Fine Art at the De Young

JASPER SAYS: I was really happy when my mask got picked to be in the De Young Museum. My art has been the De Young once before, I drew a Frida Kahlo. To make my mask I looked at a photograph and drew the photograph. Then I made the mask out of ceramics and it got heated up in the kiln. Then I painted the mask with glaze. The colors I put on my mask were blue and yellow. I think I did a good job on my mask.

Sushi Chefs

JASPER SAYS: The homemade that we made was pretty good. My favorite kind of sushi is California rolls, but we did not have that kind of sushi. When Amy was in Japan she bought a sushi roller and really good seaweed, so we could make sushi. I think sushi is a really good food and easy to make.

SILAS SAYS: The sushi was really fancy and nice, but I did not really like it that much. So, for dinner I had 3/4 broccoli and 1/4 sushi.

Historical Documents

JASPER SAYS: Thank you so much, Lars ,for the Asterix and Obelix books. I read them all in 2 days. I really liked reading the first one because I could now read them all in order from the beginning. Asterix and Obelix are my favorite comic book series. (These are the same comic books that you and my dad read when you were kids!)



SILAS SAYS: Asterix and Obelix are the best comic books. Thank you for for sending seven Asterix and Obelix to us. So far I have read five Asterix and Obelix in 3 or 4 weeks.

Fifth Grade Kickball

Lakeshore Kickball team visiting Sunset Elementary. Jasper scored two runs! Listen to the cheerleaders chanting: Jasper, Jasper, Jasper.

Dinner with the Bridge

Dinner with friends at a newly discovered, for the CrockerBoys, spot on the Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Old WWII bunkers, container ships, and poison oak made for a great evening. Thanks for the amazing meal Michael.

Suffering in Santa Cruz

SILAS SAYS: I had a great time in Santa Cruz because it was Dada's birthday and he was turning 44 and he turned 44 even before I got out of my bed. We were there for Easter and it was really fun because we got a lot of candy in the morning. The Easter egg hunt was not really that fun because I only found 5 eggs, but Brian gave me two. The Easter egg hunt was on the beach, beach, beach.

JASPER SAYS: My three favorite things in Santa Cruz were: candy, movies, and beach. We got a lot of candy on Easter morning. We watched three movies. The movies were Old Dogs, Back to the Future II, and the Blind Side. We went to the beach for the Easter egg hunt and I found about 15 eggs. We also went to the beach to boogie board and play on the beach. We had very good dinners, but my favorite was my Dad's birthday dinner because we had RIBS and Mathew's world famous chocolate mousse cake! I had a very fun time with friends and family in Santa Cruz.

Amy's Seder 2010

JASPER SAYS: I had a fun time at the Seder because a lot of my friends were there. We had big dinner of parsley and salt water, grape juice, boiled eggs, matzoh ball soup, matzoh fried chicken and rice pudding. I learned that the Jews were slaves of the Egyptians. The parsley and saltwater represents the bitterness of slavery and the tears of the slaves. My favorite food was the matzoh ball soup. There were 16 people at the Seder. Before we had dessert we had to find the Afikomen (it's actually just a square matzoh cracker). I found the Afikomen and got one dollar.

SILAS SAYS: I loved the dinner but the only bad thing was it to a very long time to read the book so we had to wait through 30 minutes to get to dinner. It took so short to find the matzoh, 30 seconds to one minute. Most of my friends were there like Elijah, Lukie, Lila, and Noah. I also made Lego claymation movies while Amy and my brother set up the table.