Happy Birthday Maddie!

We all got together for Maddie's First Birthday at the Park near Kevin and Maria's house. The whole family was there and lots of friends to help celebrate.

Here's the Birthday Girl.

Maddie got a lot of fun presents, Kevin was the most excited about the one that made a lot of noise, even more than Maddie. She also looked extra cute in her skirt that we made for her birthday.

This is Maddie first real taste of sugar and boy did she love it!! Kevin tried to slow her down but she just wanted more.

Here is the happy family. Man this past year went by so fast!!

Bate's nut farm

The whole family took a trip out to Bate's Nut Farm to pick a pumpkin and more importantly get some nuts and candy from the store.

Here is Ben and Kate

Jason, Kristina and Brinkley

and us.

I found an awesome looking gourd!

And Ben made sure to find the perfect pumpkin. These pumpkins can get up to 100 pounds.

Here is the whole family!!

Lacrosse and vineyard trip

Geoff had an alumni lacrosse game on the hottest day ever just ask Maddie :)

Here is Geoff being awesome at Lacrosse!

And we also went one day to hang out with jason and Kristina at the vineyards in Napa and had a fun day just being silly and talking pictures. here are a couple.

Geoff's parents came to visit

Geoff's parents came up to visit Northern California and help Kristina and Jason move into their new place in Napa. We also went up to clear lake to have lunch one day too.

We also went to the Sons of Italy picnic to visit with some family friends.

There was the most interesting fundraiser we have ever seen. For a dollar you can by a number ticket and then they put a chicken in a coup and the number it poops on is the winner.

But we didn't win :(

On the way back from Clear lake I saw this street sign. It was exciting because you don't really see St. Wurtzbacher street signs very often.

Year 1... check

For our anniversary we went to Sonoma to walk around and have lunch. It was very delicious and a fun place to explore.

And these are the anniversary cards that both of our parents sent us. My parents on the right and Geoff's parents on the left. Great minds think alike.

Welcome to the Blog

Well here it is, our blog. I did my best to update the last year of our lives, and we will do our best to keep you updated on what's happing now. Let us know what you think.

A slideshow of pictures is just easier.

So, as I have been choosing pictures it has been hard to choose which ones and way too time consuming to blog the past couple of years. So I condensed it into a slide show. (man am I getting fancy or what!) These pictures start circa 2006.

Enjoy.

The Cabin Trip

Thanks to Matt's dad we get to go up to Arnold every year. This year was an extra crazy year because of all the snow up there this time. We told our other friend Matt that he wouldn't need chains but as you can see it was a good thing he didn't listen to us and brought them!

The other reason we go to the cabin is to have a Rock Band marathon weekend (thanks Russell)

Here is the whole group!

Matt B., Geoff, Robert, Matt R., Kacy, Noe, Emily, Me, Erin, Bethany, Lauren, Megan, and Russell.

So in the past year if there has been maybe an inch of snow around the cabin. As you can see there is a lot more! It was awesome because we usually have to go find a place to sled but this time we built our own in the neighbor's driveway.

Geoff jumped of the porch.

Here is Erin, Bethany, and me on our sled run.

Matt really really liked it!

Our Christmas tree

Well, while I am trying my best to catch you all up on the past year I am finding that we didn't take that many pictures of the important stuff. But here are 2 pictures of our first christmas tree as a married couple. As you can tell in the back ground we are still moving in 5 months later (Geoff and I hate unpacking). But isn't it the tree cute.

The Mexico Honeymoon

We decided to wait and go on the second half of our honeymoon 2 months later and we went to Cancun, Mexico.

They had crocodiles at the resort, crazy.

One of the trips we took stopped at a Cenote, which is just a huge hole filled with water, and you could swim in this one which was cool.

I wasn't very good at getting a picture of Geoff on the way down but this is his splash.

Then we went to Chichen Itza, which are old Mayan ruins. This was Geoff's favorite part. And it was really cool but it was pouring down rain the whole time.

Then we also went to Xel Ha, which was really cool. It had a natural lazy river that opened up to meet the salt water in this cove. it was really cool. You could ride a bike up the hill to float on a tube down. There was a rope swing and snokeling. it was pretty sweet.

The last night at the resort there was a mexican fiesta and all the men got hats and all the women these scarfs. Don't we look pretty cool.

The San Diego Honeymoon

Here is the Estancia Hotel we stayed the first couple nights. It was great and totally relaxing.

Then my mom was able to get her hands on some Padres tickets (GO PADRES!) and we invited anyone who was still around after the wedding to join us.

Then we headed up to Carlsbad for a couple nights. Man San Diego beaches are way better than up north.

Then we headed up to San Luis Obispo and met up with Geoff's cousin Lisa and her husband Scott. I guess we didn't give Lisa enough waring for the picture or she really liked the food and made sure it was in the photo :)

This was where we stayed when we were in San Luis, it was perfect; for a quarter the trolly out front, took us downtown for the for the farmers market. Which definitely lived up to the hype.

And here was our truck packed on the inside because of all the stops we were making on our way back up to Rohnert Park. So much for using the truck for what you use a truck for.