New Lunchbag for New School!

Courtesy of Aunt Tave's sewing skills, and Mom's mad bargain fabric-finding skills...Willie has a new lunchbag for his new preschool!!

Going, Going...Back, Back...to Big Bear.

We ended up back in Big Bear for the second weekend in a row - no complaints here! Papa joined us this time. Grandma stayed home sick - boo! We missed her; but not her germs!

Willie was eager to take Papa mini golfing.....below you will find Papa "helping" his ball towards the hole...

And Willie, the scorekeeper, took special note of this penalty.

Then, Willie surprise me by wanting to go down the big slides! I shouldn't have read the warning sign!

The Wills, big and small, rode the chair lift to the top of the mountain!

Willie enjoyed the ride...

...and gave Papa the thumbs up!

Also, thumbs up for wearing Mama's UGGS. Sadly, those shoes don't look too huge for my tall boy....sigh.


Willie kissed the grizzly at the Big Bear Discovery Center.

Again, with the thumbs up. Outside the discovery Center with Papa.

Big Bear, Mini Golf, and Howard...

This weekend we went up to Big Bear! I just love it there. A timeshare is good for now; but I would love to own just a little piece of that mountain someday! It was just a nice, relaxing weekend away. Friends Rory and Matt joined us for some of the fun. We took WIllie min-golfing BOTH days! He LOVES golf. I think I need to scope out some lessons for him...maybe me too! We had a fun game/wine night Saturday...you are talking to the Scattergories champ. However, I was pathetic at Picteureka. Fun game, but I was not too swift at it. Sunday we had breakfast at a cute restaurant, where a table of OLD frat brothers were catching up. None of the hearing aides were functioning properly, and we had the pleasure of hearing LOUD stories about all of the old men. Howard was the loudest talker of all! I had intentions of family photos on the lake, but we were having too much fun to accomplish anything past "#1. Fun" on my weekend to-do list. Here are a few photos...none of which include the lake!

Above: Willie is in there to the left, behind old Knees McGee there.

Below: Willie chillaxin with the Bear outside of the Moonridge Animal Rescue Zoo!
Below: His follow-through is impecable....however, not useful when you should be putting.
Below: He is a proud little golfer. Everytime he finally gets it in the hole, he cheers for himself. He really walks around like he's Tiger Woods. I think this was the most fun I have seen him have in a long time!
Below: Will attempted the Juan's 5 pound Burrito Challenge. He got about 2/3 through it, looked at me, and said, "We can leave here with the free t-shirt, and I will be miserable all day, or we can leave now, and have fun." We left.