Maura and Sam at Manhattan Beach, 1999

This was 13 years ago.  Today, Sam is already 5'8", within an inch of Maura's height.

Bathing Sam, 1999

Maura giving Sam a bath in the sink at the cabin we were staying at in Mineral King (Sequoia Nat'l Park)  This was our first visit to Mineral King in 1999 and we've been going there ever since.

At Goleta Beach, 1999

This is Maura and Sam before JJ was born.  Our good friend cycling friend, Paul is in the background. We went to Santa Barbara a lot since Paul got a post-doc position at UCSB.  We used to ride our bikes a lot out there as well before kids.  Goleta beach has a lot of tar and Maura always gets it on her feet and the running joke between me and Paul is that if there is tar on the beach, she is sure to get it.

Karen and Maura, 1999

This is Maura with her high school friend Karen in 1999.  Karen lives up in Woodside (just West of Palo Alto) but made it back to West Covina every so often and they would get together.  This was at a park in West Covina at the corner of Cameron and Lark Ellen.  Sam looks like he was crying but I did not take the picture so I can't really tell.

Manhattan Beach, 1999

This is Sam and Maura at Manhattan Beach sometime in 1999.  We ate lunch at Captain Kidd's and decided to hang out and play by the water.  JJ is actually in this picture -- inside Maura's belly.