More Geocaching Fun!

We had fun climbing huge boulders with Aunt M.













Here is Janny with her first Geocache find and our first of the day at Moss Rock. CashFamily (that's us) has logged 9 finds in three days... I think we are addicted.
















Here are some serious hikers. We spent nearly 5 hours at Oak Mountain and the kids were great. We did some treacherous climbing with each of us falling at least once - yes, even mom and dad!

The Preserve

We heard about the Preserve (250 acres with hiking trails and a nice waterfall) and the neat Boulder field somewhere inside and we decided to visit. After our second non-challant visit with no success of finding the Boulder field we decided to do a little research to make sure we found it today. Finally SUCCESS! Just a mear few hundred yards from where we had been before. Topos (rock climbers) were everywhere. We quickly moved on to find some more caches with J (G's Mom) and M (G's sister) in tow. J found her first cache at the top of the waterfall area between two rocks. The second cache was discovered across the creek and behind a stump. To end the day we all got our picture made on top of one of the boulders.

GeoCaching!

As you can see K is very excited to go geocaching!
Geocaching is a phenomenon that is catching on world-wide. People hide items and publish the coordinates on the web. People like us can use our handheld GPS units (that Santa brought) to try to find them. There are many different sizes from a small pill bottle to a large rubbermaid container. The larger ones contain treasures which you swap with something you brought. The smaller ones may only contain a small log book to sign in proving you found it.

Do you see anything that looks like it could be hiding something more? Of course you could stick your hand down that hole to see what you find, I'm not!!











If you look closely you will see a small fishing line coming out of the hole. Well if you pull that line out comes a small container that can be opened. This cache is a multi-cache. Which means it only gives you clues to the coordinates of the next cache. I almost gave up before finding this one.

The Big Morning

The big morning started off a little shaky, since the firetruck came around on Christmas Eve with Santa on top. We were standing on the balcony (a little higher than Santa) and the firetruck had to manuever around a car parked by our house and it looked like the firetruck was coming in the driveway. With the loud sirens and lights flashing it was all K could take. K was in G's arms and she about jumped down and back into the house. She screamed something about wanted to get under the bed. After K was convinced that Santa was no longer here she came out. They both wanted to open the stockings first, before the maylay began.

W's and G's favorite new game - Screwball Scramble.














K now has enough Little People to fill the pre-school and then some.

ZOO LIGHTSAFARI

That's a STRONG, MEAN looking Gorilla!














We all had a great time at the zoo.

Merry Christmas!

Does this look familiar? K's first Christmas card picture showed that she was not happy to be sitting in brother's lap in front of the tree. Now 4 Christmas later our little monkeys are growing up.




That will probably be the look on Christmas Day!

W finished Kindergarten Math and I was almost arrested!

W finished Kindergarten Math today. Here W is pictured
with his certificate stating he has finished the first PRIMER
Math set.

The complete ceremony will be held this weekend on Saturday. Please no gifts. Hononary gifts to W's private fund "Mensa Here I come" can be donated in his name ;-)

Also last night I (B) was almost arrested. Around 9:00
the doorbell rang with G going out on the balcony to see who
it was (I was already in bed). A police officer asked if "B (but he said my name) was home." I put on some pants and went to the door. I thought it was some sort of joke, since the police officer was so casual about asking if I was home and not stating my last name. I thought I would see my other brother B (in uniform) come around the corner laughing or something. He asked me to step outside and to take my hands out of my pockets. He asked me to put my hands on my head and the other police officer proceeded to pat me down. They asked me if I had ever lived in California and what was my middle name. It turnsout that they were looking for B Wilson A a parolee. They ran my drivers license and apologized. When I walked back to the front door a third police officer was there and stated he was around back looking in the kitchen window and commented on how nice the homes were around here. The other cop knew G from the Co-op. Needless to say that really shook up G for a few minutes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY K!!

What a great time we had at Build-A-Bear with 16 of K's friends and relatives! After some Dora cupcakes and chicken nuggets it was present time. K got to open all of her wonderful gifts before heading to Build-A-Bear. At BAB K decided to get clothes (pajamas) for her existing rabbit that W made for her before she was born. W could not decide if he wanted to build a new one or get clothes for his horse. After two last minute changes he went with a new bear named Roary. One friend picked a monkey and named it Swing. All the kids got to pick one extra heart and they were all placed inside K's rabbit.