short family reunion 2010

we just returned from a long weekend in brookings, oregon (the last town on the coast before you hit california) for my dad's family reunion.

tagg was obsessed with the beach. (even though to this san diego native, it was more like a windy place where hard sand met cold water.) we literally had to stop him from going all the way in.

my parents at the bonfire at the "beach".

we went on a hike to see the amazing redwood trees. tagg was quite the little daredevil and just wanted to climb higher and higher.

tagg with his cousins-ish. to be honest, i dont know his exact relationship status to ella, julie and jason. but he sure did love them all.

we were laughing pretty hard while taking this picture. i made tucker take off his shirt and pretend to climb a tree. i legitimately hate the whole twilight situation but sometimes its fun to play into it. honestly, some of our teenage cousins wanted their picture taken with "edward"!

it is kind of hard to tell, but we are standing in front of a huge tree that had fallen over. that was its trunk. pretty impressive.

it was so cute when tagg insisted on sitting on "gampa"'s lap. and who knows why tucker thought he belonged in the great-grandkids picture.

the grand children. minus taylor, kenny and kim. right before this picture was taken my grandpa yelled "MERRY CHRISTMAS". so funny.

we also took tagg to the little theater in town to see his first movie, toy story 3.

you never know what kind of face tagg will make for a picture. its kinda a crap shoot.

i had a great and relaxing time with my family in brookings. there's nothing like good times in a small town with loved ones.

happy dental school graduation/5th anniversary/30th birthday

to celebrate all of those events, craig and i traveled to maui to spend a week in the sun.

view from our hotel room balcony.

the graduate/husband of five fabulous years/thirty year old.

dont worry. i did not just have major dental work done. the chipmunk cheeks are due to my cheap snorkel set that dug into my face.

a gorgeous sunset in lahaina.

craig and me.

soaking up some much needed sun.

yikes.

the beach right in front of our hotel.

people watching in the lobby.

craig, me and king kamehameha.

another beautiful sunset.

this was approximately 2 minutes after i broke my toe hiking down to these dang pools. even though i was in intense pain the view was still pretty awesome.

and to top off the bad-day-but-relatively-speaking-because-we-were-still-in-hawaii we were stuck on the opposite side of the island for 9 nine hours due maui being on fire.

craig enjoying the views from the very-off-limits lava fields. dont even get me started on environmentalists.

us.

a beached whale, i mean me, at wailea beach.

the pool at our hotel.

our fancy nite at mama's fish house.

picture time after dinner. the restaurant is literally a couple feet from the shore. gorgeous view and delicious food.

one last view of pure heaven.

checking out.

craig was obsessed with the head rests that positioned to fit your head. someone's easily impressed....

i cannot thank craig's mom and dad enough for watching tagg while we were gone. honestly, our trip to hawaii was some of the best few days of my life. craig was such a fun travel buddy and there's nothing better than the smell of your skin cooking.

doctor smith

last saturday craig graduated from uw dental school. we are so incredibly proud of his hard work over the past four years.....

especially tagg! he yelled "yeah daddy!" several times during the graduation ceremony.

my parents spoiled craig with a super nice driver for his graduation present.

that nite we celebrated at bonefish. congratulations to craig and a big thank you to his parents and mine for their love and support.

didnt you just do that?

thats what all the men in our familia had to say when we told them there was another girls trip in the works. but it was brooke's fiftieth so we had a good excuse. megan, my mom and i arrived at the san diego airport beaming from ear to ear because of a little thing called THE SUN. we havent seen it quite some time......

brooke, shanna and mom picked us up from the airport and after gorging ourselves at fins we headed downtown to 'pend the nite. this was our postcard view from the hotel room.

after settling in, we went over to old town and chowed down (yup, more eating) on serious mexican food.

eating an eeeeeee-churro. (thats how my dad pronounces the mariners' japanese outfielder's name, ichiro suzuki. and it always makes me want to eat a churro.)

there is a brand new mormon battalion visitor's center in old town and it is fantastic. you can look up ancestors and see their rank and other facts. this is LOT SMITH, craig's ancestor. he was the youngest member of the mormon battalion and looks just like craig! we were all laughing.

later that nite, we crammed into bed and played with brooke's new toy and watched multiple episodes of hoarders.

the next morning, we got all dolled up for a day of shopping.

a feminine man walking around fashion valley carried these little poodles in his purse.

after shopping, we went back to brooke's house and handed out our swag. these are the bags i made everyone.

basically our family's motto.

speaking of bags...... to make a VERY long and painful story short (not to mention cryptic) i found this bag in brooke's closet and let's just put it this way, it came to rescue. big time. thank you, bloody burberry bag.

the next day, we headed up to orange county. this was at pf changs in fashion island. there may have been a few gorgeous male waiters that were happy when this table full of gawking old biddies left.

my mom, me and megan.

mom, brooke and shanna.

the four sisters. right after we had been RUDE-ly kicked out of neiman marcus. i was in the middle of changing when all the lights went out. no warning announcement or anything. i hate that store.

my mom and me.

the girls.

the damage.

leaving san diego after another wonderful girls trip. there may have been some major bumps (and i am not talking about the one on my stomach) but like always, we pull it out and turn everything into a party. a low energy party, of course.