Feliz cumpleanos a ti...

You know what's fun?

Singing 'Happy Birthday to You' in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Nigerian, Korean, German and Arabic. My Swiss roomie turned 32 today. Happy Birthday Daniel!

Sam

Fake Flowers

Hey, also - I have been putting more time and energy into making my house more presentable lately. Elisabeth and I recently spent an evening in the suburbs, shopping at Trader Joes and Target and marveling at the sheer size of things out there (you could fit 6 of Brooklyn's verizon stores into ONE of them in White Plains!!), and in our travels we passed a Michaels. You know, the craft store with the beads and unfinished furniture and do-it-yourself frames? At any rate, I scratched my chin and told Elisabeth that I had a very dynamic, tall, fake plant arrangement pictured perfectly in my mind's eye. She looked skeptical, but lemme tell you, I went in there channeling granny and also Mom in the rental house decorating phase and walked out of that place with some very tasteful styrofoam bittersweet and some tall..um...twigs, you could say. Oh, and some nice rocks to put at the bottom of my cylindrical glass vase. Elisabeth said it was the only good design idea I've ever had. And she's right. It looks STUNNING, in Elisabeth's words. mm hmm. Das right.

Makin' a house a home, makin a house a home.

I like this blog. I can almost see why people are addicted to spewing every last detail about their lives on the internet.

Let me splains dis to u one more times.

Hey Sam:

Half-caf mocha extra hot skinny double pump vanilla chai latte? Coming right up!

Oh Hi!

Not much news here; I just got back from good old Starbucks where I am WELL on my way to completing my coffee passport and becoming a coffee master! It's great to have a zero stress, no responsibility job again!

My typical day:

• Wake up .
  
• Go to beach.
• Play guitar for an hour or so (no egg timer).
• Go to Starbucks every other day for a few hours.
• Work out.
  
• Go to Ocean Beach and watch the sunset from a cave.
• Sing gospel.
• Go out to eat with international roommates.
• Go to sleep.

Life rules!

Love, Sam.

memories...

I'm the wizard of the (information super-) highway;
I travel on you road.
I don't go by car or bus or carry a heavy load...

Love, Dad

Welcome to the Holder Family Blog

Hello from Brooklyn!

Did you know that the distance between San Diego, CA and Lisbon, Portugal is 5692 miles? Luckily we are a technologically-savvy family, and, taking Mom's suggestion, I started this blog so that we can rely on the internets to keep us up to date. Here's what's going on at my house:

I'm trying to work (sort of, as you can see), but Louie is convinced it's dinner time. He started jumping all over my desk and chair and computer and being generally disruptive, so I marched him into the other room and put his birds and bugs DVD on (thanks, Mom!) so that he can rot his brain in front of the TV for a little while. I know, I know, you really shouldn't use the TV as a babysitter, but it's hard, man. It's hard.

So, yeah! Big news from this front. What are YOU up to?

Love,
Molly (and Louie)