Oregon Visit

Over President’s weekend we made our annual trip to Oregon to visit the Dillard/Stark family. This trip has become a family tradition. We started doing it the year Marty's dad turned 50. The first trip we all cross-county skied 14 miles and stayed at a lodge on Elk Lake. Times have changed. Now we snowmobile. However, the time with family is as special as ever. This year we had much to celebrate. We celebrated Marty's dad's birthday. We also celebrated the news that Marty’s brother Scott and his wife Lauren will have their first child in August, Marty’s cousin Chris and his wife Casey will also have their first baby in September, Marty’s Aunt Betsie was recognized as teacher of the year for her school district in Tualatin, Oregon, and Marty’s upcoming graduation from Wharton!








Special Dinner






Enjoying the Oregon outdoors







Homemade dinner & more family time

Happy Valentine's

This Valentine’s we celebrated with Jackson. We spent the day with friends from the Wharton community. The Egan Family hosted a party for us. Marty and I went out together, but we no longer take pictures of just the two of us - Jack rules the roost!

Mommy and her Valentine


Party time

Jackson's New Clothes

Our good friends Bharat & Anila spent the winter holiday in India. On their trip they purchased Jackson a special outfit. Though the “kurta pajamas” look angelic on Jackson, don’t be fooled. He is still a wild boy! Jackson can add this to his collection of authentic eastern outfits, along with the outfit that Marty brought back from his trip to Japan last spring.

Night Off For New Years

To kick off 2007 we headed to the South Bay Area to visit Adam and Mindy. Jackson stayed with his Nana and Poppa in Sacramento while we enjoyed a very relaxing evening. We had a delicious meal in one of the new trendy spots on Santana Row in San Jose, CA. After dinner we toasted the New Year in Adam and Mindy’s charming home, also in San Jose.





This New Year was very special. We began our courtship exactly 10 years ago. It is amazing how much has changed. What a great 10 years it has been!

Christmas in Sacramento

As usual, we had an exciting but hectic Christmas celebration in Sacramento with both Marty and Sarah's family. Christmas Eve was spent with Marty's family for a nice dinner and presents.





On Christmas Day, Sarah and Tom hosted an incredible breakfast spread at the Jumper house for guests. We opened the rest of our presents late in the morning.



Tom even pretended to be an authentic "bad Santa".



We spent the evening dining with Sarah's extended family. As usual, all of our Christmas wishes came true.

Jackson's First Birthday Parties

Yes, Jackson's first birthday was so special that we had to have more than one party for him. The first party was with all of our friends at Wharton and Jackson's buddies from the Wharton Kids Club. We had cake and ice cream for the kids and Marty even learned how to make balloon animals for the kids (well, at least he could make a dog and a flower).





After we got to Sacramento for the holidays, we had another birthday party for Jackson so that he could celebrate with his family. He had another cake and was showered with attention and way too many gifts.



His cousins were more than happy to help take care of him.

Happy Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Egan’s. They live just down the hall from us. Jackson did not have much interest in the food. This was surprising because usually he is a hearty eater. Maybe it was because of all on the festivities. In addition to celebrating Thanksgiving it was also Trinity Egan’s 1st birthday.

My 1st Thanksgiving


Happy Birthday Trin


Happy Birthday, now I am going to steal your pacifier…


The “one year old club”


Party Table


So much fun I am worn out


To see more pictures from Thanksgiving & Trinity’s birthday go to the following link.
http://calmarty.smugmug.com/gallery/2165966

Jackson is 11 Months Old

Jack is such a busy little guy. When he is awake he is constantly on the move! He loves to make lots of noise. One way he makes noise is banging the pots and pans. The other way he makes noise is screaming: he yells in the hallways of our building to get the dog’s to bark, screams in the hallway in our apartment (because it echoes), and when he wakes up in the morning he will lay in his bed (for up to a half hour) talking and screaming happily to himself.


Getting into trouble!




Out for a walk on a cold day

Happy Halloween

Jackson had a ton of fun celebrating his first Halloween. We went to a Halloween party on Friday night and went trick-or-treating on Halloween. We went trick-or-treating with several of Jack’s little buddies. It was quite fun going door-to-door in such a beautiful and historic neighborhood. The street we went trick-or-treating on is located just across the street from our building.



He really enjoyed his first lollipop!


To see more pictures from Jack’s first Halloween go to the following link.

http://calmarty.smugmug.com/gallery/2118324

The Pumpkin Patch

October 19th 2006 Jackson takes his first trip to the Pumpkin Patch. We went to a Pumpkin Patch about 20 minutes form down town Philadelphia. We went with a few of our friends & everyone had a great time. We took a ride on a train, visited with some animals, and of coarse we bought pumpkins! We took lots of pictures, but I never really could get Jack to look at the camera; there were way too many other interesting things for him to look at! We lucked out, the weather was great and all the kiddies were well behaved. All and all it was a great trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Jackson is 10 Months Old

Jackson is 10 months old!

Yes we are a cliché. So many pictures of our newborn and now we average a few pictures a month. Life sure is busy with a 10 month old. Jackson is mobile! He can get anywhere and into anything. If we forget to put the dog's water bowl up he is in the bowl with in seconds. He has taken a few steps independently but prefers to crawl or walk holding on to things. He has music classes two days a week and swimming class on Mondays. I haven't taken any pictures of his class, but will try to do so this month. Here are our favorite pictures.


Playing daddy’s guitar!