New ones that did go through are Rockband, Thanksgiving at Marcella’s, ROTC Change of Command for 2009, Hugh Sam’s Visit to Carson City, Halloween 2009 and Snow Day.

In the Rockband photo gallery we have Terry, Kendra, Donovan, Ciarra and Kendra’s bf Cody playing the game together. There are a couple of videos in there as well. This was during the Summer of 2009.

In Thanksgiving at Marcella’s we have Shelia(Mom), myself and Darion at Marcella’s first Thanksgiving in her new home. Kendra, Donovan and Ciarra spent Thanksgiving with Gma Valladon at Disneyland and Universal. Terry had to work.

Kendra gets promoted, Change of Command 2009

In the ROTC Change of Command 2009 gallery, we have some good shots of Kendra being promoted at the end of the school year. There are also some good shots of Cody and Kendra, their platoons and the whole company. I do have this years ROTC Change of Command 2010 images but don’t have room yet in the online gallery…those will come up at some point.

In the Hugh Sam’s Visit to Carson City, my daughter Darion and her adoptive parents Chris and Cindy Hugh Sam came out for a visit.

In the Halloween 2009 image gallery, we have Kendra dressed as a vampire kitty for the Halloween party that her and Cody went to. Terry dressed up as a puppy, Darion dressed up as a cheerleader and I dressed up as a kitty. I dragged them around Carson City in the cold, just so I could get a lot of shots of the Halloween celebration.

In the Snow Day gallery, Kendra and Darion went outside to get some shots of the 14 inches of snow that fell here in Carson City this past winter. CHS called in an actual “Snow Day”.

Well, that should about round that up. We do have more images that we are working on getting up and we will try better at updating this site. In the next update, we’ll go by gallery to catch up on all that’s happened since last year or so.

~Laura

Last month the Carson City Library had a e-book project where Kendra, Donovan, Ciarra and myself took apart in. To read and see the collaborative e-book click the link below and you’ll be promted to download it and watch via Windows Media Player.

Summer Reading Party Book

~Laura

Donovan, a mini-gamer in his own right really got into the “game” aspect of it. You can see the intensity in his little face as he worked to get that dot through the levels without touching the sides. He was determined to beat us all at the game.

Well, that was until he was surprised by the face. He totally freaked out and ran from the computer pulling Terry on top of him. Click the image to view the video.

Now, the whole time we had Donovan out in the living room playing the “game” Ciarra was back in her and Kendra’s room playing. So she wasn’t aware of what was going on. Terry called Ciarra out and set her up at the computer, meanwhile the rest of us including Donovan are trying to act all normal so she won’t catch on.

Ciarra get’s board with the game pretty quickly because she can’t seem to get the little dot through the maze without having to restart the level. Terry and Kendra help her a bit to get through the first couple of levels and then pull back.

We’re all waiting for her reaction… and the next thing you know Ciarra pop’s off with “Who did that?” when the face screams onto the screen. Little girl didn’t even flinch. Click the image to view the video.

Here we had Terry, myself and Kendra who had at least jumped a bit at the face and then Donovan who just completely freaked out… and then Ciarra. She wasn’t even phased at all.

~Laura

Kendra’s first fish,
slightly bloody.

Kendra caught her first fish today!!! Terry caught one as well and we have the pictures to prove it.

The first five photos are from our afternoon fishing trip out to Wilson Commons Pond on Friday, check out the image gallery here. The pond has a resident beaver that just swims back and forth across the water. It taunted us at one point as it swam past us with a fish in its mouth and we didn’t catch a single fish there.

Our fishing trip today was out to Davis Creek which is where the action happened. We set up on the side of the water where snow was still present and proceeded to slide all over the place.

Kendra baited her own hook, using marshmallow power bait and reeled it in as quickly as she could. Since loosing a few off the hook last year, she was not about to let this one get away. While Terry was helping her with her rainbow trout, his line caught a trout and both fish would end up being the only catches of the day.

In honor of  Kendra making her first catch, Terry taught her how to clean it  herself.

Next weekend we hope the weather is good so we can take Donovan and Ciarra out fishing, perhaps we will have more happy “first fish” pictures.

~Laura

Over the next few weekends, we will be adding our collected photos to the image gallery. Birthdays, family outings, the past few Christmas celebrations… all the pictures we’ve taken up to this point will be here to share.

Oh, and this past Halloween was a special one with the kids all decked out in costume. Kendra was a necromancer, Donovan was a ninja turtle, Ciarra was a fairy princess and I was black cat. We even have some shots of Terry wearing pink bunny ears… which really are pics not to be missed!

~Laura~