Archive for January, 2010

[photography] is my great little valentine

[photography] is my great little valentine

I am very excited to have some great resources for displaying and sharing your photography. Valentine’s Day is a fun time to give images of your family and kids to those you love. I have a couple of specials that will help you pull images together to share in a beautiful package. One is a [...]


[photography] is preschoolers: I just can’t get enough of them

[photography] is preschoolers: I just can't get enough of them

I love Merrik’s Preschool. I mean look at how much fun they have and all the cool things they get to do. I had no idea I would love Preschool so much.


[life] is sticking with what we know

[life] is sticking with what we know

After doing hours of research about the closest and most accessible places to reach the newly deposited piles of white stuff in the local mountains, we decided to stick close to town. Neither one of us really wanted to drive 4 hours to get to a place where the rest of Southern California was going [...]


[life] is inside

[life] is inside

It has been raining here all week which is an extremely rare occurrence. If we do get rain it’s usually for only a day or two. The week has been filled with lots of indoor activities that is starting to grow old. It just makes us all appreciate so much more than we already do [...]


[life] is manna from heaven

[life] is manna from heaven

I have been literally overwhelmed lately with the separate demands of Merrik and Maliea. I think I have just been trying to cruise on through this period of our discontent but finally realized that there is just too much for my body and brain to process. The week long experience of feeling seriously ill and [...]


[life] is bikes and beaches

[life] is bikes and beaches

Redundancy is prominent in our lives right now: watching and rewatching Curious George, Dinosaur Train, Polar Express and other movies; reading and rereading Meet Kai Lan and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Our other redundancy is the beach: bikes, swings ocean and sand. With it in our backyard it’s feels weird to not go. Later the [...]


[life] is boats, boards and beaches

[life] is boats, boards and beaches

We spent another gorgeous weekend in Coronado. Upon arrival we boarded the SV Pelican to go out in the bay for the annual New Year’s Day boat blessing ceremony coordinated by the Coronado Yacht Club. Boats circled Glorietta Bay until the Commodore headed out toward the Big Blue Bridge and boats fell in line behind. [...]