• December '13 - January '14

    ISLAND LIFE - ALAMEDA, CA

  • Our stuff finally arrived - 5 months later!
    Train of Lights - Niles Canyon Railway
    Keeping warm over the heating duct.
    Loading up the Christmas tree
    Train of Lights - Niles Canyon Railway
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    Loving winter - Alameda
    Beach action
    Train of Lights - Niles Canyon Railway
    The crew en route back from The Ramp - Alameda
    Paddle boarding around the island - winter in Alameda
    Our first NBA game - Golden State Warriors vs Washington Wizards
    View from the room at the Bellagio for CES - Las Vegas
    WE lost (but it wasn't really about the basketball!)
    What?
    Little charmers!
    Adults only day out to The Ramp - Alameda
    Nadal in the making....
    Enjoying a kid free beer (or seven) - The Ramp
    If you can't see me, I'm not licking the chocolate brownie mixture!
    Bogan Christmas in the office
    CES 2014 - Vegas
    He doesn't look very tired = loooong night
    Loving winter in the East Bay - Alameda
    Best friends
  • Empire State Building
    Hangin' with Elmo in Time Square
    Obligatory selfie - Time Square
    Snow for the first time = happy little vegemites
    Helen up the Empire State
    New York from the Empire State
    The Hell's Kitchen Express
    Snowball fights are awesome!
    Outside Sleep No More...a must do!
    Nana and the boys up the Empire State
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    American Sports Bars....a true gift to men everywhere
    Photobomb in Time Square
    Watching the ice-skating at Rockerfeller Center

  • WASHINGTON & VIRGINIA

    Christmas with friends in Washington and Virginia

    Christmas with Nana, the Tangs and the GarcĆ­a Mora's in Washington DC
    Adding some Mexican traditions to Christmas
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    The Lincoln Memorial - Washington DC
    Washington Memorial - Washington DC
    Martin Luther King Jr Memorial - Washington DC
    Korean War Memorial - Washington DC
    Chilling at our cabin in Virgina with the GarcĆ­a Mora's
    Zoe and MarĆ­a Elena
    Ice = awesome
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    Nana with the boys
    Doing manly stuff in Virgina
    Puzzle time with Arturo in Virginia
    The best seat in the house - Virginia
    Pet food and guns....makes perfect sense!
    Hitting the snow for the first time - Virginia
    Tang and MarĆ­a Elena hangin' out in Virginia
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    Luray Caverns mirror magic - Virgina

  • Ā HEAVENLY - LAKE TAHOE

    Ā Our first trip to Tahoe - needless to say the boys are hooked!

    Dashie loving the snow
    Bluebird glory at Heavenly
    Eating the fresh stuff off a bin....classy!
    Mum and Kippie (marshmellow man) on the Heavenly gondola
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    Fresh tracks at Heavenly
    Ah.....little help
    Cracking day at Heavenly
    Zoe and Libs, first tracks of the day
    The ski-boot shuffle.....coming to a dancefloor near you
    Yep, we match....
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    Kippie getting amongst it
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    Bluebird action at Heavenly, Lake Tahoe

  • DASH RIPPING IT UP

    Not bad for the first time on planks!

  • November '13

    ISLAND LIFE - ALAMEDA, CA

  • Nice view of the GG - Lands End
    Barrel hopping - Larsen Winery Sonoma
    All aboard - Ocean Beach
    What?
    Making the Christmas wrapping paper
    The Bay Bridge with city behind - Enroute to Angel Island
    Larsen Winery Sonoma
    A well earned beer after the Berkeley 10K - Berkeley
    Chilling in the park - Dolores Park
    Enjoying a nice Sunday trip out to Angel Island - Angel Island
    The Bay Bridge
    Cruisin' - Russian River
    Can't break anything here! - The Exploratorium
    A new addition to the family
    Heading out to Angel Island
    The Labyrinth - Land's End
    Tramp hair
    One Mile Beach - Lands End
    Pretty sure that top was clean before we got to the beach - Alameda
    Chicken n' Waffles....just do it.
    Helping mum blow out the candles on her birthday cake
    One Mile Beach - Lands End
    Somethings not as it seems - First and last chance saloon, Oakland
    Charming
    Lands End
    Travelling in style around the island
    Organized chaos - Angel Island
    Jack London's watering hole - First and last chance saloon, Oakland
    Thanksgiving dinner at the Jenkins
    Oupa lending a hand - Tomales Bay
    Graduating to a big bike
    Oakland
    It's been a busy month! - Lands End

  • THE CHOPPER

    A chopper ride over San Francisco BayĀ 

    Our bird
    Permission to buzz the tower?
    The Rock
    The city from over Ocean Beach
    The GG
    Old and new, the Bay Bridge looking towards Oakland
    The financial district
    Down periscope...preparing to go under the GG
    AT&T Park, home of the Giants

  • ALCATRAZ

    A night tour of 'The Rock'

    Approaching The Rock
    The Rock with city in the background
    5 x 7 foot cells...
    Players comfort - zero
    They did it with spoons apparently.
    The food was the best of any prison in the US
    Super creepy hospital
    Cold, damp and very uninviting
    Freedom - just a short, freezing, shark infested swim away

  • October '13

    ISLAND LIFE - ALAMEDA, CA

  • Karl rolling in....the city and bay are under there somewhere
    Hanging out in Russian River
    Catching up with Thais from Russian River
    Dad!!!!
    Helping Nana in the garden
    Chilling in the city
    Would this face have done that....no way mum!
    17 Mile Drive - Pebble Beach, Carmel
    Alameda Jets High School Homecoming game.....don't ask about the score
    17 Mile Drive - Pebble Beach, Carmel
    As the name suggests - celebrating our 5th wedding aniversary at the Spindrift Inn
    Obligatory selfie - Santa Cruz
    Alameda Jets High School Homecoming game, the Sophomores doing their stuff
    The famours Pebble Beach Golf Club - Carmel
    The olds - Santa Cruz Boardwalk
    Christening the new SUP with Pebble Beach Golf Club in the background - Carmel
    Living on the edge - Santa Cruz Boardwalk
    Shark dodging - Carmel
    Classy - Alameda
    Friday beers on the ferry, Bay Bridge behind
    You reckon our stuff is on there? - The Port of Oakland
    Plenty of pelicans getting caught out - Santa Cruz
    Apparently these cranes provided great inspiration to George Lucas - The Port of Oakland
    17 Mile Drive - Pebble Beach, Carmel
    Redwood steamtrain - Santa Cruz
    With the old man in the Forest of Nisene Marks - Aptos
    The Kip graduating to the scooter (and doing it in style!)
    Afternoon drinks on the water - Sausalito
    Nude gardening....all the cool kids are doing it
    Gardening with Nana

  • HALLOWEEN '13

    The adventures of Batman, Robin, Elmo and Hula Girl

    The pumpkin path - Petaluma
    Hugging it out with the pumpkin - Russian River
    Climbing the haystack at the pumpkin patch - Petaluma
    Hard work this pumpkin patch business - Petaluma
    The pumpkin path - Petaluma
    Grand St spiders
    Elmo getting ready
    Everything's under control, Batman's in charge - Alameda
    Elmo and Hula girl
    Elmo and Batman
    Elmo and Batman
    Josie the strawberry
    Elmo
    Pre-Trick or Treat dinner at the Birches
    A classic American pie eating competition
    Batman, bucket in hand
    The Grand St hauntend house
    Robin to the rescue....
    Cutting off the candy supply = double meltdown
    Our Jack o' Lantern

  • September '13

    ISLAND LIFE - ALAMEDA, CA

  • The make it yourself playground in Berkeley
    Zoe doing it tough out on the Bay
    Thanks Birchy.....pretty sure I was at work!
    It's all good Kip, I'll take it from here
    You could see my head if my ice cream weren't so big!
    Beer, a bib and chilli prawns - find me a problem with that!
    You eating again Kip?
    What's Juzzie doing here?
    Get nude Kippie
    I can do it myself!
    Zoo time
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    Who needs TV when you've got an iPad and a box
    I want to do the same thing sometimes!
    Throwing stones at Doner Lake...life's good
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    Nuding up at Doner Lake
    Swing action at Doner Lake
    How good is IN-N-OUT Burger!
    Tree hugging in Aptos - Santa Cruz
    Diggin holes in Santa Cruz
    Best bagel of my life - cheese, hummus and jalapeno
    Cardboard box cubbyhouse...win!
    The first hot tub
    Team SF - Festival blanket picnic
  • The mighty Soma Aromas
    The Kwak takes on the Cage Crawl - its was 3 degrees!
    All smiles now.....just wait!
    Conquering the Funky Monkey
    Get down low
    The Electric Eel dishing out the hurt!
    Wipe those tears Raph!
    LP hangin' tough
    Raph helping the boys catch our dinner post Tough Mudder
    We survived...and beer has never tasted SO good!

  • THE HOUSEWARMING

    We finally moved in so we put the beers on ice and fired up the barbie - Oct '13

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    Static attack!
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    Cheers!
    Dashie being super helpful
    Amazing who you bump into!
    Chillin
    Not so chillin
    OK, there's way too many kids in the hot tub now
    Ice cream with Nana = win!

  • ISLAND LIFEĀ 

    Our little slice of Northern California, Alameda - Aug '13

    Our new home
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  • THE MORNING COMMUTE

    If you can't have THE bridge, it's not a bad substitute - Aug '13

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  • LITTLE KICKERS

    On track for Liverpool in 2025 (they might be half decent by then) - Aug '13

  • ONLY IN 'MERICA

    Would you see....

    A car doing this..
    or this....
    or this....
    A car so big it needs two car spots
    Hipster coffee taken to the extreme
    A bento box the size of Texas
    People throwing horse shoes as a sport
    The fun police out in force like this...

  • OAKLAND ZOO

    It was sunny, but gumboots were the order of the day - Aug '13

    "Monkeys are very good at swinging"

  • A DAY OUT AT THE BALLPARK

    Open day at AT&T Park, the home of the Giants - Aug '13

    The homerun time trial!

    Dad takes the crown!

  • CAN'T TAKE THEM ANYWHERE!

    But we're just building a cubby house mum! - Aug '13

    What?
    What?
    I've got an idea!!
    Incoming!!!
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