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It’s official, we are the worst bloggers ever. Life has been pretty crazy and there just doesn’t seem like there is enough time in a day to complete all that we want to do! We have a family friend who had to leave out of town for several months and we have been trying to keep their business a float, it has only added to our insane schedule. All we can say is that we are happy to have so much work when there are so many friends we know who have lost their jobs.

Here are some of the fun things that have happened over the past several months:
· Madison had her first Birthday Party
· Becca’s Soccer Team that I coach won the championship in August
· We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on September 18th
· I started coaching my youth soccer teams
· Madison started to walk on October 13th , Becca’s Birthday
· We had a wonderful Halloween
· Christa went through the temple on Halloween
· Christa got married on the 6th of November
· I did a wedding in Sedona on the 7th of November
· Madison had her first haircut

Madison's Birthday Bash


Lucas playing Soccer with Mama


Our Soccer Team!


Lucas pushing Madi in a toy stroller


Madi hanging out while I coach soccer


She loves her stylish glasses!


What a bunch of crap!


Our 5th Wedding Anniversary!


Happy Halloween!


Going to the temple with Christa!

Madi's first haircut!

I love Sedona!

Mr. Lucas doing the yard!

July 2nd, 2009

The first night in the new house

We finally did it, we have moved!! We have been talking about buying a new home for some time and we finally did it. We love our new house, we now need to make our new house a home. We have boxes everywhere and we still feel disorganized and unsettled.

The house is amazing and we couldn't be happier. It's such a fun floor plan and it's much bigger than our previous house, we hope to be here for a long time and with the square footage we should be fine for the rest of our lives.

Lucas dancing in the downstairs room. He was so excited about the house.

Becca after moving all day in her dream kitchen.

Baby Madison Is Crawling, Finally!

Little Madison took her first steps of crawling on the 29th of June. It was so funny because in the middle of crawling she decided she wanted to do some dancing. It has been almost a month since she started crawling, the one dissadvantage to her being on the move is her desire to get into eveything! One of her favorites is getting into the dog food.

The Rest of the California Trip - World's Longest Post

It takes me forever to post new stuff, it may be because life is pretty crazy.

June 20th
Italian-Argentine Dinner and Sea Port Village

On Saturday we went to Puerto La Boca with my Mom and Dad, it’s an Argentine Restaurant with the best Bar-B-Q and Argentine cuisine you could ever imagine. The meat platter comes with Chicken, Steak, Pork, and Sausage links. It’s pretty much a heart attack served steaming! Becca loves the restaurant because they make an amazing Argentine Empanada, for those who don’t know what an empanada is one could describe it as a pizza pocket but with different fillings. An Argentine Empanada has meat, eggs, olives, and other good stuff. Right after lunch we stopped off at a Pasta Factory called Anzoniti’s Pasta, we purchased some pasta, nocci makers, olive oil, and a shirt!


Yummmm! An Argentine Meat Dish!


Our Italian Princess eating her bread.


The Family enjoying a wonderful lunch at Puerto La Boca

The Italian Pasta Shop.

Sea Port Village

Later that day we went to Sea Port Village. We had an amazing time, shopping and watching Lucas just have so much fun. We found this toy shop where a bunch of wooden toys are sold, they allow kids to play with everything, it was almost impossible to get little Lucas out of the shop. Grandma Banda just couldn’t resist to buy him everything he was playing with. Between Grandma Sally and Grandma Banda our little ones have more than they could ever ask for. We walked around and played on this lawn near the front of the village. Lucas would run at me as fast as he could and tackle me, it was hilarious to watch. He repeated this for about 15 minutes, on one of the attempted tackles just as he was about to tackle me I jumped right over him. He ate it pretty hard into the ground but he was right back up tackling me again. Lucas also rode the carousal at Sea Port Village he rode on his favorite animal and I think his facial expressions say it all.

Lucas with Grandpa Banda at Sea Port Village

Little Lucas having a blast!

"Hey everybody" Look at Me!"

Running at his Papi

Boom, your down Papi!

A family Picture at Sea Port Village

Our cutie! She looks like she is having a blast...right?

June 22nd
The Beach and Ruby’s Dinner

On Monday the 22nd it was a day of just relaxing and hanging out with the Narducci Family. We couldn’t be more grateful to Mom and Dad Narducci planning and providing a wonderful vacation in California. We always have such an amazing time were so many memories are made and wonderful experiences.

I would have never of thought 2 years ago that going down to the beach would be such an expedition. With Madison and Lucas it’s a whole day process. There is the preparation to the beach, the gathering of all the gear, and the setting up of all the gear when you get down there. We didn’t have an umbrella so we had to make a custom canopy for little Madison, we didn’t want her precious little skin to get damaged. Lucas although was hitting his cousin Natalie the whole vacation sure does love being down at the beach with her. Although it’s not exactly the easiest task to go down to the beach it’s worth it watching how much the little ones love being outside and on the beach.

One of our California treats is to go to Ruby’s Dinner on the Pier in Oceanside. This year I will have to admit I was getting pretty grumpy about the whole situation. Becca and I planned several times to go to Ruby’s and it seemed at the last minute we would have to cancel. I was beginning to act like a child and think we would never go. We did end up going at it was such a fun experience. We walked there as the sun was setting and it was just great hanging out with the family walking down the boardwalk and pier.

Our custome Canopy!

Little Lucas Chillin on the Beach.

I'm not sure if she is sure she wants to be on the beach.

Madi and Momma at Ruby's

The walk to Ruby's on the Boardwalk.

The beautiful sunset.

June 23
San Diego Temple

I think since Becca and I were in High School we have always talked about how bad we wanted to go to the San Diego Temple. We finally made the real effort and went. We woke up early and we drove to San Diego while Grandma Sally stayed with the kids as they slept. The temple was everything we dreamed and imagined it would be. It was so amazingly beautiful, words truly couldn’t describe how beautiful the San Diego Temple is and how we felt inside.

The Temple is so amazing.

It's just so cool.

Wow, look at my belly!

After the temple Becca and I took Natalie and Lucas on a bike ride with our beach cruisers. As stated before Lucas decided he wanted to fight with Natalie throughout the trip, so when we decided to put both of them in the bike trailer I was wondering if I was creating a miniture rage in the cage. They both did really until the ride back to the beach house. Natalie, screamed, "Papi! (she calls me Papi some times-I dont think she knows it means Dad) Lucas hit me back!" I asked did you hit him first? " Yes, but he hit me back!" It was the funniest thing I heard all trip. We stopped and ate some ice cream and I have to say Natalie and Lucas are just the two cutiest kids.

Ice Cream Time.

Our Beach Cruisers

June 24th- Lego Land

I left on Thursday and before we left we had to check out Lego Land. We did the 1 hour shop pass and next year we plan on taking Lucas for an entire day. It was very neat to see all the cool things they had done with Legos.

California Trip!

We had an amazing trip to California, we left the day after Shem got married. Becca stayed for the full two weeks and I flew back and forth. We did so many fun things like the San Diego Zoo, shopping at Seaport Village, hanging out on the beach, riding our beach cruisers, attending a temple session in the San Diego Temple, and visiting Lego Land.

The trip was amazing and a great way to spend time with family.

June 18th - The San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo; Riding the Sky Rail

San Diego Zoo; Just playing at the Zoo

Hanging out by the Hippos