Salad Party

Okay, so after getting home from Vienna, I realized that I don’t have ANY pictures of my friends here in the Valley. Funny, huh? But now that we are so into documenting everything, I pulled out my camera at a fun Salad...

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Zion – Checkerboard Mesa Hike

  We took Manfred and Ingrid and the kids on an “off the trail” hike around the Checkerboard Mesa in Zion. This was nice to get away from the crowded main trails and wander around a bit on our own. Fortunately...

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S’mores for Everyone!

A friend from my MBA program came to Utah with his family for a month long vacation. They spent a week at our house and we decided to cook a country style meal for them. Dutch oven potatoes, dutch oven chicken and for dessert...

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New Friends

My friend Monica from high school lives down near my parents, so I went to visit her and let our kids hang out! We haven’t seen them since before we went to Austria, so we both have another kid and our others are much more...

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Vienna Friends @ Spaghetti Factory

Some friends from Vienna were also in San Diego, so we arranged to meet at my favorite restaurant, the Spaghetti Factory, for dinner. Sister Achui, on the left was one of the missionaries we got to know in Vienna who is now back...

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Lulu’s Creperie

I have some friends who still live in Orange County, so while at Sharon’s house some of us met for breakfast at a little creperie near Sharon’s house.Here is my friend Franklin, who I haven’t seen in fourteen...

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Becky’s Babies!

Our good friends from Vienna, Becky and Louis, live in Monterey now. We decided to spend the morning over at their place to see their new baby twins!Here is Amanda holding Elizabeth. And Elora hanging out with Isaac.Elora loves...

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