Shane at Bedtime

Shane decided to ham it up for the camera the other night at bedtime

Shane and his best friend, never sleeps without his Leo

The Police

We spent Memorial Day evening just a stone's throw from the Mexican border watching one of the greatest rock bands ever live in concert. I heard that earlier in the tour the band didn't sound too well since they've spent about 20 years apart, but they were fantastic last night. One thing that doens't really come through on their albums is how awesome Andy Summers is on guitar, he had some killer solos last night with Sting wailing on the bass that made us all want to go home and jump on guitar hero. Their songs sound even better live than they do on the ipod.

As you can tell from the photos we were way up on the grass, which was great except we were surronded by several individuals who chose to "partake". That may be why the concert sounded so awesome. Needless to say everyone in the car was very hungry on the ride home. Great show, thanks again to our benevolent friends who hooked us up with the tickets.

Mother's Day

Amanda and Shane and their pink shirts on Mother's Day.


We spent Mother's Day afternoon with Amanda's grandparents and other assorted family members at the beach in Carlsbad. Don't judge us, the beach is totally legit on the sabbath when family is visiting. The family visiting clause is one of my favorite sabbath breaking bylaws, right up there with the vacation clause.





Shane decided to go play in the water and ended up getting totally soaked. We were unprepared for this situation so we let him run around the waves in just his diaper for a while, very classy of us. I had Shane wrapped up in my sweatshirt with the big hood over his head, it was super cute, but of course Shane couldn't hang on long enough for the photo-op.

That's why we live in Oceanside

Life in North San Diego county has it's flaws. High cost of living, rapidly declining value of real estate, and gas is just about to hit 4 bucks a gallon. But on a perfect afternoon in March when it's 70 degrees and the tourists haven't invaded yet there's no better place on earth.

Shane loved going in the water last summer and would freak out when it was time to leave, the promise of In-N-Out french fries was the only thing that would get him to relax. He's very anxious to get in the water this year and hasn't figured out that its too cold still. He also told me during a trip to a surf shop that he wanted a surfboard that was "his size". In Shane's mind a bogey board is a Shane sized surfboard. Here he is playing in the breakers, what a stoked little guy

Easter (2 months later)

A funny thing happens when your new camera holds 10X the number of photos your old one did. When there's no need to clean out your memory card months and months of pictures just seem to build up on there. That's a lot of old stuff to catch up on, and the longer you let it build up the more daunting it appears. We've also had distractions like trying to potty train a 2 year old (absolutely ridiculous, when we ever have a second kid we're starting this process 6 months earlier) and spending time on the road. That or we're just lazy. But to keep with our tradition of posting holiday pictures several months late, here's a few shots of the Shane from Easter.