Andrew's grandfather celebrated his 80th birthday on May 2nd. He and his wife planned a lovely party for the following weekend, which was also Mother's Day weekend. We managed to fly out for the party, marking my first spring-time visit to Chicago and Andrew's first Mother's Day with his mom in many years! We had a great time, wish we could have ( Read more... )

For our weekend away during April, Andrew and I both had reasons to head north to the bay area. Andrew was attending a conference for Toptal, the company he works for now. I was helping out on a research project in Muir Woods. I had visited the park before to help set up the project in mid-March, but needed to conduct a small side-project over the ( Read more... )

I haven't been great at taking photos lately! I figure it's high time for a Roux update, so I took my camera over to hang out with Roux while her parents tried to get some housework done today. She's a busy girl, hard to keep up with her!


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I can't remember the last time I got to visit Havasu, so that means it's high time for a visit. My Spring Break happened to coincide with Easter this year, so Andrew and I decided to spend Easter weekend with the family. My parents were also able to make the trip! While I didn't take any photos, we had a really nice visit. Easter is way more fun ( Read more... )

I can't believe our little Roux is already a year old. Time really flies, and she has changed so much in the past year. It's been a real treasure to see her grow up. Even though I get to see her at least once a week, I usually feel like it's nowhere near enough! Suddenly she's walking and the last time I saw her she was barely standing on her own! ( Read more... )

We had the pleasure of hosting Andrew's grandparents for a weekend. They are in California for a couple weeks visiting family and friends along the coast. They haven't visited SLO since Andrew was in his early years of college, so probably at least 8 years ago! My parents were planning to visit for the weekend as well, so it was really nice to have ( Read more... )

Keeping up with our New Year's resolution, for February we set off for another weekend away. This time the dogs didn't join us, but my parents, Amanda, Mike, and Roux did come along! For my dad's Christmas present, we all chipped in to book an AirBnB in Monterey so we could all stay together and explore the city - mainly the aquarium! We lucked out ( Read more... )

Happy 2016! Andrew and I have a shared resolution for this year: take a vacation every month. Just a weekend away together somewhere, anywhere! For January, we traversed the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains towards Shaver Lake. Andrew hadn't gone snowboarding for a couple years and was excited to get back up to the closest ski resort to us called ( Read more... )

The holidays are way more fun now with a kid around to dote on. Though Roux was more enthralled with tissue paper than her gifts, we all loved watching her open gifts on Christmas morning! This year, my parents came for the whole long weekend. Andrew and I hosted them for Christmas Eve dinner while Mike & Amanda were celebrating with Mike's family ( Read more... )

Andrew and I didn't send out holiday cards this year, instead spreading Christmas wishes online. The resulting would-be holiday card is our nicest "family" photo yet! If only Mia was looking at the camera as nicely as Buddy is.

Happy Holidays, everyone!


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