Wow, our trip to Sea World was a whole month ago! Time flies! It was a wonderful trip. We had a pretty good time. This was a wall of ice. Jared had passed by it twice and hadn't noticed that it was ice. We were wondering how the finger holes got there. Kaleb and I decided that perhaps someone with really warm hands stood there and melted hand grips.
This polar bear looked like a big teddy bear. He got tired of playing and was hugging his toy.
The Shamu show is just as great as it was when I was little. We all liked this show the best. Whales are beautiful animals.
The kids wanted to see if they were as long as Shamu. I think they ended up being about the same length. It was a little eerie watching this huge whale swim up close to my children.
Victoria has a new favorite animal. She has set aside her Bison and has picked up her Orca that she named Prince Charming. I love how little kids think.
There is never a dull moment in our house. Sometimes I wonder if anyone can be serious. Actually Daphne is pretty serious. Kirk was pretending to be attacked by an octopus. Kaleb quickly followed. The guy behind the register just shook his head
It is so nice having teenagers. It is so much easier to send Daphne or Jared in after Victoria. I had the wrong kind of shoes. So I was informed to wear different shoes the second day because climbing the nets was alot of fun. It looks alot easier than it really is. This particular part was a little intimidating to Victoria so Daphne actually carried her across. I am surprised she was actually able to do it. I think they bonded that very moment because Victoria thought her big sister was pretty cool after that. Atleast for that day. Heehee.
Kaleb envisioning what it would be like to be Mr. Popper and one of his penguins
This was Daphne's and Kaleb's favorite spot. They both could have stood for hours inspecting the sea stars.
I think Jared would have liked to be this turtle. Sleeping in a ray of sunshine. He didn't feel all that great for the first couple days we were in San Diego. He still enjoyed himself though. We just had to keep him fed and we were all okay.
Syd or Seymore...I can't remember which is which now, performed their usual show. I remember these two from when I was little. And the pink walrus too. I know they live a long time. It was pretty neat to share some of my childhood with my own children. It was fun. Daphne took this picture along with about 500 others of this seal jumping over this pole. I am so thankful for digital cameras. The sky is the limit on the number of pictures taken.
When Jared was real little, I think around 3 or 4. His favorite animal was a manatee. So we had to get an updated picture of him sitting on the manatee. Daphne was hanging on for dear life. She kept sliding back down the tail and I would have to slide her back up just to get one picture.
This polar bear looked like a big teddy bear. He got tired of playing and was hugging his toy.
The Shamu show is just as great as it was when I was little. We all liked this show the best. Whales are beautiful animals.
The kids wanted to see if they were as long as Shamu. I think they ended up being about the same length. It was a little eerie watching this huge whale swim up close to my children.
Victoria has a new favorite animal. She has set aside her Bison and has picked up her Orca that she named Prince Charming. I love how little kids think.
There is never a dull moment in our house. Sometimes I wonder if anyone can be serious. Actually Daphne is pretty serious. Kirk was pretending to be attacked by an octopus. Kaleb quickly followed. The guy behind the register just shook his head
It is so nice having teenagers. It is so much easier to send Daphne or Jared in after Victoria. I had the wrong kind of shoes. So I was informed to wear different shoes the second day because climbing the nets was alot of fun. It looks alot easier than it really is. This particular part was a little intimidating to Victoria so Daphne actually carried her across. I am surprised she was actually able to do it. I think they bonded that very moment because Victoria thought her big sister was pretty cool after that. Atleast for that day. Heehee.
Kaleb envisioning what it would be like to be Mr. Popper and one of his penguins
This was Daphne's and Kaleb's favorite spot. They both could have stood for hours inspecting the sea stars.
I think Jared would have liked to be this turtle. Sleeping in a ray of sunshine. He didn't feel all that great for the first couple days we were in San Diego. He still enjoyed himself though. We just had to keep him fed and we were all okay.
Syd or Seymore...I can't remember which is which now, performed their usual show. I remember these two from when I was little. And the pink walrus too. I know they live a long time. It was pretty neat to share some of my childhood with my own children. It was fun. Daphne took this picture along with about 500 others of this seal jumping over this pole. I am so thankful for digital cameras. The sky is the limit on the number of pictures taken.
When Jared was real little, I think around 3 or 4. His favorite animal was a manatee. So we had to get an updated picture of him sitting on the manatee. Daphne was hanging on for dear life. She kept sliding back down the tail and I would have to slide her back up just to get one picture.
We managed to visit the tide pools at just the right time. They were loaded with activity from crabs.
(Here she is with her white sister Fern, or should I say "pink". Daphne loved the thought that her bunny was pink) 9 Years is pretty old for a bunny. She lived a pretty cush life for a rabbit. She started out her life living in a hutch with misters and ice blocks during the summer. Being let out during the day and put back for the night. 
Here she is when they were only a couple months old. They were the cutest bunnies. A little blurry. They never stayed put long enough for a picture. About the time I was extremely pregnant with Victoria, Kirk and Jared were out of town. It was up to me to herd them back into their hutch. (Her and her sister Fern) I had had enough of their mischievious behavior and said "fine, stay out!" Well, they got their way. They had complete run of the yard.
So now she rests behind the gate that was built to keep her and other bad bunnies away from well loved flowers to nibble. The sign on the gate reads "No Bunnies Allowed". Kirk is presently building a new arbor for the grape vine. It should be beautiful. A perfect place to rest in peace.
About a year ago Kaleb and I thought it would be a fun project to build an igloo out of milk jugs. We just needed to collect the jugs...no problem! Yeah...right. We collected for one year thinking that we must have enough to atleast get started. So in January we did just that. We pulled them out of the shed and started gluing them together with hot glue. We got only two rows down. Okay...so not enough jugs. So we called in reinforcements. We advertised on our Homeschool website that the Headleys needed milk jugs! Wow, we got a great response from several families. It was awesome. It still took 3 more months to build it. Everyone was drinking milk as fast as they could. We can't thank them enough for saving them for us. So here are the pictures that we promised you all. It was quite a project to do on our own. We used about 50 glue sticks and 227 milk jugs! Of course hot glue doesn't last forever when exposed to weather and we almost lost the whole thing in a wind storm. It will probably be hanging around for quite a while. It has become the place stretch the imagination.
