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Blaize. with Gray Whale bones ... in Long Beach, WA

Francesca on the beach... with her fam fam at Long Beach, WA!

Black belt testing ... very impressive!!

Gearing up for the imminent Belt Test!! Any minute now!!

Three pretty adorable and smart little girls... Sigga, Francesca and April. All love math and each other and themselves.

May it ever be so, and Amen.

Much fun was had with tubes and air and light blue balls...

OMSI FIELD TRIP!

With classmates Romeo and Addilyn.

Allison and baby Owen

Julie and Levi's baby Owen turned 1 ! Instead of presents they asked everyone to write a note to Owen for when he turns 18. Quite an interesting and inspiring exercise... (Their friend Sean in first pick, Dad Levi is waving in the ones below.)

Quick visit with Devora and Eden

I got to see them before heading to Anaheim for the race.. Eden turned 2 on Jan 16! That hat, in case you recognize it, was Francesca's... She loved it and was running around with it covering her face, quite amused and amusing... Passed on a few faves for her bday, monkey backpack you may also remember and big girl undies, which Eden was also quite taken with.(That's what she's looking at in the first picture.) So cute and whip smart, that one.

Pre- race and during race...

Our final time was 3:15 btw. 13.1 miles.

I can't believe I didn't blog any of my half marathon- pre-bday extravaganza ...

Thanks for reminding me to blog, Mom- 12 days is an egregious gap!! :) xoxo

Blaize at the height of a snow pile remanent.

This was a few days ago... very few of these around now- but there are still some smaller piles of yet unmelted snow. Streets totally snow free now, though.

Scott and Allison At Opening of World Premier of Astoria: Part 1.

It was great, too bad their car got stolen during the play... There's some joke about stealing the show but it escapes me. Police have been notified- and they think it will turn up. It was the Nissan.

Blaize models his new Le Monde shirt... thank you Nana and Pawpaw!!

New Beret from Nana! Also: socks!

Black belts in training!

Their first belt test is January 26th .... a great birthday present!!