Playing in the park

This is at my mom's favorite park...for the winding paths of olive trees. It's just around the corner from our house. Getting rid of so much of our clutter has afforded me more time to just go the park for 2 hours...ahhhh.



so....is it a Salisbury face or a LeFevre face??? I can't tell! I don't think he looks like either of us, really. LOL Maybe because he's so darn good looking.

Playing, a little English, a little Spanish and his own version of Chinese...

Little Daredevil

Charles was in a VERY playful mood today. He's been chasing behind sofas to play peek-a-goo, sliding off the bed backward and JUMPING into my arms...

Watch this daring little move!

There's a lot of background noise on this one but you catch a rare glimpse of mom & dad so I stuck it in. We are usually BEHIND the camera but Clay (Charles's "little" brother) is acting as camera man.

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I'm not ready for this...

Monday nights Charles spends a few hours with our friend's little girl as I go to my bible study and Steve goes bowling with our friend. The 'grandma' said he took 6 steps last night but, of course, Steve and I concurr that it didn't happen as we weren't there and admonished Charles for the possibility of doing such a thing out of our site.
So, we were playing with him a little this morning before Steve left for work. He did take 2 or 3 steps in front of us ONE time but would not do it for the camera. Then, when he wasn't looking RIGHT after Steve left!! Darn kid...at least I got it on camera this time.
Emotionally, no, I am in no way ready for this. I want to go back to and relish all this a lot longer

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Photo Shoot

So, Steve took his boys to see a life long friend for the weekend and I'm home alone with my boys. One boy is working and hanging out with Charles, the other boy (Charles) is hanging out with Tomas and me and I am hanging out with my two boys sometimes both at once sometimes just one at a time.
At around 5 pm...I got the hankerin' to get to a little pond I saw from the road surrounded by Ca. poppies. Charles and I went 4 wheelin' in his carriage (I can't believe I just said that...I believe it's called a stroller now) me laden with diaper bag, tripod, camera bag....and, of course, baby. I parked at the park and went two different ways before finding the not so beaten path to the spot I had spotted. Charles fell asleep so he wasn't much in the mood by the time we got there...and I realized I needed an assistant but here are the highlights.

Here I am...needing an assistant...

This is probably the best shot of the day

Great profile...can't tell yet if he has that Salisbury chin...which actually looks far better on the men in the family than the women...

Giving participation a thought...

Distracted enough to look interested and intrigued by his shadow

Also sans assistant...how DO I do it???

Almost can't tell he's pouting.

Had enough "Get me Perrier!"

Utah Bound and "From the Mouths of Babes"

So the week before Easter we whizzed up to Utah...making the decision w/in 48 hours...
We have a rental/retirement home there which went empty and Steve's brother made it sound rather messy so with work slow here and family up there, we decided to go and clean it up ourselves. Charles had a great time hanging out with Grandma Judy while we all worked on the house. Here are some of the more fun highlights...
Getting there (it's a 10 hour drive normally...see Christmas posts for the trip for the horror trip.)


The view from the front of "our" house. Awsome. This was a nice day...however, we left 80 degree weather here and arrived to SNOW in Utah. It warmed up after a couple of days...but...one morning I took my neice to the store for some provisions. When we were driving home, I pointed these beautiful mountains out to her and said "Where we live we don't have such a beautiful view...you are blessed with such a beautiful place, these mountains all around you wherever you look." She is in kindergarden and responded "You aren't blessed?" I recovered quickly with. "yes, we are blessed in California....uh...not with mountains...but...uh...we are blessed with beautiful weather." Darn if she didn't hesitate with "This is beautiful weather." uhhhh. "yes, beautiful cold weather...we are blessed with beautiful warm weather in California."
I ended with "This is the Day that the Lord has made." and called it a day.

Dancing Computer Monkey

Charles is helping me shop and keeping an eye on the checker...off limits as his big brother works at this store so any given person COULD be his boss!



mmmmm, cherry juice!

I think Charles is dancing!! He does THIS whenever music comes on...

computer programmer in the making...

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The secret life of Peeps

Proud parents to be...


Don't start any rumors...I'm not insinuating ANYTHING by any means....I took this for a contest called "the secret life of peeps."

Happy Easter

We spent Easter with our good friends the Whites and I brought my "studio." I took over 100 pictures--something that I would NEVER have done on film. Some of them are SOOOO cute, I just had to throw them up here in a hurry while everyone was well...you'll see by the last photo today. Stay tuned all this week as I edit some of them as best I can. Momma's got the photography bug again and realizes I've been neglecting my creative juices in this arena. Stay tuned for some surprises...

Happy Easter everyone!!!



Bunny boy hopping off to the land of Nod.