Destination | Palm Springs

Letting the pictures speak for themselves.  ;)

A is for Aiken.

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, HORSES! and glamour donkey

We met up with the East Coast side of our family for Christmas down in South Carolina.  Aiken, SC to be exact. After a plane ride, airport train (they count!), and car ride, we made it to Granny & Gramps' house.  One special part of the trip for our kids was seeing the HORSES! Getting to ride on the HORSES!  That's how they refer to them now.  It's not like, "isn't it cool that granny rides horses?" It's more like "GRANNYS HORSES! I WANT TO RIDE THE HORSES! and also, LETS DECORATE HER DONKEY!(I'll get to that part)". It was fun for me to capture the equine adventures.  Horses are just so darn photogenic.

Our eldest, had a very specific request to DECORATE THE DONKEY!  Granny being the kind soul that she is humored the child and let her decorate. the. donkey.  No animals were harmed during the process.  At least, not permanently.  Feast your eyes on glamour donkey!

2009

H&G. Hello 2010 & Goodbye 2009. The year in review, as seen through the trusty iphone.

Horse (ing) Around

Down by the Bay

Sun, Sand and Many, Many, Steps

This summer we were so lucky to spend time with our extended East Coast family.  We went to the grocery store, to the park, and on numerous coffee runs, and of course we spent a good chunk of time at the beautiful beach in San Diego.  Except, for some reason we chose the beach with five hundred trillion million steps.  And I'm not even exaggerating.  But the steps were our exercise for the day and they earned us the right to eat our s'mores happily.  

The kids loved spending time with their East Coast Granny and Gramps.

Climbing around with cousin Seabass, who had gotten so much taller since we'd last seen him!

Here he is snuggling up with Uncle Steve, who celebrated his birthday on the trip.  This was great, because it meant CAKE! :)

Oh and we got to spend some time with Zoya, isn't she great?  She's quite an impressive one, that much is clear.

...and here's the whole lot of us, after a week of soaking in some good family times.