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Christmas 2007

We spent a wonderful few days in Arizona at my Mom’s house in Scottsdale with my sister Laura, her husband Rob, and their 7-year old son Will.  Highlights included brunch with my high school friends and their families, feeding Claire her first “solid” food using the Texas-themed bib Laura & Rob gave her, dinner at a fun Mexican restaurant, Claire trying on a cute pink dress that was mine when I was a baby, continuing a twenty-year tradition of homemade Chex mix, lots of fun presents for the kids including castle sets both for Will and for Claire, and Stu and I sneaking out for a really good movie. Click on the photo below for a slideshow.

Claire wearing a cute top saying Santa's Little Helper

Merry Christmas, Mona!

A few years ago my family started a tradition of giving creative gifts to each other at Christmas. This year, my entry was a short video recorded with Katherine’s family singing new words to the title song from the 1966 TV special, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Click on the triangle Play button below to see the video.


Continue reading Merry Christmas, Mona!

Whose nose?

Everyone wants to know…. Who does Claire look like? Below is a recent snapshot of Claire and the earliest pictures we found of a few relatives. Please cast your vote for the top two lookalikes in the poll above and to the right of this paragraph, and then click on the Comment link under Sophie’s photo to tell us more about what you think.

UPDATE: The final tally is in and we had 18 people cast their votes as follows: 10 votes for Katherine, 6 for Stu, 5 for Cousin Will, 2 each for Aunt Laura and Aunt Mona, and 1 each for Aunt Eileen, and Cousins Sara, Sophie, and Susan. Do you agree? Add a Comment!

Photo of ClaireClaire Elizabeth West
Photo of Katherine as a babyKatherine
Photo of Laura as a babyAunt Laura
Photo of Sara Shobeiri as a babyCousin Sara
Photo of Stu as a babyStu
Photo of Eileen as a babyAunt Eileen
Photo of Sophie Shobeiri as a babyCousin Sophie
Photo of Will Vines as a babyCousin Will
Photo of Mona as a babyAunt Mona
Photo of Susan Shobeiri as a babyCousin Susan