Friday, January 1, 2016

2015 in Pictorial Review


2015 was a great year!

January
We are falling in love with our newborn, and, at five weeks old, he had to undergo a pyloromylotomy to correct his pyloric stenosis.  It was heartbreaking, but fixed his projectile vomiting (and hooray for less laundry!)



 Mom and Dad Arness visit from Virginia




February
We took our first trip to visit the Lees in Oakland- -Mason and Sophia meet Iver for the first time!

We ambitiously have another Oscars party, including real and fake babies!

March

We head down to Orange County to meet first cousin Kingston and have the boys baptized. 

I went back to work after 12 weeks off for maternity leave, and grandma comes to stay with us to watch over our baby!


April
Baby celebrates his first Easter

We hike in Trinidad

We fly to MN (and visit ND) to see the Arness side.

Four generations

Rochester friends

May

We celebrate my first Mother's Day


June

We celebrate Kelvin's first Father's Day




July

We take Kelvin's parents to the Oregon Coast for the July 4th weekend.



Julie and Anthony's wedding



August

The Vu family visits Humboldt County!



September

Iver goes swimming!

And gets teeth!
 

Grandma, Iver, and I take a quick trip to OC.




October

Iver gets his first passport stamp in Ecuador, where we visit Vanessa in Guayaquil and the Galapagos Islands!






We see the Arness side in McLean.





We see the Vus on our way back to CA on an ambitious trip.






November

Our first Thanksgiving!





December
Our little guy takes his first steps.. and turns One!



First snow in Big Bear!







Here's to an even better 2016!

December Sand




On New Year's Eve (day), we took the kids to Huntington Beach to frolic a bit in the sand. It was a bit windy but a lovely, December-in-California day-- we even saw people surfing and running around in shorts!


Sand was a bit of a different surface for our new walker!


Ông cố ngoại (great grandfather) cheered Iver on!





Ông nội brought Iver to the ocean to touch his feet to the waves.... 



... and then (alas, I didn't capture it on camera) a big wave approached, and grandpa fell on his bottom while backpedaling, getting soaked in the process (but kept Iver dry!)



Kids were flying kites




Emma and Iver then enjoyed playing at a nearby park.

He was very determined to climb up the slide...

... but eventually gave up.

The sand was also a hit (some went into his mouth).


We enjoyed a home-cooked lobster dinner to celebrate the New Year and Kenn's birthday a couple of days early.

Iver got a new stethoscope (so he can stop stealing mine) from auntie Theresa








Danny also shares Kenn's birthday!

I'm always so amazed how smiley Kingston always is for the camera!








We hit the hay around 9:30 p.m. (but were up around midnight to celebrate the New Year with Iver's first waking of the night). Happy 2016!