A Crazy Life in CA

After leaving this blog sitting around for a few months, I have finally come around to actually letting others view it.
We have been in CA for 3 years now and time has sure flown. Michael takes BART into San Francisco everyday and likes the atmosphere of working in the big city. I am blessed to stay at home with our two little girls, Ambyr (3.5 years old) and McKenna (2 years old). This year has been full of interesting experiences, some good ones, and others that you would call "learning experiences" to make them sound less negative.
We started off the year coming back from holiday vacation to discover an excessive amount of mold and several leaking pipes behind a wall in the girls' room. The result: half the wall torn down and pipes replaced while we shared our room with the girls for almost a month.
Ambyr also developed a problem with her eyes where they were unable to focus properly, especially her left eye. Within a few weeks, her eye went from looking perfectly normal to being crossed all the time. Months of glasses and patching were to no avail and the big surgery day came in June. She is doing really well and her eyes are improving daily.
Our trip to New York City in March was the highlight of our year. What an awesome place to visit.
Next came the leak in the kitchen (does this sound familiar?) resulting in discovering that the entire wall by the sink and cupboard and up into the ceiling were soaking wet, equaling in another mold removal process and repair, meaning no sink or dishwasher and all my cupboard supplies in boxes for a month. Turns out the HOA is discovering faulty pipes in other apartments, too.
With Michael studying for the CFA III(Chartered Financial Analyst) and the GMAT, and applying for graduate school, things may not get any less crazy. All in all, this year has been full of growing experiences, but that is what life is all about, right?

Beautiful Places

Here are a few of the wonderful places we have visited this year.

Fun Times!

One of the things we love about CA the most is, can you guess, the BEACH! The girls love it just as much as Mom and Dad do. We went to the Boardwalk for a family reunion activity and Ambyr got to go on a roller coaster for the first time. I thought she would freak out, but she screamed and put her hands up in the air like the best of 'em...until it started rolling downhill, then she clung on for dear life. She loved it though. McKenna was jealous that she wasn't big enough to go on it too.