more hawaii favorites
My favorite family photo is one of us up on The Pali. It was crazy windy up there and just about lifted Merrik off the ground. This is a collage of images from Waikiki, happy hour at The Royal Hawaiian hotel, the Hawaiian Railroad, the North Shore and our octagon house.
sea monsters
We all went to the tidepools at Dana Point headlands on Sunday. It was a great day to get out of the house after catching up on sleep, housekeeping, business and train play (Merrik missed his trains in Hawaii). Merrik had a great time climbing on all the boulders and wanted to climb to the [...]
somewhere over the rainbow
We found our pot of gold at the North Shore. After a few days of surf and sail in Waikiki we discovered the best hideaway possible: a perfectly placed octagon shaped house not quite a mile down the beach from Pipeline. With the most beautiful beach and shoreline just outside our window, we settled in [...]
aloha oe
We’re leaving for Oahu tomorrow so I thought I’d post some past images I took when we lived there. We will be staying in Waikiki-it’s is a weird experience to go back as a tourist-and on the North Shore. I am so excited to experience staying on the North Shore and can’t wait to do [...]
superbowl sunday
Merrik is so into the ocean right now that we took him and Maliea to the beach on Superbowl Sunday because the weather had been so nice. He was excited to try out the surfboard and has been learning how to bodysurf and go under the waves safely. Maliea is just as enthusiastic about the [...]
happy holidays!
Wishing all of you happy holidays and best wishes for abundance and joy in the new year. -jim, kristianne, merrik and maliea
snowbound
We just returned from a trip to Portland to visit Jim’s niece, Holley and nephew, Cameron. Merrik had a blast playing with Cameron and even named the little boy in The Polar Express after him. Here are a few images of our snowed-in day at the Larkspur Riverplace Hotel and one image of the drive [...]
gap: big gap in posts
Here is last weekends post. We went to Encinitas for our six year anniversary. It was not exactly the most relaxing weekend on record. It took us 2 hotels and 4 restaurants to finally settle on either. Mostly due to last minute planning and high expectations. We ended up at the Best Western at Moonlight [...]
gap: escape
We escaped to Palm Desert to put the lonely nights off until now. Get ready for images of the Children’s Discovery Museum, Living Desert, Marriott Palm Desert views, Palm Springs Aerial Tram and dinosaurs at Cabazon…
gap: remembering summers past
As if I don’t have enough images of this summer, I decided to pull out a few of summers past-before Maliea-to recall the fun we had with Merrik when he was 4 months (at Cottons), 1 year (surfing in Hawaii) and 2 years (at Two Harbors with Gramma and Grampa on Pelican).
gap: picmic at the harbor
On Saturday we had a picnic (Merrik says ‘picmic’) at the harbor. We packed up some grilling stuff and headed down to the tables in front of the Dana Point Yacht Club entrance. It was absolutely beautiful and we got there right when most of the day sailors were coming back in from their jaunts. [...]
gap: baby pool
We went to Aunt Cindy and Uncle Greg’s for dinner and a dip in the baby pool Sunday night. It was as fun as always. We are so lucky to have all our family so close. Merrik and Maliea are the luckiest kids alive to have such an awesome extended family. I am bummed I [...]
gap: beach and bay
for those of you patiently awaiting the movie from labor day weekend, I give you images from other devoted family photographers (kinda cool cuz I’m actually in some of the shots!):
thought: beach and bay
We had a fabulous weekend in Coronado. It all started Friday afternoon when Merrik, Maliea and I took the Amtrak out of San Juan Capistrano. We rode the 5:23pm train and it was standing room only! Unbelievable. I’ve never seen so many people having so much fun trying to get to their destination. No traffic, [...]
gap: family
We made the drive to Monrovia yesterday to see family. It was for Nina and Michael’s baby shower and pool party. It was a beautiful day there. Even though it’s always difficult to leave San Clemente both mentally and physically (traffic is the worst on weekends!), it is always nice to visit with family. I [...]
gap: walking with dinosaurs
We went to see Walking with Dinosaurs last night. It was amazing and Merrik was mesmerized!
gap: grieving a loss
I am so sad. I ejected the camera card for the point and shoot so Merrik could take some new pics thinking that I had already transferred the images from our Disneyland trip but I had not. I formatted the card and the images are gone. Cute pictures of Merrik on Dad’s shoulders, a photo [...]
gap: jim’s new toy
I bought Jim a cool new camera for his birthday: the Olympus waterproof/shockproof point and shoot. It’s perfect for our lifestyle: boating, swimming, beaching etc. I figured Merrik could use it too since he can toss it around and it will survive. It’s technically for Jim’s surf trip to Fiji in October but we will [...]
thought: the new, more personal and immediate way to correspond
My new friend Natalae just started her first blog. She is the mom I just met whose adorable son, Armand, jives with Merrik. I am so excited to now read about another mom’s daily adventures. I wish everyone I know would do this so I could keep up to date with them. It makes me [...]
