Saturday, February 12, 2011

For the Naked Baby Lovers

Saul orchestrated this photo session, which I'm sure the naked baby lovers out there will appreciate. He thought it was SO funny! He went around the house laughing for about 20 minutes. Enjoy!



Naked Baby coming at ya!
Supermodel pose

Saul's 34th Birthday

Saul turned the big 34 on January 11th. After this, only mid to late thirties. Yikes! We had a cake and a little party with the Zims.


Saul turned the big 34. After this, only mid to late thirties. Yikes! We had a cake and a little party.

Christmas Day 2010

Christmas Day we waited upstairs until the appointed time to go down and see what Santa brought us. The kids played with blocks...
and they also played with anything else they could get their hands on.




Santa really outdid himself on the Christmas PJs for the boys this year. Super cute!

The PJs for the girls were cute too!


Waiting to go down and see the loot!

Andreas loved his See n' Say with the animal sounds
And Mom loved her ornaments
The aftermath...
Erika got some hats from Disneyland to put in stockings. They were really fun!
Stockings galore
More of the hats


Kid Mayhem 2010

For anyone that remembers this Christmas fondly, these pictures are to remind us of the mayhem that ensued. Here are the kids all playing together:

Does this sound familiar: "Hey! No playing with the firewood stuff!"
But they are so cute, how can you stay mad?

One happy moment captured



They were all so cute together though. Even when it sometimes drives us to the brink of insanity, it's fun to get the cousins together!

Texas Christmas 2010

This year we ended up having Texas Christmas Day before Texas Christmas Eve. It also seemed to come very fast since we were leaving so early for California.

Gotta love that "just woke up" look:
Santa brought a new couch for Andreas -- he loved it!




Then we went to Sam and Tiffany's house for Christmas Eve and had a great time. Here are the kids getting excited for presents!
I'm not sure what was happening here, and sorry the picture is fuzzy, but I think Zoe had the ornament entirely in her mouth.


Dad's 60th Birthday

For Dad's 60th Birthday we all drove down to Mill Valley to visit his childhood homes. The first stop was this little house:



The people that lived there were so nice. They saw us milling around in front of their house, but I guess with all the kids figured we weren't too dangerous, so they came out and turned on all of their lights and inflatable Christmas decorations for us. Didn't even ask us if we were planning an attack of any kind.
Here is Dad's high school
It was very well kept up for a school that has been there for so long. We were able to walk around and look at some of the buildings
The auto shop, but in my dad's day was an electronics class (I think).
The outdoor amphitheater

Then we went to the other house my dad lived in as a kid

We think this was the same fence my dad helped put up.




We all really enjoyed the day. We even finished up at Marin Joe's (a place where my dad and his family used to eat) and had some amazing minestrone soup. Happy Birthday Dad!