Ghetto is our mystique...

While out to lunch with Auntie Des (who still cuts his nails on demand)... it became apparent that Campbell was in DIRE need of his first haircut.. No one could be more appauled than Des, whose kid has had a faux hawk since birth. WARNING. These photos are a far cry from our glamourous life portrayed in the prior photoshoot. Campbell's "Before" shots..NO, I didn't really have him wearing a ponytail before we got to "KidZ Kuts" in the high class strip mall in Escondido... I mean, if he was a girl.. you KNOW it would be clipped.. but,

Sanjaya?? or whatever the American Idol guy's name was... with the rat tail..He played it cool with the Spiderman cape for a while... but was over it shortly...
Handsome little devil... (yes, note the decor?? where ARE we?? OMG)

wow...

taken by our awesome friend, Crescent, before the holidays... seriously bringing tears to my eyes...and laughs at trying to get two or three of them together in one shot. Love.

Come back, Kate...

off to the big blue sea...Campbell and his afternoon playdate with Baby Kate.. yes, we are lucky.

When times get tough, bills pile up, the holiday cookies are giving me love handles and we just get stuck in a rut... all it takes is a jaunt down to the beach to feel like we're on vacation... How awesome for kids to grow up like this.. running in diapers at the beach in January.

Hometown Team spirit

Poor Bolts...

Kick the year off in (Jbird) style...

with another quotable quote... "Micah has all of these Star Wars toys.. they match the movie.. and they're super old, like from the Two-thousand Eighties, when he was a kid" (ps. Micah is like 28 or something)..coming from someone born in 2001.. I guess the 19- 80s seem like, well, a century ago. wow.

smoothie love

a fine example of a shining (second) of sibling non-rivalry

Breakfast is self-serve here.