Roger

Roger
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Breaky in Carmel with chen-chen and roger

Breaky in Carmel with chen-chen and roger
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Daily kelly

Daily kelly
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John goofing around at breakfast at our hotel

John goofing around at breakfast at our hotel
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So as u can tell by now we decided last minute to come up to pacific grove and Monterey to get away. We're having a good time. Maybe chen-chen will come down and meet us for lunch!!!

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17 mile drive in pacific grove

17 mile drive in pacific grove
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Daily Kelly

Daily Kelly
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My little girl

My little girl
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Santa Baby
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Here she is our little Santa Baby.

Best things about Christmas (in no particular order)

0. Having Kelly here with us. There's nothing like Christmas with children and it's so wonderful to have our own.

1. Getting the family altogether on Christmas Day at our house. Everyone brought food and it turned out really nice. Neat if this turns out to be a new tradition.

2. Christmas Eve at Grammy's house. This is a tradition that we can't forget. The Craft exchange was fun -- everyone was so creative.

3. Christmas morning at my mom's house. The egg strata was delish and getting to be with Jim and Lindsay before they went to Manhattan Beach was great. They really loved being with Kelly too.

4. Seeing Jordy and Ian so excited to open presents. Seeing thme together and playing. Always a joy to watch them together.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!
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Hope everyone is enjoying time with family and friends.

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Merry Christmas

Hope everyone is having a great holiday spending time with family and friends.



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My dad was here this weekend. I finally figured out how to publish photos from my iphone. They are above. Kelly fell asleep in his arms right when we were eating breakfast. It was so cute.

Books and Movies
Just watched, After the Wedding. It's Danish and it's really good. Highly recommend adding this to your Netflix Queue. It's dramatic and takes you on a ride you aren't prepared for. Both me and John really liked it!! Any other movies you recommend to add to our queue?

I'm almost done with Eat, Pray, Love. It's really good. I think it was recommended by Oprah. It takes me forever to read a bood but this is a good one. It only took me 4 months with a new baby. Pretty good for me. Who else has read this? Thanks Melani for sending me this book!

Oh and here's a photo of my mom and Kelly!

Kelly at the Santa Barbara Xmas Parade -- Brrrr Cold!!!


Cuddling with Grandma Andrea


Family Time at Laura's


With Grandpa John


Playing on the floor with Gran Sandy


Daddy and Me time at home!

Good times lately. Kelly is doing well. We moved her to her own room a week ago so that she could sleep in her crib. It's been up and down. She's been waking up 2x a night for feeding and this is making Carey cranky. We are trying to stay consistent with the 7pm bedtime. It was tough to get her to bed tonight but she did go down at 7:30.

I still need to learn how to upload pix from my iPhone. So many cute ones lately.

My dad was here on Sunday and we had a really nice time with him. He loves Kelly. Seems like all the grandparents do. Naturally. :)

We also decorated Jim and Lindsay's Christmas tree in Pasadena last Saturday. It was fun. This was an annual tradition that we would do with Grandma Dorothy but of course she wasnt there. It was kind of sad. She used to love it so. Hopefully laughter of Kelly will fill that void in the future. We miss Grandma. Especially at Christmas.

Christmas is just around the corner. We will be having all the grandparents, Albie, Bob, Andrea and John and Sandy at our house as well as Laura here. Should be a good time. I feel like there is so much to do. I want our house to look beautiful.

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Who's listening to Christmas music? We sure are. Love this time of year!

New Patio

Also, if you didn't know we are getting our front porch redone. Gone are the ugly 1960s pillars. They were terrible. We are so lucky to get rid of those!!!!!!! Carey is so happy. It tooks the guys just 25 minutes to demo them. We had to agonize over 2 years about it and it was so easy for them. The porch will be all red brick with two wicker like ( I want the fake rubber wicker so they're easy to clean) chairs. A comfy cozy place to read and watch the trees. Can't wait. It should be done in a few days!

Hi All

Greetings from Santa Barbara! Kelly is sleeping on our bed. Shhh!!! I took a short nap with her there at 6:30 and she kept sleeping there. It's sooooooooooooo cute. She has her favorite blankie with her and the lights on. It's 9:30 now. We will have to move her when we want to go to bed. But we dont dare touch her b/c she looks so peaceful. I've never seen her ever sleep without being swaddled. Maybe this will be a new thing for her!

Kelly got her first two shots on Wednesday. Pneumonia and Menengitis (excuse the spelling). She cried but was ok after. She was all smiles today. I just love her so much. It's crazy.

Our Xmas tree is up now. So pretty! It's fresh smelling. John got it and picked out the lights and put them on too. I did the ornaments. Can't wait for others to see it!

Can't seem to keep up with the blog now that Kelly is more active. But I'll try. So many people have been asking me about it... I didnt really know that people actually read my musings! My computer is kind of slow. I need to learn how to post from my iPhone since I have it with me all the time. Uploading photos to blogger is slow. Need to figure out a better way.

Where to start -- Kelly is a joy. She was a hit at the 4th annual cookie party that we had on Sunday. All the usual suspects were there. You know who you are. :)

Kelly was a doll baby on Saturday night for my mom the baby sitter. She went down at 7pm and didnt cause my mom any troubles. We went to Donna's 40th surprise birthday party and were all dressed up in 1940's style. (Found the hat in Gramy's things. It was in perfect condition of course!!! All the costume jewelry that Ive been saving all these years finally came in handy!) There was dinner and dancing and lots of friends of ours there. The dancing was the best part for me. Donna was so surprised it was awesome.

Some other stuff -- some days it's amazing what a multi-tasking mom can get done in one day and what I know how to "re-frame". (I think work trained me for this. Especially working with all those men in the software industry!) Other days feel like I got worked over by a steam roller. If Kelly sleeps well, then we're pretty much golden and mommy and Kelly go out and exercise everyday and meet up with other mommies and babies. But if sleep has been bad, then you can pretty much kiss your brain goodbye for the day. Luckily she is asleep right now. She goes to bed at 7pm. Thank you God!!! John is out getting real live Xmas tree for us. Yippee!

Tomorrow is a big day. Drs appt for K. Pep for both of us. Lunch for Donna's official bday then off to help my mom with something. Xmas cards got ordered today. Probably need to decorate the tree tomorrow. I should be resting and reading my book "Eat, Pray, Love" which Melani got for me and I am really enjoying reading. It was on Oprah today and I missed it - bummed about that.

Also am getting my money's worth from Netflix. Saw "Holiday" with Cameron Diaz and would really recommend it as feel good, fun Xmas movie. Cheers all!!

Kelly is officially 3 months old today. We are so blessed and thankful to have her. Happy Thanksgiving to all btw!

Eric and Kelly

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John's friend Eric from Washington DC came to visit us last weekend. We had a great time with Eric and he got to know Kelly. The pictures of them were really cute. Eric and John went to Hearst Castle and up the coast as well.

PEP Comes to Our House

I really want to get in the habit of posting everyday so here goes.

Today we hosted the PEP group at our house. Basically all the new mommies and babies meet and get together. Here's a photo of all the babies. They are all basically the same age, born within days or weeks of each other.

Kelly Smiles on Camera

Big Weekend for Us

Last weekend was big. Grandma Dorothy's memorial was Saturday. It turned out really nice. I'm glad about that. I won't say too much else about that here.

We got to see John and Sandy in Long Beach and had some great meals there. John Sr. made my favorite roast beef dish I think he wanted to comfort me. It was very sweet. We got to spend some great time together.

The next day we spent celebrating Laura's birthday at our house with Andrea. Excellent zucchini lasagna she made BTW. She's off to Guatemala for a yoga retreat. She's always doing fun stuff like that.

Here are some recent pix in no particular order.

Sleeping Pumpkin

Sleeping Pumpkin
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Well, it looks like shes waking up here. This is Kelly all dressed up in her pumpkin costume my mom got her watching the parade. She'll wear this again for Halloween tomorrow night!

Kelly in the pumpkin patch

Kelly in the pumpkin patch
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Like I mentioned earlier, we went to the Lane Farms pumpking patch!

Kelly in the bassinet

Kelly in the basso!
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Some great pictures have happened lately. Here's her just chilling in the bassinet where she sleeps!

Halloween Eve

I haven't posted for awhile. I feel a little weird about it being happy about Kelly in between funerals. But I life has to go on...

Anyway, we had a terrific weekend with Kelly. Went to the Lane Farms pumpkin patch, carved a pumpkin with Ben and Maryann's family. Sunday we saw the Pep parade and dressed Kelly as pumpkin. Then went to another Pumpkin Carving party. We had fun!

Tomorrow night we'll dress little miss muffet up as a pumpkin again. Stay tuned for pix!

Kelly's My Angel

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This weekend was tough but we got to be with a lot of family and that was wonderful. I won't go into the details here since it's pretty private but suffice it to say that Grammy's Graveside Service was beautiful.

Last night, I realized that God sent me Kelly because we were to lose Grandma Dorothy and Grammy. Kelly was special to me but now she's even more special. John and I thank God we have her more than ever.

John and I went to Goleta pier today after having breakfast at the Beachside restaurant with my mom and our cousin Anne. We spent some time outside with our little doll and walked the entire length of the pier. It was great to get outside. We both agreed we want to eat better and exercise more. Our time together was really nice.