Love bug has had a whole slew of doctors’ appointments since turning 1.  We headed back to Dysmorphology.  Dr. Jones likes to keep tabs on Gracie’s progress about every 6 months.  She was excited for the progress that Gracie has made.  She even got her to say Dadadadada in the office which floored me, [...]

We’ve tried to come do Balboa Park December Nights for several years now.  This was the first successful trip.  I’m pretty sure this had to do with the fact that we left the kids behind and made it into a date.  We also got shuttled in for free on a charter which was a nice traffic-less trip. [...]

This is our first year where we spent Christmas at our house.  The whole experience has just shoved me that much further into adulthood.  Cooking a Christmas ham, setting out milk and cookies for Santa – an onion for the reindeer(that’s right, I didn’t have any carrots), watching a Charlie Brown Christmas and so many [...]

Do you know what people do in a place that doesn’t get snow during Christmas?  Well now you do… Merry Christmas from sunny San Diego…wish you were here!

…or half way in the tree trying to decorate it.  I was pulling out boxes of ornaments, laying them all neatly in rows in the bay window.  I turn around to assess my children’s  progress on the tree and I see this.  Hudson was hiding as many ornaments as possible (when I wasn’t looking) on [...]