What-What?! Week of September 2nd

We recently spent a week in California visiting family.  I have a lot of pictures and am still in the process of going through them.  Compared to last time we visited, we spent a lot more time visiting family rather than doing stuff.

This included spending a lot of time at Grandma's house, playing with the chickens and other things outside:

Looking for eggs

Old alpaca

Feeding the chickens.  Osric kept backing up while doing this because the chickens kept getting closer and closer.  Eventually he started circling around.

Oz spent some time playing with his cousin, who is now very tall.

They decided that, since Oz was short and his cousin was tall, Oz should have the long stick and his cousin should have the short one.

Talking about a stick.  Billy the dog in the background, pointing.

Aww, pet the dog

PET THE DOG MORE!

My biggest and smallest, running away

More pictures next week!

What-What?! Week of August 12th

So, I've pretty much just been dead busy/tired with work, family responsibilities, and all that kind of thing.

In the interim, we haven't done too much... it's been a bit hot to go hiking (well, and everyone else in the world is hiking too...).  We did go back to Kayak Point, to hang out on the beach again:

The kids spent most of the time digging holes

This was their first one

Osric and I did build a castle, though

Osric coming threatening close to Saffron with a bucket of water O___O

Friday, the husband and kids came to work because there was a party for two of my coworkers -- they are expecting a baby here in the near future.  We had some fun :)

Oz was so excited about this mustache!

"Duck man"

We were given some of the plants that had been used as decoration for the party.  These are succulents of some kind, grown by one of the women in sales -- she told us that they grow really well here, so here's hoping for lots of growth!  Yesterday, we planted them: