Christmas 2009

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Birthday Girl

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Birthday Time

We made it to her 3rd birthday without having the next baby! She enjoyed pizza, fruit, cupcakes and many great gifts from loving family and friends. Thank you, everyone, for making her birthday so special! (Special thanks to Auntie BooBoo, Auntie Katie, and Lola for helping put the party together)

Here she is sporting her new bike...

Getting ready for the Holidays and a new baby

Decorating the tree with Daddy

Ready to go shopping

Ready to have another baby!

The falling leaves

We visited the zoo during the peak of our leaves falling, but it was so warm! This was our last visit before Mommy isn't able to walk around much with the pregnancy... We'll visit the zoo again in the Spring with the new baby.

(Norah's photography)

California

We had an amazing time in California this year. We were able to spend time with family and old friends without too much stress and NO traffic! That was truly a miracle. The only traffic we really experienced was in the line to get into the Disneyland parking lot...

Here are some highlights from the trip, but the bulk of the photos can be seen on our family shutterfly page.

Lunch with Mommy's girlfriends

Attempting to have the great grandkids pose together. All girls so far!

Disneyland with cousin Makena

At the park with the Yamamotos

Building sand castles with Auntie Sheri & Bradyn

Lunch with the Color Family

Working on the computer with Lolo

Balboa Park

some photos from this summer

At the M. Millers' 4th of July party (thanks to the S. Millers NKP has a new umbrella!)

Posing with Daddy in the backyard

This year's plum harvest! (This is only half of it...)

A chocolate mustache to go with the pretty new dress.

Modeling the new Hello Kitty tennies with the new dress from Lolo & Lola

Our little artist

She loves to paint! In this last picture she is painting some rocks from outside (not sure how that began but she enjoyed it). She also made a hand imprint with Daddy!

technology and the last of Spring

One of Norah's favorite things to do is play bubble breaker on Daddy's PDA. In these photos she is holding the stylus with her left hand, but trust me, it's no indication that she's left handed. She switches back and forth, seemingly ambidextrous at this point. She loves to "multi-task," playing bubble breaker while putting together a puzzle or eating a snack at the same time. It's pretty funny, yet scary to see her do this so naturally!

Here she is showing off her boots that Auntie Trish sent. The weather just turned warm so she won't be able to wear the boots anymore this year.  Sad. :o(

This is her little chair that the Wests have at their house just for when we visit (she's also wearing the outfit Melanie gave her). She kept asking me to take pictures of her, so I obliged. The second shot is her pose on the sleeping bags... Random but cute.

worms worms worms

After it rains we get a lot of worms underneath our patio mat. Mike & Norah like to collect the worms and put them in the soil to help cultivate it. Today there were plenty (PAH-LEN-TEEE) of worms to collect!!

fabulous fruity thanks!

Grandma Priss sent us a "thank you bouquet" for taking her to the beach! Norah was very excited and wanted to eat it right away...

spring break

Grandma Priss was in town so we took a trek down to the gulf beaches in Florida. It was a first for all of us so it was exciting to find new places and experience the "Hawaii of the South" together. A million thanks to the Bells for the use of their condo! Here are a few shots of our fabulous adventure in Miramar, Destin, and the beautiful cottage communities on Highway 30A.




Enjoying chocolate gelato after a run in the park ampitheatre.



Building sand castles and snoozing on the beach.









...a treehouse on the baytowne boardwalk





Daddy sang "The Lord's Prayer" for Grandma in this beautiful chapel that we found ...