Photography by Arika Reed

Thank you Arika for bringing out in beautiful colors the love we feel for each other and the fun that it is to be part of our family. If you are local to the San Diego area, we highly recommend Arika. Here's her link www.arikareed.com

Quality Time

This past month we've enjoyed a lot of quality time with family and friends.

Anabelle is having a great time showing Livy how all of her toys function.

Earlier in the month we were sad to say goodbye to our neighbors/friends Dennis and Josephine as the returned to Tanzania.

However, a few days later we were happy to see Gene visit with her girls (they moved while we were in Israel).

Maria went home for a few days so that her family could meet Livy, so Anabelle and I had a blast playing together while Livy and Maria were out of town. During that time we had fun watching movies every night like Heidi and dinosaur movies, going to the natural history museum, playing with Play-Doh to make letters, fish and spiders.

However, I have to say, my favorite moment was when I came home from work the other day and Anabelle excitedly said, "Daddy! Daddy! Can we use the telescope thing tonight to look at little body pieces?!" She was referring to a microscope I borrowed form the medical school a few months back for a histology class I was taking. So being the geeky father that I am, I said "Of course!" so we spent a good half hour looking at tissue samples and talking about all of the internal organs... poor girl...