New England, New Family

 The pictures do not do justice to our trip back east... memories to last a lifetime and cousins/ aunts/ uncles/ grandparents we didn't know we had been missing all of our life... it was picture-perfect New England at Thanksgiving... leaves, clear sky, family football game, Macy's balloon parade, laughter, and relationships filled with inside jokes, love, music, traditions, full bellies and lots of spirit.. (and spirits.)

November 2012

Native American Latte Turtle

Halloween '12 couldn't have been more fun.. bribed with candy, Leo stayed in his foam coffee cup the entire night.. and the kids of the neighborhood had a sugar high blast of a time

captured in the wild

Where were we?? ....Surf for the Sea..

Gorgeous September weather here and Jbird back in competition for the first time in over a year and a half. All cheered her on (Dad didn't make it to the finals in his heat {either} this year... ) from the sand... She's a fighter and tasted the competition.. ready to go for fall & winter surf season!

6th Grader

So hard to believe (and hard to capture on film) J is in 6th grade. We all remember 6th grade like it was yesterday... only wish we could remember that homework just as well... they have to have some new math (etc etc) these days.. that must be it.

Here's to another great year at St. Pat's!

Summer beach days

Eating sand, surfing, swimming, splashing, tea partying, laughing, napping.. we have spent some quality time soaking up summer days on the shore this summer..