Big Sur

After Uncle Eric's Chinese wedding by the bay, adventures in San Francisco, and a day trip to Napa Valley, several members of the family departed for home. By our 5th day in the Bay Area, the final four consisted of Uncle Eric, Dad, myself, & my niece Katelyn.Uncle Eric showed up at our hotel bright and early with iPad in hand (actually, I don't think I saw him without it the entire trip). We

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Big Sur

After Uncle Eric's Chinese wedding by the bay, adventures in San Francisco, and a day trip to Napa Valley, several members of the family departed for home. By our 5th day in the Bay Area, the final four consisted of Uncle Eric, Dad, myself, & my niece Katelyn.Uncle Eric showed up at our hotel bright and early with iPad in hand (actually, I don't think I saw him without it the entire trip). We

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Napa Valley

My recent trip to the Bay Area would not have been complete without a trip to Napa. Thankfully, Uncle Eric volunteered to be both our travel guide and activities director despite the fact that our road trip to wine country was the day after his wedding. Don't worry, we took his new bride too. They've already traveled the world a dozen times over during the past 16 years, so I suppose a honeymoon

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Napa Valley

My recent trip to the Bay Area would not have been complete without a trip to Napa. Thankfully, Uncle Eric volunteered to be both our travel guide and activities director despite the fact that our road trip to wine country was the day after his wedding. Don't worry, we took his new bride too. They've already traveled the world a dozen times over during the past 16 years, so I suppose a honeymoon

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WILW 7.6.11

Link up at this kind of love to play along!I'm loving that today is my Mom's birthday! Happy Birthday, Mom! Hope you are able have a relaxing birthday.... ha! Wait.. has my Mom ever had a relaxing day? Between 6 kids, 3 grandchildren, a nursing career (and now a new legal nurse consulting business), dozens of animals including dogs, cats, ducks, peacocks, fish, turtles, hamsters, gerbils, etc etc

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WILW 7.6.11

Link up at this kind of love to play along!I'm loving that today is my Mom's birthday! Happy Birthday, Mom! Hope you are able have a relaxing birthday.... ha! Wait.. has my Mom ever had a relaxing day? Between 6 kids, 3 grandchildren, a nursing career (and now a new legal nurse consulting business), dozens of animals including dogs, cats, ducks, peacocks, fish, turtles, hamsters, gerbils, etc etc

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San Francisco

There's a reason hundreds of songs have been written about San Francisco. It really is an incredible city with a unique charm and beauty unlike any I'd ever experienced. I spent last Saturday there with my Dad, my two older brothers Karl & Kevin, and my sister April and her husband Lee plus my two nieces Zoe and Katelyn. We had a tight schedule due to wedding festivities, so we weren't able to do

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San Francisco

There's a reason hundreds of songs have been written about San Francisco. It really is an incredible city with a unique charm and beauty unlike any I'd ever experienced. I spent last Saturday there with my Dad, my two older brothers Karl & Kevin, and my sister April and her husband Lee plus my two nieces Zoe and Katelyn. We had a tight schedule due to wedding festivities, so we weren't able to do

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A Chinese Wedding by the Bay

My uncle got married!!! My Dad's brother, Uncle Eric, has lived in the Bay Area nearly my entire life and somehow I've never been to visit him. I can remember him coming for Thanksgiving every year with tales of some new exotic place he'd visited and I would beg him to tell me every detail of his travels.... perhaps he had quite a bit to do with my developing wanderlust...Uncle Eric & his bride

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A Chinese Wedding by the Bay

My uncle got married!!! My Dad's brother, Uncle Eric, has lived in the Bay Area nearly my entire life and somehow I've never been to visit him. I can remember him coming for Thanksgiving every year with tales of some new exotic place he'd visited and I would beg him to tell me every detail of his travels.... perhaps he had quite a bit to do with my developing wanderlust...Uncle Eric & his bride

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Happy Father's Day!

Today I celebrate the man who taught me to appreciate the great outdoors, the genius of Leslie Nielsen, long road trips,  the whoopie cushion, George Thorogood, an excellent craft beer, and the New York Yankees. My Dad has a wacky sense of humor & truly loves to live life well. Father of 6, grandfather of 3, husband to the boss lady.... his booming laughter is contagious and his encyclopedic

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Happy Birthday, Logan!

June 3rd was my sweet nephew Logan's birthday. He's one of the brightest kids I've ever met... and so full of energy! His mother describes him as "a fly trapped in a glass box," which I think is perfect. Always zipping from one place to another with a very short attention span, he keeps us all on our toes!I don't get to see his sweet face nearly as much as I'd like to, but he's a great pen pal

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Happy Mother's Day!

To all you moms, Happy Mother's Day! I mean, wow. Hats off to you guys... seriously. I cannot fathom it. The thought of newborns makes my palms sweaty.Anyway, I'm blessed to have one phenomenal mama who raised 6 kids, a gazillion pets, and kept my Dad in line...all while balancing a nursing/ nursing instructor career. Just to give you a little background on what she had to put up with, I once put

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Grand Cayman

Ah, Grand Cayman, the largest of the Cayman Islands. This gorgeous British Territory is home to some of the most incredibly beautiful waters I've ever seen. Somewhere between the most gorgeous shade of aqua and stunning shade of turquoise imaginable.The water was 82 degrees... When you hear "offshore account," think Grand Cayman. This place is full of banks and subsequently full of {diamond}

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Cozumel

OK, so on the cruise our first port was actually Grand Cayman, but I couldn't resist posting about Mexico on Cinco de Mayo! I mean, why not honor a Mexican victory against the French in 1892 at the Battle of Puebla with Tequila, Modelos, & a post about Mexico? Makes perfect sense to me.Before I tell you all about Cozumel, I want to acknowledge all the recent media hype about how terribly

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Happy Birthday, Katelyn!

Happy Birthday to my favorite homegirl, my niece Katelyn.It's hard to believe it's been 7 years since the day she arrived! Little did I know just how much she would change my life. In the past we shared the same roof, but now she's 1000s of miles away. Thank God for skype and the USPS.Katelyn is the kind of girl that delivers one-liners with the skill of a seasoned comic and has always been wise

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Did Someone Say Funship?

I'm back! I survived a Caribbean cruise with my two older brothers! It was fantastic (of course). It was actually my 3rd cruise with Carnival... once with my family the summer before 8th grade, once with my high school senior class, and this time with Karl, his girlfriend Kristen, and Kevin. We even got to go to a cocktail party (open bar) for repeat cruisers, which was pretty exciting.We still

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