California Living

What could be a better way to start out in California - beautiful girls, beautiful scenery, beautiful weather and a nice bottle of wine.





Madeleine is really adjusting to the laid back California lifestyle. The first thing she did upon getting to Cali was to pop on her flip flops and J Lo sweatsuit.





A big departure from our East Coast digs - our temporary house (until our furniture arrives) has a backyard!





Madeleine dines al fresco at least twice a day





If Daddy would get her a pony, we would have a place to put it - we're just a few blocks from a riding trail and many of the houses have small stables - like ours!





You can see why they have the Rose Bowl out here - the roses are gigantic.





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Moving Day Part Deux

The rest of our moving experience on the Virginia side went smoothly. It really hit home when we said farewell to friends on Sunday, had Mommy's car loaded up on Tuesday, and especially after the place had been emptied and cleaned on Tuesday afternoon.



Madeleine, of course, is impervious to all these changes - she was happy at the hotel playing open-and-shut with the patio door. Hard to get too stressed out when she is so nonplussed about it all!



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Moving Day

Moving day is finally ready as we are leaving Northern Virginia for a 2500 mile away adventure in Southern California. The movers came this morning and packed us up - it's amazing how quickly they can erase all the signs of 4 years of human habitation!

Madeleine is, of course, supervising the move.


She has given us permission to take some breaks from the packing to soak in a few of our favorite DC sights one more time - like this year's especially beautiful cherry blossoms.


Of course, when duty calls, not even Moving Day can stand in the way. So Daddy spent the week before the move in Hong Kong and Shanghai, returning 48 hours before the movers. Shanghai, pictured below, reminds Daddy of the current state of our lives - an interesting juxtaposition of the old and new.








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Happy Easter!

Nothing like having a sweet little bunny on Easter Sunday.



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Easter Greetings from Grandma & Grandpa

Madeleine loves opening the mail - and sometimes it's even addressed to her! Normally, she would systematically shred any pieces of mail that fall into her grubby little fingers, but she seemed to know that the beautiful Easter card from Grandma Kay and Grandpa Bob was really meant for HER. So, she took the novel approach of reading the mail instead......











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Barnyard Baby

Madeleine enjoyed her second trip to Lynchburg, VA where Mommy had a couple of days worth of meetings and Daddy played Mr. Mom. She enjoyed the outstanding childrens museum downtown, especially the play barnyard set up especially for kids under 4.





And it wouldn't be a family roadtrip without some hands on supervision of the packing process.





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