Joel's happy day

Clifton: "Hey daddy, wanna play Minecraft?"
Joel smiling: "Yea, I'll play Minecraft!"

13 Years!

Happy Anniversary you lucky man you!

San Diego!

Legos are Joel's favorite!

Wedding set up

Keri and Joel, gleaming on the beach.

My toes in the sand.

Mission bay, the view from our room.

Keri

Congratulations Melody and Ryan!

The day/weekend/family/bride/wedding was beautiful!

And it smelled good too!

Men and women just think differently

Keri: "Do you know what this new oven inspires me to do?"
Joel: "Cook?"
Keri: "No. Buy a new fridge."

the crazy things I say in the morning.

I woke up late and groggy this morning. I walked into the living room and saw Joel drinking coffee, browsing the internet. The kids were calmly watching morning cartoons and drinking juice. I said to Joel "Why do you look so sexy this morning?" Without looking up or changing his deadpan expression, he said,"You were up all night with cliff and you're probably just delusional"

The reviews are in...

Sable said to Joel, "I love you wonderful daddy." He hasn't stopped smiling yet.

Wing man

Joel and Clifton went to pick up groceries this week. Joel came back home laughing. "Clifton said HI to every woman in the store. Every one of them." I guess the boys got a lot of attention.

What wine goes with this game?

He's actually 45...

Joel's 45th Birthday

Happy Birthday Joey!

From Facebook this week

Keri Hicks Hills

Reminder for Joel's birthday party. Please join us for games, drinks, food and calling Joel old.

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  Joel Hills I am not old I will be 45 

  
  
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  Keri Hicks Hills You just contradicted yourself.

  
  
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  Joel Hills If the internet and Facebook still exist when you turn 45, I'm gonna show you your post 

  
  
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  Keri Hicks Hills You'll have Alzheimer by then and won't even know who I am. 

  
  

Daddy time

Everyone is happy when reading The Poky Little Puppy.

Happy New Year!

Thank you, Jackie and Keith for the tickets to see Evita and babysitting the monsters on New Years Eve!

We needed coffee to stay up late. It worked! We were awake until 10:00pm! (we have kids...)

What a fun way to end a great year!

Game Time

Playing Flying Frog games while watching the Seahawks dominate!

Happy Joel!

Syrah!

So... this happened.

PAX Prime

So, Joel and I were standing in this massive line with a few of our friends. When the line started moving I could see our friends ahead of me and Joel was a few heads behind. I felt someone grab onto my waist and I whipped my head around ready with a slew of annoyed valley-girl sounding insults and it ended up being Joel. He had caught up with me. The guys standing next to us were laughing with us. 

Everyone was polite, security was helpful and kept the crowds moving. Joel bought me some pink and black dice. We had fun checking everything out. Pax is HUGE.

Saying Hello to our friends at Flying Frog

Our day at Pax

DONUTS!

Sable helped Dad exchange the lawnmower today. 

She was so well behaved (or Daddy saw the sign and 

got excited) that they stopped for some donuts. Yumm!

When Mom is at work

...Dad takes the kids to the park!

Whispers

Sable walked up to her dad and whispered in his ear "I love you."

Belated Anniversary fun.

11th Wedding Anniversary

Sushi, coffee, wine, games and friends... awesome.

This place rocks: Wine World

(Thank you Grandma Dawn for babysitting!)