Look who's 32....

Happy Birthday Babe. We love you so much and are so grateful that you love us too. You rock our world.

XoxOOxxoXoXX,
Wifey, Rhys and Becks


this was the balloon Rhys picked out just for you.

first fish

Rhys caught his first fish yesterday. He was quite proud, as was his daddy.

CARS

Oh CA, you never dissappoint! While we were there, we left the kids with Nana and went to the Nascar pits. We walked around where the cars were being worked on, met Robert Richardson (a driver), and checked out the buses.

Then Rhys went back later that day for the actual race. Rhys has been into cars, and especially race cars, lately. They went to both days! He had a great couple days with Daddy at the track and is definitely his new racing buddy.

Happy Birthday Hubby

Justin celebrated his 31st Birthday on Sunday so we headed out to the coast for the afternoon. We decided to try out a new spot, Pacific City. The whole drive out though we both kept thinking we need to live a bit closer to the beach because 2 hours each way doesnt lend itself to a quick trip on a sunny day.

The weather turned out to be warmer and sunnier than at home, so we are glad we went. Rhys was having so much fun running every where. He had a blast.

oh, the weather outside is frightful!

Every year, it snows in portland. Thats great, I think snow is soo pretty. However, because it only snow's once, maybe twice a year, the city has no idea what to do with it. We have no plows. They wont use salt. And they couldnt really predict this storm. Every hour they have come on the breaking news adding another "possible" inch to the expected amount to fall. I am happy and warm in my home, but Justin is stuck on the freeway, (and has been for the last 1.5 hrs.)trying to make it home, in our rear wheel chevy camaro... turns out its not the best snow mobile.

**and just for the record, it is now 11:30pm and Justin just arrived home safely (a total of 7.5 hours stuck in the snow). Thanks to the help of our amazingly great friends the Rockwoods and their fanatstic car, the FJ.

i swear

Well, I dont. But justin did...

He got sworn in, as in he is a legit lawyer now!!

the results are in.......

HE PASSED!!!!


Justin passed the BAR! Yea!! Im so proud of him! He worked his little tail off for this and we just got the results back today. He is officially a lawyer now.... He jokes about now signing his name

Justin Aida, Esq

What a nerd, but a cute, smart, dedicated, wonderful, funny nerd.

navy seals

So justin did this navy seals training thing with my brother. i was there for only a few minutes at the very end to take a few pictures and just that was brutal. So i can only inamgine what the rest of his day consisted of. But he felt like such a stud and I think he got his fill, and crossed JAG off his list of future employers.

and did i mention that log is 150 lbs?!?!

this is called "get wet and sandy"

but very happy he did it!

an all american

So Justin's law firm that he will start working for in the Fall has a summer softball league against the other Portland firms. He has been able to go to a few of the games to mix it up between studying. And wouldnt you if they served delicious hot dogs and hamburgers bbq right there to order?

drained

I think the studying is getting to Justin... poor guy!

all about justin

So Justin is always telling me how he doesnt know anyone on our blog... which is totally untrue, but he doesnt really do last names, so I think it messes him up. But then I got to thinking that I always talk about me and the baby... so for fathers day, because he is the best one around, this one is all about him.

Justin Hideki Aida

• Born January 30, 1980 in Kobe, Japan
• Oldest of 4 wonderful boys
• Grew up in Japan, Modesto, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati, and graduated from high school in the Philippines, but calls Huntington home
• Went to BYU 2 years where he high jumped for the track team
• Served in the Colorado Denver North mission
• Came home and transferred to UC Irvine where he played volleyball and joined the swim team
• Was an Ocean Life Guard and Junior guard instructor for Huntington City Beach during the summers
• Met Kelly his first semester in 2003 in a history class and married her in March of 2005 in the LDS Las Vegas temple
• Graduated with a Bachelors in History and Magnum cum Laude
• Took a year off between undergrad and law school to work at a law firm in Newport beach and at Oakley in their legal department
• Moved to Eugene, Oregon in the fall of 2006 to begin Law School at the University of Oregon
• Interned every summer at a law firm in Portland, Oregon named Dunn Carney, which is also where he will work after he passes the BAR in July
• Lived in Adelaide, Australia for 6 months during a semester abroad from law school
• Took an externship working for Adidas, which gave him the final credits to graduate from Law School in May 2009
• And his first son was born in April of 2009
• He loves: to play sports (basketball, volleyball, football, swimming, soccer, footy, running. Basically, you name it, he'll try it), travel, surf, paddle board, master new things, watch TV, eat, and be in the sun
• He plays the piano
• He is typically in bed by 10pm and will gladly use the floor if we are out
• He folds all the laundry in our house and makes all the delicious chocolate chip cookies
• He is so happy if he's in the water or sunshine, but especially both!
• Not the most handy around the house when it comes to fixing/building things.
• His eventual goal is to be in-house counsel (meaning handle all legal and contractual work of just one company) for an American company, preferably a sport or entertainment type (ie. Nike, Adidas, quicksilver), and take several ex-pat packages to different parts of the world to raise his family much like he was
• He would love to have a boat, live at a beach with surf and have several little munchkins running at his feet
• He likes the finer things in life and to look good, but ONLY if it comes with a cheap price tag and loves to acquire "toys"
• He is very particular about who cuts his gorgeous hair
• He is half Japanese, half American and wont correct you if you think hes Hawaiian
• He LOVES bbq sauce...well all sauces for that matter. His philosophy is "every things better dipped in something"
• He is brilliant, literally. He retains information like a sponge. If hes read it once, its in there
• My favorite qualities are his love for life and adventure, his ginormous heart, incredible loyalty, great compassion, and amazing ability to decide what he wants, and not stop until he gets it. He has great perspective on what is important in life.
• And he is the best father ever. He adores rhys and tells him/me all the time how much he loves us. I really lucked out with this guy. He never ceases to amaze me. He never misses an opportunity to tell me he loves me or how lucky he is, but it is soo the other way around. I am the lucky one because he makes me want to be better and smarter and has taught me how to love so much deeper. I can not say thank you enough for how he has blessed my life, not to mention giving me my beautiful son, who is a constant reminder of his daddy and how special he is.

I love you babe and cant wait for the next 50 years of adventures filled with laughter and love. You are more than a best friend, you make me complete.

bouquet for a crummy day

Justin is soo awesome! Not only does he go study all day long and work so hard so he can pass the BAR, but he often comes home to a tired, cranky wife, a crying baby, and a dog that is lucky if I remembered to let her out all day! And he does this with a smile. AND when Im the one that has been cranky to him, he shows up with a bouquet of these. Gotta love this man!

i couldnt resist

Not that anything particularly happened today or these are at all that great, but I think they are too cute, ergo you should see them and think they are too cute also. "oops, did i spit on you?"

"haha, got you sucka"

so serious!