Prepping for Easter

We've been so busy I have to catch up on my posts now that I have time! The kids made Easter Cards for our family the night before Easter. Wesley made a 5-eyed bunny rabbit and a Big Egg and Bryan made his famous picasso scribble-scrabble with stickers.

Easter morning the boys both went out back in search of the eggs that the Easter bunny left for them. We gave Bryan a 3 minute head start since Wesley is more of a seasoned egg hunter at his ripe age of 5.

Babies Gone Wild!

Hey Everyone! We need your help! We entered Bryan into a local radio station contest. The prize is $1,000 and a year supply of juice sippers. Please take time to vote. Voting will start today at 12pm and you can vote once per day per email address. Thanks!!!

http://wild949.com/pages/babiesgonewild2009_previewround.html

He is in Gallery #2 and should be contestant #146 if they don't add anymore photos. =)

First Day of Spring Break!

The weather was so nice today, the best it's going to be all week. It's supposed to rain here on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. So, I decided we'd make the most of it today since it's Wesley's spring break week, and did we ever. We first headed to Golden Gate Park and took a 2 mile walk through the botanicals. We ended up at the children's park they have there where the boys had a ball running around and playing on new structures. Wesley's favorite was the huge cement slide they built down the side of a hill they had to go down on cardboard. After a couple hours there we headed over to Ocean Beach where we waded up and down the beach and played with some dogs. (I actually bothered to pet a greyhound..LOL) After this we headed back up to Benicia where we went to the park to play with one of Wesley's good friends. We got home at about 6pm and guess where the boys are? Outside riding bikes...I thought I had them tired out. I sure am!!!

More of Crissy Fields

So, I just got Wesley's photos from the photographer from the Crissy Fields day. I am very surprised that we got much better photos of Bryan than Wesley! Wesley is so cooperative and Bryan is SOOOO Wild. I think they would have turned out a lot better if it wasn't so windy, most of the pics the wind was blowing his hair in his face. At least we got 3 descent ones, my favorite I've titled "Going to the Golden Gate for a Party"

Crissy Fields

We took the boys to Crissy Fields, below the Golden Gate Bridge, last weekend to work with an up and coming photographer who is looking to update her portfolio. She was super kiddish with the boys and acted goofy. They loved her! Bryan, being the hooligan he is, of course didn't want to sit still for a minute so she had to foot chase him the whole time. =) We ended up with some pretty cute stuff though!

SanDisk Shoot

Yesterday, Wesley had his 7 1/2 hour photo shoot for SanDisk in Tiburon. The shoot was at a home that was absolutely gorgeous and happened to have a lake behind the backyard. He started working at 9:30am and had a lot of fun playing with Isabel, his 8 year old sister for the day, and his set teacher, Don. Don played guessing games, they did "search" books where they looked for items, and they played a math card game during downtime. They also got to play with the newest gadgets for the shoots, a laptop that is so small it fit in my purse, the new Nindendo DS1, and the WII games. Wesley has requested a DS1, which is really cool by the way, the kids are able to text each other drawings on it, take pictures and record on the thing. It is coming out on April 6th and he is going to use a little of the money he made on the shoot to buy it. What a nice reward! I did take some set photos of the kids with my camera phone but I have no idea where the cable is to upload them onto my computer. I'll have to figure that one out and try to get them up soon! =)

Busy Little Bee

Wesley has been very busy this past week with auditions for work. Apparently size does matter when it comes to child modeling/acting. A size 5 happens to be the busiest time for kids. He's actually becoming used to them now and has learned to do a "real" smile for the camera rather than the ugly "cheese" grin that he had been doing. He's also becoming a bit more social and learning skills to talk to adult strangers. (good thing???) We went to the city 4 times this past week because all of the auditions happened to be on different days. We recently signed a contract with a casting company in San Francisco that my cousin told me about that represents "real people." Two of the auditions were through them and he ended up booking the SanDisk gig which will shoot on Thursday. If you're wondering where you've heard of this company, they make the little memory cards that go inside digital cameras. We're still waiting to hear from Weight Watchers to see if he booked that one or not. I am not holding my breath on the Truvada gig because he did not look anything like the kids they were looking for when we were there, which may be good thing since I don't know how I feel about him being the poster child for an HIV drug.
The boys were supposed to do a shoot today with a child photographer on trade so we can use the images in their portfolios but it's super windy outside so we had to reschedule for next weekend which happened to be a blessing with going to the city so much already!
Friday evening we were able to stay at my sister's house in Pacifica because they left for vacation. Wesley and I had a night out and went to dinner with grandma and grandpa for grandpa's birthday and then we went bowling for the first time in a long time. He was old enough this time to bowl without the metal ramp and got his first strike! (which was pretty unbelieveable to me judging by the incredibly slow speed of the ball LOL) It reminded me of when I was his age learning to bowl...