The Holiday Lights - of Cars Land

Cars Land Route 66.  Wreaths are Tires. Snow Flakes are Wrenches!

Ramones and Flo's V8 Cafe.

Town of Radiator Springs

Cozy Cone Motel

Ramones Body Art

Cozy Cone Motel.

I LOVE Disneyland!  They are so awesome!  The details in Cars Land are amazing.  Everywhere you look.  The side streets are older pavement and Route 66 is new blacktop freshly laid by Lightning McQueen.  Everything is in the right place and just looks awesome.  Tops of posts are radiator caps.  Buildings are in the shape of radiators! Cozy Cone Motel is a bunch of little Eateries with a real looking Motel office in the middle.  The Tire Tower in front of Luigi's is decorated like a giant tire tree. Railings to keep people out of the shrubbery are guard rails.   I could go on and on! LOVE IT!

Adventures of Christmas Past - So Many Good Times

Let me know if you have any fun pictures to add!

Raevon, Mrs. Claus and Pluto - Jan. 2012

Christmas 2011 Raevon, Jody, Brea, Meatball,
and Jakob, Hayden, Harrison and Tanner Huber
at Alpenrose Dairyville

Grandma & Grandpa Neubarth Christmas 2000

Jakob, Hayden, Harrison and Tanner Huber
Suzy Newton, Martha Zeller, and Jeff Neubarth
at Alpenrose Dairyville 2004

Raevon showing her new Coca Cola Santa Blanket 2006.

The first year of the big Christmas Party 1999?
Vanessa Neubarth with Joe Perez Santa

Neubarth Kids, James, Jon, Vanessa and Jeff with Santa.

Huber Boys at Alpenrose Dairyville 2003
Hayden, Harrison, Jakob and Tanner

Jared Huber 2003 at the Christmas Party!

I wish this picture had come out better! 
At the base of the Christmas Tree in Pionner Square.
Newtons, Hubers and Days Christmas 2003.

Jeff and Van Neubarth Christmas 2003.

Jakob Huber 2004

Tanner Huber at the Umbrella Parade 2008

Tanner Huber at Wenzel Farm 2005

 

Zeller Girls with James Neubarth Santa

Christmas 1979 in Seattle
Raevon, Jody, Ben, and Brea Day
Tamara and Thomas Newton, and Amber Morris

Raevon and Coca Cola Bear 2011

 

Knott's Berry Farm 2012

Brea and Raevon carousing with the Town Folk at Knott's Berry Farm

We just got back from Disneyland on Sunday.  You know how people always say they need a vacation from their vacation.  That's so true, but them we would probably just go search out some other fun stuff and walk around a ton, and still be tired at the end of it.  I guess we just aren't the lay on the beach type of people!

Ghost Town at Knott's Berry Farm

This trip we went to Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm.  We had never been to Knott's before, so it was really cool to see their Ghost Town, Indian Village and Camp Snoopy.  It rained all day while we were there.  Well, rain is a strong word.  Let's call it a strong mist.  The place was like a real Ghost Town.  Some rides were closed because, and I quote, "Rain is getting on the ride and we have no way to get it off."  Heard of a towel or a mop?  Plus the stagecoach was closed because "it isn't safe for horses to be out in the rain."  I wonder what they did in the real old west?  We spent the whole day running back and forth to make it to all of their shows.  The stunt man show and cowboy antics were cancelled due to rain.  But the Indians seemed to know how to handle it. 

Snoopy Lighting the Tree at Knott's Berry Farm

Over all, pretty cute.  They also have lots of big Roller Coaster type rides.  It seems like an odd mix.  The big rides came in in the 90's when the Knott's Family finally sold out the park.  It opened in the 1930's.  It only cost $38, so a pretty good deal too.

Knott's Berry Farm Native American Hoop Dance

Knott's Berry Farm Town Hall

 

Pet Sematary

 

Did you see this movie?  SCARY!

 All of the headstones, tombstones and gravestones are in!

We did get one more done, Bubbles the Fish!

Goodbye Kitty Gravestone from Frankenweenie

Mom made this awesome Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas.  He sits right in front of his own tombstone.

Sparky from Frankenweenie Gravestone.



Gage Creed 1980-1983.  Too bad someone dug him up!



The Cemetery Is Up!

As you know, we love Halloween!  A few years ago we went to a class at the Davis Graveyard.  They taught us how to make our own tombstones out of foam.  Each year we have been trying to make a few more.  We have quite a little graveyard going now.  We are still working on adding a few more things this year, but here are some photos so far.



Pac Man Headstone

Mom working on her ZERO from Nightmare Before Christmas

We are having a "Pet Sematary" this year, inspired by the movies Pet Sematary, Frankenweenie,
and the Pet Cemetery at Disneyland.

Brea is working on Sparky's Headstone from Frankenweenie.

Meatball is trying to help!

Zero is coming along.

Pac Man in progress.

The graveyard even has a cat!

Finished Zero

I'll add photos of the finished cemeteries as they are getting finished.  Or drive by the back yard, on Fuller, to see them all set up!

 

Don't forget to be a Tourist in your own town! Portland Police Museum

There are cool things to see all around you.  You don't have to travel all the way to Darwin, MN to see something awesome. (Home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine!)

We have been cleaning out Grandma and Grandpa's attic.  We recently found Grandpa's Police uniform.  Grandpa (Alvin Neubarth) was an auxilory (volunteer) police officer from the late 50's until the early 70's.    We decided to donate his uniform to the Portland Police Museum.  Some of his items will be on display there soon.

These rusty badges were just thrown into the Willamette in the 40's after the
police switched over to their new style of badges.  I guess they weren't super
concerned about recycling?

Before cell phones, if you saw a crime of needed a cop you had to find one of
these boxes.

 

I love this old Stop and Go sign.  It looks so cartoony, but they have a picture of
it on a Portland Street.

 

A Police Motorcycle with a sidecar.  I guess that's where the criminal
would sit after they were arrested?  Or maybe the Police dog?

And yes, that is McGruff the crime dog hanging out in the background.

 

This is a fun little Musuem on the main floor of the Police station on 2nd Ave.
Downton.  The are Police uniforms for kids to try on, and lots of interesting
memorabilia from Portland's Police History.

 

Location:
1111 SW 2nd Avenue, between Madison and Main streets, just west of the Hawthorne Bridge. Museum entrance is in the first floor lobby.

Hours:
10:00 to 3:00, Tuesday to Friday

Admission:
Free