Six Swingers in Sunny San Diego

Here we are at the park on Wed. with our friends from church.
This is the best photo I could get of all 6 of the little kids on the swings.
All of them are ranging from age 9 months - almost 4 years!

Aubrey and Levi are Sally's friends

This is Sally's favorite thing to do at this park

Sally and her first friend Malia - one year later!

Then....

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From Scripps Aquarium

This is just the cutest thing ever! We all went to the Scripps Aquarium today with the girls and everyone got along so well. It was the first time that Kamaya (Malia's Mommy) and I got to see the girls truly interacting with each other.

Our 2nd big girl - Miss Sally

Here is Sally today with Raimee (our friend from the Bay Area)
and down below from earlier this AM helping Daddy plant some
flowers in our backyard. She was getting dirty and having lots
of fun stomping around in Mary's old froggie boots.

This is a clip of her trying not to fall in the boots that are about 2 sizes too big. My girl has some small feet for her age (comparing her to Mary at 20 months).

Mary's FIRST haircut!

The stylist was a little worried that Mary was not liking the haircut experience
because she had been so quiet and serious looking the whole time.

I told her to smile! Her haircut was really only to even out
hair that had NEVER been cut and was just growing since birth!
She still has her curls on the ends and it actually sprang up a little more with the trim.

HELLO? We're alive! I swear!

Hi -
I recently sent out an "invitation" to you all asking you to type in your name and email address. I think it is confusing and asks you to enter in your "GOOGLE" email. If you dont have one, it should not matter.

For now I am going to make this open again so that you all know we are alive and well. I realized that I have not posted anything since the snow day in February.

Our camera and computer have been giving us trouble too.

I will be sure to update soon with some photos and hopefully some videos!!

Taking the City Slickers to the Snow

Here she is... just getting started and then she falls.
I am laughing while taking this... she was not.

Again.. we JUST got here. We drove 1hour and 15 minutes.
She is not happy.

Jason could not get Mary to go on the sled but one time with him
because she was too cold. Here he is with Sally coming down.

Here we are! I am having fun and Sally is still not.

I had a great time despite my totally inappropriate choice of footwear,
gloves and pants.. I LOVED this! :)

This is up in the Laguna Mtns. You can see Jason's truck parked along the side

Wants to get out of here

20 minutes after we get to the Mtn. we are back in the car.
Clearly they are much happier now.
We are going to try this again when they are older and when
it is not sleeting on us.... :) (or whatever)

Happy Valentines Day!

Here is Mary - so excited to be out on her Valentines Day
yogurt date with Mommy and Daddy

She is figured out that if she hams it up I will take her photo

Sally is sharing with Daddy

This is her always keeping one eye on Mary to make sure
that her yogurt does not get swiped

Our messy gal

Now over to Mommy to eat some of her yogurt...

... but because I am a "big girl" I have to do it myself and take
it from the spoon. Mom better not try to feed me.

The San Diego Beach Bunnies in January - ha, ha

So - while the rest of the nation was freezing during the tail end of January, we went to the airport to pick up Jason (Tokyo) had some dinner and then went on over to La Jolla Shores. It was a little bit cooler during the sunset so we put them in their jackets. Jason thinks that Mary is little Miss San Diego in her fleece and flip flops.

These girls just dont know how good they have it!!




Pretty Mary







Mr. Reliable!

Mr. Thomas goes to Tokyo

Here are some photos of when Jason went to Tokyo in January on a business trip with Huawei. They have an office over there and he met up with some clients from the US.





This is one of MANY strange "Chin-grish" t-shirts that Jason saw over there.





More random t-shirt words... I think that they think that wearing really cool graphic tee's with nonsensical English on it looks cool. Probably how I think that my Gap tank with a Chinese symbol on it (that I dont know what it means) is cool and urban esque.









Jason did get a video of a random Asian dude riding this. Imagine a bull-ride. Maybe it is good for the hips? ;)




10% of the population over in Tokyo was wearing a little mask.



This is wear you poop. No kidding. J did not poop here, but I asked him if he saw any of these after I checked out this link - http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AD8Y-HYS/movie.htm Click on “next” to learn how to use.







This video is AWESOME and Jason took one with his camera, but the YOUTUBE footage is way more crazy. Check it out. This really happens.

Mary goes skiing for the first time!!!

Jason was able to create these finely crafted skiis for Mary so that she could hit the slopes sometime this winter.




This is some quality piece of work you are looking at here.


If you would like to have Jason make some skiis or snowboards for your family just email us directly and we will put them in an envelope for you. HURRY ACT NOW!!

Welcome baby Jack Ryan!

We finally got to meet baby Jack on New Years - he was 19 days old and is a very easy baby! Of course there are some rough nights here and there, but he has already gained 14 oz and grown about 1 1/2 inches! Jen and Chris are elated with him and we think he is pretty cool too :)