Category: Toren

  • the tiger box

    Another clip of Toren and I visiting the tigers in the tiger box at Busch Gardens:

  • how to make Toren cry

    It’s not that hard these days – just tell him that all the dinosaurs are dead!  That’s what I did one morning when he said he wanted to see a dinosaur.  That lead to this:

  • more jedi training

    At his current rate, Toren is bound to be a full-blown jedi in no time: And another clip of him chasing bubbles with a light saber:

  • trampoline craziness

    A clip of Toren golfing on the trampoline:

  • godzilla wannabe

    A clip of Toren engaging in one of his favorite past times – sand castle destruction:

  • another obstacle course

    Toren occasionally asks for an obstacle course these days, and we’re always happy to oblige.  Here he is doing another obstacle course we set up for him:

  • Toren’s version of reading

    He only did this for a few weeks, but it was adorable when he did.  We’d give him a coloring book and he’d tell us the story.  This is a Star Wars coloring book and, in case you can’t tell, there are a lot of bad guys:

  • visit to California – light house and artichokes

    On the 13th we drove into San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate, and stopped for lunch in Sausalito.  We then went for a nice walk to the Point Bonita lighthouse.  Toren carried his cousin’s Woody doll (from Toy Story) on his shoulders the whole way (I carried Toren most of the way, in effect carrying…

  • visit to California – Stanford University

    During our trip to Utah we took a side trip to California to visit my sister, Wendy, her husband, Mario, and their two kids, Ethan and Xander.  Mario has a fellowship at Stanford for the next couple of years and they are living near there in Campbell, CA.  We drove through the night on August…

  • hiking from Monte Verde to the Highlands

    I spent the previous evening playing video games with my brother Josh, some of his friends, and some nephews.  Josh’s wife, Jessica, stuffed us with delicious food.  I needed another hike just to work dinner off, so I put Toren in the pack again and headed out, hoping to find a route from Monte Verde…