First Day of Second Grade!!!!

Look at me!  Second-grader!!!

Brendan seems pretty excited!

"Egg Dumplings"

In Seattle, Paw Paw made a bunch of delicious things...and this dish was one of them.  It's basically a mini chinese omelet, with pork inside.  I really love these and I could eat the whole plate of them!  So Mom decided maybe should could make it..... and she did it!  It was pretty yummy and the whole plate was gone in no time.  Thanks Mom!

New Tees

Mom made me these Star Wars tees.  She traced the outside from a printed image and then had to draw the inside lines by hand!  WOW!

Clone Trooper

R2-D2

Pretty cool, huh?

New Bike!

Okay, no, my new bike (Thanks Auntie CC!) doesn't come with a trailer...but I like that I can pull my brother around, and he likes it too.  I'm pretty strong now you know.

Pacific Grove visit

We paid a visit to Auntie Sarah, Logan and Addison and there rental house in Pacific Grove.  Tristan started school already (what?) so he wasn't there, and that was a bummer.  

Bird on my arm.  I really couldn't not do it since all the little kids had already done without incident....

Logan, Brendan and I played with this ball thing for a while.  We'd crank the balls up and thru the maze and they'd come out.  Here I am pulling the rope that releases all these balls onto the floor...I then told the little ones to pick them up...Hey, I'm better and cranking the gears.

Brendan didn't want to be in this picture.  Addison is the ambulance driver.

The Coast Starlight

We decided to take the Coast Starlight home from Seattle.  You know, my brother loves trains.  And I kinda do too.  It takes 24 hours to go from Seattle to San Jose, so we got a family room in one of the sleeper cars.  It was a nice little room.  It was an amazing ride and I'm so happy that we did it.

Arriving in our room.  We were in room 15 on train #11, car 32.

Checking out the shower on the other end of the train car

View of our room at the end of the hall.  Our room spanned with entire width

of the train.  Other cabins were only half of maybe 3/4 of the width.

Parlor Car (just for sleeping car passengers)

Relaxing in the Parlor Car

Playing games up in my bunk, which was shorter than Mom and Dad's bed.

50 minute stop in Portland

In the Sightseer car watching a movie

Running thru the Parlor Car after dinner

The "halls"

At breakfast in the dining car, passing thru Emeryville

I had so much fun on this trip.  We all want to do it again....:)

More fun kayaking

That's Dad over there in the rowboat.

Getting in...

And off I go.

I'm really getting good.

Random Seattle pics

Fresh picked blackberries

hmmm....

Fishing at Buck Lake

More clams (clams for days)

Free crab

Seafood Soup.

Out on the open waters

Sorry for the blurry pictures, Mom put her phone in a ziploc bag....

Dance Pictures

Dance Pictures from 2011 season...

Old Time Rock and Roll

Here It Goes Again

Team

Seattle Part 1

Enjoying Mora's Ice Cream.  Yum!

Spaghetti Vongole, made from the clams we dug when Dad was here.

Mom and Dad's feet...over there, B and I are fishing.

I caught 5 fish.  This one one of them.

Another fish.