Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Nature Walk

I am a Wilderness Explorer.  Can I help you across the street?











Saturday, August 9, 2014

Fashion Girls

This is long over due, as a result many of these pictures are dated, but I've wanted to do a post profiling my girls unique fashion sense for some time.

It should be noted that while Ally does a sensational job of keeping our daughters sartorially relevant, they have their own ideas on fashion and express them frequently.  The following pictures document these instances.









Sunday, May 11, 2014

Mother's Day Weekend Fun- Strawberry Fields Forever

I've been looking through my pictures and we are way behind on posting some events that have happened to our family that need documentation.  So before I let another opportunity pass me by, I thought I'd post a couple of shots from our outing yesterday in Carlsbad, as well as a shot of the girls for Mother's Day.  Happy Mother's Day Ally.  You are the life blood of this family.









Thursday, March 27, 2014

Noah's Obervatory


I originally drafted this back in March but forgot to publish.  Since the point of this thing is to document the girls outings, I'm publishing anyhow.  Just think late March when you look at the pictures.  Cute babies.

There is a really cool Noah's Ark exhibit at the Skirball museum.  I may have posted something about it previously.

Ally's parents visited weekend before last. We hit up the Griffith Observatory, and the Newport Coast.  Pictures below.














Thursday, February 27, 2014

Highway Through the Danger Zone

I spent last weekend flying F-18s out in Oxnard.  It took a couple hours to get the hang of, but once you figure out the take-off and landing, it's really pretty easy.*

One of the photos below is just of the front landing gear, which seems ordinary until it's explained how specialized it is for Navy planes.  It's much more heavy-duty on Navy aircraft, a necessity for use on aircraft carriers.  You can see the anchor for the catapult on the front.  I know all you Top Gun fans know this, but that's used to accelerate the plane during take off from a carrier.  What you probably didn't know was that it takes the plane from 0-160mph in two seconds.  Yes, 2 seconds!  Awesome.

The other thing I geeked out on was the earplug dispenser in the hanger.  No, this is not a candy machine they filled with earplugs, it was created solely for this purpose.  Just in case you didn't believe them when they said it was REALLY loud, they have a machine specifically designed to dispense ear protection right outside the hanger door.  

I have some pretty cool video of it taxiing and taking off, but I'll spare you.








*This statement is false almost in it's entirety. Other than "Oxnard" and "F18" it's a complete fabrication.  I mean it's a $60MM state-of-the-art weapon.  Really I shouldn't have been allowed to stand near it.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Project Coral

I was strong armed into another refurbishing project.  I resisted, but I'll admit, it turned out nicely. Of course I was just the labor, creative credit goes to Ally.