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Driving to Park City

Yesterday we visited a few new places that we have never been: tri-cities Washington, northeast Oregon, Boise and Jerome Idaho and after 16 hours of driving, we made it to Park City.

Here is the river that divides Oregon and Washington.

Beautiful snow:

While I love the scenery, I really love the TV.

Then we went to Costco to run around for a break – and found more TVs.

We visited a place mom used to work in Idaho:

People ask us why in the world we would spend 16 hours on a Sunday to drive to Utah.
Well…By 9am, Monday I’m skiing (that’s me in the lift on the far right):

And Annabel is in cousin heaven:

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Posted by benbbillings on 02/20/2012 in Family matters, Places I've been

Jumping cousins

28 Dec

Mark and Natalie have a trampoline- there is no end to the fun.

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Posted by benbbillings on 12/28/2011 in Family matters, Videos

Christmas Eve

24 Dec

Thanks to all our fans who stuck with us for our countdown for Christmas. It’s Christmas Eve and a lot of interesting things were happening here as we waited for Santa.

Tio John got a Serrano ham

And then made homemade beer while the pork was roasting

Dad rented an RV

Cousin mark took apart a computer

There was decorating

And wine tasting

And hugging (Annabel and Tito- our great grandpa)

A pretty table

A surprise present

A song

And visions of sugarplums!

Merry Christmas!!!!

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Posted by benbbillings on 12/24/2011 in Family matters, Holiday

We spent 5 days and Miami – despite the constant, pouring rain, we had a blast. We stayed with our cousins, Tory, Bella and Christopher while Mom and Dad went to Isla Morada for Pablo and Jessica’s wedding.

We had so much fun with the kids!

When Mom and Dad got back, we went to the Alligator Farm – it stayed dry for the few hours we were there, so even though we didn’t get any beach time, we learned a lot!

Annabel gets close:

Here’s a real one:

A whole lake of them:

Luckily for that fence, we are safe:

Not sure why the alligator wrestler would do this:

We got to hold one:

And eat some Alligator Tail Nuggets

Here is one that got really huge:

And some babies that we got to feed some dog food:

They had other reptiles. Here is a reticulated python that ate a duck a few days ago:

And I held a little one:

We highly recommend the Everglades Alligator Farm!

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Posted by benbbillings on 10/29/2011 in Family matters, My favorite pics of me, Places I've been

OC with the Atchitys

15 Jul

Because summer hadn’t found it’s way to Seattle yet, we spent two wonderful days at the beach with Mark, Shauna and Anthony and Katy. The Forment cousins from San Diego came and joined us one day too! My cousin Cody took Anthony out to ride the waves – we can’t wait to go back!

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Posted by benbbillings on 07/15/2011 in Family matters, Places I've been

Uncle Matt and Aunt Jenn’s Wedding

10 Jul

Congratulations Matt and Jennifer. We are so happy for you! I am most excited about my new cousin, Gabe – another awesome boy to play with! We love you guys!

(We didn’t get a lot of pictures, but we got a few good ones.)

What a fine set of cousins!