Drowning rats!

This was immediately post wave! they were rather shocked... the funny part is if you look closely at daddy... he is still on his cell phone. talking to mom as a matter of fact and giving her a play by play.

They love getting... OUT THERE!

The woods, the beach, the RV... they just love being out and about!

Happy Birthday daddy!

Yup, i am 42! and yes, that is a spongebob cake!





They seem to enjoy it!

Muscles

I think she is in danger of rupturing something...

instant happy kids... just add a pool!

we spent a week in lake las vegas and the kids spent much of it waterlogged! but that is how they like it.




She takes such good care of her brother! this was at hoover dam. daddy was advised that a big concrete lump in the middle of the hottest chuck of desert around was maybe not the best choice.




the next worst choice was lake mead... (we went there next!)

georgia okeefe?

This was one of the first real "drawings" she has done. we were pretty impressed.

Joe Cool!

All of a sudden our boy has a fascination with sunglasses! And boy is it ever cute!

Goodbye Rock concerts...

Hello wiggles concerts!

Riding bikes like big kids!

It feels like we just BLEW through the trikes!

Firecracker babies!

THESE KIDS GET TWO FIRECRACKER DAYS!

Sharky!

At the kids day at our office, Sharky came out to play. the kids were quite impressed.

ok, so i am 3 and a half months late...

Anastasia made me a very nice tool belt for fathers day. it sure comes in handy!

42 months (ok 43... but who is counting?)

Well, today we managed to get to the photo place to take our twice yearly portraits. as has been mentioned inthe past... it has not always gone smoothly. today it went awesome. one could even say it was enjoyable!!! for them AND us! anyways, we got some really cute pics. the images are a little large if you open them. if anybody needs them for printing, i can put nice big ones on a web album for download.

Enjoy.

Equestrian Kids

The twins second trip to the Monterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center in Watsonville for Christophers hippotherapy. Anastasia was so excited to actually ride a horse for the first time. She was talking about it all week and telling anyone who would listen that she was riding a horse. Amazing animals and such a great opportunity for the kids.

Happy St Patricks Day!!

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back and may you be in heaven thirty minutes before the devil knows you're dead. Erin go bragh. Happy St. Patricks Day from the Gillespie twins!!

Giddy up!

As part of the various services that are available for Childrren with Autism, we have the ability to recieve "horse therapy" for Christopher. basically it is just come brush the horse, ride around on a tractor, and then go riding. it is great exercise for the kids and a wonderful experience. the hard part is telling anastasia that she can't ride!

they both got a chance to brush the horse, we even got the opportunity to feed them.


Then Christopher got a special treat... he got to ride an elephant! at least that was what i thought it was. it may look like a horse, but i aint never seen no horse that was that big! so that means to me that it was the next biggest thing... an elephant!
Seriously though, I had never seen a draught horse in person before. i cant even see over the darn things back... it was HUGE!!!! of course Christopher ended up on the camera shy one, so we had to take pics from far away so that the horse would not know what we were doing. A camera shy horse... whoulda thunk it!