October 15, 2009

My Sister's Pregnancy Pictures

My sister is very lucky that her mother-in-law is a photographer. She and her husband and their daughter (and any future kids) get lots of beautiful pictures taken of them, for free! Here is just a sampling of the latest and last pregnancy photoshoot.


















October 14, 2009

California Pictures: Family

Some pictures of us throughout the trip, and some of the relatives we went to visit.


The Morgans (minus me, because I was taking the picture)




In-N-Out, classic California experience. Their food is pretty good. And if you go there, it's practically a law that you have to get a picture of your very first bite. Which I didn't do, so I got a picture of my second time being there.




Darn sunshine, ruining our pictures! ;)


Playing a card game with one of the cousins.


My charming husband.


Okay, technically this isn't family, but close enough. This was my college roommate. We met her and her husband and their two year old for dinner.



This was on our way to the aquarium.





I had to get a picture of myself by the real ocean. We didn't get any closer than this.


I'm pretty sure we don't have a single picture of Joe making a normal face.






The Morgans: Photo-bombing each other since 1984.


I just realized that, aside from the fantastic centering, we're not even ready for the picture.


Preparing the Filipino feast. I helped peel lumpia wrappers.


Sally made an asian friend while we were there, so we went to her place for lunch the day before Magic Mountain.


Swimming a little, the evening before Magic Mountain.


We took pictures with as many relatives as possible. This is 95 year old great-grandma.


David's stepdad and his wife.


Teaching a cousin to play the dice game. Also known as 10,000 or Nuscht. (sp?)


One last family picture, and then we headed home.

There! That's the last of the pictures from our California trip. Now I can get back to blogging about real life again.

October 13, 2009

California Trip: Ronald Reagan Library

I think all the pictures for this post are ours. I don't think I have any stolen-from-Google images. Enjoy!


The closest I'll ever get to meeting the great man himself. Until heaven.





Take a look at the picture above, and read the caption below. They say history repeats itself...



Just a few of his belt buckles. Some are his, many were gifts. He could have worn a different one every single day of the year, and still had a few left over.


He LOVED Jelly Belly beans. So somone made a portrait of him entirely out of Jelly Belly beans!


This is not a sketch. This is a portrait of him made from every word in his inauguration speech. Is that cool or is that cool?


Speaking of cool...

THE Air Force One. Not a replica. The one actually used during his Presidancy.


Marine One, the helicopter version of Air Force One.


I love these pictures.



An exact replica of the oval office when it was occupied by Ronald Reagan.




An actual piece of the berlin wall that Reagan ordered to be torn down.


The view from the grounds of the library.



He final resting place.

As presidents go, Ronald Reagan was a great one. I'm excited to bring our children here someday.