Monday, May 30, 2011

Tahoe or bust!!

Wow, what a weekend! All of us girls flew to Lake Tahoe to celebrate Dresel's upcoming wedding. Since Tahoe has such great memories for a lot of us (Dresel and I lived there two summers and spent MANY New Years in Tahoe!), we thought this would be the perfect place to celebrate her and have a girls' weekend.

Since we flew into Sacramento and had to drive a little to actually make it over to our destination, what better way to travel than to all pile into a mini-van?? And even though it was Memorial Day weekend, there was a chance of snow (yes, in almost June!) so we thought this would be the safest mode of transportation.

The backseat girls
(We also have a GREAT picture of all of us in front of the mini, but not sure who hasn't shared their pics yet??)

We spent our first night having a girls night in by paying homage to Dresel's favorite college TV series, 90210, which means we also dressed up in our 90's finest!



Black pants, jean jackets and overalls, oh my!

The next morning, we woke up to SNOW!!! And lots of it! It basically snowed all that day...guess our open-toed shoes and dresses weren't going to work on this trip :)


View from the balcony outside the Boesenberg Squaw condo. Such an amazing place!


Squaw hosted Winter Olympics in 1960. They still have a flame that burns as you enter into the area.


The girls FBing while laying in bed in the morning...classic.

This is what I woke up to beside me in the morning. Traci may have the bendiest nose I've ever seen.

Then later night we went out into the big town of Tahoe City and actually found a bar that was pretty packed. The bachelor party who was also there celebrating helped Dresel to accomplish all on her list :)


Good sport Bachelorette!


Yes, Lyndsey is wearing both her wool coat and rain jacket inside the bar.




Group shot outside of all of us. Can't believe we were actually all in the same place at the same time!

The next day we woke up to beautiful skies and weather more typical to late spring in Tahoe.



Views of Lake Tahoe from Tahoe City. Aaahhhh....

After two very late nights, we decided to go a bit easy our last night. Dresel very kindly made us dinner and (most of us) stayed in Squaw to celebrate the end of our weekend!




Thank you to Ali's family for letting us use the Squaw condo once again!!!!!

Sunday, May 22, 2011

1st Birthday Parties!!

Wow, what a week of celebrating! What a lucky birthday boy to get three festivities!


We started the celebrations on his actual birthday by going to the Children's Museum. Luckily, cousin Eli and Aunt Michelle were also in town that day, so they got to come along with us!

Birthday boy at Children's Museum


At the water station


Of course you have to get your face painted on your birthday!






Always good times at the Children's Museum!


Then later that night, we went over to Uncle Trav, Aunt Bridg and cousin Lincoln's house to have a birthday BBQ. G'pa Danner also happened to be in town that day, so got to come over for the festivities as well!

Birthday Boy


Mama & birthday boy


One of many attempts at a cousin picture :)


Not sure what to make of our singing :)




G'pa & T Man


Then that following weekend, we had his 1st Birthday BabyQ with all of our closest friends and family. Grama & Papa even came down from Issaquah for the festivities and we got to do more celebrating!!

Cupcakes, cookies and cake pops galore :)


Pics of his friends and family over the past year


Do you think there are enough goodies?? I think I may have overestimated...


The birthday boy (not loving the birthday hat :)


Little T & Uncle T :)


The "playroom" was definitely a busy place!








One of three attempts at a pic with all of them looking at camera/smiling. Oh well, we'll get it one of these days!


Starting to open gifts




Loving the new wagon - a gift all little boys must have! Thank you Uncle Nate & Aunt Christie!


Birthday cupcake!

Digging in!



T Man with all his ladies!


More of his birthday guests!


Beautiful sunset at the end of a fun birthday party!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Happy birthday, my sweet Tristan!!

I cannot believe we are already here. My sweet Little Man is ONE YEAR OLD today!! What a year it has been. He has changed our lives for the better - so much more than I ever realized. Here is a look back over the past year...


T's birthday


1 month old


2 months


3 months


4 months


5 months


Halloween w/ cousin Lincoln


6 months


7 months


8 months



9 months (yes, we recycle outfits :)


10 months


Easter in Palm Springs


Cinco de Mayo at the Zervis'



11 months







Happy birthday, sweet Tristan!!!