Joy's Project 365: Liam

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TBT: Liam age 22 Months

Look what I found! November 15, 1997.

Throw Back Thursday was yesterday, oops.

I had to post this. Mostly because I have put so few pictures of him up here.

Wook at a what a wittle boy he was!! Not even two years old.

Best part of this photo, we are both wearing overalls! Hello 90's!

March 22, 2013

T-Ball, proof it happened

My contribution for Throwback Thursday.

It's baseball season for many folks.

I am somewhat nostalgic for the baseball field.

My little guy is a swimmer and my older son is a soccer player, but once upon a time, he played T-ball. These are the pictures to prove it.

Spring 2001, Liam was 6 years old, younger than Rett is now.

Eventually, he chose soccer over baseball.

His reasoning, at 8 years old: the practices and games are half the time AND during a baseball game you either sit on the bench till it's your turn or you sit in the field waiting for the ball, whereas soccer is non-stop action.

Even then he was making decisions based on simple logic, heehee.

Spring 2001

Game Day

Opening Day for the LA Galaxy against the Chicago Fire:

After the fireworks, fans on the far side of the field had enormous banners with the years of MLS Cup wins: 02, 05, 11 and 12. SO cool!

Today was overcast at our house. We wore long sleeves, brought our jackets and our collection of Galaxy scarves, of course. Only to discover, the sun was out in full force upon arrival at the Home Depot Center.

Rett and I treated ourselves to some new baseball caps, woohoo! (But so much for having only food purchases in the month of March, remember how good I was in February??)

After the game, Rett proudly walking with Liam in all his Galaxy gear, talking about the 4-0 victory.

For someone in our family, the games did not end there...

For Christmas Liam and Grandpere got Lakers tickets!!!

Borrowed a jersey from a friend.

Meeting at the hotel parking lot, so their CAR could pick them up. Grandpere does everything in style!

Here they are, getting into their ride.

He told me afterward, Grandpere took him to the VIP buffet for dinner. The food was super yummy and he ate TONS of it.

Lakers beat the Atlanta Hawks, 99-98. A close and exciting game. What a memorable experience for my boy and his granddad!

March 3, 2013

Paperwork

Tomorrow morning I meet with the Academic Counselor at Liam's middle school. Then, in the evening, I get to attend another orientation at the high school.

This is a picture of the paperwork I've been pouring over the last couple of weeks; placement test scores, educational plans, and course descriptions *gulp*.

March 30, 2010

Tech-A-Thon

1st stop of the morning: Smart & Final, to purchase ice and cups for the Jog-A-Thon.

The students are running today to help raise money for the brand new Mac computer lab, to the tune of $18,000. Fingers crossed we reach our goal.

Each homeroom class wore a certain color or matching shirts. This is his class, the blue shirts. Two boys from Liam's soccer team ran the most laps of any students there. Very impressive!

March 25, 2010

The Clothes Hulk & Beachwood BBQ

Liam decided to go through his clothes and pull out all the ones that were too small.

Since Jake was over he helped...by trying on every single thing, together, at the same time.

21 shirts later he was the Clothes Hulk.

These boys crack me up!

Tonight we drove to Seal Beach with Mere & Pere where we had dinner at Beachwood BBQ. I snapped a photo of all their different sauces.

Great food, tasty french fries, bit of a wait, but they have a huge selection of drinks. We'll definately go back.

Conveniently located right next door is a bakery.

Rett and Liam were looking in the window at these delicious cupcakes; Red Velvet. We had to go in and buy some to take home.

March 21, 2010

Calico Ghost Town

I couldn't leave our hotel without taking a few pictures of the interesting decor, like this light by the elevator and the wild carpet. Las Vegas is all about the carpets.

On our way out of town we made a stop at the world's largest Harley store, according to Tim. I guess he looked at tires or something. I just walked around oggling the paint jobs on some of these bikes. Wow!

On our way back home we decided to stop off at Calico Ghost town and have some lunch.

This is a rite of passage kind of place. Everyone goes there as a kid...once.

We took the mine tour, had lunch overlooking the valley, climbed some rocks.

But I'm sure the thing my boys will remember the most is that we let them buy rubberband guns, oh my...

March 16, 2010

Vegas Day 3

Made it over to the Outlets for shopping. It was really nice actually. They had a pretty wide selection of stores. Liam got all kinds of fun stuff. Rett made it his mission to ride every coin machine in the place. This car is one of many. We split up at one point. I was in the Banana Republic store and the boys went over to Quiksilver. Tim left Liam to his looking and pushed Rett, in the stroller, over to more coin operated fun. When I met up with Liam in his store, he looked around for some socks he was planning to purchase but couldn't find where he put them down. Then he realized he set them on the top of the stroller, on the little canopy part that folds back...

I sent Tim a text "Were you a shoplifter?"

"Why"

"Better check your cart"

"Nothing....socks! They were hidden. Be right back."

When he gets back to the store, his stroller sets off the alarm at the door. Then he mentions how that happened when he left the store too, but never found the items that set off the beeping.

Dinner at Nobu, my very favorite place.

Rett was so tired. We had to employ all kinds of entertaining tactics to keep him awake. Oh the fun to be had with chop sticks.

Our meal was delicious as always.

Some of the things we had: the Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno, Black Cod with Miso, Salmon Skin Salad, King Crab & Avacado Ceviche and tons of edamame. I'm getting hungry just writing this.

March 15, 2010

Vegas Day 2

Inside of the Wynn. Picking up our tickets for Le Reve.

Vegas is a city that takes their carpets very seriously.

Looking at the pirate ships outside Treasure Island. After that Rett talked constantly about wanting to see the Pirate Show.

Inside the Venetian. It made us think of our trip to Italy. Very cool canals here too, but much newer. We watched the "show" in the pavilion. Here's a juggler on stilts.

Lunch at Spagos. We had planned on going to the FAO Swartz inside Caesar's but it was closed due to remodeling. Very disappointing.

Also, at lunch Rett accidently got a piece of fancy bread with walnuts in it. Total allergic reaction. Several Benadyll later and he was feeling better.

After Tim and I went to Le Reve we took the boys to the Pinball Museum. It's way, way off the strip. But for our pinball loving family it was a great adventure.

Check out the size on this mini-pinball machine. It was the perfect size for Rett, so cool. We are now scouring the internet to try and find another one.

March 14, 2010