Zavoral Villa!

Tanner's Grandma Zavoral, whom we are calling Gramz, came to help take care of us from March 5-9. She watched Tanner 3 working days in a row and did all kinds of house work for us. It was wonderful to have her with us!  Tanner and Gramz did lots of playing, including coloring, finger paints, chalks, stories, cars, walks, and more coloring. They did lots of art projects like making paper boots for Tanner's boy doll and a cheerio necklace for me!   One night, we took Gramz to Mama D's Italian restaurant in Newport Beach. Then we tried the famous frozen bananas on Balboa Island. We've never eaten them before and figured we outta since we've lived here for 5 years now (!).  ---Imagine a picture here of us eating the frozen bananas.--- I'm not really sure how anyone ever got the idea to freeze a banana and then eat it. I didn't like the frozen sound that mushes and screeches when you bite into it, but I liked it once it was more melted. The best part was the choc...

Hangin' Out with Tanner after work around Feb 19.  Tanner is almost 20 months old at this time! Tanner loves to get into this automen and into our hampers.  Dancing to Pandora music. He squats his legs and takes large steps around the room, sideways, front and backwards. It's so funny. He also bobs his head back and forth. Sometimes waves his arms, spins, and jumps. He didn't like it when I put on classical music. "No, no. New song!" I tried several classical pieces. "Nooo. New song!" Then I put on the station with kids rock and roll. He was much happier and danced all over the place. I figured that meant we needed to listen to more classical pieces. So I make sure that we do that on our morning drive to the babysitter's house. Tanner eating. I love watching him eat! He makes the cutest expressions. He has become an independent eater in the last month or so. He gets up into his high chair all by himself. As of this week, he now consistently eats all ...

This is Jeremy. My sister calls me Brace Face now because I had to get braces in January. I've actually been wearing invisiline for about 3 years now. I originally got invisiline because I have this weird bite problem where my bottom teeth are digging into my top front teeth and have created these notches that are almost exposing the nerves. So my choice was to either get my teeth aligned correctly to keep the problem from getting worse, or I end up with lots more problems down the line. So I got invisiline because it was only supposed to be 6 months to a year. My orthodontist kept saying things were going right along as they should, but I got skeptical after the 2nd year. Then, they stopped making appointments with me.  (Jeremy has braces in this picture) After 3 months of not hearing from my ortho and not being able to call their office, I decided to look online to see if anyone else was having the same problem. Turns out the guy is a crook! A complete fraud. He took his Dad'...