Thursday, August 21, 2008

Long time no write...

Okay sorry it has been so long since our last blog but life has gotten truly CRAZY! Since I last wrote the following has happened: We spent one week in amazing Palm Desert with friends (I didn't even take pictures! I was enjoying it too much!), we spent a few more days in LA with Jeremy, Robyn and the girls before flying back to the east coast DURING those days Orion was sick for the first time ever in his year of life! BOO! After getting back to the east coast Brian started work and I spent a few days in NJ with Orion seeing family and spending time relaxing! Once we got back to lovely Lynchburg I went on a week cleaning rampage (no pictures of that either! ha!) and worked on my website (www.exceptionalbeginnings.org). Then it was back to work this week for all of us! I have a few pictures from NJ I will put up ASAP but for now enjoy these lovely pictures thanks to Erin! We love and miss everyone and look forward to seeing you guys soon!!! xoxo!

Orion, Mommy, Erin, and Eric (and no that's not my big bold drink! ha!)

The lovely newly married couple! AWW!

Our family!

Orion loved the band so much he stood there and listened for about an hour and then put two dollars in the cup! My little music man!



Friday, July 25, 2008

One more month of summer lovin' .....

The following pictures are from the Grand Canyon! We have been having a good week! We left LA on Tuesday and have spent the last few days in Palm Spings (desert). Brian has been playing a lot of Golf! He sent me to a spa today which I truly enjoyed! And Orion has been walking around and swimming a lot!! We are enjoying what is the start of our last week here and our last month of vacation!
Livin' on the edge!

The beautiful Grand Canyon!
(check out the bird!)













Blinking!




Orion climbed this tree!!

This may be my favorite!




Brian's artistic picture of the dead tree ...again :-)







The following pictures are from Williams (I have to check on the state??)



This was our tour of the Famous Route 66!










Wow this guy is tall!!



Who is this old man?? (Orion couldn't take his eyes off this moving statue)






Get your kicks on Route 66!!



(dont mind mommy's hair she just got of the shower!)




Play us a song little piano man!!





Sunday, July 20, 2008

update on camping....

After a week camping at Kings Canyon, Sequoia, Hume Lake, and Yosemite we headed back to LA for a day and then went to Palm Desert to a friends house (it was beautiful!!)... then we woere off to Las Vegas, Bryce Canyon, Red Canyon, Zion, and the Grand Canyon (I will post the GC pictures later) ENJOY!


Swimming in the beautiful pool at Palm Desert

Riley, Katie, Sophie, and Orion

Orion loves to eat ice!!

The whole gang!

Awesome house!

Orion playing in LA

!So sweet!


LAS VEGAS!
Orion had a blast in Vegas! We saw the water show, had great meals, went to mini NY and Paris, the M&M store, saw the lions, went to the circus ... and a ton of other things!
Gambling boys! (just kidding!)

Circus...Circus!!


Bellagio Hotel....





Watching the water show...
Paris!

The water show was amazing!

Check out Orion's legs! ha!

ZION! It was so amazing!! (2 pictures are out of order!)



Orion and the M&Ms



Back to ZION!


Mi Familia !



Check out how small these people are on this mountain!

Okay so this is not a waterfall... the water is coming through the rocks from the other side and they say it takes 1000 years for the water to come through SO the water that was coming down on us was 1000 years old... awesome huh?!

Brian apparently thought it was funny to take a picture of me busting it up the mountain pushing a stroller and holding the back pack... he had the camera! ha!


This bull was giving me the evil eye!

Check out our view from dinner!

Zion is beautiful!

On the road again... On our way to Bryce!!
Welcome to Red Canyon!

Check out this window in a tunnel we were going through!

Brian was getting artistic on me....

Welcome to BRYCE Canyon!






















Right on the edge... it doesn't even look real.