My family all got together for Christmas last year (2004) in Fair Oaks, CA. Top row, left to right: Rory, Jean, Ilke, Tedd & Sandy, April, Tessala, Greg. Bottom row: Rod, Courtney, Haley, and Alina. (Click on picture for full-resolution version.)
The girls and I went with my cousin's girls, Camelia and Claudet, for 5 days over the Fourth of July holiday to Tuolumne Meadows, spending the last night (the 4th) in the Yosemite Valley.
Wherein the girls and I go north to visit my brother and his wife in Crescent City, CA.
A little family outing to the famous beach-boardwalk in Santa Cruz, CA.
Tessala and Alina on my apartment balcony, June 2000.
Alina with a dragon she painted in her fourth grade class.
This is the girls with my mom on my parents' boat. I'm standing very close to the galley, where I'm guessing dinner must have been cooking on the stove....
Tessala hanging from the play structure before school; April '99.
Alina and Tessala on their walk to school from my apartment; April '99.