Grandpa Steve's Boat Ride in SF Bay

Captain Cooper

Grandpa Steve and Cooper at the helm

Sophie is first mate!

Daddy and his little girl - ahhh!

Lancaster Amusement Park

Sophie takes her first Swing Ride at Lancater, PA amusement Park.  Let's do it again mom!

Cooper rides the train. It's hard work making this train move!

Kids at Rennaissance Fair in Lancaster, PA.  Cousin Morgan, Morgan's friend, Maggie and Sophie.

Renaissance Fair with "knight"

Uncle Todd and Cooper

in PHL

Spy Goggles

Cooper wearing his "spy goggles"!

Safari West with Uncle Todd

Safari West - Santa Rosa - June 2009

Marley and Sophie

Marley joined our family May 2009

Roger Rabbit

Roger Rabbit added to the family of pets

Tahoe for the 4th of July

Lake Tahoe - 4th of July Weekend - Banana Boat RideSophie and Cooper enjoying the Lake Tahoe Beach

Back to School - both kids are at Sequoia

Rennaissance Fair in Lancaster, PA

Phillies baseball game in PHL!

August 31st and both kids are back to school. We had a fun summer. We added a new family member, Marley our Goldendoodle, in May. We went to Tahoe in July for the 4th and rafted townt he lazy Truckee River (a total blast) and we went to Pennslyvania to Visit Todd, Karen and Morgan in August (not a good time for the east coast - sooo humid!). Mid-August we went to DIscovery Kingdom - what fun that was! But now we are back to school year reality...Sophie started 1st grade and Cooper started Pre-K and the best part they are both at the same school - Sequoia.

Change is Good?!

It's been a heard few months. We closed Little Star Cafe early June 2009. My health (MS) was really put to the brink by the over whelming stress from the cafe and the poor economy just made it too difficult to keep our doors open. It was a bittersweet decision. Now Marc and I are looking for new opportunities. I plan on re-entering the world of Human Resources and Marc back in construction. We are also looking at getting into the real estate market to buy and hold rental properties and to buy and flip. Currently Marc is working on converting the lower part of our house into a one bedroom apartment to generate some rental income. It's under construction as I write...see what's going on: Lots of digging, digging and more digging! While we are under the house adding an apartment, Marc is also building a wine cellar! It's going to be awesome...

Soccer Time

August is the start of soccer practice for Sophie, and this year Cooper Started too. Sophie's Team, the Black Tornados has six girls on her team in the U8 division. They played their first game September 12th. September 12th was Cooper's first day of organized chaos, aka: U5 boys soccer. His cousin, Gavin also joined the soccer band wagon. The first hour of soccer practice for Cooper and Gavin was really fun, but the last half fell apart. They both didn't want to play any more and sat out most of the last half hour. Well maybe it will be better next practice.