Wed. afternoon from our roof.
a little later from lake los carneros
about 5 on wed. - an earie light on the back deck

The Fire Burning Behind Our House...

Fire update here They are calling it the GAP fire.

I think they should rename it...

Last night was pretty scarey. We could see the bright red clouds of smoke and flames on the ridge behind our house from our bedroom window. I had a hard time taking my eyes off it lying in bed. It didn't help when the smoke alarm went off at 2a.m. and Porter is in a panic state.
The helicopters don't go at night, but we had A LOT (a hundred, maybe) of fire trucks racing along the road behind our house (Cathedral Oaks). It is actually closed at Glenn Annie where they have set up a command center.

tour starts saturday...

lance on his plane
sophie wearing eiffel tower
my dirt crane

gparents visiting from gtown

grandad rides again!
weeeee!
SMILE!!!

More Solstice Parade

ya gotta love this parade, even in 90 degrees
cutie quinnee

check out max's moves; watch out joker, he's batman(seriously, he says his new name is batman)

The Solstice Parade

was HOT, and we were at the end (bad move) so waited and waited and waited...

sophie couldn't take it, so she bailed early - smart girl.
the Gleasons were more well prepared with an umbrella.

this was my favorite float, very hippie, i know.

Solstice kickoff

Celebrating the longest day of the year is a lot of fun in SB. Tree climbing and heel kickin'
Justin is my buddy. We like to do the same things, like the crazy dance,
run, wiggle and tackle Bo, j's dad.

Happy Daddy's Day!

cyclist have needs too...

say what? the last line is the best...
i wonder if lance was on it?

lots of jellyfish at the beach

hangin' out at the beach...

hangin' out at home...

a girl and her dog

mo'day hike

starting out throught the meadow
sophie was hot and had a hard day
max wanted to get a pic of all the critters...

this one was a different looking lizard

and we saw a few rolly-pollies.

Ellie's 3!

and we got to wack the monarch pinata!

miss messy

after cleaning up the oatmeal and yogurt, from the hair (very difficult to get the oatmeal from the hair) neck, nose, etc. and getting nice clean clothes on...
i had to have strawberries at the big kid table. they were good, and i still had a good yogurt mouse going in the hair.

school daze

ready for schoo
readin'
soph studies the declaration o independance with BF