Sunrise over Snapper

Sign of the times...

Times they have been a changin' but all is for the best... It's been a hard few months, but things are looking up and the future is looking more certain... I think the best years are ahead for the first time in a long time and I'm excited to see what happens next. I'll keep ya posted. xoxo

Hawai'i

Gettin' ready to hit the islands... Oh boy!

Thanksgiving!

Just like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, etc... we went to Mexico to celebrate! It's mostly true, even though we had dinner in San Diego at my brother's this year, we still drove to Ensenada on Turkey Day and ate a smoked turkey sandwich before going to bed. If I dont eat turkey again until Christmas, I will not miss it. Here's some photos:

San Pedro Coast

Afternoon laying in the backyard...

Seriously! No really.

Kill Yourself. Do it now.

Heading to Florida!

Gonna go spend 10 days in the Florida heat hanging with Lala and Grandpa and the great ones too! I'm excited for the kids to play where I grew up, gonna spend a lot of time at the beach and on the dock at the river!

heading to da islands... next week!

I wish I was going to be relaxing on the beach with my babe and a maitai in one hand, but oh well... still may get a shave ice and some poke while I work!

Man I really want one of these.

Greg Liddle displacement hulls... So fun to ride. Trying to locate a used one, or new if stars align, wink wink.

I love this...

Been a while?

I've fallen and I can't get up... Juli has taken over on the blog front, all I do these days is work when I'm not complaining about all the work. Pulled this little jem from the history books... Take note:

I like this!

Right packaging, wrong label - or is it the other way around? Either way it works for me.

Vaughn eating ice cream at Fashion Island!

Nice day for an ice cream!

Hola Texas!

I'm going to Texas for two days. FUCK!

Lila, Asleep at the Wheel

This is Lila tonight while I was feeding her some butternut squash... she'd take a bite then close her eyes, finally she just kept them closed. We left her in the seat for about 30 minutes like this, even though Vaughn was trying to tickle her feet to wake her up. He finally achieved this. Damn kids.

Coming up...

It's still a while away, but at least there's some solid plans on the horizon... We're heading east to Philly via New York in June for our friends' wedding, going to stay an extra 2 days to putz around Philly and New York without the kids. Big stuff for us! Hopefully my mom will be coming out to babysit!

Laugh with God

What I want right now...

work, work, work... babies, parks, doctors... crying, bottles, burps, diapers... work, work, work... it's all part of life. Lately there doesn't seem to be much more than that. These are on my immediate wish list, please!







See the reoccurring theme yet?

Me and the Kids!

Pics by Wifey slash Mama!

Off to a bad start to 2010

I just realized that I haven't posted a blog since before Xmas... I would like to have some great excuse like "busy traveling through southern asia for the last 6 weeks" or "can't decided what to blow my lottery winnings on" but the fact is that I have become even more lazy in 2010 than 2009. After spending the last week in 2009 surfing twice a day in Mexico and hanging out with family and friends, I have only succeeded is surfing once so far in 2010, and that was on January 1st! In my defense, work has been really busy, this damn daylight savings is still going on, and Juli has been feeling some especially ill-effects of her Crohn's disease. Plus having two kids is more time consuming than I initially imagined, duh! My updated New Years resolution will be to post more updates here. (obviously surfing at least 3x a week has not panned out!)

Anyway, enough complaining... We have had some great moments so far in 2010, and here are some of them:

Good one of Mom and Pops

My parents came to visit... I'm been super busy working... Not posting here... We have a lot of good pics, but this is a pretty solid one of the Grandparents with the babies. It was a short trip, but hopefully this is the last leg of their time abroad and we'll have more babysitting time coming up real soon.

Two Handjobs for $5?!

Thanksgiving times three!

This year, we've been stretching Thanksgiving out a bit. Last weekend we did the big dinner here at our house with my little brother Joey, gf Anamique (or Mimi as Vaughn says) and some friends. I made a turkey meatloaf and Juli did the rest of the trimmings. Then on the real turkey day we ventured down to San Diego to Juli's cousins and had an awesome family gathering with her extended cousins, aunt and uncle... I did a lot of guessing as to exactly how everyone is related, and Juli kept having to correct me. It was great to be around all the family and we had a nice day. Then yesterday we went to the Brough's where they were celebrating a day late! They did the entire dinner spread and we made one of Juli's pumpkin cheesecakes... mmmmm! Vaughn and Lola played for hours, while the little babies, Penny and Lila pretended to play, and the adults drank themselves silly. It was a good night and we ended up swimming in the pool and spa and Vaughn is so tired that he's been sleeping for 12 hours.... All three thanksgivings were great! We have a lot to be thankful for!

Of course, we didn't take many pics... Robbie and Marcella spent the night with us Wednesday and went to her family's house on Thanksgiving, but they did take this pic before they left, so this counts:


And here is Juli and Uncle Mark when we were on our way home after dinner... They are sailing south into Mexico this weekend for the next 6 months! Lucky!

HAPPY 3 months bday to Lila! Woo hoo!

Love you babies!


This is Lila, asleep in her pouch so Juli could eat thanksgiving dinner at the same time...