January & February 2008 
2008 started out at lightning speed for us. It just flew by
and took us by surprise when these 2 months were over.
In January Tyler went back to school after winter break and
Alana turned 35. Alana's good friend Gillian also had a birthday so we hired a
babysitter to watch Tyler and Gillian's son Harrison and went out to have an
adult birthday dinner at Mattei's Tavern in Los Olivos. Then on Alana's actual
birthday we went out to dinner again and celebrated with a little birthday cake
and candles. Tyler was very generous and actually allowed Alana to blow out her
own candles.
In February we decided to skip the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco and had a small family celebration here in town. Tyler shared some Chinese goodies with his class at school and they made some Chinese paper lanterns at craft time to celebrate the holiday. There was also a small Chinese New Year festival at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art that weekend and afterwards we went out for Chinese food with Gillian, Luis and Harrison. For Valentines Day Gillian graciously offered to watch Tyler while we went out for a romantic dinner at our favorite French restaurant in Solvang. Also in February we sadly said good bye to our good friends the Staudes as they moved to Illinois near Chicago. We miss them a lot! Hopefully we'll be able to visit them in the future, we'll just have to wait until it thaws out a little bit.
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Tyler
around the house
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Playing with his newest car track |
Getting silly with Q-tips |
Getting some serious air on the trampoline |
Celebrating
Alana's 35th
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Tiramisu cake. Yummy! |
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Saying
good-bye to the Staudes
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Tyler is going to miss Rachel |
One last pic of the boys together |
Feeding
the ducks at River Park in Lompoc
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Getting some bread from Gillian |
Look at the arm on that boy! |
In
Santa Barbara after the SB Museum Chinese New Year Festival
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Luis, Harrison, Tyler and Bill hanging out |
Man, Harrison couldn't wait. When you gotta go, you gotta
go. |
