California in January

Mom and I took the boys to California for a week to visit my grandparents. We didnt' do anything special....just spent time playing inside and going for wagon rides to the playground, weather permitting. It was probably the coldest I've ever seen Redwood City, but it's still warmer than Indiana! :) The boys enjoyed getting to go outside and run around---although they did a lot of running around in the house too. :) Uncle Johnie even made the trip to us (thanks again!) on Sunday and spent a couple hours playing. It was almost like having Papa there to play!

Adam enjoyed being so close to the road to watch traffic go by the house. But the highlight of the week was garabage day. We have garbage trucks in Indiana, too. But not like these! For one, you can't see ours from the house very well. But their garbage man doesn't even have to get out of the fancy trucks. He just uses a robotic arm that reaches out and grabs the garbage cans and dumps them in his truck! So yes, we followed one poor fellow for a good 45 minutes. The boys were facinated. He was slow because people put their trash cans too close so the guy had to keep getting out and moving them apart before he could grab them with his truck. Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to keep up with him. :)

Johnie and the boys

Grandma and Adam


Adam and the cast-iron play kitchen

Uncle Bruce and Alex

Alex watching TV

watching for trucks

driving Grandpa's old truck