Long Time, No Blog

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My apologies for the non-posting as of late.  Life has been busy. :)

Matt and I had Veteran's Day off from work so we took Lily up to Santa Barbara and spent an awesome weekend with Maryte & Oskar, reliving our college glory days and showing Lily our old haunts.
Daddy & Lily in front of Stork Tower.

Lils experiencing the joy that is Woodstock's.  She was very proud, telling people that she "eat pineapple pizza."

Lils looking out at the same vista point where I was back in 1999 when I visited UCSB and immediately decided to attend.

The view isn't bad, huh?

My dorm senior year of school.

My dorm freshman year!  Maryte's room is on the right and mine is on the left.

Lily's on-the-go nap.

It was raining so the zoo was out but it forced us to visit the SB Museum of Natural History, where Lily explored this model cave for about 45 minutes.  She kept saying "I'm gonna touch things."

We also took a rainy hike in the museum backyard.

We met up with M & O at the Palace off State Street.  Lils was very into cheers-ing.

On campus with our babies.

10 years later, Matt is meeting a different kind of co-ed at the UCEN.

Gaucho and Lily staring down some big koi fish.

The view from Del Playa.

The reverse view from Del Playa.
Thanksgiving was fun but we missed Matt's family!  

Lily loves Christmas trees!

She's so into baby dolls lately.  She always wants to "play babies" and today told us that "baby has a big brother."  She's so sweet with her dolls.

Mom & Brian tackling all 20 pounds of turkey.

Brian, Caren, Tom, Me, Lily & Matt.  No, I'm not pregnant again but was just apparently wearing a super unflattering blouse... good to know for future reference.

Reading with Uncle Brian.

Coloring with Grandpa.

Pretending to be a Rockette while watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Setting up the tree yesterday.

I was just as excited to set up the tree as Lily was but only one of us ran around the apartment dancing and yelling "Christmas tree!"

So you'll notice that Lils is wearing shorts.  Yup, it was 80* yesterday while we set up our Christmas tree.

My first Christmas baked good.

Lily liked it!

Reading a book before bed.

Brian, Me, Lily & Matt right before little miss crazy Christmas had to go to bed.

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