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!

We heart Balboa Island

who doesn't?

The future is here

Heit kids love skyping/ video chatting with Nana B, Big Poppi, and Aunties Kate and Ju-ah... C is always racing to the computer to show off his new (??) accessories and do some "work".. nice. I'm sure if I can use the broken TV as a premonition, I can count on a broken laptop soon

Creatures of the night

We can never have enough of our nephew (cousin) Townsend... the boys have secret code talk and have such a blast together. Hysterical/ adorable. And binky-billy-bob-teeth are right up there with baby wigs as one of my favorite things.

T-REX...unzipped (kind of like.... unplugged)

A lot to hold.. including a flash light... probably more of a hit than the candy.

no night at Nana and Poppi's without Pacino getting in on the act... even decked out in his "clown" costume.

Hallow's eve (and day) Highlights

Another awesome weather day in California.. Really something amazing to be able to wear short sleeves as part of the costume.. with no turtle neck under, like the Halloweens of yore in Portland... need to find a photo of hula girl, age 4, red t-neck under coconut bra top.....anyway!
J was so nice to share the coveted whistle with her bro. Jadyn: the BLIND referee.. .get it, like those refs that the dads yell at when watching sports?? "What?!! are you BLIND, REF??" haa! We could barely stifle our laughter when she told us this plan... of course the blind ref knows how to rip-stick.. and Campbell refused to wear the adorable dalmation, Jadyn's horse AND the frog from Heit costume archive ... also refuses to take off the Charg-awh's jersey.. cries when it's dirty... thus, born the 09 costume.. worn for 2 days straight.. and at least I got to include (white) leggings.
two dads, one stroller. um.

we love wigs. Especially pint sized. Baby Belle was awesome. I wanted my little Charger to have an afro, but Justin drew the line.. Campbell wouldn't even keep the black stuff on his cheeks... I have nightmares of Power Rangers and GI Joe in the future...

all costumes include a wheeled mode of transport, natch..
breakfast of mini champs... just the cream cheese. jeez. one of these days, he'll eat something more than one bite..

Heit babies post 'carving party'..
Oh, how I wish the artsy, action shot photos would have turned out from carving...the (not about to scoop out or actually carve a pumpkin.. just "art direct" )Pumpkin King... not necessarily Jack Skellington, but ..