San Diego Vacation

Parker had a blast in San Diego. He got to go Legoland, the zoo, Sea World, and the beach. There was a ton more to do there, but we will have to go back.   Here are some pictures:

Parker also got to check out the Sheriff's museum. That was really cool as well. 

Shake it like a permanent picture!

A while ago I showed Parker my fun Polaroid 300. It's the newer version of the old school Polaroid instamatic cameras where you had to "shake it like a Polaroid picture". Of course, you don't have to now, but the phrase was popularized by Outkast in their now iconic song Hey Ya!  Well, I didn't remind Parker of that, but when he took a picture of me the other day while at the zoo, he grab the photo and said...

Pictures from another $5 camera

Well, yesterday's experiment went so well, I decided to try it again with another $5 camera I bought off of eBay during our trip to the zoo this morning.  This time it was a Kodak Pony 135 Model B.  It was more crude than the Yashika for sure, but it took nice pictures just the same.  Again, I had about 4 or 5 blurry images, but most were passable and these were pretty darn good. 

We love the zoo!

Here are some of the great pictures I took of Parker at the zoo today. Enjoy!

A Spooktacular Halloween!

I have been swamped at work, so pardon me for the lack of postings last month. I meant to get these pictures up the weekend of Halloween, but with Grandpa in town, it just didn't get done.

Anyway, Parker had a lot of fun during Halloween. The fun started at school on Friday. Parker wore his costume and went trick-or-treating. He got a lot of goodies from the other class rooms. Below, Parker posed for a few photos near some of the decorations in the hallway.

Saturday, we all went to the Houston Zoo for ZooBoo. Parker got a stamp on his hand as you can see below.

In addition to getting some more goodies at various places in the zoo, Parker got to pick his own pumpkin and decorate it. As you might have guessed, Parker took his time picking out his pumpkin. He must have pulled out 20 of them before we decided on one as shown in the pictures below.

We ended the day at the zoo by taking a train ride around the grounds. Parker loves trains. He rides them at the malls around Houston all the time. This was a much bigger train and it was outside compared to just riding around inside the mall. Parker loved it.

On Monday, Parker, Grandpa, and I took a trip to see Great-Grandma Hogan in Beaumont. We arrived a little before noon and visited for a bit before going to lunch at Cheddars. Parker found some wooden apples on Great-Grandma Hogan's table and starting playing with them. He thought it was so much fun to take them all out and put them all back in again.