On Sunday of our trip we left San Diego and drove up to grandma and grandpa's house in the Sacramento area. I love going there to visit. It's always a relaxed time. 🙂 Aurelia loved getting lots of grandma and grandpa time and Daniel was excited to have some of grandma's cinnamon jumble cookies (they're … Continue reading California Trip: Part 2, Sacramento
One of our favorite things to do as a family is pick out new books from the thrift store. We have TONS of children's books and we bought most of them for $.25-.75. Board books are usually pretty expensive and Aurelia can't quite handle paper pages yet so it's nice to be able to get … Continue reading Thrift Store
I left my phone in California last week, so thankfully I ran into my friend Brittany when I was out taking Aurelia for our morning walk yesterday. Brittany had planned for the neighbor kids to have a tour of the fire station in our neighborhood! Daniel came home a little early from work so we … Continue reading Fire Station Friday
We had new family pictures done for our adoption profile and decorating our home. We had my friend/old roommate Victoria do our pictures again. Victoria has now taken our engagement, wedding and newborn pictures 🙂 She is reeeeeaaally good 🙂 Anyway, below are a few of my favorites from our session. ALSO, you should look … Continue reading Family Pictures
Last weekend was a busy one. Daniel came home from his business trip to Boston, some friends came to visit, and we had a big family dinner at my grandparents' house.First, Daniel's business trip. I don't even think it should be called a business trip. Yeah, there was a big conference type thing and he … Continue reading Friends, Family and Fenway
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