San Diego and the USS Midway

Daddy finished his last class - and his second bachelor's degree!! Not only that, but it was our fall break at the same time. To celebrate it all, we went to San Diego...and took Nanny and Papa with us! Papa and Nanny left on Friday morning...and took Elijah with them. I (Josiah) was star student of the week, so I got to take a special treat in to school on Friday afternoon. Daddy and Mommy brought in otter pops and then we left school after snack time. We drove with them and met Papa and Nanny in San Diego.

On Saturday we went to SeaWorld! It was so fun to see all of our favorite shows...including Shamu Rocks!! We were SO tired on Sunday from our long day at SeaWorld. We went to see the USS Midway that morning. The USS Midway is a big aircraft carrier that was actually used in the wars. It has tons of planes on it and we got to see all parts of it and how sailors lived on it. Here we are in the hangar. This is Eljiah and Daddy in the cockpit of a plane:Elijah trying to get himself buckled in to a pilot's seat:
Elijah listening to the tour:

Wow - a big jet! I wonder if this one is like the ones that fly over our house?

Filling in our test answers so we can earn our honorary pilot wings:

We found seats in the ready room!

The workers wear all different colors on the deck so that they know what each other's jobs are. It's too loud for them to talk out there when the jets are flying around.

That's a lot of buttons!

Jonathan thinks it stinks in here...Mommy thinks someone with a lot of cologne was in there before us...

Oh no! We got thrown in the brig!

We had a great trip to San Diego. Unfortunately we were all sick during fall break. Hopefully we'll get to do some fun things next week when we have early dismissal at school for three days. We really want to go to San Diego again. Maybe you can help convince Daddy and Mommy to take us one more time this year...

Another Busy Weekend

It seems to be a pattern that we have BUSY weekends around here. On this particular one, Mommy decided to cut my bangs...They weren't too bad, but I can't wait for Miss Diana to be ready to cut my hair again! Daddy was off work because he was supposed to be doing his final project for school. He took some time to go with me and Mommy to get my two year old pictures taken.
When we got done with pictures we went out to eat for lunch. Daddy and Mommy liked it a lot! I was just hungry. :)

When Mommy picked up my brothers from school, Josiah had Clifford!! We got to spend an entire weekend with Clifford! Here is Clifford at the post office with us:

We went to Macayo's for dinner and brought Clifford there, too:

Clifford likes margaritas. I'm not sure why he got to try it but I didn't.

Clifford went to soccer with Josiah. He got to play goalie!

On Sunday it was Papa's birthday, so Clifford got to go to the birthday party, too!

We had a great weekend. I wonder if Daddy got his project done in between all those activities?!

Papa's Super Power

On Tuesdays I get to go spend the morning with Papa while Mommy goes to volunteer at my brothers' school. One Tuesday Mommy came back to find this:If you can't tell...I'm face the other way from the camera. Mommy was impressed and mystified at how Papa did that...he is one talented guy!

Wrapped Around Our Little Fingers...

We love to go to Nanny and Papa's house! Nanny lets us help with lots of stuff, and feeds us all sorts of good things. Here we are getting ready to help her with making lunch:I (Elijah) LOVED my dessert at lunch! Can you guess what it is??
Chocolate ice cream!

Then we took a walk with Papa. We started out with me in the wagon and my big brothers riding their big wheels. This is how we ended up:

We love you, Papa and Nanny!!

Happy ?? Birthday, Daddy!

Daddy's birthday is in March, so of course we had a party! Here are a couple of pictures from his party this year. We don't know how old he is, but apparently it doesn't matter, because he's happy. :)

Sunday Stuff

Sunday morning was when we had our soccer practice. Here we are with Coach Josh:Elijah thought he should be in on the action, so he shared our water:

Me (Jonathan) being goalie for Josiah:

Later that night we went to Papa and Nanny's and Elijah got his first hair cut!

He wasn't so thrilled about it, though...

How many grandmas does it take...

The final product!

March Madness!

We don't know what it's like where you live, but in March it was warm enough for us to have a water fight! Mommy actually took a lot more pictures of it, but here are a couple of good ones to give you the gist of what it was like:

Cheese?!

March started out with the normal goofiness that happens when we're around. :) Here are some pictures of us being goofy with Papa, Nanny, and Great Grandma! We love having Great Grandma around and are so glad that she comes to visit!

Here is Papa making funny faces for us while we take pictures:

Me (Elijah) with Great Grandma:

Me, my brothers, and Great Grandma. Some of us weren't being as cooperative with getting our picture taken as others...

Here are the three of us with Papa and Nanny:

Now it's our turn to take pictures!

Papa and Nanny reading to me:

I even got in on the fun and started taking pictures, too!

Here are my brothers taking pictures of me and Mommy:

Cookie Time!!!

This year we got to do one of our favorite Christmas traditions with Aunt Debbie and Nanny. Mommy made up a bunch of Christmas cookies, we got to help cut them out and then we all decorated them together. It was so much fun and they turned out so beautiful and so yummy!

Here is Jonathan decorating: Josiah decorating:
All of us working together:

Hey Seymour - those aren't for you!

We tried to put Elijah down for a nap, but he wanted to help out with the decorating. Here he is with Aunt Debbie helping decorate:

The finished product: