Say Cheese!

I'm so glad we did manage to grab a camera and take some pictures with everyone around. I think we've got a pretty good looking family!


The Spurgiesz Family

The Johnston Family

The Cotter Family

The Spurgiesz Family

The Perfect Pair

On the morning of our last day in San Diego the adults got to play The Perfect Pair game while Mom watched all the kids outside. The sad part was that even though I helped write the questions Justin and I came in last! We were the Newest Pair ,our prize was airheads. (notice the Pear trophies)

Nadia and Buck were the Bronze Pair ,their prize was snickers.

Scott and Melissa were the Silver Pair, their prize was Hot Tamales.

Oh, the Perfect Pair ! Tanya (pregnant with baby #3) and Brian won the title in a tie breaker, their prize was boxes and boxes of Nerds!

All the little people

These are the people that make it all worth while...the little people:)

Liam and Addison at the beach (cousins)

This was too funny. Aside from the Blues Clues shorts ( we left ours home this trip) Justin (26) and Joshie (3) have the same taste in clothes. Shorts, t-shirt, white socks pulled up to the shin, and of course skater shoes...it's a mini-me moment!

They may be small, but...

Jacob



... these kids are fast, confident, gravity defying, loud, smart, energetic, fearless, negotiating, multi-language speaking, hair pulling, constantly talking, always inventing and cool to be around!





Addison





Josh, Addi & Jake






My peeps!

Fun in the Sun

On our third day in San Diego we took a short hike to the beach. The hike was fun and the weather was nice and sunny. It didn't take long before Justin decided he needed to take a dip in the cold ocean, here's the frozen body surfer...

San Diego 2009

This is the sweet house we stayed in for a few days. It was a geat house with lots of space and even more fun toys than are pictured. It rock'd

Christmas @ the Rock House

Christmas is by far the most energetic morning around here. We spent this Christmas in Garland, Tx at our little apartment we like to call the "roach motel". ( for the invasions of rather large visitors that would ocur every once in a while ) We hated that place. There is nothing like being scared in your own living room, like you are always being watched and you don't know what is learking in the next room for you to find. Oh, it might have not been that bad, but you get the drift. Anyway, what is this article about? Oh yeah, Christmas with the roaches....Rocks. Whatever! We had alot of fun starting in October and it pretty much doesn't stop this until the end of January ( its not even 1999 ) ending with the 5days in San Diego ( Blog to follow ). October 8 Aniversary, Jeff got married later that month so we went to Salt Lake, November 19 Amanda's Birthday, Thanksgiving went to the Johnstons to have the bomb dinner ( Amanda's Sister whom we live by ), Christmas, moving our cans 20 min away from the roach motel = ], New Years, then January Reunion, ouch all that, then to come down with our old familiar Hawaian disease "lakamula" ( means no cash ) But Christmas is the most exciting of the months of parting. As you can tell from the pic we enjoy our sleep, but we enjoyed more the teasing of Amanda that is Chrismas morning and she should get out of bed and be happy. Maybe not the other days, but Christmas morning it happened. ("Don't awake the sleeping dragon" is this a quote by Joseph Smith or the rule around our house in the morning for Justin, you decide). Amanda got new PJ's, "good" lotions, and Kung Fu Panda, I got Season 1&2 of Psych, some old dirtbike photos framed, and a new work mug to prevent dehydration. The Johnstons came over for Christmas dinner and we had alot of fun.