Happy 9 Year Anniversary to Us!

Happy 9 Year Anniversary to Josh and I!   What a crazy ride it has been over these 9 years!

Love You!

Great, mellow day.  We're definitely most proud of these three amazing kids!

Summer Fun

The summer heat has meant lots of park, popsicles and swimsuits already for our family.

 

 

Jake has had a blast at Camp Galileo too.  Last week was National Park themed, while this week is all about space.  He's learned how to make a real camp lanyard (these were big in my family growing up!) and really cool science experiments like building a bear safe food container, building and testing the strength of a homemade bear claw, creating his own totem pole and other fun.

 

Happy Birthday Grandpa Bill

Happy Birthday today to Grandpa Bill!!  

It was lovely having our mini celebration with you this weekend.   We hope that you have a wonderful day today!  We love you.

Play Time With the Old Intel Friends

It was quite a reunion weekend.  On Saturday we fit in a fun park play date with 5 of us who used to work at Intel together back in the early 2000s.   Wonderful to see everyone, and crazy to imagine that once Lindsay's twins are born, there will be 5 of us who all worked together for a short 1 year period who ALL have twins.  

 

 

 

High School 20 Year Reunion

Just writing that title still seems so very, very strange.   How in the world can it be 20 years since I've graduated high school?  I'm still so happy with the decision that I made choosing Notre Dame, an all girls school, as my high school.  I became so much more confident and met so many amazing friends in my four years.  I was also super prepared for heading off to college given the large workload and advanced classes offered there.  The friendships were most definitely the absolute best part of school though.  Of our 100 person class, there was a tight group of 12 of us who really spent a lot of time together and leaned on each other.  Many of us stayed in close contact through college and even a few years afterwards, but the years have added up, and it has been many, many years since the majority of us have gotten together.  Our reunion was the perfect opportunity, so friends flew in from DC, drove down from Santa Rosa and up from LA just to experience it all together.  We had a really fun, mellow potluck just the smaller group of friends on Friday night to begin the weekend.  While it had been so many years, we all look and act nearly exactly the same, and we picked up just where we left off, talking for many, many hours.  The old yearbooks came out, along with pictures and journals, and recalling all of the fun high school days was just a blast.  Saturday was the more formal reunion back at Notre Dame, and nearly 50% of our class showed up (only about 20% of the class from the previous year was in attendance).  We had cocktail hour, and then dinner at one big long table in our old dining room.  Afterwards of course we had to head out to a bar, where karaoke and other shenanigans ensued.  I'm so thankful and excited to be reconnected with these amazing, confident, brilliant ladies again.  We refuse to let this much time pass again without getting together.  Love you NDB ladies!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to these GREAT dads!!!!

We Love You!

Had a fun day- woke up for present opening and lots of hugs for Dada.  As his favorite meal ever is breakfast, we headed out for an early breakfast, yumm.   Afterwards, our SuperDad requested that we drop him off far away from home, and he ran an amazing 9 miles home just for the fun of it!  While he was on his long run, the kids and I dropped in on my Dad for a brief celebration.  (My Mom found a sign that the kids made for my Dad two years ago with Tia Erica and had it hanging up which was super cute!)   Josh and Jake had a nice Father's Day dinner with Grandpa Bill last night.  Our afternoon was tennis time for Josh and Jake, and then a nice dinner while the Warriors played Game 7.   Happy Father's Day Josh!!  

 

Ice Cream Social

I signed up for throwing the Ice Cream Social for our twins group...bad planning as it feels like we just finished Jake's party, and the end of school, etc.  But oh well, now my party planning duty is done for a bit.  I hired one of our kid's favorite entertainers Andy Z to perform for our group, booked a great park in Belmont and bought a ton of ice cream.  Of course I got a little to into all of the details, and planned and made many games, scavenger hunts, craft activities as well.  A larger than expected showing of tiny twins showed up though, so boy did we have a lot of ice cream and craft supplies left over.   Good fun, and always nice to see 20 twin families together in one place.

Here are Colbie and Addy this morning trying on all of the sunglasses that we handed out today at the party: