More on Gavin's first Birthday!

Michaela in a sunny spot!
A tired Gavin in his new beanie & his tie..

Mr Happy boy!

What a wonderful weekend! it was hard to come home!

Gavins first Birthday!

It happened so fast! the year was gone in a flash! Now my sweet grandson is One Year Old!

So many milestones in such a short time -from tiny baby only awake for moments at a time - to a busy little boy on the move every minute!

Brandi posted some really cute pictures - so here is a video of Gavin and his very First Birthday Cake!

This sleepy little boy was just on his way to bed!!

He had a big day with GramaShell!

Ryan's 30th Birthday!!

My baby is 30!!

Happy Birthday Ryan!

We had a fun dinner and a great time playing wth Gavin - who really is the star of every gathering (sorry Ryan).

Gavino is WALKING! Everywhere!

Here are a few pics. The kids are all off snowboarding in Big Bear so I get Gavin all to myself!

I tried to upload a couple of cute movies, but they kept failing for some reason...

Summer - then Fall - at the Harbor this Weekend!

We had a wonderful weekend at the Harbor!

We spent Friday happy hour with Janell and David, then Saturday we left for the harbor early -because it was already 90 in Thousand Oaks by 10:00 am.!

It was almost 80 degrees on the dock in Channel Islands on Saturday! Gorgeous day, we lounged around all morning then went to brunch at the club with F dock buddies.

Saturday night dinner on another F-dock boat -then a Harbor cruise via electric boat to cap off the evening!

Today dawned dark and ominous to the north, with bright sun shining through the clouds to the south. I just could not get enough of this sky! I took a few pics , which of course do not do it justice. It was beautiful -and really a wonderful relaxing weekend!

View from the boat this morning
Looking across from the boat to the Yacht Club. Look at that sky!


From the Boat back up under the bridge

More pretty views from our dock!

More adorable Gavin Pictures!

I am the Grandma and here are just some adorable pics of Gavin!!

Here are Gavin and Papa playing video games

Gavin in his cute red jacket
Boy in a box!

Gavin played in this box for about 20 minutes!

Home Sweet Home!!

Home again, home again! But here are a few fun pics from our trip. Ther are so many it's hard to choose!

This is our street in Baden-Baden! Our hotel room looked down on the little cafe's on the main street through this wonderful little town (where incidentally -my GGGG Grandparents were from!) it hasn't changed much according to the local folks we talked to! We were there the weekend of their yearly music festival! It was so much fun and entirely on accident on our part, so we joined the fun and partied in the street with the locals!

I took this pic for Brandi's collection (hahaha) This is a fountain at the Mirabelle Palace near Salzburg. But did not notice at first the near naked homeless guy picking the coins up off the bottom of the fountain - eeek!

This is a spiral staircase in the Abbey at Melk. The whole place was really amazing (though the tour itself was crappy) They have a book there that is over 1000 years old!

This was taken in Salzburg at one of the many, many fountains. The horse murals behind me are hundreds of years old!

Home at last and it feels good to be here!!

Vacation is great but what a wonderful feeling to walk back into your own home!
Thanks so much to Ryan and Adrienne who took wonderful care of the house and the puppers for us!! I can't tell everything we did and I still don't know what to say about Vienna! The buildings -the history-the fountains and statues - everywhere! It's all so beautiful, and noisy and busy and people everywhere. But it feels somehow safe and not rushed or really crowded. The city just has some kind of feel about it that I can't explain.

For instance, you buy a ticket for the bus or the U or the train - but no one ever takes your ticket or looks at it. The whole 4 days we were there....

This is at the gate from the Palace gardens at Schonbrunn ( the Hofburg family's Summer place!)

Here is a lttle video from Oktoberfest where we had a wonderful time and sang and danced on the table like the Germans do!

More Germany and Austria!

This is Us in front of the Mansion where parts of The Sound of music were filmed. Gorgeous home on a lake in a gorgeous area!

We are having a fabulous time and everything is so incredibly beautiful!!

We love the trains here- so fast and easy-not to mention clean!

We`'ve had some fun with English/German lessons as hardly anyone in Begtesgarten Spoke English at all!

We arrived in vienna today -i cant express how amazing it is..words fail..

The buildings and the archtitecture...!

I have not taken any pics here yet.

Here is a pic of the Fabulous Castle in Salzburg. One of the mightiest fortresses in all of Europe, it was never taken by force since 1100 ad! It was wisely surrendered only to Napoleon!

The is taken from the trail walking up to our wonderful B&B in Bad Rachenhall.

Such a gorgeous place on a little lake!

Love you all and cant wait to show you all of our pictures!

We are staying in Vienna 4 days - in a teensy little place off of an alley in the heart of old Vienna!

Germany!

We are here safe and sound and not even too tired! It was touch and go a few times getting onour flights - standby is a little scary. Made it on the LA -Frankfurt flight by the skin of our teeth and Ric being so charming! Then first class to Frankfurt! WOW- now we know how the rich folks travel! We are staying the next few days in A lovely resort outside of Badreichenhall. near a little daarling lake and a billion trees -just at the begining of the Austrian Alps. Gorgeous!
The computer at this place wont let me upload pics or go on Facebook so you have to wait for pics. We are really glad we learned a tiny bit of german before leaving! Hardly anyone speaks more than a word or two of english and they are as nervous about it as we are German!
Having a really fun time pracxticing tho and everyone has been so nice. Got caught in a thunder and lightning storm this afternoon and were glad of the rain jackets and umbrella we through into the backpack!
Salyburg tomorrow and Eagles nest and whatever we feel like!
Love You all!!

See Yaaaa!!!

We're Gone!!!

Moving Time for Brandi & Anthony!

I made a quick trip to Sac this past weekend and wound up helping Brandi and Anthony move. Ant was supposed to have to work but wound up being off so we just did it!

It was a little disorganized of course, but everything went really well.

The house is big and wonderful and has enough room for anything you'd ever like to do!

I also got to spend a little time with Lacey and Dan and Dakota - and Emma, who is absolutely adorable. She and The Doter are going to be best of buddies I can tell already!

Here is little Emma. Not going to be quite so little when she's all grown up, but she may not be a very big German Shepherd. (except for the ears, lol!)

Here's Gavin while I was lining the cupboards. He has no trouble entertaining himself! Here he was sliding this big drawer all over the floor.

Gavin was his very adorable self this weekend and handled the stress of the move really well! he's climbing up on everything so you really haveto watch him now !



..very busy helping Mama put everything back in the fridge

Mama & Ric! Nine Years of Married Bliss!

It Seems amazing - but as of the 5th of August, Ric and I have been married for Nine years!

Ryan and Adrienne came over and celebrated with us and shared a glass of champagne and appetizers -then we went to one of our favorite places for dinner- - Mo'Z Buddah Bar.

We had a great dinner and really enjoyed our anniversary!

Oh - and Happy 1st Anniversary to Cindy and Andy!

Such a Cool place!! Very Romantic!

Ric and Mama Michelle!

Catalina Cruisin'

Well We're home from Catalina and back to the real world!

It was such a great trip and we were so happy that so much of the family was able to join us!
For those of you who were unable to make it - well, there's always next year!
We swam and ate and drank lots of beer! Caught a few fish and hung out on the beach! It was gorgeous and warm every day -the perfect Island getaway!

Ryan and Adrienne, Brandi and Gavin, Lacey and Dan, Tyler, Toni, Miles, Amelia and Felix. Thank you all for sharing this wonderful vacation with us!!

Summer Fun in Fair oaks!

So I went up to Fair Oaks to surprise Lacey and Dan for the housewarming/engagement party, and I think they were surprised when Lace came to the dooor and Montana and Custer bounded in! Ric was over at Santa Cuz Island with Brett, doing a Ham Radio Field Day (yeah - ask him..)We had a great time hanging out with family and playing in the river - and Brandi found her house!!

CONGRATULATIONS LACEY AND DAN!

4th of July 2009!!!

We had a great time at the Harbor for the 4th!

Ryan and Adrienne came down and we ate, drank, Kayak'd, swam and toured the Channel!

There was a pretty good Fireworks display from the bow of the boat too! I did not get a picture of all of us, but Ric and I were really there!

We had a great time and the weather was really nice -wish you all could have joined us!

More Wedding Week!

The Gang at Pizza Kitchen

hard to know what fun pictures to post! So many pictures...so little time!

So here is another smattering of pics so you can see some of what we were up to..I'm waiting on the remodel pics so I can show the whole before and after. (may be awhile, lol)

Ric and Cussie at the Softball game

Adrienne...Need I say more?.

Grandma Judy and Brandi

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Grama Shell and Gavin

the very adorable Brandi

The very adorable Sigona Fam