December Column

Here's my December article. And my editor just renewed my column for all of 2011 - so there's another year of these to come!

Izzy's School Photo

Finally got Izzy's school photos (since we missed the original date due to a race weekend.)

Car Bunk Beds

Steve got his new lift for the garage and installed it this weekend.
The finished product! One 370Z up in the air! (Can you see how big the grin is on his face?)

"I can STAND underneath my car!"

Up, up and away....

2 sports cars, tucked in for the night, one on top of the other. (As one of my friends described it - car bunk beds. =)

Feast Day

Zach and Emily's Feast Day at school. (They picked their "Indian" names themselves.)

"Running Jaguar"

"Tia Rainbow"

Steve's pic in SportsCar

Yep - that's Steve in the 2nd picture from the top. (Page 25 of SportsCar magazine.) This was from the Runoffs last month. =)

November Column

My November article.

Izzy's 6th Birthday Party

Today we celebrated Izzy's 6th Birthday at the World War 1 Memorial Park Petting Zoo. We couldn't have asked for better weather for the middle of November. We had snow on Monday, and rain and cold thru Wed - so my hopes weren't high. But today was gorgeous. Clear, sunny and almost 60 degrees! Perfection!

The party started with pizza, a bouncy house and feeding the animals. We brought bags of apples and carrots that the kids could feed to the goats, donkey, horse, pig, etc,

Pizza...

Bouncy house - always a kid favorite!

2 of Melissa's good friends - Ana and Michele.

The zoo then closed the animals off from the public and let our group have a private "showing". All the kids got let into the pens where they could pet the animals.

"Yeah - I'm beautiful.... for a pig!"

Steve and the donkey.

The kids had to go in groups of 5 to pet the horse. They all did pretty good patiently waiting their turns. As the birthday girl, Izzy got to stay with the horse the entire time and hold it's reins.

Then we went back into the party room to see/hold some of the smaller animals. The snake... another big hit.

A big turtle.

We also held bunnies, ferrets, guinea pigs, chinchillas....

Time for cake!

Back home to open presents.

And play with all the goodies...

First Lost Tooth!

Yesterday was a very special day for Izzy. Not only was it her 6th birthday, but we also got our first snow of season. And then to finish it off... she lost her very first tooth! What are the odds that you'd lose your first tooth ON your birthday! She was very excited.

Happy Lost Tooth Dance in the kitchen.

Halloween

A few quick pics from Halloween. Big difference this year. The last few years, they've hit 6-8 houses and that wore them out. This time... they LOVED it. We probably walked over 2 miles and hit over 20 houses. They had so much fun!

The cow, giraffe and elephant! Our ZOO!

Wild animals... BEWARE!

The Loot!