UCSB Grad!

Extremely proud of you Kayla, way to go!

Happy Birthday Blaire!

Hans would like to wish his godfather a very happy birthday!  And thanks for the sweet SWAT team garb!

Mint anyone?

Gretchen, these are for you, look how well my Mint is doing?!!  I had Gretchen cut off some of her mint plant when we were in CA, not thinking that I would be able to get it through security first of all, not to mention getting it to grow!!  But it's doing great!  Notice the pic of Hans and I in the background! :)  That frame was his Christmas gift to me, he picked it out at the school "Christmas shopping" event, the kids get to shop through donations that parents bring in, everything costs between 25 cents and $4.  I'd say he did pretty good!

Gretchen and I also picked out these frames in CA for our 2008 Christmas in CA.  I took each kids' picture under Brian and Gretchen's palm tree in their front yard, unfortunately you can't see the tree, they even had huge Christmas ornaments in it!  And of course the kids are wearing their Christmas in CA tees!