Tanner's new cousin!

As of yesterday, I am now the proud Aunt of a new baby girl, Belen Sophia Mino. She was born at 3:12pm to my sister and her husband in San Jose. It's truly amazing to bring another beautiful and healthy child into the world.

My sister and I have always been close - only 18 months apart - and best friends our whole lives. Now I am thrilled we get to experience the joys and challenges of motherhood together.

Not to mention Tanner has another cousin to play with!

My sister and I joked to each other a long time ago that someday we'd both be married with our kids and live down the block from each other.

Scary thing (and amazing thing) is: now that has actually come true! We are very blessed.

Obon Festival

This weekend marks the first of probably very many Obon festivals for Tanner!

Jeff has worked in the Raffle/Information booth for 38 years. He is very proud, as am I, to have our son here for the first time "helping" out.

Jeff used to work with his grandfather at Obon so we are passing on the tradition

The food is awesome. The weather is beautiful and we get to see all the people from the community that knew Jeff so well growing up. Here comes the next generation!

What a memorable weekend this will be! Next year it's so hard to imagine but Tanner will he running around! Watch out then...


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Crawling time!

Tanner crawled today! He's not completely on the go just yet but definitely is getting the hang of it more so than before. If he sees an object of interest that is out of reach he will lean forward and then push up on his knees and go for it! What an amazingly exciting milestone!

He is just 7 months old.


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