start a band

slight obsession with the band room at the Roses.

" my phone "

when asked "what's in your pocket, Cam?"

Jingle Bob

Jadyn had a blast at her "first concert," as she called the little private Bob Schneider show we went to at Bernardo Winery with the Roses. Fun, carriage rides and, as the venue suggests, wine were enjoyed by all.. well, ok, kids had kettle korn and koko...and Campbell wouldn't go anywhere near Santa.



THRILLED to get an autograph and "backstage" Emma, Jake, Jeanette and Jbird with Bob!

Santa, please bring me back my hair

Even Elmo getting in on the act could not win Campbell over. Poor guy. Mean mom. (disclaimer, the hair had nothing to do with this Santa experience... I don't want to talk about Justin's botched father-son haircuts... I feel sick to my stomach and cried myself to sleep about it....I know, it's only hair... and the good news is, Campbell thinks it's cool.)

scooter rally

Lego friend

Twin cousins find their lego counterpart..C trying to expose his 'block head' haircut.

Jingle Boy

Campbell loved Christmas caroling with the big kids from Nana's preschool class through the Village...and stopping for a cider break... .still jingling around here!!

oh man!

Deck the halls with snow and fritos

an awesome flocked tree and fritos in (random) jammies... wow. look out trailer park..

Pass it on!!

for anyone who doesn't love my favorite part of gift-giving.. the shopping, the wrapping, the addressing... I'm busy helping out!! also been known to bake other people's teacher gifts, as well... just sayin'

cozy cousins

our version of a double jogger

Sunny Thanksgiving

A great change of pace as we headed out to "gramma's" for Txgiving in Palm Desert. It was so much fun to hang by the pool before / during/ after eating and drinking. Loads of great memories for us out there.


some quality time with auntie ju-ah, as she points out her own picture in the month's periodicals.... "well, I may not be on the cover, Campbell, but it's only a matter of time"

...and while I'm blasting from the pasting...

college graduation with my roomie, and good friend, Kim. wow. Can you tell that I split as soon as I finished at spring break and layed out in the California sun, pretty much non-stop until I came back to Corvallis in June? holy "hollywood tan" haa!!! BTW, Go Beavs on Thursday!!

Little bird ... Four years ago

and she chose a feather in her cap, too...


Half her life has passed... Auntie Jdawg saved these precious memories. We can't get over it. Can we please rewind??? The video is killing me.

So lucky

beach days in November

Christmas kick-off at the Happiest place on Earth.

California Christmastime!

that feather!!
pretending she doesn't want her own pirate hat..

ignore the foreground.. I love Jadyn and Justin's smiles...
arrrgh. melting my heart... even though the hat looks almost sombrero-ish.. he just loves it.. and the way he lit up at all of the rides.. my face still hurts from all of the laughter that filled this day

chauffeur?

Just a smidgen of the smiles from a day at D-land. I don't see this genuine joy smile from Justin too often... must be the new designated driver.

WIP

totally got motivated over the weekend, thanks, Jaimee. Embroidering my heart out here, and pulled out Campbell's quilt that was started at my shower before we knew he was a he at all. I have about half of the squares stitched over and am collecting fabric to make this happen. Oh ya! let this begin the postings of my Works In Progress... maybe it'll keep me on task!... and I know, again, this is so not an artsy picture, sigh.

Big (crazy) boy

never ceasing to make us laugh... even when we shouldn't.

"Big Bird!!! Where aaahyah?"

Campbell kept shouting this into this huge nest replica at the Wild Animal Park.. it was hillarious. When I told him Big Bird was hanging on Sesame street, he started shouting, "Ernie, Burt, Where's Big Bird?!!".. I know. yet again, another shout out to the fact that we love TV.

kooky..kwad kam..

still working on perfecting this, but so fun!

Look out, Tour de France...or at least Mission Bay

Dollar Tree

a fave stop of mine.. these ginormous "tools" were well worth their respective 4 quarters... natch!