Ladies Man

Spring Break

Raquel had spring break this week.  Which for a home-schooled kid, it wasn't much different from other weeks, other than we didn't have to do school work.  But we still did; it lets us accrue days in the future for when we may decide to skip out on school altogether.  

So in celebration of spring break, I'm posting pictures from Mike's spring break 2 weeks ago. 

Instead of going "away" we opted for staying here and going to some of the places people come here for, the "tourist" destinations.  We met up with the Guidos, good friends from when we lived in Oregon, who were kind enough to be our tour guides for the day.  You can read all about them here.

They took us to Santa Monica, Hollywood, and Universal City Walk.

We ended the day with this awesome sunset.  Days before Raquel had learned in art class about the horizon line.  I told her it was where the sky touches the ground.  She looked at me like I was crazy.  "Sky touching the ground...rriiight."  But all of a sudden, looking at the sunset, it clicked, "Look!! The Horizon! And the sky IS touching the ground."

Days Past

Due to the vast amount of information that needs to be learned,

I have spent lonely weekends with the girls.

Here are images of days past

when he could afford to procrastinate

the studying.

Self-Supporting Lego Composition.

Creation complete.

I knew it would be like this.

And I am glad he is doing it. BUT,

I am definitely looking forward to

school-free days.

Family Pictures

Yes. It has been over 2 years since our last family picture.  I am related to 2 great photographers and really have no excuse.  Knowing that we would be spending Thanksgiving at my sister-in-law's, who is an amazing photographer, we planned some time while we were there to have our pictures taken.  Here are a few of my favorites...

The Official 2009 Picture

 The Tribute to Raquel Picture (unlike the rest of us who are not paying attention).

The 'Walking' Picture.

and

The Baby Smiling Picture.

Thanks again Mindy!