My parents new pups are pretty darn cute… February 16th, 2010 by Nick
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Super Scoober January 31st, 2010 by Nick
Today we woke up to a typical Sunday morning. We got out of bed, washed up, got dressed and headed to church. After church we stopped by the grocery store to pick up some goods and then headed home. Little did we know we were about to bust Scoober in the middle of his “pretend time”.
Apparently Scoober likes to pretend he is Superman when we’re gone.
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An Espi Christmas December 18th, 2009 by Kim
Well, we’re off to Austin for the Espinosa Christmas event of the season. It should be fun! I can’t believe it’s so close to Christmas already! I’m sure I have said this way too much, but time is flying by lately!! I guess the busyness of this December has really moved things along.
It was so sunny today after all our rain/mist! I enjoyed a walk to Barnes & Noble at lunch but didn’t expect that I would get warm & need my sunglasses. It was fun seeing everyone sitting outside eating and such. I saw today that the CDC says “people are happier in sunnier places”…the big apple was rated last. Texas ranks 15. I initially wondered if part of that has to do with ’southern charm’/ people in sunny/southern places will rate their happiness higher just because they won’t say otherwise…I actually don’t really think so after reading the article more closely. And gosh, I just sound so cynical saying that!! ha
USA Today article with CDC study
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Had a nice fall December 16th, 2009 by Nick
I think that’s how the joke goes. “See ya next fall!” Or something. I think I’m missing a part.
Anywayyy, I took quite a spill outside the theater this evening. It felt like slow motion & I guess I put my hands down, but in my mind it felt like I was just falling flat on my face. Thankfully I was with the sweetest Chinese reporters who babied me way too much & kept asking if I needed to go to the hospital (absolutely not that bad- no matter how much I whine), which is actually just the right amount of babying for me. 
Most of the visible issue is the nastiness of my ring finger/nail, which I held with a paper towel for a while before someone found a bandaid. Tonight I reverted back to age 7 when Nick poured hydrogen peroxide on my cuts. (only after I searched the apt. to no avail for the blue non-stingy cut cleaning stuff I know I bought once-nick wouldn’t allow that stuff anyway. No pain no gain I guess.)
Funny thing is, it’s my knees that are killing. They feel tender and smashed. I don’t know how to describe it. Even aside from the lumps from this fall, I’m remembering that my knees are pretty funny looking on a good day. Kind of lumpy, and this spill isn’t helping.
Just thought I’d share. I think I was due for a good spill. It had been a while for me. Also, Nick has a love for China, and today after the interview I wanted to understand Chinese & go to China. Add it to the list!
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Violet’s a party girl! December 15th, 2009 by Kim
So I’m feeling very thankful tonight for lots of things. We recently had a lovely shower for Marisa (Bryson) & Baby Violet. It was really fun, and for sure got me even more excited to meet the little one. Baby items are just so foreign and funny when you aren’t used to them. Example: a bucket thing specifically to cover their head when you wash the shampoo out (okay maybe that’s more a little girl thing than baby). Baby V will be very stylish. I can’t wait.
I had a fantastic bday. Thanks everyone! I’ve been a little leary of 24 because I’ve always considered myself more of an odd number girl, but it’s starting out to be pretty solid. I think it’s so funny how I change what “old” is. My mom just recently mentioned that one of my elementary teachers was in her late twenties & I was like, say what?! She always seemed like a grown up to me! It’s almost like they were the sneaky ones. But now I’m just in the club, in on the secret that we act like grown ups even though we’re really not. I had a similar revelation at The Sound of Music the other night when it clicked that Leisl is sixteen. Yes. “I am sixteen going on seventeen” should have done the trick years ago, but somehow it just sunk in that I’m almost a decade older than Leisl, who still seems like such a woman to me. (On a sidenote: check out trappfamily.com to see the real Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont and maybe stay up far too late reading about the true family history…)
Okeedoke, I’m spent from making 144 cookies, & the banging on the wall from the other room leads me to believe that I should go check on Nick. I think he’s hanging a shelf.
P.S. we’re taking a brief one night hiatus from Christmas tunes and jamming/dancing (…nick too) to John Mayer…I’m really liking it. One sounds so much like Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, but I don’t care. It also reminds me of talking each song to death with Amanda & driving to the food bank at 5 a.m. back in colegio.
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Snow Update December 4th, 2009 by Nick
These photos were taken 15 minutes after the picture in the last post. It’s still coming down hard.
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