Peace, Love and Cake slide show

Happy Birthday Ian Mav! Your cake rocked! I had a blast at your party getting messy, jumping in the bouncy house, planting seeds, sliding on the slide, falling in the fountain, jumping in the pool, kissing girls, giving you a power flower, singing and EATING CAKE!

Disneyland Slideshow

We had a great day at Disneyland and California Adventure. Here is the moment we have been waiting for… We love you Mickey Mouse!

Click the link above to see the slide show

We spent the entire day at the beach and at the pool that is ON the beach. ROUGH! Then, because I worked so hard I got a facial. I am still working on my photography skills. I was really disappointed with this batch of photo – most are overexposed. Oh well, I guess we will have to do it all over again tomorrow

our last day oh say it isn’t so!

John is playing on a grass tennis court. Need I say more?

We went to Tanaka Farms today. We went on a ride on a tractor, ate lots of wonderful veggies and picked a ton of sweet strawberries. yum!

We just finished the 2nd session of Johnnyzoom Tennis on Saturday mornings. What a great group of tennis players. As you can see from the photos we start off with a run around the court to warm up, hit some balls, practice vollys, work on side steps and big jumps and even share a good game of tug-a-tennis. Thanks Moms and Dads for helping us, supporting us and a special thank you to the stuffed friends that joined us every week. We had lots of fun!

Click below to see the slide show  http://www.flickr.com/photos/thezooms/sets/72157603968591514/show/

Click below to see the photos from the beginning of February (the sun was bright that day so the shadows made it tough for photos but cute kids nevertheless:))       http://www.flickr.com/photos/thezooms/show/

Parents: Click on the photo in our blog to take you to all of the photos in flickr for download – when you find your photo – click on all sizes and you can download a large size photo. If you would like a very high resolution version to print let me know and I will email it to you.

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We had a wonderful Christmas with lots of wonderful family. We love you all…wish we took more photos of you all!

OH NO – looks like very bad news for Tate from Santa! Poor little Tate. I thought he was very very good, Santa seems to have thought otherwise. We will try again with the Santa at South Coast Plaza. Hope he has better news.

Turns out he was just kidding…

Tate is teaching Marina the sounds of the train. Is was her first time and he felt it was his obligation to teach her the ropes. For more holiday photos click below…

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check out all of the photos from our photoshoot with Charity

Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season. Tate is blowing many many kisses your way!
Jen, John and Tate

Giving a high five after a good trick or treat. Check out the rest of the pic from this year and last year’s halloween.

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Today was Tate’s first Tennis Lesson. You can see more pics by clicking above. John started teaching Mommy/Daddy and me tennis classes on Saturdays for 2-3 year olds. Luckily Tate was approved by the instructor to start a tad early

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We headed down to La Jolla with our good friends Lisa, Scott and Ian. What a fun filled weekend! We went to the model train museum, ran around the fountain in Balboa Park, dinner at Alfonsos, breakfast with Shamu and an evening at the Yacht Club. We waited until after school was in session to beat the crowds and it worked. Weather was beautiful and crowds were energy producing but not overwhelming.

just takin a milk break / click below to see more

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I do not think we could be any more lucky! John Gramins got us 5th row seats for the US OPEN! They were incredible seats and Tate made it on the big screen. The minute we sat down (in the completley quiet stadium) with a 16 month old, all eyes were on us including a giant camera that was focused on us for a good 10 minutes. Guess they dont see itty bitty tennis fans that often!!! Thank you John for the fabulous seats – so so wonderful! John was in absolute heaven!

We made the RedLoft blog

http://saycheese.redloftstudios.com/2007/09/20/meet-the-christophers

We took family photos this last Sunday. Here is a little sampling – Thank you Charity. The photos are great and you definately caught little Tates vibrant personality in this one!

We spent the weekend up at Alisal Ranch near Solvang and had a wonderful time. We were celebrating Leona’s Birthday – Happy Birthday Leona!

 Tate went swimming, danced with a band, played a guitar (really! – he conned the guitarist in the band into letting him strum the guitar) rode a pony and a pig, went on a hay ride and met a little bird named Bella. He also met ALOT of cute girls (especially Haley and Maddie!).  It was great family and Grandparent time.

check out the link for more photos from the ranch…

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Tate had so much fun at his 1st birthday party (Jay called it a BABY RAGER!). We built a race track in front of our house for all of Tate’s buddys and their vehicles (push carts, cars, tricycles, etc). Tate had a blast – I got dizzy walking around and around the track with him. I finally gave up and he kept going. He was just fine greeting guests on his own, helping push other kids and just plain enjoying himself.

The pinata was fun too but Tate wasnt too happy when his loved red pinata was split apart. awwww…We made up for it by giving him a red velvet cupcake and singing Happy Birthday. He ate his entire cake (no suprise since he is is fathers son – we have fabulous pics to share) It was a great day and Tate was ready for it – he certainly knew it was  his Birthday.

Check out the link to see all of the pics!

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check out the rest of the photos:

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Vince and Marinelle took us all out to dinner at the Yard House for Tate’s Birthday. It was an exciting night for Tate – it was his first real night hittin the town. Thank you Vince and Marinelle!

Merry Christmas! A happy Tate with Santa. He just had to stare at his Dad to make it all ok but it worked!

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