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I am playing around with some different photo album options for WordPress to don’t mind that each post is displaying photos a little differently. Here are some photos from our camping trip over the July 4th holiday weekend. We had a fabulous time with our friends and family in the beautiful Idaho wilderness. Oh and [...]

Here is the deep thought I have been pondering all weekend. Did the dudes who fought in the Revolutionary War wear wigs while they were fighting?

Immediately after cake, we opened presents. Belén was starting to look tired, but I think the sugar from the cake kicked in and she and the rest of the kids grabbed their rally caps. They proceeded to make it through all of the gift opening and even played with the toys for a good 30 minutes before people started leaving to hit bedtime.

In our wildest dreams, your father and I could never have imagined how deeply we would fall in love with you. You make our already bright lives even brighter.

Today is my mom’s birthday. We celebrated on Saturday night with a fabulous dinner which included ribs, baked potatoes, fruit salad, mushrooms and wine. Belén kept everyone entertained through dinner and the first part of the night before she went to bed.

Good thing the Easter Bunny came when he did because in a few more days, she could have chased him down.

I went with it and ten minutes later found myself walking with Andy hand-in-hand into Anthropologie. He turned to me and said I had $200 to spend. Gasp. Besides an evening with my husband, I cannot think of a better, more thoughtful, prove-to-me-you-pay-attention-to-what-I-like gift! On top of that, he was even willing to walk through the entire store with me while I collected things to try on and then sat in the man chair outside of the dressing room offering his opinions when asked. He was very patient, playing on his Droid while I tried on numerous combinations of clothing. It was really unbelievable!

While all of you are puckering up to your special loved one this Valentine’s Day, Belén would like to point out that puckering is as natural as sunshine.

In fact, puckering is a perfectly instinctual response to banana, peach, raspberry baby food, which is, indeed, is pucker-worthy.

When we lived in China, we went out of our way to find a bar that was showing the Super Bowl and even missed a half a day of work (on Monday) to partake in what we thought was our duty as Americans to watch the popular game. It has not taken much time back in the US for our excitement level for American football’s biggest day to plummet to the ranks of the noise. For this reason and also because we do not have a tolerance level built up to more than a dozen kids in a house at once, we decided to decline the Super Bowl party invite we received and have dinner with friends instead.