The Muñoz Oca's

Overdue update

2009-04-13T21:49:00.000-07:00

I am completely guilty of neglecting to update this blog since becoming a Facebook junkie. Now that the honeymoon is over with Facebook, I am adding some much overdue pics to the blog. We have Easter, Malena's birthday and some other lovely photos to share. I promise to be more diligent with my updates and I promise, a Facebook intervention is not needed, I swear.

Easter at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Malena and Sadie are playing the piano together and it sounds 'beautiful'.

After all the eggs were found the kids had fun playing some soccer

The Easter bunny brought Jacob some silly string, unfortunately for Grandpa

Is that the Easter bunny???

Jacob showing Ryanne where all the good eggs are

Anthony Notaro and Malena getting ready for some birthday cake!

Malena tearing into her birthday presents

The ladybug cake and flower cupcakes with ladybugs on them. Did I mention the theme was ladybugs???

Malena on her new tricycle that her mom and dad gave her. There's even a spot to hold mom's coffee!

Malena getting crazy with the paints

Malena wearing mom's nasty winery shoes

Sitting on Coco reading.....

Running with cousin Ryanne at the playground

Holding cousing Alexander.......for a brief, sweet moment.

Palm Springs 2009

2009-02-22T22:06:00.000-08:00

My cousin Nick and I took our second annual trip to Palm Springs to visit our Aunt Lee and Uncle Joe. This year Juan was able to come down for a day and 3 of Nick's closest friends also made the trip. We had a blast visiting with everyone and enjoying the sunshine. Our days went pretty much like this: breakfast, pool, snack, nap, pool, dinner, pool. We did make it to the Joshua Tree national park this year and went on a beautiful hike. I hauled Malena in our backpack carrier and managed to not fall down and break my neck. I don't have many pics from the trip but will add more as I get them from everyone else who actually took photos.

Nick and Malena playing around

Aunt Lee working on dinner or more likely, slicing up some limes for our rum and cokes!

Cocktails in the pool at night.....doesn't get much better than that!

Stuff

2009-02-22T21:56:00.000-08:00

Malena reading to Juan

Malena reading to her baby

Juan and Malena having a moment

Malena 'helping' in the kitchen

Pre-bath time craziness. If you look closely you can see that she is making the airplane noise with her mouth.

Malena gets a pony!

2009-02-22T21:47:00.001-08:00

Grandpa Larry made Malena her very own rocking horse. It is absolutely beautiful! Malena fell in love with it and within hours had figured out how to pull herself up on horsey without any help - I think the poor horses tail may have been the 'help'.

Malena giving her new horse some hugs

Grandpa showing her how to make the horse 'go'

Showing off...........

First barrel racking

2009-02-08T22:21:00.000-08:00

It was time to rack the barrels of wine I made this year. I think we picked the coldest afternoon possible and spent the entire day outside. Even sampling the wine didn't keep us very warm! Lucky for us Dad and Sally stopped by with Malena and took some pictures for us.

Here the wine is being pushed out of the barrels into a large tank.

A shot of some wine pouring out of a carboy.

Malena and I supervising Juan.

The lees (solids) at the bottom of the barrel.

Grandma Sally and Malena watching me racking the barrels.

No matter what happens with this winemaking project in the future, we have a lot of wine for our friends and family to enjoy!!

Argentina Trip - Viaje a Argentina

2009-01-15T09:05:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Argentina. We will add more as we get them from all the friends and family that were taking pictures. I will attempt to translate into spanish and since Juan is in China right now there is no one to correct my horrible translation, entonces lo siento para mi espanol!!

Playing in the pool at Coralitos

Jugando en la pileta en Coralitos

Juan Cristobal, Fer, Juan Manuel, Martin, Michi, Jose

Juan Manuel, Michi, Fernando, Juan Cristobal

Olga

New Year's Eve - Ano Nuevo

Malena's new dress - La vestida nueva

Running under Abu's legs - Corriendo bajo des piernas de Abu

The Family - La Familia

Juan Manuel, Jess, Malena (with bink/con chupete!), Olga, Lalo

Martina and Lalo dancing - Martina y Lalito bailando

Tom taking a picture from the top of Catena Zapata - Tom tomando un foto encima de bodega Catena Zapata

Tom and Ray - Tom y Ray

Juan and Jess - Juan y Jess

100+ year old vineyard at Achaval Ferrer - Un vina muy viejo a lado de bodega Achaval Ferrer

Having lunch at La Garde winery. Martin, Ray, Tom and Juan

Almuerzo en la bodega La Garde

Veraison in Malbec

Juan and Caki at B de B winery - Juan y Caki en bodega B de B

Jose, Tom, Jess, Juan, Ray

Caki, Juan, Tom, Ray

Dinner at Martin and Jesica's house - Cena en la casa de Martin y Jess

Michi y Christina

Malena y Mariela

Julia y Malena - las primas

Juan Manuel, Juan Cristobal, Martin y Michi - que facheros!

Let it snow!!

2008-12-22T15:08:00.000-08:00

Nuestro patio!

Malena jugando en la nieve

First hair cut!

2008-12-15T10:51:00.000-08:00

Say 'bye bye' to the baby mullet!

What the heck is going on here Mom??

Can you just take a little off the back?

Seattle Trip

2008-12-15T10:26:00.001-08:00

While Juan was in Seattle on business, Malena and I drove over to visit him and do some Christmas shopping. We also got to see Tio Juanito and Tia Sarita. Malena absolutely LOVED the horse carousel downtown.

Malena and I checking out the view from the hotel.

Malena waving hello at an airplane (she doesn't miss a single airplane!)

Malena and Dad on the carousel.....she couldn't get enough.

Malena and Tio Juanito on the carousel

Tio Juanito not feeling so well.....going a little too fast?

Malena and Tio Juanito goofing around at dinner

Tio Juanito, Malena, Dad

Some more goofing around....

Tio Juanito rocking out with Jimi

Harvest 2008

2008-11-17T14:13:00.000-08:00

Halloween - Noche de brujas

2008-11-17T14:08:00.000-08:00

It's Minnie Mouse!

Malena had a blast handing out candy to all of the trick-or-treaters (nearly 300 of them!). She also managed to sneak a few pieces of candy for herself throughout the night.

Hangin' with Tio Juanito

2008-09-22T16:21:00.001-07:00

Misc.

2008-09-11T14:14:00.000-07:00

Getting ready for the bath with Dad.

Illustrating what a genius I am by reading a book all by myself.......

Did I say 'genius'? Perhaps we should call her 'cookie monster'.

Just showing off my new butterfly wings.

Sweet Baby Love

2008-09-11T13:58:00.000-07:00

Malena making sweet baby love to her Alaskan Moose that Auntie and Jake brought back for her from their vacation to the Land of Palin, I mean Alaska.

Seaside, OR

2008-09-11T13:49:00.000-07:00

Jake looking through the vent from the upstairs bathroom at the beach house.

At the beach

Finger painting with Auntie

La vida loca

2008-09-11T13:44:00.000-07:00

Malena decided that she wanted her swimsuit on over her pajamas. So, she's chilling out, having her milk before going to bed and yep, wearing a swimsuit. Don't worry, we didn't let her actually go to bed with it on.

2008-08-23T13:25:00.001-07:00

What a diva! Malena was hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa's house and was obviously ready to head to the pool.

Malena LOVES to play on/with the piano at Grandma's and Grandpa's. She looks like she knows what she is doing in this picture, but for those of us that were actually there, we could tell you otherwise.

Who knows what Nick and I were doing on the counter in the bathroom of his house in Brewster? My guess is he was the one that put those braids in my hair.

2008-08-16T21:47:00.000-07:00

Malena and Tio Juanito hanging out together during 4th of July

Malena y su tio Juani jugando durante el cuarto de julio.

Malena eating her very own ice cream cone........

Malena comiendo un helado............

And loving it!

Getting ready for bathtime........Vamos a bañar

Verano en Casa

2008-07-03T14:32:00.000-07:00

En la pileta y con Jacob

At home we also have some summer fun, swim lessons, a mini pool in the backyard and Jake visiting every once in a while...

2008-07-03T14:23:00.001-07:00

Juanpi Bacci king and his Queen Doris

Summer Time

2008-07-03T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hi,

We went to the Oregon Coast to enjoy the beach with Juanpi y Doris

Aca van algunas fotos para la abuela....

June Update and Trip to

2008-07-01T20:32:00.001-07:00

April/May update

2008-06-05T09:35:00.000-07:00

We had one of my favorite people and best friends, Tiffany Jones, visit this spring. Tiffany, Bo, and Miss Sadie Bug stayed with us and Tiffany's parents, brother (Mike, Polly and Dylan), and sister and brother-in-law (Sarah and Sean) all made the trip as well to do some winery touring. We had so much fun with them, as always. They are the kind of people that you want to adopt as your family. In this picture Sadie is playing in Malena's bath tub.

Here Sadie is playing with bubbles in the backyard. She is absolutely adorable!

Malena's Tio Juanito moved to Seattle in early May and brought with him lots of presents from our family in Argentina. In this picture Malena is wearing her new backpack that her Tia Veronica and Prima Martina sent her.

My Beautiful Aunt Wendy sent Malena this Cubs t-shirt after she, Uncle Bill and Marg's went to Chicago for a vacation. Looks like she'll have to be a Cubs fan now.

Uncle Nick sent Malena this T-shirt from Alaska. It has a moose on the front....

And says 'Don't Moose with Me" on the back........ too cute. She wears this shirt at least once a week!

Malena and I are on the deck of our cabin on the cruise we went on in April. Juan worked while we hung out.....rough!

The cruise started in San Diego (above) and ended up in Vancouver, BC. Here we are hanging around Vancouver killing time until our flight home. It was a beautiful day in a gorgeous city.

Malena is loving the piggyback ride.

Malena's 1st Birthday

2008-04-14T21:32:00.000-07:00

The day before Malena's birthday party we were hanging out in the hammock enjoying the nice weather.

Malena's Birthday Party!

The weather was beautiful and all of our favorite people came for Malena's party.

Here we are opening all of her presents. Actually I was opening them with the help of all the older kids, Malena was walking around playing with all the wrapping paper.

Our very good friends Doris, Sarah and Mike

In this picture everyone is singing 'Happy Birthday' to Malena

Here she is getting her first taste of frosting

And she is going for it!

Yeah! Is that a baby? Can't tell from all the frosting!

Papa is trying to get her cleaned up.

Grandma and Grandpa watching Malena destroy her cake.

Marcus and Sophia having some cake.

Juan getting his empanadas ready......yum!!!

A BEAUTIFUL picture of Juan Pablo y Doris

Liz (gorgeous and pregnant) with Sophia and Madry. A group of beautiful girls.

Juan with Anthony and Malena

Grandpa Larry walking around with Malena

Trip to Seattle

2008-04-14T21:21:00.000-07:00

We all went to Seattle for Taste WA. Juan worked and Malena and I got to hang out. Here she is checking out downtown Seattle from our hotel room. I think she is looking at Nordstrom's or maybe Tiffany's......

I bought an enormous chocolate chip cookie and Malena and I shared it. Here she is just getting started.

She did actually get some of the cookie into her mouth.

One happy baby.....

And here is the aftermath of eating a chocolate chip cookie. She's laughing (not crying) and as you can see by the floor, she has been having some fun.

2008-03-16T12:39:00.001-07:00

Uncle Nick, Malena and I (jess) went to Palm Springs, CA to visit our Aunt Lee and Uncle Joe. They knew that Nick was coming for a visit but didn't know that Malena and I were going to be there. Nick and I came up with a plan of how to surprise them, it was great!

Nick and I had talked about doing all sorts of things while on our vacation such as hiking, going on the tram,possibly visiting Mexico. Yeah, none of that happened. The longest we got Nick out of the pool was to eat and sleep!

Here Nick is showing us how ripped he is.

Aunt Lee keeping out of the sun.........with Malena's hat. : )

Malena in her new floaty thingy. We will be using this a TON this summer.

Malena with her shampoo mohawk. I know it's silly but look, she looks happy.

Malena getting her bath in the sink - she loved it.

Oh look, there's Uncle Nick in the pool again. And yes, he was that happy all the time.

Malena and Maggie (beanie) discovered that they loved eachother. Here they are kissing (one of many kisses that took place throughout the vacation).

Malena and
Uncle Nick hanging out, probably getting ready for the pool.

2008-03-03T09:01:00.000-08:00

Malena took her first steps Sunday, March 2nd.

Juan and I were playing with her when she decided to show us what she could do! Juan had just gotten home from a week long trip out of town, so it was really a nice surprise for him. Today is Monday, March 3rd and she has already taken a few steps this morning, just to prove it wasn't a fluke last night. Pretty soon she'll be running around like she owns the place!

Noticias de Malena: Ella puede caminar!!!!

2008-02-24T09:49:00.001-08:00

Here is a Malena update. Since Juan is in Wa D.C. for the week, I will get him to write a spanish update when he gets back because you really don't want to try to understand my written spanish!

This is pretty much my view all day long. Malena saying 'mom, pick me upppppp'

I think these pictures might come back to haunt Malena some day.....

She is sitting on the Tigger Airplane that Kyle and Amy gave her and it is now one of her absolute favorite toys. She walks behind it all over the house. So, when she starts walking on her own we are so blaming Kyle and Amy!

Malena was about to get in the bath in these pictures, thus the 'naked baby' on the airplane. What is cuter than a baby belly?

For those of you not fortunate enough to have experienced a Malena kiss yet, this is what you get: wide open mouth with lots of slobber. You gotta love it.

Just chilling on her airplane, still naked.........yep

One of her favorite teething toys, the iPod remote.

And the reason for chewing and drooling on everything she can get her hands on: 'If you look REAL close you can see the TWO teeth I just got'

We have been tortoise-sitting for our good friends, the Johnson's. This is Wilson. He has been all over the house checking everything out. In this picture I think he's getting a little friendly with Malena's Fox in Socks.

Abuela (grandma) Olga gave Malena this adorable pink cushion. She has been playing with it, drooling on it, crawling on it, etc.

2008-02-02T19:07:00.000-08:00

Now that Malena is crawling very well and can pull herself up, she is in to EVERYTHING.

After the snow, we had a sunny day.

Malena and Mom during the storm...having fun, Juan inside napping...

2008-01-21T14:21:00.000-08:00

Yawn....Dad and I need a little nap

Can't have a nap without my favorite pink blanket

Mom was trying to get me to wear my adorable Kitty hat to keep me warm, I had other ideas about what she could do with the hat.

Hey, look at me everyone - I am standing up! Wow, this is so much fun.

Maybe some day I'll get to go out there on my own......

What, I'm not supposed to play with the Ipod?!

2008-01-16T15:09:00.000-08:00

Would anyone like some bacon? I make it extra crispy......

That's right, me and Dad sharing a champagne cork...what's wrong with that?

We finally got a family portrait done....

2008-01-04T17:09:00.000-08:00

Malena in her Princess Dress - thank you Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mike

Malena en su vestido de Princesa

Where are the parents????
Donde esta l0s padres???

Malena playing with her new kitchen

Malena jugando en su nueva cocina

Malena and Ryanne just shooting the breeze

Malena y su prima jugando juntas.

Gateando - Crawling

2008-01-04T16:47:00.000-08:00

Bienvenida Julieta

2007-12-29T16:41:00.001-08:00

Julieta Schmidt!
La primita menor de Malena se parece a papa Michy!
Felicitaciones!
(Michy en Diciembre hicieron 20 anios que salimos del cole.......)

Julia Saal esta cada dia mas linda

2007-12-24T11:27:00.000-08:00

Julieta Maria Schmidt

2007-12-24T11:24:00.000-08:00

Julieta Maria bienvenida!
No tenemos fotos, pero papa (michy) nos va a mandar una pronto.
Que mejor regalo nos podia traer papa noel?
Felicidades!!

2007-12-13T15:56:00.000-08:00

Malena playing in her crib.

Malena jugando en su cuna.

Decorating the Christmas tree

Decorando el arbol de Navidad

2007-11-14T21:31:00.000-08:00

Flirt

2007-11-10T10:36:00.000-08:00

Trick or Treat!

2007-11-10T10:23:00.000-08:00

Trick or Treat!!!

Halloween!!, Snow White (aunt Jenn), Dementor (Jake) and Malena (loving it!)

Noche de Brujas, Blancanieves (Jennifer), un dementor de Harry Potter (Jacob) y Malena

Otoño - Fall

2007-11-09T17:59:00.000-08:00

2007-10-28T21:34:00.000-07:00

Juan with cousin Ryanne and Dad (Grandpa) with Malena

Malena at Jacob's soccer game:

2007-10-18T08:52:00.000-07:00

Malena at 6 months old:

Julia Saal!!

2007-10-07T11:15:00.000-07:00

Bienvenida Julia!

2007-09-24T17:36:00.000-07:00

2007-09-24T17:25:00.000-07:00

Primer Comida

2007-09-24T17:21:00.000-07:00

Did not eat much, but Mom had a blast~!

2007-08-18T12:33:00.000-07:00

Some new photos of Malena from August.

Nuevos fotos de Malenita

Fotos para los abuelos!

2007-08-04T09:48:00.001-07:00

Malena en su cuna.

Que guapa Malena!

Malena jugando con su manta favorita (gracias Tia Susana)

Malena y su Papa.

Muchos besos para todo. Los extranamos mucho!! XOXOXOXOX

Malena y sus abuelos

2007-07-15T13:17:00.000-07:00

Malena con la gorra bonita.

Malena in her new little sun hat.

Nuestra linda bebe.
Our beautiful little girl.

Malena sonriendo con su abuelo, Lalo.
Malena smiling at her grandpa Lalo.

Malena dormiendo con su abuela, Olga.
Malena napping with grandma Olga.

Malena mirando futbol con su abuelo.
Malena watching soccer with Lalo.

Malena tomando una siesta con Lalo.
Malena napping with Lalo.

2007-06-05T09:46:00.000-07:00

Malena and Jacob - very cute together.

Malena y Jacob, que guapos!

Malena and her dad napping together.

Malena y su papa dormiendo.

Napping again....

Otra vez......

Malena and Jacob reading a book together.

Malena y su primo, Jacob, leando un libro juntos.

2007-05-23T14:43:00.000-07:00

Aunt Jennifer (Tia Jennifer) and Malena

Juan and Jacob.............rock stars.

Malena and Jacob hanging out together.

2007-05-17T15:59:00.000-07:00

Proof that she's not always a quiet little angel.

Malena in her new backpack carrier........I think she has some growing to do!

Malena's first month (primer mes)

2007-05-13T19:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos of Malena (aka Juicy) during her first month. It's amazing how fast the time has gone and how much she has already grown and begun to change.

Hola, unas fotillos de Malena en su primer mes de vida, la nena feliz y los padres enamorados... (Martin y Michi a fin de año charlamos)

Besos