Meg and Chai's Wedding (Take two)

Our main reason for going to LA was to attend Meg and Chai's second wedding on Valentines day. The ceremony took place at the beautiful Wayfarer's Chapel in Palos Verdes. Gray was the ring bearer and did a great job of walking slowly down the aisle and then sat reasonably quiet for the ceremony. Robert also gave a very nice speech to represent the Thomas side of the family. Thanks Aunt Megan and Uncle Chai for including us in your beautiful day and for giving the family another reason to all get together.

Disneyland

We spent a long Valentine's Day weekend in Los Angeles. First, let me appoligize to all of the friends that we would have liked to visit while we were there. Robert and were in the middle of recovering from a really nasty bug and ended up spending a lot of time just hanging out at our hotel saving our energy. We did drag ourselves out to meet my dad (Grandpa Tom) at Disneyland (we would of felt like awful parents if we hadn't). Gray's favorite was the Buzz Lightyear ride (surprise, surprise). He was amazingly brave and up for anything, including Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted House.

Boys will be boys?

Along the lines of nurture vs. nature today made me think that love of video games must have a strong nature component. We don't have any at home, I don't know that Gray has ever even seen one before. Today we went to see a movie and they had a room full video games. Gray was mesmerized and I couldn't get him out of there for half an hour (ugghh).

...and then the snow came

So I took the photos in the previous post at about 9 this morning. It is now a little after 5 in the afternoon and the ice has turned to snow. They thought we would get 2 to 4 inches, I think that we are at about 6 already and the snow isn't supposed to stop until midnight. Having grown up in Los Angeles and then living in Seattle for 10 years these huge swings in weather are keeping me on my toes.

Ice Storm

School is closed today because we had an ice storm last night. The weather around here is crazy, it was 50 degrees and sunny two days ago and this is what we woke up to this morning. The same ice is all over the roads so no one is going anywhere today.

Family Sunday

Between weeks of bitterly cold weather, and Robert having to travel for work or my shutting myself up to write we havn't been able to have a our traditional family Sunday in a long time. Today we walked to our favorite diner and stuffed our faces with oatmeal and waffles...



We stopped at the park on the way home to run,


and slide (Robert's hat was a Christmas present since he had mentioned several times that he loved Gray's jester hat.).


Then tonight at dinner we were listening to some music and Gray and I were chair dancing. He was being so silly that I was cracking up until I realized that he was just copying me. No one can show you how goofy you really are as your kids can. Sigh!

New Years in New Orleans

We spent the week of New Years in New Orleans because Robert's little sister Megan and her fiancee Chai were married at his parents house on New Years Eve. I had never been to New Orleans before so I was really excited. We did quite a bit of sight seeing and even more eating.

Gray's favorite part of the week was riding on the Street Cars.


Having Beignets and coffee at Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter.


Walking around the French Quarter.


Muffuletta and Po Boy sandwiches for Robert and I. Spaghetti and a lesson in tongue curling for Gray.


Megan and Chai's wedding. Our first Buddhist wedding was beautiful, fun and a little confusing since most of it was in Thai :)


New Years Eve on Burbon street (Sorry for the bad picture, I took it with my phone because I did not want to drag my camera along that night).


Touring Plantation houses outside of New Orleans.


Gray's Buzz Lightyear impression.