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| From Our first home |
Friday, November 05, 2010
Progress on our house
I've been missing from the blog lately because all my time is focused on our home renovations. I will post some before and after photos later but I wanted to share this recent picture of our house. We took the big black screen off the front and it has really opened up the front of our house.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Riley loves our new house
Riley is enjoying having more room at our new house. He can run around the back yard and down the driveway at full speed! Our house is much larger than our last apartment so sometimes I can't find him, so I have to search through the back yard and in each room of the house. The other day I was calling his name with no response. I finally found him in the front of the house, quietly stalking something out the window. I assumed it was a cat (he loves to hunt the cats in our neighborhood!). I took a picture of him because I thought it was so sweet.
As I walked closer to him I saw the object of his affection. It wasn't a cat, but instead a stuffed animal in our neighbors front yard!
Look at those ears perked up. Poor thing, I felt bad laughing at him, but we had a great time making fun of our dog that night!
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| From Riley and friends |
As I walked closer to him I saw the object of his affection. It wasn't a cat, but instead a stuffed animal in our neighbors front yard!
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| From Riley and friends |
Look at those ears perked up. Poor thing, I felt bad laughing at him, but we had a great time making fun of our dog that night!
We are homeowners!
Sorry I've been gone for a while, my time has been filled with moving and remodeling! We are homeowners!
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| From New Album 7/9/10 4:19 PM |
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Pacific Grove and Monterey, California
A few weeks ago we drove to Pacific Grove, California to spend the weekend with our friends, Eddie and Jessica. I had never been to the Monterey area and a visit was long overdue.
We woke up one morning to a deer in the next door neighbor's back yard
I was of course obsessed with this deer and came to the conclusion that he must be hurt because why else would he stay in the next door neighbor's backyard when we were so close? I later saw him walking away with a limp:(
We took a drive down Highway 1 past Carmel
March 2010
July 2010
March 2010
Soda Lake dries up in the summer and leaves behind a crust of sodium sulfates and carbonates.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We woke up one morning to a deer in the next door neighbor's back yard
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
I was of course obsessed with this deer and came to the conclusion that he must be hurt because why else would he stay in the next door neighbor's backyard when we were so close? I later saw him walking away with a limp:(
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
Some of the charming houses of Pacific Grove
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We took a drive down Highway 1 past Carmel
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We kept driving south of Big Sur on Highway 1 to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park to see McWay Falls, a 80 foot waterfall on the beach
On the way back to LA we stopped at Pinnacles National Monument so that I could get another stamp on my National Parks Passport. The "pinnacles" are eroded leftovers of an extinct volcano.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
On the way back to LA we stopped at Pinnacles National Monument so that I could get another stamp on my National Parks Passport. The "pinnacles" are eroded leftovers of an extinct volcano.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We took backroads home through cow fields. Cows were grazing along the roads, not many cars come by here.
We stopped by Carrizo Plain National Monument to see what it looked like in the middle of summer. A very big contrast to what it looked like covered in wildflowers just two and a half months earlier
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
We stopped by Carrizo Plain National Monument to see what it looked like in the middle of summer. A very big contrast to what it looked like covered in wildflowers just two and a half months earlier
July 2010
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
March 2010
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| From Carrizo Plain National Monument |
July 2010
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
March 2010
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| From Carrizo Plain National Monument |
Soda Lake dries up in the summer and leaves behind a crust of sodium sulfates and carbonates.
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| From Pacific Grove with Eddie and Jessica July 4th weekend 2010 |
Sunday, August 01, 2010
St. Pete Beach, Florida
June began with a wedding in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Southerners love Florida. California natives don't seem to get it. I see why: they have to fly across the country when they can drive to the Pacific at most in a few hours. However, the water is SO different. The Pacific is COLD. The Atlantic is like bathwater!
That night we met up with the bride at the resort where the wedding was taking place, the Don Cesar.
The next night was the wedding. Several of my sorority sisters from college were in attendance that weekend. It was great to see everyone!
I am jumping for joy because I'm now mayor of this Waffle House on Four Square!
I grew up going to Ft. Lauderdale, which is on the Atlantic side of the state, but St. Pete Beach is on the Gulf side. The water is much more clear here and little to no waves.
I had to get another stamp on my National Parks Passport so we went to DeSoto National Monument. In May of 1539, Spaniard Hernando de Soto landed here and set off on the first extensive organized exploration of the southern United States.
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
That night we met up with the bride at the resort where the wedding was taking place, the Don Cesar.
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
The next night was the wedding. Several of my sorority sisters from college were in attendance that weekend. It was great to see everyone!
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
The bride and groom, Dr. and Dr. Gielow! They both just started their residency in Philadelphia!
LeeAnn has traveled the world, even snatching up a Spanish boyfriend, Ricardo!
What event would be complete without jumping pictures?
The next morning we went to Waffle House. I can't get enough of it!
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
LeeAnn has traveled the world, even snatching up a Spanish boyfriend, Ricardo!
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
What event would be complete without jumping pictures?
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
The next morning we went to Waffle House. I can't get enough of it!
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| From St. Pete Beach/Madison's wedding June 2010 |
I am jumping for joy because I'm now mayor of this Waffle House on Four Square!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
San Francisco Bay area--my favorite!
We spent the weekend in the San Francisco Bay area a few weeks ago. It is so beautiful up there! Chris and I stayed in the city of Tiburon in Marin County.
Paradise Beach Park looking out at the San Francisco Bay:
We had fun at a wedding in Sonoma on Saturday night
On Sunday our friends Eddie and Jessica came from Manteca to meet us and we drove to Point Reyes National Seashore so I could get another stamp on my National Park Passport!
We had beautiful views on our hike to the lighthouse
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
The Lyford House in Tiburon. This beautiful home sits on the Richardson Bay Audobon Center's land. The Lyford house was not built here, but sent over on a barge from another part of the bay.
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
We had fun at a wedding in Sonoma on Saturday night
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
On Sunday our friends Eddie and Jessica came from Manteca to meet us and we drove to Point Reyes National Seashore so I could get another stamp on my National Park Passport!
This beautiful ship is located behind a general store in Inverness, California
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
We had beautiful views on our hike to the lighthouse
I love lighthouses and was able to mark another off my list: The Point Reyes lighthouse
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
This was in the living quarters for the former keepers of the lighthouse
The next day was Memorial Day so we drove to The Presidio in San Francisco. American Flags were everywhere!
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
The next day was Memorial Day so we drove to The Presidio in San Francisco. American Flags were everywhere!
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| From San Francisco Memorial Day weekend 2010 |
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tennessee in May
| Chris and I went to Tennessee for the weekend at the beginning of May. Chris asked why Lebanon was called "The Cedar City", so I showed him. This is Cedar Forest State Park. Shana and I went camping here as little girls many times. Lebanon has a lot of wild cedar trees, hence "Cedar City".  |
| From Tennessee 5/23/10 |
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| From Tennessee 5/23/10 |
I got to meet Violet at 2 weeks old. She was tiny!
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| From Tennessee 5/23/10 |
Violet and Margie, future best friends and now neighbors. Pictures like this will surely be shown at their wedding
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| From Tennessee 5/23/10 |
The whole group
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| From Tennessee 5/23/10 |
Lunch on the patio in Lebanon with the family
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| From Tennessee 5/23/10 |
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