happy birthday…

January 12, 2010
to me!

i had a fabulous birthday {week.}

…my girlfriends planned a double-birthday lunch for me, and another girlfriend {cynthia} who’s birthday was the end of december.

we dined at bajio’s. we both left with some serious good gifts! arms full of goodies. loved the food & girl time. thank you, besties.


my husband has this tradition, of NOT buying me what i ask for. he is very loyal to this tradition. so, for a long time now {5 years} i’ve been requesting to replace a certain chandelier in our kitchen. lately, i had actually saved a link to a drum-shade light i really liked on my desktop.

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soldier hollow tubing hill

December 30, 2009

we, and seventy of our friends spent the afternoon of myla’s birthday tubing! i feared we would all freeze to death, but even with fresh snow falling, it was not too cold. once we started tubing and pulling kids on tubes, we all kept warm! including the little kiddo’s, sela was a trooper and lasted the full two hours, never once complaining!

this is definitely the way to go tubing, the luxury of a tow-rope!
















{click on group photo to see larger}


after tubing,

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mr. and mrs. salas

December 27, 2009

this wedding was the highlight of our philippines trip last week. we were able to share in the beautiful celebration of lovella mercado & jeremy salas. lovella has been a dear friend of our family for years. dusty has known her and her family for about 15 years, and i have known her for about 13 years. She even lived with dusty, kiana, myla and i back when we lived in the philippines for six months in pro look’s early years. lovella and jeremy are childhood friends, but actually started dating while they were both nurses in london. dusty and i met jeremy in london when we took our 10th anniversary european trip almost 4 years ago.

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happy birthday, janette!

December 16, 2009
i have the best neighbor {and soccer defender} that any girl could ever hope, wish, or ask for…

and today i’m sending her the wishes~
to many many more happy, healthy, and beautiful years!

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