Avery turns 3 at Disney Land

Happy times at Disney Land
Originally uploaded by Jason Hasselkus.

For Avery's Birthday we went to Disney Land and California Adventure. We started the day off at California Adventure and enjoyed lunch at Ariel's Grotto. Avery was in heaven because she got to meet all of her favorite Princesses. Nothing was more exciting than finally getting to meet Cinderella and getting a hug from her.
Jaden of course enjoyed his time at both parks as you can see in this picture. This was taken towards the end of the day when we had all had about enough fun for one day. Not Avery though, she went to be wearing that wonderful smile. The weather was perfect and we all really enjoyed ourselves at the Happiest Place on Earth.

Teenage Mutant Cal Poly Student

Wow, I totally forgot to post this way back in March! Well here it is anyway. After watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles again this weekend I remembered the picture.

Teenage Mutant Cal Poly Student
Originally uploaded by Jason Hasselkus.

Being that my son (Jaden) is a huge Ninja Turtle fan and I'm a Cal Poly alumni, as well as Yvonne, I thought this picture would be appropriate for a post about March Madness. Yes it's my favorite time of year, and that means it's time for March Madness, the NCAA Mens Basketball tournament. 65 teams go into it, and only one can be the winner.
This year, just like in Football, Ohio State is the top ranked team. Lets just hope that what happens in basketball isn't the same as what happened in football. Wouldn't it be ironic if Florida and Ohio State met in Atlanta for the finals? Well it could happen because Florida is in the Midwest and Ohio St. is in the South. Wouldn't that make for huge TV ratings? Well we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Boa Neckless

Boa Neckless
Originally uploaded by Jason Hasselkus.

So here's the story behind this one. Yvonne and I take the kids to a birthday party, where the birthday boy James is in love with animals. So for the second year in a row the Lizard Wizard comes with all of his creatures and lets the kids touch them and learn about them.
So I've been sick for what seems like a month or two and have lost my voice do to the sickness. The Wizard has this very large Boa and as a joke I said, "Yvonne why don't you and I get a picture with that". Well Yvonne said "Yeah I will if you will", so at that point the game was on. She wasn't going to give in any more than I was, so we ended up with this picture. The snake I think was 10ft long, so not terribly huge, but large enough. It was fun, and maybe next year we'll get the kids to get in the picture with us.

Rock and Roll Jaden

Rock and Roll Jaden
Originally uploaded by Jason Hasselkus.

My main man Jaden hates getting his haircut about as much as I like doing laundry. We would both rather do other things with our time. So this time I tried to make it fun for him while he sat on Mom's lap. Well mom (Yvonne) didn't think the Mohawk was to cool, so we only got two pictures of it.
I was able to talk Jaden into giving me the devil horns with his fingers, and now he walks around giving them to everyone. Rock On my young man! He's an awesome kid and the full haircut ended up looking pretty good.