Jordan’s first singing performance

Shake it off

Three Little Birds

Good citizen award!

Lots of new photos to share…

High holidays…

Sukkot

Dad’s Poker night (I’m taking the picture)…

Show outing

More bike riding, hanging at the park, and walking in the hood…

Jordan…

Eli…

Shoe shopping with Poppy!

Eating Tammy’s amazing yummy cooking (homemade mini chicken pot-pies)

Raphe and Tillie visit

More coming soon…

I am obsessed with this app called Prisma that adds cool artistic filters to my photos.  Here’s sample of a few:

Enjoying the first days of Fall.  Jordan is well into his first quarter of Kindergarten and Eli started back at his school.

Lots of bike riding at the Marina and the park

Slo-mo trampolinin’

Kozakov dance party

Family time

Learning new stuff every day

Eli’s first time holding a baby (Mila)

Bros

Kozakov buds

Jordan growing up

Grown up night out

The ham

Ongoing construction next door.  Nope still not done.

Every time we go to the Long Beach Aquarium, we have a great time.  It’s the perfect size to conquer with our kids.  This was Jordan’s 3rd or 4th time.

The Jelly fish are always my favorite

Jordan has become such a good learner of facts

They have some impressive stuff there

And stuff for kids

Jordan is in full swing at Kindergarten and loving it.  Here are some pictures from his first month at his new school Encino Charter Elementary.

Pajama Day!

Some pics and videos of J&E at a birthday party riding a mini-pony

Party!

Hanging at home

More fun…

Ongoing construction next door

Tammy and I bought tickets to see Coldplay like 6 months ago hoping we’d actually be able to go.  We both wanted to see them and we both love their latest album.  I was amazed when it actually worked out.

We had such a great night together and the show was AMAZING!  They gave the 80,000 or so people wristbands with colored LED lights hooked into the band’s lighting system so they could control colored lights in the crowd via our wrists.  I’ve seen some cool concert gimmicks, but this was one of the cooler things I’ve ever seen. And Chris Martin was a great performer.

Check it

I wish there were more great bands out there to see!~ l also can’t wait until we can bring the kids with us to share the good times 🙂  What a memorable night.

Getting ready:

SHOWTIME:

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Summer flew by.  And so did Jordan’s first five years.  He’s already in Kindergarten!!

Here are a few photos and videos from the end of summer, our visit to Griffith Park Observatory, our trip to Vegas without kids, and Jordan’s first day at his new school, Encino Elementary (WHICH HE LOVES!)

Jordan is way into space, planets, stars, etc!

Silly time

VEGAS… I had a work trip and Tammy joined me at the end.

Checking out Jordan’s new school

FIRST DAY!

The Pledge

He never complains when it’s time to go to school!

It seems like just yesterday that Jordan was having his 3rd birthday, how could it be his 5th birthday already?

We had a great science party for Jordan in our backyard in the valley heat.  Jordan is interested in science and space and he’s constantly teaching us facts about all sorts of things.

Some day he’ll forget about the kid who blew out his candles

Pretty soon he’ll have his driver’s license!

Other birthday celebrations:

Beach day:

New space shuttle!!

Happy birthday Jordan!

Every two years we look forward to seeing my side of the family in Oxnard on 4th of July.  We love to see all of the cousins who are spread all over the country and see how much all the kids have grown.

Eli was definitely off his game, coming down with a fever and hurting his toe.

But we still had a fun time…

The beach was perfect

Derek, the newest family member

Out and about

Hangin around the house and getting to know all the cousins

Eli taking my picture

Celebrating a ton of birthdays inluding Jordan’s

Fireworks

Group pics – the kids were having meltdowns over their toe injuries

Great to see Grandpa!

Uncle Terry was a great host as usual

Cant wait for the next one in 2018!

Lisa and kids then came for a fun visit in LA

Trip to LaBrea Tar Pits and LACMA

Hollywood

including In N Out stop

Come back SOON!