Aaron's 31st Birthday

Lunch at Chili's

Christmas Morning

JINGLE BELLS


COMING DOWN THE STAIRS!!


OPEINING PRESENTS
Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?


Pete the Repeat Parrot

Good times at dinner

Drake and Josh

Ben and Luke are now OVER the cute cartoon stage. No more Diego, Sesame Street or Backyardigans. In fact, they are SO over it that whenever Dora is on (Zack is still a fan) they purposely say the wrong answer whenever she asks a question. They understand that she's really not listening to them, so why encourage her. Zack will probably suffer from this and learn all his colors backward, but whatever.

Anyway, their new favorite show is Drake and Josh (still NickJr.)-- a show way to mature (and yet immature at the same time) for them to understand. But they like it and for some reason, I usually end up laughing along with them... So, today I came downstairs after putting away laundry and Ben and Luke were singing the theme song and jumping up and down on the couches. This is a song they sing often in the car of while they are doing chores, so I had to pull out my camera and get it on video.

California Videos

picnic on our patio



the Dolphin Show @ Seaworld

chuck e's

camping videos

just a couple of short clips of our time in the tent. These videos are seriously priceless to me...


I didn't get the first bit of the mattress fun on video.. Zack was laughing so hard, but by the time I pulled out the camera, he had had enough. It's still funny, though.

Ben the bike rider

We finally took the training wheels off Ben's bike and he is cruising around like a champ!

A day at the pool

Ben and Luke swimming across the pool.. trying not to use their arms=the penguin swimThe 'brothers jump' as opposed to a 'family jump' when we all do it together.

The Pledge

This is priceless video for our family.. too bad it's sideways.
This was June 2005, while we were spending the summer in St. George. Ben was about to turn 4 and Luke was only 2. I would pay big money to have that 2 year old back. Isn't he cute? We often say in our family, "Stand by the dragon." if someone is repeating a lot..

Pirate Ship

My boys have never lacked imagination, even at 2 and 4. Here they are pretending to be pirates.. their map is an etch a sketch and their ship is the laundry basket. Oct 2005.

Breakfast Giggles

Zack is about 2 months old here.. and Ben and Luke thought EVERYTHING he did was hilarious. Here they are laughing at him trying to grab his rattle. Pretty entertaining.

Fishing with Dad

While at the Father and Sons camp-out, Ben and Luke caught the first two fish (and maybe the ONLY two..) Here is a little bit of their excitement caught on tape.

I'm not a baby

Zack is 4 months here.. Luke is three (and definitely not a baby anymore.)

Go, Go Zacky!

Zack at 10 months old. This was his first attempt and his brothers are his best cheerleaders!

Luke's ABC's.. kind of

Before Bedtime- Nov 2005

This is quiet boring for anyone other than Grandparents, but it's nice to have things documented. This is about a month before Zack was born. Ben was 4.5 and Luke was almost three.

Tupperware Party

This isn't exciting, but still nice to have footage of Zack (and proof that he made messes early.) He's around 7 or 8 months here..

TAEBO

One cold day in Spokane, I was putting Zack down for a nap upstairs and asked Ben and Luke to quietly go downstairs and put on a movie. About 15 minutes later, I came down to this.. they had been sweating to Taebo and I just had to get it all on video. Sorry this is so long. I am sure you don’t want to watch it all, but if you’re really bored.. have at it.

The Log Ride.. June 2006

At an amusement park in Spokane.

Emptied Kleenex box

Playing late one night when Aaron was at school. Zack is around 10 months old and just emptied a Kleenex box. This is a typical home movie.. longer and not that exciting to those who don't really love us.

Zack Walking

Here's a quick video of Zack taking a few steps... sorry that you have to turn your head sideways to watch it. I will do better next time.