thankful

o9 is really movin.  seems like yesterday when Katie and i were hanging with friends on new years ...thinking and drawing up our personal posters for the year..verbalizing to an audience of accountability what changes we'd like to make in our lives...and how we'd be able to help others fulfill theirs.  Feb. just rained- on- by literally...atleast here in the bay.  March however has been marvelous.  Temps in the 70's plus....super mediocre surf..but who cares when spring moves in because it always brings a momentum of change.  The above new photo was taken in Baja....a few years back when Katie and I went on a two month road trip down the eastern sierras and all the way to Pescadero...close to Cabo San Lucas BAja California Mexico.  Man I love Baja.  Of all the places I have been blessed to visit...it ranks next to Chile on the most next most wanted to visit list.  We look forward to planning a winter with Frances on the beach and in the dunes of southern Baja.

On the home turf...i was recently granted the aok by the state of Cali to take my state Electrical exam...wooohooo...  Another goal near completion..and one I will likely utilize to carry us through the following months and years of this recession.  I pray that the work continues in our little bubble of the universe.

Katie and Frances are doing supremely awesome.  Each one growing daily with the newness of an ever changing life and super mother.  I enjoy very much living and growing with them.  Even though I still crave to plunge myself into the ocean as much as possible...I too crave coming home and spending warm afternoons with my daughter and wife...walking the beautiful streets of San Rafael and watching our babe grow so FAST!  We are looking forward to some camping trips this summer....and climbing again....along with trips to our gym and long days at the pool. Speaking of pool...Frances and her bff Soleil took their first swimming lessons this past week and loved it.  My good friend Danny's wife Anke teaches infants how to swim, and although it was a sick day for me...i felt very fortunate to be there to witness my baby's first day of plunging herself.

love yourselves and your neighbors peoples.....surf if you live near waves and if you don't well then....do something you love and have a beer on me.

leeroy