Lily likes dessert!

The reef tank has to be seen to be believed!

Aquarium is awesome!

Dinner with Mel and R

Lily indicates she is done with breakfast...

It's not Xmas without...

This is an accurate depiction of our Xmas morning...

 

Note the two handed action - paper to the left, gift to the right...

Merry Christmas

So what did Owen love most? The bounce house? no - the balloon and foaming soap! He sat in the chair squishing the soap and rubbing it in! And I think the balloon has been attached to his pants the whole day.

Lily doesn't seem to understand all the fuss. She just plays with whatever Owen puts down. She has enjoyed her two new stuffed toys. One is a bear that is just about the same size as she is - the other is a giant girl. Lily loves pointing out the bright blue eyes and hugging her.

Merry Xmas!

iPhone-y goodness

So, turns out I can blog from my new iPhone! Only takes me 10 minutes to type this in - I think I need smaller fingers!

Happy Birthday, little buddy...

 

3 years already. Amazing how time flies by. Happy Birthday to my little boy!

All that walking and playing with kids was too much for Joe and The Dad.

 

Naptime - and we didn't even eat turkey!

Then it's home for kiddy cuddles and football!

 

This was our Thanksgiving morning...

 

Us and 28,000 of our closest friends did the "Run for the Hungry" - or as we do it, the "Stroll for the snackish"

It was right outside our house!

 

Good news for us - bad news for our neighbours - Get Well Soon, Layne!

How do you make Owen's day?

 

You let him sit in a Fire Engine!

Sunset at the Albion river...

 

Yeah, this was the view from our room...

Gotta love a Botanical Garden with a sense of humor...

 

The winery is RIGHT on a fault line

 

and they even have a wine called "It's my fault". We stayed and watched the waves for a while.

We stopped at Pacific Star winery on the drive back...

 

and I encountered this little stunner...

Lisa loves the ocean...

 

So we went up by Mendocino. Lovely coastline up there.

The TREE is...

 

Not me...

It was a pretty big tree...

 

I couldn't touch the sides...

We drove through a tree...

 

As you do, on vacation...

Lisa and I took off for a couple of days

 

leaving the kids with Grandma and Grandpa!

Teeth

 

We have them. Here they are.

Happy Birthday TCMH!

 

Yes, the country was so excited by her birthday, they collectively decided to have the election on the same day! Yay Lisa - Happy Birthday, sweetie!

So busy...

 

that we forget what we look like sometimes. Well, here we are!

Party!

 

Grandpa Gary and Owen share a few yucks.

4 years ago today...

 

I was fortunate enough to exchange vows with a wonderful, vibrant and intelligent woman - with a fantastic sense of humor. I'm stunned that, 4 years and 2 wonderful kids later, she is still as wonderful, vibrant and intelligent as ever - AND that she's put up with my beer-drinking, D&D playing, Buffalo Bills watching ass for this long! Love ya, babe!

You can tell she's pretty happy about it too!