Newport Beach

Newport Beach was a BLAST! The only thing that drove me crazy was the horrible parking situation. During the week it was tolerable, but the weekend was absolutely horrendous. Kathryn and I were there for my brother Daniel's 30th birthday celebration. His wife Mimi, set the whole thing up so that he would be surprised by most of the family coming down to visit. We went to the beach, socialized and just had a great time.
Luckily for Kathryn and I my bro-in-law (Jeremy) loves photography and is always willing to snap a few pictures for people. So, while Kathryn may have quite a few pictures of each other we never really have many of both of us as a couple. So here are a few.


While we were in southern California for 5-6 days we stayed with Kathryn's grandparents and had a great time catching up with them along with some of Kathryn's cousins.

As you can tell from the picture, while my heart said that I should share my tasty balboa bar with my beautiful wife, my stomach was envious and was not in agreement.


This is a picture of a toy that Dave And Griselda brought back for Porkchop after we watched their boys for a few days. The toy's squeaker gave up the ghost 15 minutes after being introduced to Porkchop and ever since he has been busily destroying it and having a blast while he does it.

I suppose there are many other things that I could write, but I think that I will keep this post short, otherwise I just might blow it off and not finish it at all.

Lathan, Kaelan, and Jeydan, OH MY!

Well, while not as fearsome as lions, tigers, and bears, to someone who doesn't have children (yet) going from 0 to 3 in one weekend was intimidating. In the 4 days that Kathryn and I were looking after the boys we went to 4 different parks, one peach orchard and 1 big family (the Lowe's) dinner. The boys were great. I think the greatest difficulty we had was attempting to understand JJ's dialect of spanglish.

We had a wonderfully busy weekend of playing with the boys and trying to get things done around the house at the same time. I think there is a reason people have children typically one at a time. I feel bad for the people that have twins or triplets as their first experience, I am sure it is exhausting.
Before the boys came over I snapped this picture of Ella (the shy cat we have) trying to hide from the dog downstairs (unsuccessfully I might add).

Heather was out here for a couple of days and visited with us and Christina. We had 4 out of the 5 Skeehan Siblings together for the first time in a long while. Unfortunately no one took a picture. So Dan, don't feel left out. There is no proof it ever happened. Heather was thoroughly amused with Porkchop and now I think she understands why we talk about him so much. Anyways, since I have already included 1 picture of a pet I think that is enough for this post.