Archive for the 'Vacations' Category

In Which I get to sing with the mormon tabernacle choir

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Days after retuning from our trip to Europe I booked us on a flight to Utah to visit my family.  Rerun had never been to Utah, thus he’d never met my younger brother and his family.  I figured we’d just spent a bunch of money traveling to Europe, we might as well spend some more [...]

Vernazza, we love you

Monday, November 14th, 2011

This is what Vernazza, Italy looked like when we were there in August.

and this is what it looks like after last week’s flooding.

The beautiful building we stayed out used to look like this:

But looked like this during the flooding:

Staying in Vernazza for five days was the pinnacle of our time in Europe and it makes [...]

In which we take our kids to Germany

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Within in hours of being back at work after our month in Europe my manger came over to my desk and wanted to know how the kids did on the trip.  I told him, honestly, that they both did great.  He smirked and said, “I thought you were crazy to take your kids on a [...]

In which he turns one

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

It’s been a little over a year since I pushed Baby Rerun out of my special lady-parts.

When he was first born I had a hard time looking at him and seeing him as an individual and not just as a baby.  People would ask me who Rerun looked like and I didn’t have an answer.  [...]

In which we’re still a happy family

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

I’m not sure what I like most about this picture.

Rerun giving the “#1″ sign
Babboo’s sweet camouflaged sunglasses (that have been blacked out.  Sorry.)
Their adorable matching shirts
The Leaning Tower of Pisa in the background!!

We’re back from our trip to Europe.  It was great.  Really great.  Much better then the last few times we’ve been there.
And to [...]

In Which The Summer Of Fun Lives On

Friday, July 8th, 2011

We’ve been having a great Summer of Fun (part deux) here at the holaisabel household.  Too bad it’s only been summer in Seattle for maybe two weeks.  Maybe.  But those last two weeks have been a whirlwind.  First my parents and sister came to visit.  Officially they came up for my cousin’s wedding, unofficially they came [...]