Sufini Linguine

My friend Mari’s daughter is one of my favorite playmates. She looks like a cutesie pie strawberry shortcake, but Sufini Linguine is all Darth Vader mixed with Steve Urkell.
I really enjoy the time I get to spend with her.
Loves.

Andrea and Sofia

Shot using luminous late afternoon sunshine as our guide …

If buildings could talk, the Tassajara School House would tell of children reciting lessons, ciphering and singing in a classic one-room school. Students from Tassajara Valley ranches attended this school from 1889 to 1946.

Students from first to eighth grade walked, rode horses and took buggies to get to school. In 1889 Richard D. Williams was the teacher and 41 students attended that August. Roger Podva (born in 1884) began school in 1890 and said there were 42-75 students at the school when he attended, sitting two to a desk. They learned mental arithmetic, reading, geography, spelling and writing. A picture of George Washington hung on the wall.

Today the School House sits in rural, restored splendor on its original site at 1650 Finley Road in Contra Costa County’s Tassajara Valley. A belfry with bell, old outhouses, a restored stable, picnic tables and a new redwood water tower complete the picture.

Family Night Dinner

Most weeks, my entire family gets together for dinner. This particular dinner featured the antics of my Uncle Joe who is hilarious. He played MASH with me, ate corn like it was a typewriter and conducted himself like a Flinstone at the dinner table. Since he’s a big boy now, no one could stop him. Not his older sister, my mom. Not my grandmother.
And he was much adored by all the little kids who couldn’t wait to see what he would do next.

Viva Family Time

Babies, Babies, Babies

More adorableness from Templar and Aurora.
Happy Beautiful Sunday.

supahstar

It was a debate. A long, arduous, fierce debate. Would he, wouldn’t he?
Would it be today? Tomorrow? WHEN goddammit.
And then it was today.
Hooray and Congratulations Jared.

-Los Gatos, Calif.
Sunny Afternoon, pool-side

Celebratin’

Happy Birthday to my Mommy, who is half a century old this weekend. She doesn’t look a day over 29.
besitos!

I’ll take “Things that occur when I download new Iphone Applications AND my Aunt goes out of town” for 1200

photo Credit: Jared, Age 9