6th Annual Wang Dang Doodle

It's Party Time

 Happy times with family and friends!!

5th Annual Wang Dang Doodle

Back in November, we started the holiday festivities with a bang...

a Wang Dang Doodle party

with as many friends and family as possible.

This year with friends from as far as North Carolina

and one young man from Utah who drove 6 hours to get here.

They get better year after year!

cheers!

Easter 2012

Jayda's 1st Easter...

with Mommy...

 with Daddy...

 with cousin Serenity...

 with Tia Kori... 

checking out the Easter baskets...

 Getting ready for the egg hunt...

grilling...

but mostly just hanging out...

catching up...

and enjoying each other...

  

  

Happy Easter!

a little girl's tea party

 I have a very special neighbor. She is a dear friend and she has a heart of gold. Recently she gave her youngest daughter (center) a birthday tea party...

~Life without friends is like a garden without flowers~

A Wang Dang Doodle of a Party

2011 Wang Dang Doodle

San Diego - Girl's Weekend 2011

5th Annual Girl's Weekend

Each year for the past five years the women in our family have a weekend together, leaving the husbands and kids behind. It gives us a chance to catch up with no interruptions. We regroup, talk, laugh, pray, eat, shop....Julie, Frances, Veronica, Virginia, DeeDee, Michelle, Linda

(missing this year were Kori, Elizabeth, Chanin, and Kacey)

daughter/mother

cousins

mother/daughter

daughter/mother

sisters

cousins

putting together our girls weekend scrapbook

praying

eating in the first night.

We visited a farmer's market in Little Italy

there were so many goodies to sample

and lots of creative vendors

we visited a church and a mission

this one with beautiful stained glass windows and paintings

we had dinner and did more shopping at Old Town San Diego

Cheers!

We have Michelle to thank for these get aways. This was her way of spending time with her family in Arizona since she lives in California. She plans each year with a theme in mind, this year was how our attitudes play a role in our well being! What an example she gives us!

We go back and forth between the two states for our weekends. But next year we hope to spend our weekend in Washington State with Chanin, God willing.

Our previous years...

2010 - 4th Annual Get-Away in Los Alamitos CA

(above) Frances, Linda, Virginia, Kori, DeeDee, Julie, Michelle, Veronica

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2009 - 3rd Annual Get-Away in Glendale AZ

(pictured above) Virginia, Kori, Michelle (front); DeeDee, Elizabeth, Veronica (middle); Frances, Julie, Chanin, Kacey, Linda (back)

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2008 - 2nd Annual Get-Away in Prescott AZ

(above) Julie, Michelle, Frances, Kori, Virginia, Linda

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2007 - 1st Annual Get-Away in Palm Springs CA

(above) Veronica, Virginia, Kori, Linda, DeeDee, Michelle, Julie