Hello!
Harry hiding at the slight mention of a haircut. Seriously?
Sword fights with friends.
My boys singing to Johnny Cash’s ” Ring of Fire” at a karaoke party.
Making “Magic Mud” for a science experiment at school. Extracting the starch from the potatoes.
The leftover starch which creates the mud.
The mud.
Adding the quinine so it can glow in the dark.
Bending glow-in-the-dark magic mud. 
Harry’s own Rainbow Loom design of Rath from Ben 10.
Jump.
Harry took this one.
An incredible sunset (unfortunately, much of its beauty came from the skies of the nearby fires).
To really get the feel of the car, it is important to get in the trunk when car shopping.
First karate tournament.
He sure looks big compared to Harry.
Lots of kicking. 
He placed silver in Kata and sparring. 
Swords.
A typical day rainbow looming a dragon with Raja looking on.
Rainbow Loom Toothless and Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon (via Courtney Nicole).
Harry with his plethora of dragons. Oh my!
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou
Welcome to another week!
A Picasso inspired piece for Mother’s Day.
And a lovely poem. My heart melts.
My Mother’s Day present to myself – a trip to Safari Park. A selfie
Almost as big as the gorillas.
Acting like a gorilla.
Hanging with the lemurs.
Lemurs are cool.
Me as a lemur.
Harry was the lorikeet whisperer.
They really liked him.
Love the colors.
A 5-month-old lion cub.
Isn’t he cute playing with a big box just like a kitten? ( but much, much bigger)
Loved watching all their antics.
Just incredible.
Brother and sister.
Brother and sister playing.
They really liked to play.
Just couldn’t get enough of the cubs.
I swear he is smiling.
Mommy and baby elephant. What could be more appropriate on Mother’s Day.
Couldn’t take the drive to Michaels every couple of days so I decided to open my own Rainbow Loom store. Harry has to buy them from me. Saves a lot on gas money.
Lunch date with my best friend.
Harry showing off his new shoes to the cats. They look fascinated.
On a journey with a bucket full of Rainbow Loom dragons.
Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It’s when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life’s not worth having.
D. H. Lawrence
And another week goes by….
We celebrated Arbor Day by planting a tree in our town.
At our designated area we started the digging.
And kept digging. 
A giant rootball thwarted our efforts, leaving us with a twisted shovel (which I forgot to take a photo of.) After walking back, trading out shovels and moving our spot a bit, we started again.
Sucess (finally). Here is the newly planted Hong Kong Orchid tree.
The Hong Kong Orchid has these gorgeous flowers.
Found this funny sign on our walk around town.
Dragon origami.
Chess club.
Raja lovin’.
A surprise early Mother’s Day celebration. (Patrick forgot the last 3 years so he had a little making up to do.)
Hope you are having fabulous week!
We love book fairs – lots and lots of books !!! This was one of several piles! Yikes!
These ridiculously fun creatures are part of our annual Flower Show.
One of our scores at the book fair was 139 episodes of MacGyver for $8. We spent the weekend binge watching MacGyver!
Their is a certain fascination with our cart escalator at Target. 
“Holy Unanticipated Occurances.”
The boys wrestling.
And Raja.
Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Hellllllloooo!
Waiting for a friend at the train station. (Love how little he looks among the larger architecture.)
A Scavenger (Silly Faced) Egg Hunt
Inside each egg was a picture and the picture led to the next egg and so on and so on…
There was an egg in the sock drawer among some many other crazy places.
A picture of a dishwasher?
What kind of crazy Easter Bunny leaves the Easter basket ( full of pool and beach toys) in the dishwasher?
Patrick was out of town, so Harry and I splurged on a special Easter Brunch (complete with a yummy pomegranate mimosa.)
An Easter Selfie.
Ready, set……
Go!
The aftermath.
Trying a new type of Easter Egg art with crayons called Volcanic Explosion. It sounded great in theory but it was an epic fail. We will always remember the disaster we created!
Easter Bunny Harry Rainbow Looming Wild Man.
This may seem like abuse but our cat really likes it. No really! He is actually trying to catch the water stream with his outstretched paw.
A soaking wet Moomba!
Hope your weekend is filled with silliness!
This last week has been rough as we lost our sweet baby girl – Syberia.
Good-bye princess! I imagine her dancing among the grass chasing butterflies.
And some photos from this week….
The lone Elmo lost on the bench waiting for his home.
Our shadows.
Harry pretending to be grouchy dad. Watch out! 
We still seem to be in the rainbow loom dragon phase. Meet Thunderdrom.
My goofy boys at dinner.
Science night at school – testing the laws of physics of force and pressure with a balloon.
On a field trip. Art at UCSD.
Hope you have a good weekend.
Back to reality…..
A rainbow loom hippo in a rainbow loom lake.
A Costa Rican inspired toucan.
And we are moving into the dragon phase.
Sunset. 
Yes, I draw pictures on his lunch every day.
Cat nip is soooo good.
“No, it’s mine.” “No, it’s mine”
Have a great weekend.
The final parts of our Costa Rican Adventures…..
Aren’t they cute when they sleeping?
The very elusive toucan.
The toucan in flight. (It is not the greatest photo technically but how neat to capture a toucan in flight).
Paddle battling before white water rafting. 
That is the tiniest frog. 
Enjoying a new day at our fancy hotel in Guanacoste.
The kids had an evening to themselves and they all colored shirts. This is Harry’s version.
If you are last to arrive you must dance down the aisle to “Hakuna Matata”.
Flying, spinning Devil Rays.
Off on snorkeling adventures.
He is either singing or pontificating.
And life is excellent with a virgin pina colada nearby.
Relaxing after a long day in the sun.
Enjoying my newly created mojito (from the mojito making class).
Trying to do some last minute stocking up on all things good Costa Rican – coffee and chocolate!!!
Not really ready to go home yet.
Thanks for coming on this journey with me.
The adventure continued near the Arenal Volcano….
We were so lucky to see the top of the volcano as we were told it is a rare sight.
Ready for zip lining.
Almost 2 miles of zip line. Definitely not my thing but I was very proud to have made it through.
Harry was too little (weight wise) to go by himself, not that he didn’t want to.
Love the heliconia – the vibrant color, the unique shape. 
Postcards in the town of La Fortuna.
Beautiful colored sarongs enticing shoppers and giving a flavor of the town.
Mosaics everywhere.
Painting gourds with indigenous Maleku tribe of Costa Rica. “Capy Capy” means a warm welcome.
Lots of Marco Polo playing at the pool.
Sunset over the Arenal Volcano.
Enjoying the natural Hidalgo Hot Springs.
More to come…..
surf and sea design 