Back from Paradise

Well we returned last weekend from California. We stayed with Jessica's parents out side sacramento where it was 102 degrees. Jessica's sister's wedding was at the house and it was beautiful. Then we left the kids and headed to our paradise on the central coast. We lived in los osos a few times and we love to return. We had also wished we could have afforded to stay, but it is not a place that is easy to be freelance.

Anyway we had fun and here are some pics.


Here are some photos at and nears Jessicas Dads house, the photos above are of Los Osos.

629 miles

Well, we are heading down to California tomorrow. Jessica's sister Kristin is getting married. The girls are very excited. Well Leah is, Ruth just knows she is getting ignored as we get everything ready. We are going to be down there for a week. The wedding is at Jessica's Dad's house in Plymouth, about 40 miles outside Sacramento. He built a big house, but it is on 50 acres that has no public power or water, so I am excited to see his setup. We have seen pictures but only Leah has been to the house. It is gloomy here in the NW and should be 90 degrees down there, so that will be exciting. Bring on the shorts, white legs!

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Episode ONE!

Finally we have the first Leah Show Episode! Check it out on Leah's web site!!!


http://leahshow.blogspot.com/

Leah Fishing

Leah is on spring break this week and is having fun. I came home for lunch and took her and Ruth out to lunch. It was fun. Monday my Dad and Mom took the girls fishing. They all caught fish! Leah was so proud that she caught the biggest fish. You can also see her sporting her new glasses. She also has to wear an eye patch a few hours everyday at night to help her from getting a lazy eye. It irritates her, but Jessica and I making pirate references irritates her even more. So we are going to stop that. Anyway, she is going to stay at Grandma and Grandpa Copas's tonight and she is excited. Oh and the fish wasnt really THAT big. But I wanted to tell a good fishing story on this april fools day. But the fish was big, so they say.

Lately.

Well not much going on lately. I had worked some overtime on a new commercial campaign for Spam. Kinda fun claymation that should be out this june. So anyway, I was able to take a friday off. Jessica and I spent the weekend taking everything out of our bedroom, paint the walls and tear out the carpet. We new we had hardwood floors under the carpet but had no idea how they were going to look. Well they were not bad. There is a dark stain in one part, but a rug can cover that until we are ready to redo the floors. But it was nice to do something on the house and made the room look really nice. Leah was irritated cause all the stuff in our room was shoved into hers. She had enough room to walk from the door to here bed, but barely. Ruth had to be patient while Jessica and I worked. She was pretty good and watched alot of cartoons. Mostly she stould by the gate at our bedroom door and whined. But she was a good girl. Leah has spring break next week and she is excited. We dont have any plans. We are all looking foreword to warmer weather so we can enjoy more time outside when it isnt 40 degrees and windy. Anyway, there you go.

Girls Funny Faces

New Photos of the girls

Well Coraline came out this last weekend and did pretty well. Jessica and I were able to go to the world premiere here in Portland. They had a big tado with all the stars and all. It was alot of fun. The movie made 16.3 million dollars on its opening weekend. Not as much as a Pixar movie, but good for our first. Just thought I would throw up a picture of some of the swag we got from the film.





Our crew Coraline four square T shirt
Special edition, Coraline Nike high tops, one of a thousand
An actual mouse from the movie.
Coraline poster
Portland Monthly mag about the movie, Got my picture in there.
A specail Coraline key that was our pass to get into the premiere after party.
A carls jr. Coraline kids meal toy.
Official behind the scenes coraline book.
Coraline bag,
Lots a Goodies.

Family Photo

We got ready for church sunday night and then found out that church was cancelled and they had a super bowl party at another place. So I made everyone in their church come outside for a family photo.