A Little Miracle in Michigan!

I have a new niece!! Kate Lindberg was born this morning. From my brief conversations with her mother it seems that both are doing well!! I haven't talked to her daddy or her big sisters, but I'm sure that everyone is excited! I can't wait to see pictures, but have already heard that she is beautiful! I'm already getting impatient for the rest of the year to go by quickly so that I can see her. Linz and Charlie, Congratulations!! I love you all, give my three nieces big hugs and kisses...Uncle Alex says congrats and sends his love too!

Happy 30th, Tia Vane!!

Today is Tia Vane's 30th Birthday!! We hope she has a great day!!

Alicia and I have been a little lonely lately. Alex has been really busy with work and school, and we have been missing him. He made time to spend some quality time with us over the weekend. We took him to the park by our house where I have started taking Alicia. She was so excited to have her daddy take her down the twisty slide!! Then she went in the swing...she really likes to swing!
This is a picture from Grandma Linda's visit. We went for a walk out on the Huntington Beach pier.

Grandma Linda read Alicia a new book that she bought for her. Alicia loves the book and I have to keep it hidden so that she doesn't destroy it.
Every day that I have Alicia and Sienna we go on long walks. Here the girls are all ready to go. Alicia is full of energy and jumps around through most of the walk, and Sienna just lays back and chills while she checks out the scenery from her reclined seat.
I walked into the kitchen the other day to get a drink and left the girls in the living room with Sienna in a seat. When I came back about 30 seconds later, Alicia had decided that Sienna looked lonely and climbed right into the chair with her. They were both enjoying the vibrations!
Alicia was going to be a monkey, but she got this super cute bunny costume from Grandma Peggy...we had to try it on to make sure that it would fit and Alicia was tired and a little uncooperative, but still really cute!

Grandma Linda's Visit

We were very happy to have Grandma Linda come out to visit us last weekend. Her last two trips were basically spent in a single room, because she came the week I had Alicia and the week I got my wisdom teeth out. We were able to do a little more this visit and had a good time.
We took Alicia to a puppy store, and I'm pretty sure that she wants to get one...but she has to wait until we have a house and yard. (Sorry that all of these pics are so small, I entered them as large, but the site must be messing up right now, I even tried multiple times.) We took Bob and Linda down to Laguna Beach and walked around. It was the perfect day for it. Alicia enjoyed getting to spend some time with her grandma in her house. She was also very excited to swim in the pool at the hotel that Grandma and Grandpa stayed in.

Thanks for coming, Grandma! We had fun, and Alicia thinks about you every time she plays with her swimming giraffe and surfing monkey in the bathtub.

This is a random pic of our Santa Barbara trip that I don't think I included before.