Katherine

Our friend Katherine is a professional photographer and does amazing work with children. She got some great shots of Maggie (and we got one of her above!). If you have got the time... the proofs are at: http://web.sendtoprint.net/ Event id: maggiesmith

If you want to see more on Katherine, her website is http://www.katherineemery.com/

Maggie's Baptism

While we were home, we had Maggie Baptised in the Catholic Church. Father John at the Carmel Mission was kind enough to perform the ceremony and we had almost 30 friends and family attend. Father John spoke of the wonderment of children and how amazing all of their new discoveries were. Maggie decided to chime in and made it clear that she agreed. Perfect timing. I forgot my camera at the ceremony so I hope that the 'paparazzi' were able to get some good shots. If you have never been to the Carmel Mission Basilica, it is beautiful and worth a visit. www. carmelmission.org

Uncle Johnny

Maggie loved Uncle Johnny...

Surfing the 'Getty'

Dutchboy surfing the XXL waves... John is the one with the touchdown arms in the background.

Dutchboy getting his gear on
Dutch, Ringo & our dear friend the 'world famous surf photographer/part time surf instructor for fighter pilots from the Mid-west' Nikki on dawn patrol at the Jetty. Or as John has renamed it... 'the Getty'. Check out Nikki here... http://www.surfline.com/womens/photo_bamp.cfm?id=13007&ad=1
Cousin Tim & our little surfer girl

Bantry protecting Maggie

Taking a break from our walk. Bantry was too cute protecting Maggie. Or resting...

Round at Pebble

It was so much fun to see John's brother Dave out golfing at Pebble. I think that they won.

California

Well, I actually don't have that many pictures from Ohio because the camera arrived a few days after I did. I hope that the rest of the Smiths have some pics to share from the fun 'Cinci themed' party at the clubhouse! So, here we are already arrived in California and a little bit warmer.

Maggie had her first introduction to Bantry dog...

This might only be funny to me!

These pictures might only be funny to me! John & I are all dressed up and ready to hit the steakhouse in Cinci. Stephanie started to take some pictures... but could not figure out how the camera worked. First picture was when things were going well... then we lost it and so did Steph.

Ohio

We have finally downloaded tons of pictures from our trip (ok... 562 to be exact). I will spare you most of the boring ones and will only post a few shining stars (maybe 100 or so...). Here we go: Maggie investigates Grandpa Bill's glasses
...meeting of the minds ...with Auntie SusSus
...with Great Gram Trudie

New cousins

Maggie finally got to meet many of her cousins while in Ohio. Here she is with Penny & baby Owen.

We are back!

We had a great trip! I will try to upload pics as quick as possible. Until the vacation pics are up... here is a picture of Maggie's Great Grandfather (the one on the right) Win Endicott. Of course much of the discussion at home was about who Maggie took after... do you think she looks like Win?