Tuesday, June 24, 2008

From Birthday To Work

Yesterday was Sean's birthday! We celebrated by having over some of his oldest friends. He's known most of these guys since he was in kindergarten! They ate HUGE steaks grilled by grill-master Ed, JW's shrimp-ca-bobs , drank beer and just hung out. It was a great time.


For another 'blast-from-the-past moment'. . . . Ms. Mitchell (aka Karen or Billie to one other) was in town for the birth of her adorable grandson and found the time to stop by and see the guys. Ms Mitchell worked in the elementary school library throughout Sean's school-life. She was one of his favorite people at HHES and Sean was so excited to see her. Things like that make me wish that I had deeper roots here. Valdez is such a silly place; but people who have no blood-ties treat their long-time buddies as family. Its pretty cool . . .



Today is Sean's first day back to work after 3 months off to recover from his surgery. He's healed relatively nicely. There is still a lot of pain and swelling - but he gets around well. It's weird not having him home today. All but three days/nights we were together. It was a lot of quality family time that couldn't have come at a better time. Sean was home for Addison's first steps, words, birthday and many other memorable moments.


(Notice the mark above her left eyebrow - she took two big falls in two days!! My poor baby!)

Summer Solstice


We celebrated Summer Solstice with Nana & Grandpapadopolis. We had so much fun. We spent a lot of time outside. Addison was so excited to run around in the grass checking out Nana's lilac bush and gardens.



After Addison was through chasing poor Emma around the house (she really wanted to love on that little dog), she got to play with Nana's little tea set while I ate enough homemade tortillas, beans & salsa for 6 people!



Grandpapadopolis is quite the photographer and took all of the pictures in this post. I just love how he caught this picture of Addison running around through the trees.


Addison was so tuckered out by the day that she fell asleep on the ride home and didn't wake up until the next morning (just in time to make the plane home)!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Tudie's Birthday

Happy Birthday Grandma!