2nd Try

Well, I tried this a while ago and my computer crashed. So...here we go again. As I've said before, I want to give this a try to keep our friends and family in the loop of our crazy lives. I'm absolutely horrible at sending updated pictures of the kids and Mark can't stand to make a phone call so we thought this would be great. Hopefully you'll enjoy it and will come back often to check it out.


I wanted to start off with a couple of things we've done so far this year. Me, being the terrified traveler that I am, have gone on 3 trips. This is huge considering I haven't traveled in 7 years since my honeymoon. But this year so many things came about that I've ended up in Chicago, Hawaii and Princeton, NJ. All were so much fun in there own way and I survived each one so it made it that much better! In May we went to Chicago for Mark's work. It was the National Restaurant Association Food Show. It was a great time and such a beautiful city. I never thought of that as a place to go and visit but I can't wait to go back. Here is Mark and I next to our favorite watering hole The Red Fish or as we called it Pescado Rojo. We got to go with Jen and Christophe and a few of Mark's other co-workers who made the trip that much better. Thanks to Grandma Ann for watching the kids for this little get away.


In June, my mom and Art invited us to go with them to Hawaii and use their time share. This was our first family vacation so we jumped at the opportunity and had the BEST time. Randy was able to come along for a few days and we packed it in with snorkeling, hiking, outriggers, swimming, eating and doing what the normal tourists do. Peyton couldn't get enough of it and even climbed to the top of Diamond Head faster than the rest of us. Drew was happy being pushed around in her stroller and getting treats when she couldn't participate in the things everyone else got to do. Notice the snow cone below. These are just 2 pics of the kids on the beach our last day. We stayed there for hours not wanting to think about coming back to the HOT, SWELTERING desert. The last pic is of Mark and Peyton catching rain drops on the only day it rained. I guess the desert drought followed us across the pacific.



Just a few weeks ago I went to Princeton, NJ for a Merrill Lynch training session. It was a really good time and Princeton is a beautiful city. Everyone has so much land and the houses are all made out of brick and have basements. There aren't any fences around your propertly line which was weird at first but then I remembered we didn't have that in Tehachapi either.