Luke's 3rd Birthday

2009 Luke 3 year old retrospective video from jim on Vimeo.

This is a music video made up of Luke's 3rd year. Lots of scenes including the beach, camping, dog boarding (not a dog torturing technique, bye the way), falling, stumbling. Pretty soon he'll get to old for these videos. "Enjoy them while they're cute", is what other parents tell me. One thing will never change, he'll allways be my son...right!

04/2009 Lynams Visit the Bay Area

These are pictures from the Lynams visit to the Bay Area

this is luke hitting his 1st homer at pac bell park. I kinda feel like a bad parent because he's been to more giants games than a's games. We're an A's family and thats that. Its just that our buddy gives us giants preseason tix and luke digs the slide there.

Skipping rocks at Shinn Ponds, Newark, CA

Mom and Reyes' come over for dinner

Mom and the Rayes visit for dinner on a friday night. Luke plays well with girls his age. No fighting. No possessiveness.

shuttle launch - cape canveral florida

these are video's and images of the shuttle launch on 3/14/09. There are only a few launches left because the US is building a new rocket. Meanwhile all US space projects will use Soviet rockets. This is the first one I've seen live. I was about 14 miles away from the launch site so I didnt see very much. The video I posted is pretty accurate. I didnt expect to see the side rockets jettison away from the main rocket, but you cold clearly see that from the ground. Its amazing how many floridians go to watch the launch. It took us 3hrs to get back to orlando from cape canaveral, which was mainly due to backups at the toll booth. I'm glad I could witness one live....it was a great experience

Disneyworld: Epcot, Hollywood, Magic , Blizzard Beach

Us being pirates


More pictures with the French family. The Hollywood tower of terror was a great ride. Its one of those free fall rides. The build up is great. Disney does a great job of scaring you before you even get to the scary part.






Here we are with the French's. We met up for half of the vacation.
Luke and Jenny are in Bruce's mouth and between Mater & Lightning McQueen.
Marisa is with Jo Jo Circus



these images are from the Disney all-star resorts hotel. They are essentially little apartments with 3 story statues of Disney characters outside. Pretty intimidating.


Here's Luke playing a harmonica


wrestling in the room


Luke on the water slides
there was a great slide there called Team boat springs, where 6 people could go on a raft.
They even let little 32 inch tall Luke on