Happy 8th Birthday, Jackson!

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite toy? Legos

What is your favorite fruit? Pineapple

What is your favorite TV show? Pokemon

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? A salami sandwich.

What is your favorite thing to wear? A short sleeve shirt and shorts.

What is your favorite game? Pokemon Go. 

What is your favorite snack? Gummies

What is your favorite animal? Hammerhead Shark

What is your favorite song? The Pokemon Theme Song

What is your favorite book? Minecraft

Who is your best friend? Jude, Dominic, Greta, and Aiden.

What is your favorite cereal? Lucky Charms

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Baseball

What is your favorite drink? Orange Soda

What is your favorite holiday? Halloween

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My stuffed animals. 

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Pancakes

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Soup in bread bowls or hot dogs.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Scientist or Firefighter.

Happy 5th Birthday, Colby!

Colby, Age 5

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite toy? Legos

What is your favorite fruit? Watermelon

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Um, hmm, cantaloupe.

What is your favorite thing to wear? Jacket

What is your favorite game? My favorite game is, well, I'm not fast so it's not tag. My favorite game is hide & go seek.

What is your favorite snack? Snack means lunch and you already asked lunch.

What is your favorite animal? Well it's possibly all of the swimming ones.

What is your favorite song? I'm not sure I have a favorite song.

What is your favorite book? Cars.

Who is your best friend? Jackson

What is your favorite cereal? Shredded Wheat and Lucky Charms. Or if Lucky Charms was in Shredded Wheat it would be Shredded Charms.

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play

What is your favorite drink? Soda

What is your favorite holiday? Christmas and Halloween, because Halloween is when you get candy and Christmas is when you get toys.

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Owl

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? I already told you, watermelon.

What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Fruit 

What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer and a subway train driver. And mom, will Jackson and I stay at this house when we're grown-ups? I want to stay at this house when we grow up.

Happy 7th Birthday, Jackson!

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite toy? Legos

What is your favorite fruit? Cherries

What is your favorite TV show? Star Wars

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? A sandwich.

What is your favorite thing to wear? A shirt and pants and underwear.

What is your favorite game? My favorite game is Four in a Row (Connect Four)

What is your favorite snack? A ZBar

What is your favorite animal? Wolf

What is your favorite song? I don't know. 

What is your favorite book? Minecraft

Who is your best friend? Emmet

What is your favorite cereal? Frosted Flakes

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play Tag

What is your favorite drink? Soda

What is your favorite holiday? "Halloween, wait no, Christmas"

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My stuffed animals. 

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Pancakes

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Soup in bread bowls.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I have a list, firefighter, policeman, UPS, PG&E, Mailman, Garbageman, Engineer, Zoologist, that's all.

Happy 4th Birthday, Colby!

Colby, Age 4

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite toy? A car

What is your favorite fruit? Strawberry

What is your favorite TV show? Mater Tales

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? It is, it is, um apples.

What is your favorite thing to wear? A shirt

What is your favorite game? Pin the Tail on the Colby

What is your favorite snack? Granola Bars

What is your favorite animal? A rabbit

What is your favorite song? I don't know.

What is your favorite book? Mater Tales Book

Who is your best friend? It is, Daddy.

What is your favorite cereal? I don't know.

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride Scooters

What is your favorite drink? Milk

What is your favorite holiday? My birthday

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Daddy

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Waffles

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Bean burritos.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Fireman.

Happy 6th Birthday, Jackson!

Jackson, age 6  

What is your favorite color? Red, and I like blue too.

What is your favorite toy? Legos

What is your favorite fruit? Cherries

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Sandwiches

What is your favorite thing to wear? A long sleeve and short pants.

What is your favorite game? Crazy Eights

What is your favorite snack? Fruit

What is your favorite animal? Moose and Wooly Mammoth

What is your favorite song? "Everything is Awesome", the Lego Movie Song.

What is your favorite book? Jack and Annie (Magic Tree House Series)

Who is your best friend? Max

What is your favorite cereal? Frosted Flakes

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play

What is your favorite drink? Mango Juice

What is your favorite holiday? Halloween or Christmas

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bunny and Puppy.

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Cereal

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Hotdogs and Corn on the Cob.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Firefighter.

Back to blogging...

Alright, we need to come back to blogging.  I've realized I just love looking back on this little piece of our history, and it's missing almost two years now!  I'm going to try to fill in the gaps while moving forward.

Monterey

Jackson, Colby, Janet, and I decided to head down to Monterey for a few days.  We stayed in the Asilomar, which is where my good college friend got married now years ago.  We had a wonderful trip.  Jackson wanted to go to the beach the entire time, but we were able to fit in two days of the aquarium.

Happy Birthday Colby!

Happy Birthday to our little man!  Colby is just the sweetest, smartest, easiest-going kid, and we're so lucky to have him in our family.  We celebrated with Cars, Cars, lots of Cars.  Two of my aunts were up for the weekend and we had ourselves a small, little family celebration.

Colby, age 3

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite toy? Lighting McQueen

What is your favorite fruit? Grapes

What is your favorite TV show? Cars and Thomas

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Cupcakes

What is your favorite thing to wear? Nothing, nothing mom.  Not costumes.

What is your favorite game? Shapes

What is your favorite snack? Gummies

What is your favorite animal? Monkies

What is your favorite song? I don't want songs.

What is your favorite book? Cars books.

Who is your best friend? Gavin

What is your favorite cereal? Colorful ones, like pink, orange, yellow, green.

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play with Max.

What is your favorite drink? Orange Juice and smoothies.

What is your favorite holiday? I like to get toys at holidays. I mean, I want a birthday with presents and with another cake like I did last day.

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Mater, Lightning McQueen, and Owl.

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Waffles.

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  I want just a birthday with a birthday cake.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I don't want to be anything.

Happy Birthday Jackson!

Jackson, age 5  

What is your favorite color? Blue

What is your favorite toy? A Lego Clone Trooper

What is your favorite fruit? Cherries

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Sandwiches

What is your favorite thing to wear? My Rim Fire Shirt.

What is your favorite game? I think Tic Tac Toe.

What is your favorite snack? Goldfish

What is your favorite animal? Moose

What is your favorite song? I don't have a favorite song.

What is your favorite book? Mr. Popper's Penguins

Who is your best friend? Max

What is your favorite cereal? Honey Nut Cherios

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride bikes

What is your favorite drink? Apple Juice

What is your favorite holiday? I have two of them. Actually three.  October, November, and December.

What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bunny and Puppy.

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Eggs and cereal.

What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Firefighter.

Nemo

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swiiimmmming.

Fire season came early!  We're on about a week of Donnie working.

Yellow watermelon from farmer's market.  Jackson's face while I was holding up the sample for him to try at market was hilarious.  They're so conditioned in colors, he just couldn't grasp that it was watermelon.



When the boys are quiet, I usually wonder.  But on day 7, I just let it go,



Another of Jackson with his blue ribbon.  Donnie always takes him to Dutch Bros. if he does a good job at swimming lessons (there have been a few times he hasn't gone, a-okay in my book to be strict), but today was definitely a big-drink Dutch Bros. day,