The life and times of our little Merz family unit of 3. Oh, and of course, the extended family members of which there are many.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sunrise hunting
Hunting for sunrise shells on Lumahai Beach at sunrise with Mark and Dena. Life is good.
Merz Men on a walk/ride
Merz Men on a walk/ride a video by jessicafm on Flickr.
Mark and Davey enjoy a bit of biking together on a beautiful Spring morning.
Watching hula dancing girls...
...at the free hula show on Wednesday evenings at the Coconut Grove Shopping Center on Kauai.
Every resort needs a slide like this
Every resort needs a slide like this a video by jessicafm on Flickr.
Davey had the BEST time on this slide. This experience, alone, made the cost of a night at the Marriot worth it.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Hiking the waterfall trail with Deb
We had a great time hiking the Waterfall Trail on Saturday. We didn't expect to take that hike, which is 3 miles long and has a 500 foot elevation climb. However, we ended up on that trail with Davey happily trucking along 90% of the time, looking for the waterfall. Now that it's raining (as I type this), he's eager to get back to see more water in the creek.
Cleaning the orange juicer
So eager to try what we found in storage, he lugged it to the bathroom on his own to clean it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Friday, December 24, 2010
Got his letter mailed to Santa!
On December 23rd Mark, Bonnie, Davey and I went for a day in downtown San Francisco. While waiting to get in to lunch at Cheesecake Factory, we wandered about Santa Land on the 7th floor of Macy's. While there, Davey sat down and drew a picture of Santa on a postcard and popped it in to the Santa Mail Box. Yay!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Our house guest for a couple days
Davey and I are dog sitting Travis, Mom and Mick's dog, for a couple days. While allergy testing shows Davey is allergic to cats and dogs, we're giving this a try to see how he does. Travis, besides, is the sweetest and most well behaved dog I can imagine.
This morning we all went for a walk to Peets and Noah's for lunch. Davey was on his bike and Travis on a leash. Everyone had a grand time. Now it's nap time but later this afternoon we will go for another outing to Pioneer Park for more bike riding and walking.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Trash truck costume is nearly ready!
Finishing touches required: glue on some "trash", add head- and tail-lights...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Ubuntu says Happy Birthday Davey!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Davey's birthday party
Let the birthday partying begin! Yes, Davey's birthday is still 5 days away but we had his "kid" birthday party today, the Saturday prior to the real day. What fun we had!
We went to Marin Treks in Novato where Brian (Mr. C) showed and taught the kids about leopard geckos, ball pythons and tortoises. The kids all had the opportunity to touch and/or hold those creatures, which pretty much all were doing by the time that was up.
Then we had some excellent Amici's pizza (kudos to Mark for getting them to have pizza ready 45 minutes before they open their doors!), cupcakes and juice boxes.
An interesting twist: For the first time, it was almost all dads accompanying kids to this party. There were two other moms there (Grace's mom, Cammeron and Alex's mom, Suzanne). That was totally funny! One wonders if maybe some moms were a little squeamish about snakes, lizards, etc.? Ha, totally funny! Of course everyone at the party was a lot of fun.
Davey loved the gifts his friends gave him. We spent the afternoon, pre and post nap, putting together the various gifts and playing. Thanks kids!
Wednesday I'm taking off work to take Davey to meet up with Papa and Linda in Calistoga for a birthday lunch. On his actual birthday, Thursday, he'll go to school so he can wear the special birthday hat at circle time and eat cupcakes (or rice crispy treats? hmmm) with his Kittens classmates and then something special for dinner that night. Family birthday party next weekend? I guess Mark and I had better figure that one out quickly!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Lindsay, Davey and Prescott
Dinner at Pasta Pomodoro after Papa played at the Sausalito Art festival.
Hanging back stage
...while Jefferson Starship plays at the Sausalito Art Festival on Labor Day, 2010.
Here's a bit of video as Davey and Bonnie left to go trick-or-treating:
And here's how our house looked. Earlier in the day Bonnie drew designs on the pumpkins and I did the carving and gutting.