December, Part 2

January 1, 2012

Welcome back to our family journal! We love to get comments and all you need is an email address to comment. Thanks for visiting! We drove up to Downtown Disney for a fun dinner at ESPN Zone with my parents, Alex, Angelina, Micah, Uncle Joe, Aunt Laurel and my cousins Breanna, Amalia and little Thomas. [...]

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December, Part 1

January 1, 2012

After Thanksgiving, we were excited to get into the holiday spirit! Gigi did her first embroidery project! We waited an extra week to get our tree because we had such warm weather the weekend after Thanksgiving. Signs of the season. During Thanksgiving week, David took Gigi’s pedals off since she was finally tall enough to [...]

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2011 Family Photos

January 1, 2012

We love having our pictures taken down at the beach each year.  This year’s taken by my brother came out great! Thanks, Al-Buddy! Here are a few of my favorites. You can see a few more shots over on Alex’s blog.

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Thanksgiving Week at San Elijo State Beach

January 1, 2012

As usual, we had an awesome time camping for the week of Thanksgiving. We arrived at San Elijo– after a long 10 minute commute — in the pouring rain and opted to cram our family of 5 into the motorhome and sleep with Yaya and Papa. Watching a movie. The girls snuggling in the morning. [...]

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November 2011

December 31, 2011

Every now and then, on the rarest of all occasions, this happens: along with this: When that all happens at once, it’s a true miracle around these parts. This month, David, Alex and my dad drove up to Palomar Mountain for the Elliptigo World Championships. It was a bit nippy. Alex did photography and videography [...]

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A few more October Memories

December 27, 2011

After clearing our iPhones, I found a few more October photos to share. David got to go to Brent (his boss) & Livy’s wedding. Unfortunately I missed out because Gigi was sick! Brent showing off his custom cufflinks. Brent made this really cool cake stand, and then friends brought cakes. David, Gigi & Dan met [...]

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October 2011

December 26, 2011

(Here’s this month’s 10 on 10 post). Let’s start the October recap with some cuties of Hallee… She is well-known for her WIDE eyes. Moonlight Beach A successful trip to the pediatric dentist (5 gold stars for the guy that invented movies on the ceiling!). Sipping some delicious Thai iced tea on our date night [...]

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Our Trip to the Central Coast

December 26, 2011

It had been far too long, so we finally took a trip back up to the Central Coast in early October. We had a fabulous weekend seeing friends (and family on the drive up) and staying with our hosts and dear friends, the Scotts. First we stopped in Simi Valley to see Grandma, so she [...]

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Happy Birthday, David!

December 26, 2011

The Birthday Boy The day started with homemade chocolate old fashioned doughnuts. At work, David got cupcakes! Then the kids and I surprised David with a Jamba at work. I made David this set of “redeemable” gifts. After work we met up with both sets of parents and my brother’s family at Joe’s Crab Shack [...]

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Hallee Hope, 4 Months Old

December 25, 2011

These photos were so cute I thought they deserved their own post… Hallee Hope, with Yaya in Julian, October 15, 2011.

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