Farewell Sido Bulos !

On Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 7:15 p.m. our beloved Sido Bulos died.

He will forever be in our hearts and memories as the strong and joyful man with the generous heart.

November 2010

The month of November included two pumpkin patches (Pfizer Farm and Bates Nut Farm), two Halloween costume parties and tons of artwork. Here are a few pictures of our month...

Kingston crawling !!

Jackass 3D Hollywood Premier

I've decided to break the long silence with a posting of Kingston's first Hollywood red carpet premier.

Here's Kingston with Phil and Ape.

Here's mommy and Kingston with our dear friends Shari and Sean Cliver.

Here's Kingston with Jeff Tremaine.

Here's Kingston and mommy on the red carpet at the Mann Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd.

Kingston is only 8 months old and he has already walked the red carpet.

Family Album

Our friend Gretchen came over the other day and took some pictures of the family. Here's a really cool shot of the kids with both sets of grand parents. Here are a bunch of other photos that I love.

Cool shots of the cousins. From left: Dominic, Milani, Sahara, Maya, Gianna and Christopher.

Sahara with Papa Epi.

Kingston loves being in this wrap.

Tata Rose with her grand daughters.

Sweet Maya.

My little miracle.

The end.

U PICK Berries

Now that summer is here strawberries and blueberries are in season. We have been visiting a few berry farms so that we could pick our own fresh, ripe, juicy berries. It's a lot of fun and so yummy !

When we got home we made strawberry jam and straw berry pie. Yummy ! By the way, I will never buy strawberries from the store again. Strawberries have to be picked ripe and eaten that day. (Maya took this picture)

My cousin Merna and her sons Nicolas and Jad came with us to the Strawberry Farm in Carlsbad. Here you can pick strawberries while looking at the view of the ocean. (Maya took this picture) Here's a beautiful berry ready to be picked. Picking berries goes something like this. One for me, one for the bucket. Two for me, one for the bucket. And so on and so forth. You know it's time to leave when you are too full to eat another bite. (Maya took this picture)


Here's Nicolas showing off his berries. (Maya took this picture)

Here's Merna taste testing a berry.

Here's Maya next to the strawberry field. The girls are often times asking to borrow my camera so that they can take a picture. So I finally bought them their own cameras so that they could enjoy taking pictures. This is great because now I don't have to worry about them breaking my camera, and they have a new creative outlet.

The Hook family joined us on our berry adventure. So nice to see them and pick berries together.

Didn't want to forget about Jake. He was missing from the Hook family shot. Here he is munching down a beautiful berry.

I happened to find an old picture of us picking strawberries at the same place when the girls were 2 years old. Look how cute Sahara looks with her strawberries.

We also found a blueberry farm near our house called the Temecula Berry Co.


Sahara has learned to look for the biggest and bluest berries. She is so good that I think they should hire her.

Here's our other blueberry picker.

Sahara reminds me of Juan Valdez in this picture.

This was so cute I couldn't resist.

They blueberries were so sweet and wild tasting I can never go back to store bought berries. With our tasty berries we made stuffed blueberry french toast, blueberry pancakes, blueberry crepes and blueberry pie. We also sprinkled berries on just about everything we ate.

Sahara looking for the perfect berry.

Here's Tata Linda getting deep into the berry bushes.

Sweet !