Mother's Day 2012

I always like to take a photo with Lucy for mother's day.  This year she cooperated much better than last year! 

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Easter 2012 - too much candy!

Let me take this opportunity to share with you a cautionary tale.  If you feed your child nothing but candy all day (or even almost nothing but candy), it could possibly end with her vomiting all over both her parents and herself, just as you are about to leave for Easter dinner. So consider yourself warned, just in case that was not already obvious to anybody with a couple of brain cells.  And then if you finally arrive at the Easter dinner potluck (late, because everyone had to bathe again because of the vomit) and promptly spill most of your quinoa pistachio and cranberry pilaf in the driveway, you just have bad luck.  We did not set out to only feed our child candy, we just did not notice how much she consumed, especially in relation to how little brunch she ate. Oops!  Vomit and spillage aside, we still had a great Easter.  But by the time all of that happened I wasn't in much of a mood for photography, so there are not any photos from later in the day.  Cest la vie!

 

Lucy inspects the treats from the Easter Bunny.

Look what the Easter Bunny brought!

Look at my chocolate egg!

  

Nonnie and Pappy help Lucy with the pre-brunch egg hunt.

Nonnie and Pappy brought Lucy a gardening set for Easter, so of course she wore her gardening gloves and apron to hunt eggs in our back yard.

Time for brunch!  Crab cakes with spicy remoulade, salad and fruit.

Donahoe Easter Egg Hunt - April 2012

Our friends the Donahoes have an amazing back yard.  It is like a park!  They hosted a great Easter Egg hunt.  Lucy loved it!

On the hunt!

Priya and Lucy.

Lucy puts an egg in Priya's basket.  Such sweet sharing!

Tim, David and Lucy

Lucy Lo and Brookie Lu - April 2012

Little artist ... (March 2012)

In Mommy's shoes (March 2012)

Napa Valley - March 2012

We had an excellent weekend in Napa in March.  We stayed at a cute bed and breakfast (with awesome breakfast!), visited some great wineries with our good friends, the Gagnons, and dined at some great restaurants.  Of the wineries we visited, Sawyer Cellars was our favorite.  We ate at Mustards, Bouchon, and Ad Hoc. Yummy!!!

President's Weekend 2012 - Tahoe time!

Lake Tahoe is one of our favorite places to spend our free times.  President's weekend we spent the weekend with my parents and our close family friends, Doug and Suzanne. 

Before we headed out for a little winter walk.



Happy girl!



Little Miss Lucy and Daddy!

Suzanne, Doug and Joanne.

Serious conversation, I'm sure.

Best buddies!

Doug does a little dance after his snow angel.

Lucy snow dances with Uncle Doug.

More snow dancing.  Thank goodness there was not any wine available this weekend.

Curious girl.



So curious.



Tanuary III

January 2012 marked our third (semi-annual, as in we have it almost every January) Tanuary party and we went with a Jamaican theme this year.  And the punch was potent!  Somehow we only took a few pictures but I think everyone had a great time.

Rasta daddy. Rasta baby.

Punch!

While David and I were getting ready upstairs, someone took a break from watching her show downstairs to lean over the back of the couch and sample the RUM cake.  Oops.

Brookie and Lucy.  Check out their dance moves below. 

Rasta family photo time!

I love this one, even though she is screaming.