Friday, November 21, 2008

Snow on the Mountain

Yesterday was a great day in San Diego, we walked around Balboa Park which is one of our favorite things to do.


Blynn and Rusty took the big stage in the organ pavilion.




I love the buildings and architecture here.
They were also having a "Global Awareness" display throughout the fountain area. It was really neat and there were a lot more globes than we thought there would be. We ended the day with a Walling tradition of "Snow on the Mountain" which is kind of like a asian form of stack-em-ups. It was so good. The kids enjoyed having Grandma LouAnn all to themself as Papa Russ is out of town. We ended the day with frozen yogurt and Survivor, what could be better?
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Buzzed!


Rusty's fans have already told me they don't like the hair. He has had his hair cut twice before, but never to this extent. I also like the long shaggy hair, but I just couldn't take it anymore. Now I won't have to cut it for at least 6 months.
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Friday, November 14, 2008

One-eyed Jack

The other day, Todd took the kids to the gym while I had a dentist appointment. When Todd went to get them from the nursery to go home, Rusty had one shoe on and the other one was nowhere to be found. He has been known to "hide" things from us in other people's diaper bags or trash cans. So apparently Todd looked all over the nursery and you can see by the picture that he was not successful.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Winking is soooooo hard

One of Todd's little known facts is he has no ability to wink. Even when he takes pictures, he has to manually close one of his eyes, this trait he inherited from his mom. These are the little things that the Lord gives us to giggle at. Well, Blynn also has this trait and even though she is certain that she is winking, I have the proof to say otherwise.



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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Movie Night

Of everybody, Rusty had the most pillows. Six to be exact, while the rest of us got two. Don't let his relaxing against the pillows fool you. He does not sit still for any movie watching. He has much more important things to do like run, climb, run, jump off the fireplace, run, play with his train, and run. We even chose "Cars" thinking this would engage him. Blynn has been able to sit through movies for a long time, and if allowed, could probably do it all day long.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008

How Am I Supposed to Choose


This blog satisfies a lot of my problems. You can't have your house wallpapered with your favorite family pictures because it just takes over, but now I can post all of them here. Our good friend, Stephen Abbas, took these great pictures of the kids and I love them. This one above of Rusty is my hands down favorite.








Can you see the sass in that face?


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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

History

I remember as a child in school during history lessons, thinking that all these amazingly historic things that I was studying about were done. That nothing so historical would ever happen in my lifetime that would end up in history books. Well, as I think back, plenty of historical things have happened in my first 30 years, and some I even remember watching on the news when I was a child. I can remember the news coverage of the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989. I remember a lot of news coverage involving Gorbechav and Reagan, and then the fall of the iron curtain. I remember multiple successful space missions and being present for the shuttle landing in Mojave. And the tragic unsuccessful space missions. All of these things seemed relatively insignificant to me at the time because I was so young, but I can see the magnitude of them now. I would hear my parents and grandparents talk about remembering where they were when certain things in history took place and I always thought that sounded funny. But I most definitely remember where I was on September 11, 2001. What I would like for you to know, Blynn and Rusty, is that yesterday was a truly significant day in our history. You may not realize the magnitude of it while you are growing up with our first African-American president, but there have been decades and decades of history laid down for this moment.
Whether this was your choice for president or not, we do know that our God is a Sovereign God. Daniel 1: 20-21 states "Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His. He changes time and seasons; He sets up kings and deposes them."
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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Bonsai

Blynn and Rusty like to do "Cheers". But "Cheers" is usually always followed by "Bonsai". A lot of times we do this after prayer before we eat dinner. They seem to most be motivated when we are at Jamba Juice. What's in those smoothies anyway. We can't ask Todd as he signed a contract of secrecy.

Bonsai became a tradition of ours after Todd's brothers wedding. Aiko's grandpa, Mioji, did a toast and ended it with three "Bonsai"'s. I know that Gabe and Aiko did a lot of planning for that wedding; but of everything, that was my favorite part.

Sorry the picture is dark, but we were looking into the sun and you can't stage these things.

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Saturday, November 1, 2008

Blynn and Sherri


These are some of my favorite pictures of Blynn and Sherri. They aren't the best quality as we were still using regular film then, so I had to scan them in. This is when we went to the coast together. I sure am glad now that we took this vacation together and when we lived in the same city that we spent almost too much time together. I always miss Sherri this time of year. Not only were Halloween, Thanksgiving , and Christmas fun holidays for her, but we would do a lot of fun things together too during this time. I loved going to the Fall Festival with her with all the craft booths and the Christmas Ladies Lunch at Grace Church where she would decorate a table. A couple of years we decorated her house together. I miss her all the time, but especially this time of year.

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They Look So Sweet When They're Sleeping

I love taking pictures of Blynn when she is sleeping. She has fallen asleep in some pretty funny places and I run and get the camera. She dropped afternoon naps a long time ago, but sometimes when she hasn't slept good the night before, she will just fall asleep right where she is. At night, once she is asleep, I can turn on the lights in her room and clean out her closet and she wouldn't even stir. Rusty on the other hand, isn't such a heavy sleeper. He has been the easiest so far in getting to go down to sleep, in fact, it's been quite simple in comparison to Blynn. But the slightest noise will wake him right up. He is okay with regular routine noises like hay trucks driving by and rattling his window, but if I tried to go into his room after he was asleep, he would pop right up and either cry or say "Hi Mommy". So, with all of that said, I don't have any of Rusty sleeping in his crib.
















Falling asleep with Papa.




That can't be comfortable.








Here is one picture of Rusty I found of him sleeping after falling asleep on the way home.
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