Sun Valley Highlights

We spent some fun days in Sun Valley with some of Christian's family. This is the third time I've been there--the first was on our honeymoon, the second was last September. And I have to say, it was an awesome vacation! We ate good food with fun people and I even got in a set or two of tennis. Our little girl is already loving the sport, I just know it. Here are a few highlights of the trip...

Here are most of the ladies I spent the trip with. I want Helen's hair cut. She's the little blonde on the left.  CiCi--the platinum blonde on the right told me she likes me because I "just say it how it is." It's so fun getting to know this side of the family more...hopefully they can say the same about me and Christian!

Christian practiced being a dad. He and Molly were pretty much inseparable--until she had to go home with the rest of her family, anyway.  Christian held Molly so much that one of the relatives was confused for quite some time, thinking HE was the father. It was pretty funny.

Laurie's mom, Grandma Marlene is the whole reason why we get together and why we stay in Sun Valley. We are super lucky to belong to her flock.

how cute are these two? Another inseparable pair. You may recognize our favorite Sarah Grace (on the left). Aubrey turned three while we were on this trip. She called Christian "Squish-ton." And I think she may have beat him at dominos.

We watched Roger fly his plane--and he landed it perfectly, too!!

Don't worry, our little girl didn't miss out on a thing!

Pool time.

What do you do when you see swans in a pond? You pose like a swan, of course! 

Meet Laurie's brothers: Chef Dave and Chef Chris, as I called them. I was lucky enough to be their pretend sous-chef.  I look a bit worn out in this photo...it may be because I'm 9 months prego, or it could just be that that night we had grilled bacon-wrapped shrimp with halepeno pepper and jack cheese, asian drumsticks with a garlic, ginger cilantro sauce, and ham fried rice. Either way, these guys are as amazing as their food.

Relaxing time. Do you think these two are related??

Antique Road Show

On our way to Sun Valley, we stopped at a few antique shows. I love looking at things from a different time. Don't think I'm crazy when I say this, but sometimes some of the antiques speak to me--they tell me stories about their past owners or boast of their high quality or amazing retro-appeal. My imagination just cannot be tamed at a place with things like these:

Heaven on Earth

California

Christian had an accounting conference to attend in CA and I wasn't about to let him enjoy Disneyland without me! So I flew down and met him at the tail end of his conference. We visited with family in Torrance, met up with family visiting from London, and went to Newport Beach and Disneyland. Here are some favorite moments...

We went to see this beautiful lighthouse. My Aunt Laura came with games to play--Mabey Family Jeopardy and for lack of a better name, the peanut m and m game...we learned all sorts of fun things about each other...





Isn't he cute???

I have to give a special shout out to him, because he had the flu the day we were supposed to go to Disneyland--but he didn't let that stop him or us from going and having a great time!!! Talk about Mr. Incredible.