Happy 7th Birthday, Nathaniel!

He opened a couple presents this morning (thanks Chris, Laura and girls for the super fun popper blasters - will be a fun day at home with Dad for sure! and thanks for the supplemental presents for Zach and Clare!  much appreciated.)

He also went on a treasure hunt of clues leading him to a new bike!  His was way too small...and now Zach has a "new" bike! Exciting for everyone.  

Sleeping children

Turned Clare around in carseat

Winter in Santa Cruz!

Nate had a 5 day weekend off school so we took a road trip to Santa Cruz to visit Uncle Adam and Aunt Cole. Thanks for the great weekend guys.

Wildlife Safari

These are the pictures Nate took during the drive through Wildlife Safari today.

 Grandpa, have you ever seen turkeys up in a tree?

 woodpecker with a red head on a hillside

 Elk

 brown bears

 bison

  barbary sheep

 road block of llamas and a bison who was trying to scare the llamas away.

 turkeys

 elephant

 sika deer and turkeys

geese

 black buck

 white fallow deer

 cheetah