Dad's Annual Bday Weekend

For the last several years our family has had the tradition of not buying eachother Christmas gifts, and instead, we take off for my dad's birthday weekend and rent a house. We usually go up to the mountain and get a cozy cabin, and go skiing or tubing, but this time we decided to go the coast and make it CRAB FEST 2010! And that it was. We went on lots of walks, had delicious clam chowder, explored down town Astoria, tooled around Seaside, played some poker, and played lots of WII. Taking vacations with your family is probably the most relaxing way to travel. Though we always tell my Mom that we (meaning the kids) are going to do all the cooking, inevitably, Mom cooks up a storm all weekend long - including her famous plate-sized drowned-in-butter pancakes, bacon and fried eggs every morning for breakfast, and a bottomless bowl of lumpia (eggrolls) making appearances throughout the afternoon and evening. It was crazy.

Happy Birthday Dad! We love you!

Mom and Dad


Jeremy, Dad, and Jonathon

All the girls + Lionel (Mom, Me, Hannah (niece), Pam, Kathy, Lucy (the pug)

Cade exploring the beach

Sisters!

Sisters jumping!

Our little, and growing, family
Cade, Chris, Eileen, Hannah, Jonathon, Pam, Mom, Dad, Kathy, Jeremy, Lionel, and Lucy. If only my brother Mike and Logi could have been with us, but they were there in spirit!