skateboard in the kitchen

Family room remodel

The new laminate floors are installed and we can move the furniture back into place.
Derek running around on the new floor, in front of the new fireplace and bookshelves.

New sofas are in place and Katie gets to watch tv while she eats.

painting family room

Here's the new fireplace.
we are painting the walls of the room, so it is covered with newspaper to protect the mantle and tile.


Here's a view of the messy, crowded room in the middle of - - hopefully at the very end of this contstruction.

We have been under construction since October 2006

But I have books on the bookshelves and we have new sofa & loveseat.

making GREEN

I found Derek on the counter

with a bowl of water and the box of food coloring.

He wanted to see what GREEN looked like.

check off: science & art for today

Hug for Mom

Derek's giving me a hug!

makin' pancakes

Kitchen Olympics

Kitchen Olympics

4 Year Old Division

Birthday Dogs!

the Birthday Dogs!

Tinkerbell is 6

Coco is 1

they got new beds for their birthdays

(under the blanket)

Christmas 2006

Nativity

shots for the Christmas card in their new clothes in Hawaii's flora

waiting for lunch

..................James & Katie playing tic tac toe. ....................................................Geoff & Derek

...............................................Wendy.................................................. Me.........................

how volcanoes work

This is at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dinosaurs & a giant snail

sea star costumes & making bubbles

Judge James

hiking koko crater .. botanical gardens, cactus