by laraine
Michelle has a set of triplets who are 5 and a singleton. Her youngest son Austin is the singleton (one baby born all by himself, imagine that). However, he thinks he’s one of the triplets. He also tries to do everything they do and thinks he’s the same age as them!. Last week, Austin celebrated his 4th birthday.
We went over with Brian, Charlie, Ashley and Mariah to join in the celebration. A lot of fun was had by all.
The kids went swimming
Had water balloon fights



Posed for photos

and ate cake, pizza and had a great time. Charlie asked if they could stay at their house forever!
Happy Birthday Austin!
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by laraine
The boy’s school had a field trip to a 51’s game. It was a fun night. A lot of other families were there. We were really lucky with the weather. It was in the mid 70’s which is perfect for sitting outside at the ball game.
The sun was shining and there wasn’t a cloud to be seen.
We had pretty decent seats. They were between home plate and first base and pretty close to the field. I was able to fool around with my telephoto lens and get some shots of the batters and pitchers.
Charlie and Brian were too busy playing with friends and running up, down and around the bleachers to pay much attention to the game.
By the 6th inning Brian was getting pretty tired.
But when I asked him to pose for a picture with his daddy - he was all smiles. I’m sure that none of the smile had anything to do with the ice cream pop and popcorn that his daddy just got hm!
I couldn’t leave the ballpark without getting a photo of my 3 favorite people!
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by laraine
Quite a few fields trips were scheduled for the last 2 weeks of school. We took the boys to 3 of them. They had a blast at every event.
The Mad Science group had a session at the school offices. Quite a few families went to that and all the kids had a great time.
From their website: http://www.madscience.org/locations/lasvegas/

Unique! Unforgettable! Exciting! Cool! These words have all been used to describe Mad Science. Mad Science is the world’’s leading fun science provider for birthday parties, after-school programs, in-school workshops, camps, assemblies, and corporate events. Children will experience unique, hands-on science activities that will spark their imaginative learning!
Mad Science offers summer camps (which we are consiering for the boys) and birthday parties (something else I’m considering) among other things. It really was a lot of fun to see how much the kids learned and how much fun they had learning!.
The next field trip we participated in was a trip to Adventuredome at the Circus Circus. Nothing but fun involved in this one. Jim and I even went on quite a few rides with the boys. Pictures from that trip are below.
The last field trip we went to with the school group was a 51’s game at Cashman field. It was the first time the boys (and a lot of the other kids) went to a ball game. We all really enjoyed ourselves. The weather was unusually cool for this time of year - like 16 degrees below normal. Sitting outside in that nice cool 70 degree air made for a wonderful night. I have lots of photos from the ballgame. I’ll try to upload them tomorrow.
Now…what are we going to do for the Summer? I still have to figure that out.
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by laraine
A smile for Mama.
Climbing
Charlie pretending to be a Jedi
The boys pose with Grandma
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The boy’s tested for their yellow belt this past Saturday. They both passed. They are very proud of themselves and we are proud of them too!.
Getting their new belts put on
Throwing the old belts up in the air!
One last pose for Mom
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A few days ago I spilled a few drops of coffee in the hallway by my office. The boys saw this and immediately decided that they needed to mark off the spots and isolate the ’spill’ so that no one would slip on the 2 drops of coffee. I thought it was kind of cute.
Charlie loves setting up car crashes and then having all his rescue vehicles go to the ’scene of the accident’ and take care of all the cars and people. Here is a shot of his latest crash.
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