The rest of 2009

Christmas 2009 -the year of the Dump Truck
Preceded by the Year of the Boat and Giant Chocolate Bar, The Year of the Jet, the year of the Camel, the year of the Suitcase (it traveled better), the year of the Turkey, the year of the Snowman, and the year of the Moose. May they rest in pieces in the nearest landfill.

Our next Bookworm

That Perfect Gift for everyone - the Snuggie!
in zebra print grrrrrr...

now he just needs a shop to store it in

Guess who did not want to get out of bed - at 8:30am

The night before Christmas

Elizabeth's Ballet Class

Friends and a Movie

A new place to fall asleep

11/21/2009 - Still did not come close to beating the Department Stores

Dorothy's Birthday- at least someone is excited

Visit with the Gruenauer Family

Flag Football

Halloween Cupcakes

The only real good seafood buffet in Vegas

Still looking for signs of intelligent life

Seems they let anyone into the White House these days

A new Vegas Icon (behind the one on its way out of town)

(do not adjust your screen the building actually leans)

City Center in Vegas

September trip to the Zoo

The Gang
(Notice Evan is already turned the other way and making his escape)

Evan was absolutely fascinated with the Cottontail Rabbit

New Babies 1,

2,

3

Evan just moments before a major freak-out when it starts moving.

Family Portrait?

Chasing Rockets

We have been chasing after the Ares rocket to watch them test the booster.

The first time we had the wrong date and had to come back on the 27th of August.

Having lunch in the car isn't so bad once you get everyone settled.

We arrived early so that we would have a good spot to watch.


The crowd was huge and everyone was standing around as the clock counted down.


At 20 seconds before the test there ended up being a malfunction
and they scrubbed the test and rescheduled.

Finally on Sept. 10th was were able to watch ATK test the booster.





We got there later than the last time, and thought that maybe they had canceled the test,


because hardly anyone was there.


In some ways it was better not having to wait so long for the test to start.

The kids enjoyed their lunch and then we found us a good viewing area to watch the test.
Just after we passed the 20 second mark the crowd went crazy.

Then there was the count down...

It was amazing!