Day 57

Sophia helped me make dinner.


A big "flamily" pile on Daddy!

Day 52

Crazy Uncle Philip. :)

Oops! What happened?
Sophia, Maya, Molly, Gavin, and Ben!
Watching gliders off the La Jolla coast.
Keeping each other warm!
Pop-Pop Dennis and Ben at the La Jolla aquarium.
Dancing in the rain!

Day 51

Alberto and Sophia at Stephanie and Mike's post-wedding party.

My sister, brother, and me!

Philip, Crystal, and Gavin.

Elga and Popo.

Dad and Fran.
Mom and Jon.

Stephanie, Mike, and Molly with their cake...and Sophia popping out behind them to smile. ;)

Day 46

Day 44

74 degrees and perfect outside today. :) We had a picnic at Irvine Park.



Our adventuresome little Maya.

Day 32

The USS Los Angeles is docked at a pier at the Port of Los Angeles for its decommissioning ceremony.

Alberto is sitting in one of four bow torpedo tubes. These tubes can fire either Mark 48 Torpedos or Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.


USS Los Angeles (SSN 688) Fast-Attack Submarine.

Day 29

Alberto helped Maya look at the moon. It was the brightest moon of 2010!

Day 28

Alberto was out flying with the US Coast Guard over the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach today. One of the few things that I have actually done before Alberto was fly in a helicopter, so I had fun teasing him that he finally caught up to me. ;)




That is not Alberto coming out of the helicopter. LOL!

Port of Los Angeles, Long Beach. You can see the snow covered mountain in the top right (behind the smog).

Day 23

Ben was trying to take his own photograph. :)

We thought going to the park -- following a week of heavy rain -- would be a great idea. We didn't think about the ground being soaking wet still. Sophia thought the mud was funny. Maya blamed the mud on Sophia. ;)

Sophia calls these things "Monkey Guts". I think she's silly.
This is the expression that Alberto makes when he thinks I'm being a dork. LOL. I'm sure he'll make this same expression when he sees that I posted this on my blog. LOLOLOL!

Day 15

The photo doesn't show how funny the moment was, but Ben was trying to climb the bookshelf. Sometimes when the kids won't listen to me, I point to my nose and tell them to look at me, to get their focus away from whatever they are doing. I was telling Ben that babies don't climb on bookshelves and Maya told me she would do it. She started telling Ben "Look at me, Ben. Look at me." It worked, because he sat down and looked at her like she was crazy. :)

Piled on Daddy. :)

Day 10

For Daddy's first day home from Qatar, the girls set their play table and served him nacatamales for lunch. He then taught them that the proper way to drink soda out of a teacup was to put your pinky finger out. ;)
I don't know what his rush was, but Ben grabbed some paper from his sisters, ran away, and quickly tried to eat it.