More Zorro

Blake and Zorro (or is it Zoro??)

Awesome cat - he loves people
We call this the "plop"

Blake is looking at the camera

Zorro is looking at the camera - love how this shot captures his blue eyes

A favorite position - on the couch for lovins...

Blake's baptism

Blake Thomas was baptized on Nov 22, 2009 at the Conejo Valley Church of Christ by his grandpa, Philip Wall.

I now baptize you in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit, ...
First hug!

Proud mommy and daddy!

A toast for Blake

The cousins were there for Blake's big day

Tricky to get 10 cousins to all look at the camera at the same time!

Zoro

We brought Zoro home today!!! He's not sure about his new home, but here he is sitting on the couch watching football with the boys : )

Unfortunately, the flash makes his blue eyes not show up...
SO soft!

We found out his b-day is April 1, which makes him almost 8 mos old

He is still considered a kitten! Wow!

Hawaii 0-9

When Blake surfed in Waikiki this summer a guy sold me these awesome pictures for pretty cheap : ) This was a real highlight for Blake while we were in Hawaii!!!

Love the way he positioned Diamond Head in the background! We've hiked to the top of that crater with some very special people: Andy and Carrie, Jon and Becky and their family... When are we going back???

Fall soccer season begins

Garrett's team started off their season on Sat a.m. with a 1-1 tie. I think all the games this season will be very tough!
His team had a game on Sunday vs. his old club team. By half-time they were down 0-1, but in the end they came back to win 3-1. Good to see dear friends : )

I have great photos of Garrett's games because of Nora, a mom on his team who takes lots of photos with her amazing camera and then posts them for us all to share.

I don't have any photos of Blake's 1st club season game, but he did great and they fought tough against a very physical team. They lost 0-1.

Mike is on his way to Singapore tonight. He will be back on Sat night. Pray for safety in his travels!!!

Still summer...

Garrett slips and slides all the way to the street!!!!

The block wall is gone, and on Sat we planted 3 big palm trees between our house and our neighbor's driveway. Garrett and Blake broke out the slip n slide with their boogies boards and enjoyed a summer afternoon...

A good shot of Blake and the new palm trees!

Blake putting on the moves!

We still need our mason to finish the stucco wall and we plan to put grass in up to the edge of the driveway. Seems like there is always something!

First Day of school!

Our Junior in HS - he's an upper classman!

Our 8th and 7th graders!
Garrett was pointing out this week that he will always be in school with a brother. Next year he will be in high school w/ Austin, and the following year Blake will come to high school. Ah, the joys of being the middle child...

King's Kamp

Paula and Phyllis - 6th grade teachers at King's Kamp!

Paula, Anna, and Ashley modeling the Kamp shirts
Extreme Makeover: Heart Edition was the theme - lots of construction!

Michaela and Blake went for the soccer ball at the same time - she drew the short straw this time... Jacey stuck by her side....

Anna and Markus were awesome Kiddie Kampers!!!

Matchie, matchie!

The hottest game was Ninja!

Anna helped in so many ways. Here she is in the snack shack adding the syrup to snow cones!

Girls' human pyramid from class one day. We had 2 boys cabins and one girls cabin for a total of 22 kids. They were great!

Ready for Barn!!!!

Even Ashley enjoyed Barn!

Ashley helped too! Plus she got really dirty....

For Tommy & Bill

This is for Tommy & Bill (it's the local, current fishing report). bw

Water stained; 88 degrees; 6.84' low. Black bass are good on Bass Hogg spinnerbaits near the docks, and on redbug Grande Bass worms and watermelon red Berkley saber tails around docks and brushpiles in 12 - 15 feet. Hybrid striper are good trolling or drifting shad in Hybrid Alley and around docks at night. White bass are excellent on Li'l Fishies and Persuader crankbaits off lighted docks at night. Crappie are good on minnows and Li'l Fishies in 10 - 18 feet. Channel catfish are good on trotlines baited with cutbait and chicken livers in 12 - 20 feet. Yellow catfish are good on trotlines baited with cutbait and chicken livers.

Lake fun!

Let me know if you didn't receive a map to the lake! See you soon! bw

Michaela's Braces!

Michaela got braces today! Her color choices were lilac and baby blue. Her top lip is hurting from rubbing against the braces but she's a trooper.

Here are the before pics:












































...And after!

P.S. on East Coast Trip

I've recently completed my summary of our trip to the East Coast (in 7 installments). Arlene, this is my electronic version of your scrapbooks. You can check it out at andybwall.blogspot.com. The people in our house are getting very excited about Brownwood and our little preview in Sedona.

D.C. Trip

We have arrived safely back from our East Coast trip! We had a awesome time, learned a ton, did many many things, and made some great memories! Although I didn't post any pics on here, for you facebookers click here to see the photos I've posted there!

Happy B-day Phil!

We are so glad you were born on July 12, 1935. You've been all over the world, seen all kinds of things, helped a lot of people, done a bunch of stuff... We are so happy to call you dad and grandpa! We love you so much!!!!

21 years...

Mike took me to dinner Sun evening to celebrate 21 years of marriage : ) He surprised me by taking me to Sofi, which is the Greek restaurant where he proposed to me! We had increadibly yummy Greek food!!!

San Juan Cap tourney

Blake's new club team had a tournament in San Juan Capistrano this past weekend. We took Mikey with us cuz we didn't want to leave him home alone for so long! We are d0g-sitting him until Friday... Blake's team played well and ended up winning 2 games and losing 2 games. Only 3 goals scored against them all weekend.
Arlene and Bill came to watch game 1. We lost 1-2, but Arlene, Mikey and I enjoyed the shade of this tree and a nice breeze. We all went out to lunch after the game and had a wonderful time catching up. After lunch we went to their place for ice cream and cookies - Yum!

Hawaii (part 3)

Hawaiian shave ice - yum!

Blake surfed on Waikiki beach!
Blake is out there somewhere!!!

Garrett's new friend - Mr. Turtle

Blake and his turtle friend

Garrett and Blake had just jumped off this big rock at Waimea bay!

This was a favorite beach - Pupunae (or something like that)

This was a great snorkeling beach!

The North Shore is calm in the summer - the big waves are here in the winter

The Pali lookout is SO windy!!!!

Pali lookout

Sunset from out lanai