Aloha from the big island! We were so glad to finally arrived. The day started out full of excitement with us getting up at 5:00 AM to get ready and head to the airport. After packing our last minute toiletries and loading up the car we were finally on our way around 6:00 AM. We Continue reading
We went to the LA Zoo twice in May, mostly because we thought our membership was due to expire at the end of the month. We had great fun – once with the kids’ paternal grandparents and once just the four of us. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures below. The first trip Continue reading
I love me some food. And, food trucks. And, the race track. So, put them all together and I am there! We thought it would be fun to explore since Brian and Ethan had never been to the Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia plus we’d get enjoy some great food and make a day Continue reading
I had a great birthday weekend in Santa Barbara with the family. Lunch at Dargan’s was a highlight as well as Ethan’s first ice cream cone with mom. Nothing like Thrifty’s ice cream to start off with.
With just a week to Ethan’s first birthday we thought it was about time he got a real professional haircut – unlike the hack jobs mommy and daddy had been giving him. So I did my research and found a cute little place in Arcadia called The Yellow Balloon. The gentlemen that cut Ethan’s hair Continue reading
People always tell me that Ethan looks just like Brian. It’s true (not to mention lucky for him). I think he looks mostly like Brian but I can spot a few of my distinctive features – like the dimple he has on his right cheek. You can only see it when he makes certain expressions Continue reading
Now that Ethan has become mobile we’ve had to put the “doggie gates” back up. Okay, so technically they are baby gates but before we had Ethan they were doggie gates. We took them down after we lost the dogs and didn’t think we’d be putting them back up so quickly. Ethan is now crawling Continue reading
As I was catching up on uploading pictures to our website this morning Ethan climbed my leg, started bouncing up and down, and “telling” me he was hungry. Of course, I grabbed my iPhone and snapped this picture. He’s 9 1/2 months old and he’s really become so expressive lately; he sings and talks to Continue reading
On this particular rainy Saturday Brian and I trekked out to Babies R Us to take advantage of two ‘20% off one item’ coupons we’d been dying to use. We thought it would be nice to get Ethan a push toy since he now knows how to crawl and has learned to stand up and Continue reading
Ethan received this Chatter Telephone from our friend Teena as a present shortly after he was born. Brian and I both had this toy when we were a kid so you know it’s a classic. Sadly, it says 12+ months on the box so it’s been tucked away in Ethan’s closet ever since we received Continue reading