Pirate Trenton's birthday

It's official! He's 4 years old!!!
He is a joy beyond expression, and today he was such a little man as we got all dressed up to celebrate the pirate in all of us.
There will be more pictures to follow, but for now here is a taste of the fun.

And... I went a little over the top with his birthday cake. Here are the pictures...

Wipeout!

We watch TV in our house!
I'm not sure that I should admit this out loud, but I guess this is just us. Just to compensate for what you are about to read... we do like to play too. We play hard, we crash hard. While we are crashing (and DVRing till it is maxed out)... we are watching these.

I like... Oprah, The Biggest Loser, Supernanny, The Bachelorette
Emile likes... golf, The Soup and Big Break
Together we LOVE ... Wipeout, So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol, House, Prison Break (so sad it ended), The Office and can't wait for Community
Trenton likes... Transformers, Go Diego Go, Superwhy and Word World
Simon likes... Go Diego Go (aka "go go")

With all this fascinating and captivating television, we caught this last night, and laughed so hard that my stomach hurt! You'll have to watch this and tell me if you fall over. If not... just join us on Wednesday nights with a bag of popcorn and I dare you not to laugh so hard you fall off the couch!

Beach weekend

Here are just few pictures and a video from our trip out to the beach!!!

The summary sounds something like this....we met up with sweet friends for a short time and fell in love with their new baby! We got to know my brother's fiance and fell in love with her too! Then, we played in the sand, ate great food, hunt for pirate treasure and cried when we had to come home.

Here are our friends... safe, sound and on the ground.

Then, this happened, you cannot see it well.. but if you squint, blow up the picture, or look below you'll see Tony showing the boys how to be men.

I.... can be found behind the camera.

and... this video is not short, and most likely not exciting to anyone NOT in the family. Feel free to watch, but really.... just smile and say that you did.

Beach Trip 2009s from Raina on Vimeo.