "My first trip to Disney World". So was Zac. We arrived at dinner time, so we ate at the hotel and then took the bus to the Magic Kingdom to get in a few rides before bedtime. It was raining, so when we got there lots of people were leaving. Which meant there were no lines!

This is the next day. We got into the Magic Kingdom Park before anything opened because we had a breakfast reservation at one of the restaurants inside. That's why it looks so empty.

This is Zac on the Buzz Lightyear ride. You go around shooting targets! We went on this one five or six times this trip.

After lunch the rain came. Here is Zac in his pancho.

It poured and poured rain the rest of the day. Here are our some of our clothes drying.

This is the boys on the tea cups! Yup we were all soaked!

The next morning it was cloudy, so we decided to take pictures while we could. These are the alligators near the pool at the hotel.

We went to Epcot.

We met Mickey Mouse and all his friends. I have lots of character pictures. We ate at the Coral Reef restaurant and did this really cool dinosaur/energy ride. By 2:00 a big thunderstorm rolled in, so instead of "walking around the world" we headed back to the hotel. One of the lightning flashes was so close I could feel the hair on my arms go up.

When the storm calmed we went back to the magic kingdom to do more rides. Here's Seth the prisoner!

Every day the housekeeper would do something cute with the boys teddy bears. Here's one of them.

Thursday we went to Animal Kingdom. It was Sunny!!!!!! Here we are digging for a dinosaur.

We got a lot of good pictures, so I just chose some of the better ones for you. Here's the giraffe.

These two hippos were playing or fighting! It was very entertaining.

This is the Tree of Life!

Here is a closer look at the Tree of Life. See all the animals in the trunk?

Tiger. We saw a funny T-shirt there that had Winnie the Pooh nose to nose with a tiger with the caption, "Is that you Tigger?"

Seth on the Star Wars racer. Oh we were Hollywood Studios Friday. We took this while waiting in line to meet Chewy and an ewock. But they had to go in for a thunderstorm. We were next in line too. It was frustrating, but within five minutes the storm came and it was HUGE! Wind, rain and lightning everywhere. We took shelter in an Indiana Jones gift shop.

Backtracking before the storm. The boys played at the Honey I Shrunk the Kids park. Here's Zac riding the ant.

Seth did get to meet Darth Vader. And got his signature too!

The boys in their Mickey Ears! Zac wasn't quite sure if he liked them or not.

Seth and Ryan are in the last row here. They had just gone down the big fall in Splash Mountain. This was one of Seth's favorite rides. He also liked pirates, and Big Thunder Mountain.

Friday night the skies did clear up and we finally got to see the fireworks show at the castle. I didn't get pictures because my camera doesn't do night shots well.

IT'S HERE!!!

We had our church talent show on Friday, and Ryan signed up to play guitar. He played a medley of songs. Zac and Seth were rocking out of course in the audience, front and center. It was a lot of fun and everybody's talents were a success.

Now the moment we've been waiting for. It's here! Ryan's super awesome guitar is here. He got the call today at work, and was out the door within minutes.

Custom Paul Reed Smith.

Quilted Maple Top. Gold Hardware.

Abalone inlays.

One Happy Guy!

Karate!

On Monday I was helping Ryan decide what to play on his guitar for the church talent show on Friday. Seth was playing Guitar Hero Downstairs while Zac was sleeping. We'd only been upstairs for about 20 minutes. When we went to to start making dinner this is what we found.

Seth asleep! He'd fallen asleep in the middle of a song.
We signed Seth up for karate today! He is so excited. He had a lot of fun during the "interview". Sensei Sal is the owner of the place and very nice. Seth's class will be 4-6 year olds. He is starting in the white uniform and white belt. His class is called the ninjas. His first real class will be on Friday. Seth is very excited.

Zac will be eighteen months old on Friday. I get to take him to get his shots, yeah : (

Fun Times!

It has been a while since a last posted. I think now that Ryan is around all the time I'll probably only post every couple weeks. Anyhow, we've been keeping busy doing lots of fun things. We had a couple of nice weeks of sunshine. Most of it spent playing outside. Last Sunday we went on a family bike ride to a park in the middle of housing. Behind the park is this creek. It was 90 degrees outside this day, so the boys were ready for a cool down!
Zac kept trying to follow Seth up the big rocks.

Seth would hold Zac's hand to help him walk through the water. Unfortunately as you can see people throw their trash in the creek. The boys had a lot of fun, and we'll probably go back a couple times this summer.

Last night we went to the Carnival. It's right by the housing youth center. We went with some old friends from WA that were on the boat with us. Here is Zac riding a pony.

Here is Zac and Seth riding fire truck. Zac is sitting next to Jeremiah, but you can see him in this picture. Seth picked the seat. We laughed because they could have sat in the front. Zac had so much fun that we had to rip him off of the steering wheel. He was so mad!

Seth on the train. Zac was to small for this ride.

When we got home last night we had a visitor on our back patio! We had never seen a salamander before. That's Ryan's hand to give you a size ratio.