The Adventures of Greg, Vivi, Grace & Annika: Holiday

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Tropical Paradise - North Shore, Oahu

Our Big Family Vacation 2011 was to the North Shore of Oahu, and we had an unforgetable time!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Our Winter Trip

After Christmas we visited the Stricklands at their new home in Texas...highlights involved telling them about the Pea in Vivi's Pod, and a trip to freeze with the Grinch who Stole Christmas....

then headed east to visit Evelyn and Susan's families!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Porter Campbell Strickland McFadden Venick Holiday Party '09

Merry Christmas from our many families that come together as one...we are so blessed.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

V and I flew in to Bangkok just in time to celebrate the New Year...we dined at Eat Me, an ex-pat type place with live jazz, then scooted off to Bed Supperclub to ring in the New Year...you can check the photos and a few vids here...

The Countdown at Bed! (I tried to video our kiss...)

Bed Supperclub (Dark, but you can hear what it's all about)

Happy New Years, All!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Christmas 2008 in Arrowhead

Welcome to a glimpse of the Porter Campbell Strickland McFadden Venick (!) Christmas celebration, wonderfully hosted by Jen and Shane at their home in Lake Arrowhead.

Merry Christmas from our Family to Yours!

One of several highlights this year is that for the first time Zach has a boy cousin, and in fact he has two! Here's Campbell playing ball while celebrating his first Christmas with cousin Zach.

Santa showed up jolly as usual with gifts for the kids...

...Grace was so happy with Santa's gift...

Then Santa had a surprise for us all!

Lake Arrowhead was blessed with over three feet of snow, which made for the perfect wintry Christmas setting, made driving fun and every trip outside an adventure!

Uncle Mike and I agreed to a sledding duel for speed accuracy and distance...guess who won?

Mike has created a record of baby Campbell's first time on the sled.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Thanksgiving 2008

A special thanks to Larry and Linda for hosting a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner at their home in Lake Arrowhead. We arrived Wednesday evening through dense foggy conditions that shifted to hail and sleet that blanketed the mountain with a white substance that easily passed as snow for the kids. For our families I believe there is nothing more enjoyable than watching Olivia, Zach and Grace come together and play as cousins - reminiscent of the days Jennifer and I would bond with Kristen and Kelly as kids.

Linda can orchestrate a Thanksgiving meal with the best of them; we Porters are so blessed to have merged our Thanksgiving tradition with the Stricklands. This year, Larry and Linda arranged a photographer to take a family portrait - great idea - and Shane got the boys involved in a 9 on 9 flag football game - my ribs are killing me so next time I'm up for golf! Honestly though, V, Grace and I love our time with Jen, Shane, Livvy and Zach, and are already looking forward to Christmas in the mountains!

To all: If you have a favorite moment from the 2008 Thanksgiving holiday, please share it with us as a comment. And be well!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Grace, The Halloween Tapes

Click here for Grace, The Halloween Tapes 1 through 4

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Fourth of July 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008

Portrait of a Labor Day Weekend

Thanks Mark and Tiffany for setting up a fantastic time beach-camping Doheny Labor Day Weekend. What a great bunch of families you're looking at here!

Grace Quotes

10/9/10 "Daddy, how do you spell "Wackadoodle Wackasmoodle"? "Sure, why?" "That's the name of my new book!"

4/23/10 "First we go to Circle and then second we dance. Then we go to Circle, do our journal, reading, - I'm not including my workbook yet - then we do our workbook, and then we have Snack, then one of my teachers Ms. Abria comes." "What do you do with her?" "Nothing. And then we go to Circle, and then we go outside and play. And then we eat lunch. And then we go inside, sing a song - that's the one we're doing for Mother's Day - so don't tell Mom - oh yeah and then we go outside and play until our parents pick us up. I don't have music today, do I? Oh, Friday, I just have library - because there is a library at my school. "

4/18/10 Demi: "Oh Grace, you look beautifuller than a fairy!"

9/12/09 "Daddy, what is under the road?" "Dirt." "What is under the dirt?" "More dirt" "What is under more dirt?" "Rock." "What is under rock, hot lava?" "Yep!" "Yikes!"

9/12/09 "Daddy, do policemen pull over policemen?" "No." "Then who delivers the mailman's mail?"

9/8/09 Grace's first day of kindergarten was a smashing success..."we didn't have to do ANYTHING HARD!"

8/11 "Mommy, how about you and Daddy eat what you want to eat, and I'll eat a happy meal."

7/25 Olivia: "When Grace is 8 and I can drive we're going to have a cousin and me weekend. We gonna go and do all kinds of girl things together."

6/25/09 - Zach: "Pirates never sleep...they fight all night!"

6/2/09 "Daddy, when Demi and I are grownups, Damon will still be a teenager!"

5/23/09 Tracy, while she's putting Allegra age 2.5, to bed while beach camping: "It's OK Alegra, that's just the sound of motorcycles." Allegra: "They're called Harleys, Mom."

2/15/09 "If I don't cry can I have a Happy Meal?"

2/12/09 "They all know how James Bond likes his drink!"

2/4/09 "Daddy I don't like hawks." "Why, Grace?" "Hawks eat fairies!"

10/6/08 "Daddy can we call Amelia to see if she can play and if she can't play can we call Haley to see if she can play and if she can't play can we call Demi to see if she can play and if she can't play can we play cars?" "Sure." "Yay!"