Happy Birthday, Mom!

My wonderful mom, Cathy, celebrated a birthday milestone last month, and we decided to take a trip together to mark the event. She flew up to Alaska to visit the Twinskis for a couple days and treated me and Joe to an overnight stay at Alyeska. Then we flew down to California together for a week of mother-daughter bonding. We had a birthday dinner out, did lots of clothes and shoes shopping, toured the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, hit the gym, walked on the beach and relaxed.

Mumsy and Jessie on Seacliff Beach. I love you!

Flowers in February? Isn't California grand?

Jessie posed by the strange trees outside the California Academy of Sciences:

Dinner guests

At our kitchen table we have two "big" chairs (for me and Joe) and two chairs with blue booster seats (for Nate and Henry). Henry and Nathan always want to sit in the big chairs not the blue chairs. In this photo they have situated their penguins and a dog in the blue chairs and seated themselves in the big chairs. What can you do?