Mia and Victoria

Happy Thanksgiving beautiful girls. I am so grateful to be your parent. I feel blessed everyday to have you in my life even if that is not always obvious. I am so proud of you both. You make being a mom the best thing in my life. Victoria I love your sweet spirit and the hugs you give. Mia I love your endless energy and all your sloppy kisses. I try to tell you often but I especially wanted to tell you today that I am so thankful you are my girls, I could not ask for any better. You are my angels, my heartbeat, my everything.

Wickedly Fantastic

In front of the Orpheum theater.

On our way to wicked on the BART

The show was great and the girls loved it.

Wickedly

Halloween 2009

Mia the devil

Victoria the black cat

Altamont Pass

Views of the windmills in Altamont Pass right by our house.

A fun day at the pumpkin patch

The family plus one, my friend Stephenie's little boy Joey
Mining for gold.


Tall girlies

Hungry goats


Mia and Claire

New School Photos Fall 2009

A Tinker Bell room for Victoria

Victoria loves her new Tinker Bell room. Thanks Mom for helping me do the Wallpaper. It turned out so cute. I am painting Mia's room tomorrow, so pictures of that will come soon.

Mia's 11th Birthday

Victoria, Mia and friend Alena

Hula hoop relay
Mia wanted all lemon desserts, like Lottie's party, it was yummy.
The Birthday Girl sporting her lei
Angel food cake on her actual birthday

The big one, one
Mia opening her peridot ring we gave her
Mia wanted a luau for her party. We decorated flip flops, played a hula hoop relay and had a water balloon fight, then I let everyone sleepover in a tent in the backyard. That wasn't part of the original plan, but they had lots of fun. Her actually birthday was a busy day because she had soccer practice and it was back to school night, but Grandma Mar was here to make it special. Mia got all new bedding for her room and a ring with her birthstone.

First Day of School, Fall 2009

Victoria and Mia looked so cute on their first day of school. I can't believe they are already in 7th and 6th grade.

Peace out

Thanks to all you helped make our Utah trip possible. Thanks to all of you who lent us your vehicles, thanks for the dinners mom and dad. Thanks for the ride down south Josh and Brit. As always the best part was seeing all of you and this time especially meeting all our new nieces. They are so adorable. Until next time, love ya!

Kanab and the reunion

Grammie, Lucy and the girls.
Some of the boys.
Some of the girls
Victoria and the beautiful red rock cliffs of Kanab.
Marlene and Phyllis
Second Cousins
The reunion was a huge success in my opinion. It was incredibly great to see everyone. I just love how beautiful it is in Kanab. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make it happen. At the reunion I found out that several of you actual do look at my blog so I am going to try harder to keep it updated. I can't wait to do it again in 2012.

The Property

The smores, the foil dinners, the gnomes, the horny toads, crying babies, it was just like I remembered. I am so glad we were able to take the girls so they could have some of the same memories I do. Let's do it again soon. Thanks everyone for making it so fun.