Happy Anniversary To Us. July 16, 2008

Tom and I celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary yesterday.  The years have flown by and we are still happy together!  These days 7 years sounds like an eternity, doesn’t it.  Tom and I have been together for 10 years officially married for 7.  We haven’t really explained this to Kiley who is at an age where she is starting to ask questions.  She notices herself in our wedding pictures.  So as parents, we are stuck.  We don’t necessarily want to tell her that it’s okay to have a baby before she’s married but at the same time, is it really a bad thing?  These days many women have babies and not get married.  We’re still trying to figure out the best and most positive way to explain to her what we did and the pros and cons.  

Anyway, we just wanted to share our Happy Anniversary news with you.

July is half way through. July 16, 2008

We can’t believe how fast the summer is flying by.  It’s already the middle of July.   The kids are loving their summer camps.  Actually, Kiley and Ethan are loving their summer camps.  Harrison on the other hand could probably take it or leave it when it comes to his camps.

We have had a busy couple of weeks as always, our friends from Sacramento came and visited us for a couple of weekends in July.  We were a bunch of tourists and hung out in Monterey most of the time.  

There is a new hotel there called “The Clement” which is part of the intercontinental hotels chain.  It is really nice and a great addition to Monterey.  You actually feel like walking around there now instead of feeling like you might be mugged.

 

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a block away so it is really great for families with kids.  In two days, we went to the aquarium three times our friends went another 2 times without us…good thing we bought the season pass.  If you have never been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium it is a definite must see…the kids absolutely love it!

     

The fires are still going on here in Carmel Valley and Big Sur.  The air is pretty bad with ash and smoke.  We’re just dealing with it as best we can, keeping windows shut and staying indoors as much as possible.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer.  Come and visit us!

BACK FROM VACAY July 4, 2008

Hi Everyone. We are finally back from our vacation…we didn’t actually go anywhere but we did have a great time.  We were very busy over the last two weeks.  Our vacation started with Tom and I going to SF for the weekend while my lovely mother in law and father in law babysat the kids.  It was a much needed mommy and daddy vacation….we went with our fun friends Vern and Katie and had a blast….

Then it was all about the kids…we went to the River Inn in Big Sur, Bonfante Gardens in Gilroy, the movies, Bonfante for a second time and just putzed around Carmel.  It was not very relaxing but great to see friends and get back to just having fun with the kids.

Yesterday, the last day before I went back to work we went to Bonfante Gardens…which is a perfect little amusement park for the kids.  Then we went to Palo Alto to go to RED MANGO… What is Red Mango (www.redmangousa.com) you ask well it’s frozen yogurt with toppings….so why would we make this special trip out to Palo Alto for frozen yogurt you ask….Because it is DELICIOUS!!!  It’s like pinkberry frozen yogurt  www.pinkberry.com. The kids asked the same thing…but they loved it.  In fact we had it twice before driving back home, YUMMY.

Back to work today and it was hard.  hard. hard.

The kids are ready to start their summer camps…they start Monday.  Yeah!

Hope you are all having a wonderful summer.