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...

Lazy Saturday Afternoons!

Family time!

We've been having a lot of family time lately... Juli's aunt and uncle have been hanging around and helping with the kids on their way south. Last weekend they headed more south, and left Newport for San Diego. Juli and her dad sailed with them to Dana Point while I was on babysitting duties. They'll be in SD for another couple weeks and then down to Mexico. Here's our last family pic on the steps of their family "beach house" in Balboa. We'll miss you guys!

Driving Miss Lila!

Took miss Lila on a little drive at lunch, she was smiling at me as we weaved in and out of traffic on PCH, a la Britney Spears...

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Mike Aho is brillant...

Lila sleeps like a baby!

Here's a nice pic from Juli's phone of Lila sleeping like a lil angel. She's been kicking ass at sleeping lately, going for 4-6 hours at a time. Such a good little girl, now all she has to do is keep it up for the next 18 years or so.

HalloWEEN pics!

Went spent Halloween down in Balboa with Mark and Vicki and went sailing on the boat with Anamique's parents. Afterwards, we carved pumpkins, drank mimosas, and went trick or treating... maybe not in that order. It was a good Halloween, and Vaughn even wore the monkey suit and went door to door getting treats. Lila was the hot dog and I was Spamalot - or something. That's what you get with last minute costumes.

We (were) on a boat!

Today, we went on a boat! Uncle Mark took us sailing, and only about a mile or so off Newport we saw a nice little pod of whales pretty close by... there was about 6 of them spouting all over. Maybe going again next weekend in Catalina, we'll see... Woo-hoo!

VAUGHN USED TO BE A TODDLER MODEL

Here’s a shot of Vaughn from about a year ago (I think) during his short stint as a toddler model for our friend’s sunglass company SABRE. He got fired shortly after this photo, but amazingly this shot still made the cut.

An Apple a Day...

Keep's Vaughn eating and the parents happy!

Can't forget about the Vaughnster

I realized there's been a lot of photos of little Lila Dove, so here's a couple of Vaughn.


I think I've pulled this move once or twice. Sometimes you just can't put the drink down!


Nothing wrong with a boy trying on his mom's shoes... Especially the good ones!

Whoa, is it almost November???

Time sure does fly... I kinda forgot about keeping up with this. Well, not really forgot but just been keeping busy. Uncle Mark and Aunt Vicki have been here on their boat, and they've been wonderful to have around. It's nice having dinners with family (and the occasional babysitters!) and we've really been enjoying it. We haven't gotten a chance to get out on their boat with them, but we will make of point of it before they shove off to Mexico - they'll be here 4 more weeks.

When not on the boat, they are staying in a cool old 1 bedroom house in Balboa down by the Wedge that Mark's cousin owns as their beach casita. His father built it 80 years ago when there was only 2 other houses on the block, total cost: $2900 - I couldn't imagine being on Balboa Peninsula when houses weren't inches apart and into the multi-million dollar range. Must have been really cool back then, cause even with all the crowded houses and people now its still very nice!

Juli and I are getting into the groove of things with two kids, it's not so hard... I've even been able to get more surfing in the last two weeks than I can remember. It also helps that it's October, the weather is great, the waves have been really fun and Juli has been very accommodating in letting me get out of the house. I figure since now I'm so old and all, I'm going to have to keep surfing so I don't turn into a fat slob, because there's pretty much no way I'm going to be doing any other sort of exercise.

Here's Lila sunbathing down in Balboa. More pics next time.

Happy Birthday Wifey slash Mama!

Today is Juli's 29th birthday! She is the most awesome girl in the world, the best wife, best friend, best mom to our kids, etc, etc, etc... I'm so lucky. Love you Babe! Here are a bunch of old photos of us from when we first started dating in 2005, and beyond.

This was the first time she met my parents about a month after we started hanging out in Florida at my cousin's wedding. Two minutes after this photo, she was so wasted she fell out of her chair in front of everyone. My family laughed and clapped, and my aunt said, "Oh, she's a Marshall!"

This was later that same night, we went looking for a place to get water at 1 am and ended up in a Hooka Lounge. It was strange...

Going out for Juli's bachelorette party at Beat It!

At Hurst Castle in 2005

At my company Xmas party in 2006

Super duper drinking team... well we used to be!

At her Dad's house in Mexico in 2006 - one of our fav places!

Out in San Diego one night in 2007 at ASR. Can you tell that I have no recollection of this night?

Dinner with the family

My parents were in town for one last weekend, after their ship was delayed en route to Hawaii. We had a nice gathering at my brothers on Saturday and a dinner Sunday night at Tantalum in Long Beach with my parents friends and Juli's dad. We actually had a nice dinner at a nice restaurant and even though Vaughn was running around like crazy the whole time, we had enough hands to share in the chasing so everyone could eat and relax a little. The food there is really good, I had a Kobe beef burger and it was amazing! The photos are that great, but that's all I got these days...

4 weeks down, a life time to go

Yesterday Lila was 4 weeks old! It's been a hectic month... and I have a feeling its never gonna stop, we have a long way to go! ahhhhhhhhhhh!

I'm baaaaaaack!

Wow, seems like time is going by crazy fast. First we had baby numero dos, then there was a tradeshow in san diego, luckily for us, my mom came down and stayed with Juli. Holy crap, how easy must it be to have kids when your parents are close by! It's been nice for us, but my mom and dad are shipping out this week... Speaking of this week, work is nuts, the Goons are Doom are here from Oz playing a bunch of shows, and It's my birthday. Juli and I are officially going out, at least once, maybe even twice this week. We have so many good photos of the kids, I don't even know where to start... I don't wanna piss off Juli, so here's one of me and Lila that she took of us yesterday while we slept in bed all day! Woo-hoo!

Too lazy to get on a computer...

All the last weeks pics and posts have been from my phone. Were at
home now, but I haven't turned on mh computer yet. Oh well. We love
Lila.

Vaughn is a good big brother!

So far... We get to go home this morning! Can't wait!!!

Mommy and daughter

Feeling good today!!!

Update from the hospital

Here's some new pics from today with Lala (my mom), Vaughn, Juli and
I. Feeling better today!