The 4 Castros

365 Project - February 14

2011-02-14T16:52:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

365 Project - February 13

2011-02-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

The tide is high but I'm holding on.

365 Project - February 12

2011-02-12T20:52:00.000-08:00

I am your father.

365 Project - February 11

2011-02-11T20:20:00.000-08:00

C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me.

365 Project - February 10

2011-02-10T21:48:00.000-08:00

Surprisingly, this was harder to do than the dart.

365 Project - #40

2011-02-09T08:52:00.000-08:00

Swollen eyes are fun.

365 Project - #39

2011-02-08T21:07:00.000-08:00

Baller!

365 Project - #38

2011-02-07T20:41:00.000-08:00

Raindrops are falling on my head.

365 Project - #37

2011-02-06T21:11:00.000-08:00

It's all about the angles.

365 Project - #36

2011-02-05T19:40:00.000-08:00

Now I'm really running out of long exposure, indoor shots!

365 Project - #35

2011-02-04T18:17:00.001-08:00

Pretty flower.

365 Project - #34

2011-02-03T17:59:00.000-08:00

Mmmm. Sugar induced coma never looked so good.

365 Project - #33

2011-02-02T19:05:00.000-08:00

Here's your sign.

365 Project - #32

2011-02-01T20:47:00.000-08:00

"But you already have a mountain shot." Not like this I don't.

365 Project - #31

2011-01-31T20:48:00.000-08:00

You ever notice how these things look like sad faces?

365 Project - #30

2011-01-30T19:36:00.000-08:00

Walking in the dark early morning, this is the first thing I see when getting ready for work.

365 Project - #29

2011-01-30T00:00:00.001-08:00

Gangstas!

365 Project - #28

2011-01-28T21:38:00.000-08:00

Fun, yes. Hard, yes.

365 Project - #27

2011-01-27T20:56:00.000-08:00

It's a little blurry but it'll do.

365 Project - #26

2011-01-26T19:43:00.000-08:00

Baseball season is just around the corner.

365 Project - #25

2011-01-25T19:07:00.000-08:00

Don't you even think about it!

365 Project - #24

2011-01-24T18:45:00.000-08:00

Need a light?

365 - Project #23

2011-01-23T17:12:00.000-08:00

Can you hear what I'm saying?

365 Project - #22

2011-01-22T19:23:00.000-08:00

This kinds looks like a duck dinner.

365 Project - #21

2011-01-21T23:44:00.000-08:00

I almost missed today's post because of this guy.

365 Project - #20

2011-01-20T22:42:00.000-08:00

Bucky balls are awesome!

365 Project - #19

2011-01-19T22:18:00.000-08:00

Whoa. That's a long way down.

365 Project - #18

2011-01-18T17:41:00.001-08:00

This is where the magic happens. hehe...

365 Project - #17

2011-01-17T19:09:00.000-08:00

I'm driving in my car. I turn on the radio...

365 Project - #16

2011-01-16T22:43:00.000-08:00

Oh well...

365 Project - #15

2011-01-15T21:49:00.000-08:00

This is exactly how I've been sitting for the past few days.

365 Project - #14

2011-01-14T22:31:00.000-08:00

Look at the concentration as he searches for his next headshot. I'm so proud.

365 Project - #13

2011-01-13T21:26:00.000-08:00

Slurpee run in hopes to feel better. (It didn't work.)

365 Project - #12

2011-01-12T10:09:00.000-08:00

The rain today revealed this iceberg from its frozen tomb.

365 Project - #11

2011-01-11T17:56:00.000-08:00

Chonga bagel anyone?

365 Project - #10

2011-01-10T21:10:00.000-08:00

Just think of all the illnesses we can cure with these!

365 Project - #9

2011-01-09T20:31:00.000-08:00

Man. I'm still in January and I'm using up all my indoor, long exposure shots.

365 Project - #8

2011-01-08T22:29:00.000-08:00

The rays from the street light are just breathtaking huh? =]

365 Project - #7

2011-01-07T19:15:00.000-08:00

Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight!

365 Project - #6

2011-01-06T20:46:00.000-08:00

Ooooo, pretty!

365 Project - #5

2011-01-05T20:13:00.001-08:00

This one hurts my eyes.

365 Project - #4

2011-01-04T20:42:00.000-08:00

"S" is for SUPER!

365 Project - #3

2011-01-03T15:42:00.001-08:00

I saw this today while Mateo put the Netflix video in the mailbox. Man it's cold!

365 Project - #2

2011-01-02T22:02:00.001-08:00

mmmmmmm!

365 Project - #1

2011-01-01T22:16:00.001-08:00

Me and the guys at work are participating in a 365 project that challenges us to take a new photograph each day for every day of this year. Here's my first shot.

White Elephant 2010

2010-12-05T19:35:00.001-08:00

Here are the photos of the historic night. If you weren't there, we sure missed you!

White Elephant 2010

The Future Of Baseball Has A Name...

2009-06-11T07:55:00.000-07:00

And that name is Malo!

2009-05-18T08:08:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago, Malo's artwork was displayed at the Silverdale Artwalk. We were all so proud of him.

Mateo playing soccer

2009-05-07T08:02:00.000-07:00

Mateo scored 2 goals at his last soccer game! He is starting to get more aggressive and as you can see he is one of the smaller kids out there.

GARAGE PARTY

2009-04-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics from the Garage Party last Saturday. We have hundreds of pictures so we will be sure to post again with more pictures.

It's been awhile

2009-04-23T07:50:00.000-07:00

I've been informed that we need to update this blog more frequently, so I will try my best to do that. Here is what we have been up to.

Mateo hated swimming lessons, but he managed and swims very well.

Malo played basketball this winter and he LOVED IT! He says basketball is his favorite sport. I liked it because it was indoors.

Happy Birthday Papa

2009-01-18T11:26:00.001-08:00

Yesterday was Papa's 57th birthday. We celebrated it at El Coral in downtown Bremerton. We tricked him into thinking he would be the DJ at a party. Little did he know, the party he was DJing was his own.

The cake looked delicious. It's too bad nobody got to taste it.

Check out the pictures here.

More Snow

2008-12-22T16:02:00.000-08:00

Well it snowed some more here but somehow the sun managed to poke it's head out. Check out this awesome piece of photography!

2nd Annual White Elephant Party

2008-12-21T21:32:00.001-08:00

Last week we had our 2nd annual White Elephant party. It was tons of fun with lots of good food and even better people.

By popular demand, I present to you the pictures!!!
Click here

My nephew gave us a little dance show that not everyone got to see. Here it is... we're so proud.

Lots Of Snow!

2008-12-21T21:26:00.000-08:00

Guess what! It snowed!!! Here's what our house looked like at around 10:00 am. If you look close, you'll see Malo and Mateo playing.

2008-12-04T07:40:00.000-08:00

Every year we take the boys to see the salmon run. This time lil Malo wanted to take pictures. He quickly became frustrated because the fish wouldn't stay still long enough for him to get a good shot!

2008-11-04T12:47:00.001-08:00

Check out the article and picture of Malo and dog poop!

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/ckr/community/33669459.html

Happy Halloween

2008-11-01T20:21:00.000-07:00

This year we gave the boys a costume catalog and let them pick out their costumes. Malo quickly picked out a Star Wars Clone Trooper General costume. Mateo took his time and finally selected the golfer costume. Man my kids are funny!

Corn Maze

2008-09-28T07:46:00.001-07:00

Here we are at our annual trip to the Corn Maze.

We found all the check points and made it out of there in an hour and a half.

Mateo's First Day of School Ever

2008-09-22T07:42:00.000-07:00

Mateo has talked about school for months. In fact, school was his motivation to use the potty a year ago. Well...his day has finally come. Here he is getting ready for his first day of school. My baby is all grown up!

And here he is with one of his teachers leaving school. She told us she's not supposed to have favorites but she can't help it with Mateo. Oh man....does he have her fooled! Just give it another week or so.

Malo's First Football Game

2008-09-07T08:21:00.000-07:00

Malo had his first football game on Saturday.
They won 35-0. GO COUGARS!

Malo's First Day of 2nd Grade

2008-09-07T07:47:00.000-07:00

Where's Malo

Here he is!

The World's Youngest Gamer

2008-08-25T21:28:00.000-07:00

Daddy better watch out!

Great Wolf Lodge

2008-08-21T21:52:00.000-07:00

Our trip to Great Wolf Lodge was a BLAST!! We came back shriveled up and smelling like chlorine. This was the wave pool that lil Malo was catching waves in.

Here is Malo finally swimming with his head under the water.

Mateo spent hours on this 1 slide.

And here is Mateo fighting the evil waters!

2008-08-19T16:34:00.000-07:00

On Mother's Day this year, the boys and I started a vegetable garden.

Here is Mateo with his carrot. He goes out almost everyday to pick one out and eat it. I guess that's one way to get them to eat their vegetables.

Updates

2008-08-18T14:35:00.000-07:00

Okay....I (Michelle) am testing this blogging thing out. I've never done it before and Malo's been slacking so I thought I'd give it a shot. So much has happened since the last entry so here I go. Lil Malo had a VBS presentation. He did a skit and sang some songs.

We (Myself, lil Malo, Mateo) ran the Whaling Days Races.

Well.....there is tons more but my lunch break is over. If this works you'll be hearing from me a lot more.

P.S. I learned something new today ( . ) ( . )

iMac Is Back!

2008-07-25T15:42:00.000-07:00

Well whataya know!? After a month without my trusty companion, iMac is back, alive, and ticking! Michelle is really happy! (Although she'll never admit it.) All I can say is, "Welcome home iMac, welcome home."

Malo's 7th Birthday Party

2008-07-20T08:15:00.001-07:00

We celebrated Malo's 7th birthday by having a few of his friends over for a water party.

Malo was feeling brave in front of his friends.

Ahh... The old time favorite birthday prank. Trick candles...

He finally realized that the candles just won't stay out.
At the end of the day, everyone had a blast. It was a lot of fun but next time we're going to need a bigger swimming pool!

FORE!

2008-07-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

We signed Malo up for a golf camp at Gold Mountain last week. He had tons of fun. At the end of the week, he got to play in a golf tournament at Village Greens in Port Orchard and I got to be his caddy!

Here's a short video of his shot of the day. Sorry about the camera shake, I was nervous.

He did very well considering this was his first time golfing. Now that softball is done, I hope we can go hit the links some time soon.

BOOM!

2008-07-08T13:53:00.000-07:00

We had a great fourth, did you? Little Malo lit everything on fire while Mateo stayed back and watched. We had an awesome time a Jason and Jodie's party, even though it ended weird. Here are the pictures I took of some of the fireworks courtesy of Jake and his brother Gabe.

New Floors, Sort Of...

2008-06-26T11:30:00.000-07:00

Michelle and I wanted to resurface the floors of our house, but I didn't want to do it. Thankfully, Marilyn and Jake stepped up to the task. Here's a before shot when we cleared out the front room and kitchen.

The front room looks soo big now!

I'll take some more pictures when I can and upload them so you can see the difference.

Hooked On A Feeling...

2008-06-26T11:06:00.000-07:00

Did I tell you about the time when I hooked my finger?

Ok, I know what you're thinking. HOW? WHY? OUCH! So this is the hook that came with Malo's new fishing pole. I took it off so that he could practice casting and show off to his buddy Josh. A few minutes later, BAM! I set the hook in my finger.

A trip to the ER and three hours later, I'm free! To tell you the truth, it hurt me more explaining to the ER Registry Specialist what happened than the actual hook did.

Fishing Derby...

2008-06-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

We took Malo to a fishing derby last Saturday at Island Lake. There were about 60 kids there between the ages of 5 and 10. Malo got a T-Shirt, a fishing pole, and the opportunity to catch two fish.

He wasn't too excited about the hook being inches above his hand. Notice the finger-tip grip technique he is using.

Here he is reeling in his first and only catch of the day! w00t!

All in all it was a great fishing outing. I think we may have a little fisherman in Malo now...

Man down, MAN DOWN!!!

2008-06-02T05:35:00.000-07:00

Bad news folks...
My beloved iMac is in critical condition. He's non responsive, won't eat, check email, or even wake up. It appears that sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, the power went out and prematurely took the life from my poor unsuspecting iMac and his friend mister 17in Dell monitor. I'm not sure how to handle this, I'm not even sure I'm in the right state of mind to be posting this but I know that getting online and doing something is what he would want me to do.

I'll keep you posted on his condition as I seek professional help for both iMac and me.

Family Portrait

2008-05-26T19:07:00.001-07:00

Here's our latest family portrait. I'm sooo hanging this in our house!

The Sidewinder

2008-05-24T14:56:00.000-07:00

They sold these DVDs at Knott's Berry Farm and I just had to get one.

Man I tell you! The actors they choose for these videos are amazing. It was the best 15 bucks I ever spent!

Vacation Day One...

2008-05-22T14:47:00.000-07:00

Michelle picked the perfect hotel for us to stay in. This is the view of Disneyland and California Adventure from our room. All we had to do was walk on over to the gates and boom, we're in!

80 MPH Michelle

2008-05-22T14:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, so we're back from our family vacation to California. We went to Disneyland, California Adventure, and Knott's Berry Farm. I'm working on getting some pictures up but for now, here's a small video of Michelle going from 0 to 80 in 2 seconds on the Xcellerator ride in Knott's Berry Farm.

If you listen closely you can hear her screaming. hehe...

Another Tooth Story...

2008-05-13T10:42:00.000-07:00

Since Malo's tooth surgery, his front two baby teeth have been very loose. We told him that if he let us pull it, we would get him a new Wii game. He aggreed but wanted to do it his way. This is what happened...

Of all the ways to yank a loose tooth, Malo chose to tie a string to it and shoot it out with a Nerf Gun. I've been proud of my son before, but this is his finest moment.

Malo's Special Tooth

2008-04-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

Today Malo had his surgery to have his "Special Tooth" removed. All of us were a little nervous about the extraction but in the end, it wasn't so bad.
Here he is, just before his surgery.

See that bump? That's the extra tooth.
"I'm ok daddy."... sort of.

There it is in all of it's glory. I think were gonna make a necklace out of it.

Funny Surprise...

2008-02-28T08:10:00.000-08:00

So my iMac has a built in webcam and this fun little program called Photobooth that allows you take pictures and videos. Now little Malo has played with it and taken a few hundred pictures but this morning I found this little gem...

Happy Valentine's Day!

2008-02-14T14:47:00.002-08:00

This made me laugh. I hope you all have a great day!

My New Addiction...

2008-01-18T12:14:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I got this new game and it's really fun. I might have a problem...

Malo's First Basketball Game...

2008-01-14T09:57:00.000-08:00

Malo had his first basketball game and man it was a doozey!

MAN LAN 2008

2008-01-06T15:55:00.001-08:00

Ok, I went and did it. I did the geekiest thing I could think of. I threw a LAN party. You see, me and some of the guys at work play games during lunch on our laptops. Well, I wanted to play longer than we normally get so I invited the guys over and we duked it out. All I can say is that It was a shit-ton of fun and I can't wait till we do it again.

Slides

Happy New Year!

2008-01-02T05:27:00.000-08:00

Happy Ney Year everybody! I hope you all had a great time and your hangovers were mildly intolerable. This year, erm... last year, we played Wii Bowling until the Wii hours. HAHA! At the stroke of midnight, the neighbors started shooting off fireworks. The boys liked it, especially Malo. Now he can't wait for the 4th of July.

Christmas Adam At Uncle Donnie's House...

2007-12-24T11:37:00.000-08:00

Uncle Donnie had a little wine party at his house as a Christmas Adam party and to welcome Kenny home for the holidays. It was fun! Normally I don't do this but everyone wanted to see all the pictures. Well, here they are!

(For those of you who don't know, Christmas Adam is the day before Christmas Eve. Get it? Adam... Eve?)

Our Sauna Is In...

2007-12-17T21:20:00.000-08:00

Michelle really wanted this sauna for Christmas and since she never asks for anything, I thought it was only fair that she gets it. Of course we had to put it together immediately but it really wasn't that hard. See for yourself...

Christmas Party At Our House...

2007-12-16T17:01:00.001-08:00

This year I wanted to start a new tradition. The Annual Castro White Elephant Party! It was a lot of fun and I think everyone there had a great time. I'm still wondering what I'm gonna do with the cell phone and rat poison...

Christmas Is Getting Closer...

2007-12-11T18:49:00.000-08:00

There are only 13 days left until Christmas! (Actually, at the time of this posting, there are 14. But I digress.) Are you ready? By the way. Have I told you how much I love my camera?

See The Similarities?

2007-12-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

A few people thought of me after seeing Turk (Guy in green) dance... I'm so honored!

the4elves dancing

2007-11-30T20:02:00.000-08:00

Aww man this is funny! Check out what Michelle made today!!!

Christmas Lights...

2007-11-25T18:42:00.000-08:00

Today was nice enough to put up the Christmas lights so I did. I think I need a few more. What do you think?

Before
After

Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-22T19:02:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Day at my sister's house.

Ask Me Why My Tree Is Up...

2007-11-18T20:03:00.000-08:00

So ok. Michelle just HAD to setup the Christmas tree. I guess I can't be too mad. I mean she did wait till after Halloween this year!I decided to take a few pictures of the tree with my new camera. I wanted to try out a few lighting tricks but little Malo put an end to that quickly with some lights...

Malo Dancing

2007-11-03T11:59:00.000-07:00

Every time I play this song, this is what happens.

Mateo Wii Boxing

2007-10-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

Mateo playing Wii Boxing.

He could.. go.. all.. the.. way!

2007-10-21T19:07:00.001-07:00

Malo did an awesome job at his game. He caught a pass and ran it all the way for a touchdown. He also got a sack and was a wall blocking everything!

Happy Birthday To Me...

2007-10-17T14:53:00.000-07:00

Ok, so today is my birthday and this is what happened to my desk. My co-workers love me.

Corn Maze...

2007-10-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

The other day we took the kids to the corn maze and pumpkin patch. I have to admit, it was hard getting through the maze. A bit scary
too!