Suessical!

 This was a very blessed evening. The kids were SO excited to enjoy this musical theater performance.

 They enjoy Dr. Seuss, so it's cool to see his characters spring to live-action and real life! They both continue to sing the songs.

A memory that I will put in my pocket of remembrance is this. Days later Josh said, "A person is a person no matter how small.  [pause] Mom, We are all WHO's to God." It is so cool to see how a 4 year old relates our human size to God.  God's strength & sovereignty is truly immeasurable, uncontainable, indescribable.

Skyfari Ride

The Lord worked it out for Josh to have some one on one time with both his dad and mom.

Josh picked some zoo time and the sky fari ride :-)

The simplicity of childhood is fun! His favorite part is the "bump" as we start off and finding out what animal is pictured on our car.

The sweet thing about Josh is how he loves his family. He only wanted to go on an outing if all four of us could be there! So, when Aidon was out of school, we headed out for more family time :-)

A destination after the sky journey is the polar bears - and they were swimming...

sports!

going for the hoop!

receiving the pass...

focusing on the target!

Josh has his "own" sense of style: and likes the short AND long pants look sometimes!

loving the moment

PJ Nite

Snow Balls!

I started to miss blogging with the past couple months without a computer. Then one of my boys said, "Can't you blog at the library?" So, here we are, one boy on each side of me checking out www.jellytelly.com.... first post in a while..

With all the blessings of local rain, we actually had an evening where there was a 100% chance of rain. This week we had a previously planned trip to Mammoth that was cancelled, and instead we hoped to bring the kids up to play with snow one day. This was our opportunity:

We drove just a bit under an hour away and were so excited to see the snow on the mountains, in the distance, then all around us, and on the trees: [excuse the rotation, i'll come back and fix that!]. The kids said the snow ball fight was their favorite part of the trip:

We came home and snuggled up in a warm room to read and hang out:

Mama teaches Baby too swim!

A new baby hippo was born at the zoo weeks ago, and Pete has been desiring to visit. We spent a Sunday afternoon there, and most of our time was spent "oohing" and "ah-ing" at the Hippo pond. Here the mother is guiding the baby into the water. The mama looks SO big with the baby hippo next to her.
The mama was teaching the baby while we were there. Guiding the baby as it was in the water, then lifting the baby up to get air. It was fascinating.

The boys were "boys" and were tree climbing right after and being silly. Here is our younger son' "EEEE" pose:

And now you can tell they are on a tree:

If you are in the area, maybe try to stop by :-) Happy Hippo Day!

The Cat Walk

 What a blessing to have a picture of the three sisters together. We were hiking the zoo with our 3 boys and the main animal attraction on this trip was the Big Cat family - mountain lion, cheetah, jaguar, leopard, et al. Josh enjoyed seeing the differences between the cats. My favorite sight that day was seeing the panda bears. The have such personality! It was one of the bear's birthdays, and he had tons of bamboo to feast on.

Crazy Hair

It was a crazy hair day in our parts

Saying goodbye to another tooth

Trail Hike

christmas morn 2010

Wow! Aidon and Josh crawled into our bed at 4AM on Christmas morning. Josh fell right back to sleep and Aidon actually stayed up and waited for us all to come out to family room to start our morning!

Loyal father, Pete, got up too and they looked through their stockings that were filled with stuffers from the Suggett clan, while waiting for Josh to wake up...

I can't even remember what time Josh woke up, but I think it was 2-3 hours later, 6AM or 7AM:

Singing Happy Birthday

What better gift than the promise to spend eternity with God in Heaven?

God, the Son, came down from heaven. He entered as a baby, was crucified as an adult, and rose again, proving He was "I AM." He lived a life span, infant to adulthood, and in his sacrifice, He covered our lifetime of sin. So, with God's forgiveness through Jesus Christ; God cleanses us and makes us white as snow as we accept Him as our Savior.

We continued our tradition of enjoying a birthday cake for Jesus on the 25th and singing Happy Birthday: This time, we made sure it was an ice cream cake - the traditional family bday cake.
Happy Birthday to you, Jesus!
Thank you Jesus.