Most Difficult

SILAS SAYS: It was fun doing the black diamond. I liked it so much that I did it twice. The second time I bombed the hill. Last time I was in Tahoe I was so scared to go up the hard lift and go straight down. This time I did it four times. At the cabin there was a pool table and we played pool so much and it was so fun. I won, I think, two games.


JASPER SAYS: I liked the weekend because I snowboarded every day. I did three different black diamonds and I had a great time. The resorts I went to were Tahoe-Donner and Alpine Meadows. I went to Alpine with my dad, Andrew, and Jeremy. Alpine is their favorite resort, so they gave us a tour of the mountain. One of the lifts we went on was called Summit. We went to the top of the mountain and skied all the way down which is about two miles long. I also had a very fun time playing pool and sledding. I really liked it when we went to Truckee.

My First Tooth Lost

SILAS SAYS: At school I was trying to pull it out. I was bending it down and pulling it and twisting it slowly, but the real way you are supposed to do it is just pulltwistreallyfast. My dad pulled it out when I came home from school and I said "look at my wiggly tooth." And he's, like, we're going to pull this out right now. It's really weird because this is my first tooth and I am already seven years old. Lot's of my friends already lost their teeth when they were five or six years old.

Salmon, Letterboxing, and Lake Sonoma

SILAS SAYS: When we were going to the Salmon place I was so excited, but actually what I wanted to happen did not happen we did not get to fish.We still had so much fun. And in the first place when we were looking at these tiny salmon jumping there was this lady and she said that if you went up the hill, through the building, down and around you would get to this place where there were little waterfalls in the water. Every once in awhile at a waterfall you would see a big salmon trying to go up or stay up. When we were first getting there there was an Osprey that someone was holding right out in front of the building. There was an Osprey at the Salmon Festival because they found it hurt and probably laying on the ground. And Osprey actually eat salmon that is why they brought it to the festival. While my dad and his friends were listening to what the lady was saying about the Osprey, me and the kids went to this other place right behind them and you got to spin this wheel and it landed on something that uses water. And then the guy asked you a question about what it landed on. If you answer the question right then you get a coloring book, a book about salmon, a pencil, a shower head, or a shower timer.

And in that whole weekend we found six letterboxes. The last one we found was really fun be cause we had to use our imagination and they said a bunch of rocks were a trolls home. And they said this tree that was bent was a serpent. The people we were hanging out with were named Ben and Jeremy. When we went to their house it was fun because the had a lot of gumballs. Pretty much all we did when it wasn't breakfast, lunch, or dinner, we chewed gum. Right when we got to their house, Ben talked about planes, and he said every single plane's name like GX48 Extra or something.

We went to our friends gramma and grampa's house. When we were there we watched a football game. I was so close to winning $25 dollars, but my friend Noah beat me by five seconds.


JASPER SAYS: I thought it was really fun at the salmon hatchery because we got to see salmon that were three foot long. I liked letter boxing because the stamps were really cool. When we went to Ben and Jeremy's house, I had a fun a fun time because we played with Nerf guns and played their flight simulator. I liked the Super Bowl party at Jim and Judy's house because I could have won $25 dollars and the game was really exciting. Even in the game there was a dog pile of grown men. I really liked my weekend.

Fairfax Hike in the Rain

Sweet hike in the mist and the rain near Stacy and Noah's house. Streams running, fungus amungus, puddles and mud. Burritos never tasted so good.

Our First Driving Lesson

SILAS SAYS: It was really fun doing the driving lessons because we drove in this really cool golf cart. But, we didn't get to press the gas peddle because it was too dangerous and we might press it too hard. And the fun part about it was we got to go on people's grass in front of their houses if they were not there and around their trees. And once when the car was going I ran up and jumped on the car.



JASPER SAYS: We had a really fun time driving a golf cart. We drove down the street and went on other people's lawns and drove around their trees. While another person was driving we were on the back of the golf cart. The people who drove the carts that day, me, my brother, Noah, and Noah's cousin Nikki. I also raced the golf cart down to the corner at the street.

Montara Before the Storm

Ian snapped these shots with his little water video camera on Saturday just as the big swell was filling. Henri, Ian, and I got a couple hours of surf just before the storm. Montara was the only break not feeling the wind. Great location, granite, mountains and misty rain.

Baja California Sur Sin Ninos

Week in Baja with Stacy. Boys stayed home. Relaxing time reading, hanging at the beach, surfing warm point breaks, and exploring towns and remote beaches. Loved the town and surf near Todos Santos and Stacy finally got me on a horse.

Coolio having lunch by the pool.


Sunset from our hotel room.


Horses and the "Don't Swim" flag in front of the hotel. We swam anyway (Las Bocanas surf break was small but fun to body surf and boogie board).