John Mayer's Concert

At last minute we decided to go to John Mayer's concert. Owl City opened the show and because of traffic we ended up only catching Fireflies. This was a our second time seeing John Mayer live and it was a lot of fun!

Sam's 6th birthday

Two days before Sam's birthday, Bryce and the boys started making a pinata for Sam's birthday party.
Here we can see a little bit of the completed pinata that was soon destroyed.

The kids also played soccer and flew a big kite.

And Sam got a lot of presents! Thanks everyone who helped his day be so special and fun! Sam really had a wonderful birthday!

Sam and Lucas Pictures with Celeste

Here are some pictures that Celeste took of the boys. She did such a good job! Thanks!

New York

Right when we got back from Brazil, Rain needed to send Bryce on a business trip out to NY. Since we had some friends staying in our home, we decided it would be a great time to leave the kids with our friends and enjoy the big apple with just the two of us. At Times Square:

We got some tickets to see Mary Poppins. It was a very fun show!
We got to enjoy the Met as well.
We took the "Seinfeld tour" With Kenny Kramer, who was the inspiration for the Kramer character in the show.
We stayed a a beautiful hotel near ground zero, and ate dinner on the roof while watching a powerful lightning storm roll in over the city. It was an incredible feast for the senses.

We hopped aboard the Statten Island ferry to get a peek at Lady Liberty.

Here we are overlooking ground zero from our hotel balcony.
Checking out grand central station.

Disneyland

Bryce's good friend from high school Tim works for Disney out in California. He graciously got us into Disneyland for a fun-filled day. Tim's beautiful daughter Sarah got along really well with Lucas.

We love the 3-d Toy Story shooter ride!

Brazil 2010 trip

One of the highlights of 2010 was our big trip to Brazil. Marcia's family had never met Lucas, and we were itching to watch some world cup games with the rest of the Brazilian soccer fanatics.

When we were flying out of the LA airport, Lucas tried running out the doors while Bryce was holding his hand. The force cause a "pop" and Lucas started screaming. The paramedics came shortly thereafter and recommended that we not get on our flight to Brazil, and instead take him to the ER. We figured that we should take our chances, and just try to get medical attention after getting to Brazil. Miraculously Lucas was ok after fashioning a splint out of a magazine and an ACE bandage. Once we got to Sao Paulo, we took him to a Doctor who twisted his dislocated wrist back into place.

It was great to be able to see a lot of Marcia's family. Here is her cousin Elena who made a killer fillet mignon dinner for us.

We also took some family pictures with Marcia's mom and dad. This was taken right before we went into the photo studio. We got to stay with them for 2 weeks while eating a lot of food and watch a lot of soccer.
Marcia's dad liked taking us around to see different sites. On this particular day we went to see his investment property in Taubate. This picture was right before we saw a pack of wild street dogs gang up on one of their own in a violent canine tussle.
We then traveled down to Porto Alegre in Southern Brazil where Marcia's sister Regina lives.
While in Porto Alegre we headed up to a very cool European town. They had little chocolate factories, a fun lake and lots of cool things to see.
Regina and her husband Sergio own a sushi shop, which was great for us to munch on delicious sushi :)

Here was one of the restaurants where we watched Brazil win one of its games. This was such a fun environment, with everyone cheering/screaming Brazil on, and delicious food.
We hung out in Ubatuba, which has some incredible beaches. The weather was nice enough to enjoy the sand and surf.

Sam's Tahitian Noni Photo Shoot

We were all pretty excited for Sam's first real modeling gig. He just needed to jump, kick and run around. He had absolutely no problems doing this and the photographers loved him and his ninja-style.

Tahitian Noni loved the pictures too, and have him prominently in their lobby on this bigger than life poster, as well as a couple of stickers on the windows.