The Hill Family

So, Egypt.... it was a blast!!! What a crazy place with a bunch of crazy people. There is so much history!! The sites were awesome. Auburn was huge hit!!! Everyone loved her. People would stop and take pictures of her. Seriously, one lady stopped her car to get out to have her picture taken with Auburn. I wasn't expecting that. We have a ton a pictures, so I tried to just pull out of few....although there are a ton on here. Islamic Cairo There are mosques everywhere. The Citadel My head and my arms had to be covered inside the mosques. Luxor temple Karnak temple in Luxor Our guide to the tomb of Ay in the Valley of the Kings. We were the only ones in the tomb, it was pretty sweet! King Tut's tomb Simon and Ryan hiked from the Valley of the Kings to the Temple of Hatshepsut. Auby and I took a cab because there was some climbing involved. The Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor Daddy and Auby at the Ramaseum in Luxor walking in to the Valley of the Queens in the desert The Ramaseum...

On the way home they stopped in Venice The boys at the game. So I haven't posted anything forever, it has been a crazy couple of weeks. The week before we left for Egypt was the craziest!!! Ryan and Aaron came for a visit. Ryan was coming to Egypt with us, and had a week here in Germany before our trip. Aaron came with him for the Europe part. The day they arrived they took off with Simon to Italy for the weekend for a Juventus soccer game. When they returned Auburn and I played tour guides here in Munich. They took off for the rest of week. I think they ended up hitting eleven different countires. That same week the day after they took off Simon had a last minute business trip to Athens. He got home the day before our trip. On Friday we left for Egypt (which I'll post about after I have gone through all of our pictures). We returned home on the 16th and Simon had to leave for another business trip to Taiwan the following morning. His work schedule is usually not like t...

We occasionally have photo shoots of Auby. We took these this past Saturday and these are just too cute not to post!

We decided to take a little trip within our trip to California. We spent Christmas week celebrated with the Hills and the week after Christmas decided to drive up the coast to see San Fransisco and the Redwoods. The first day we drove to San Fransisco and spent the day exploring Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39 and went to Ghirarelli's square. We had two major let downs, first, Simon's favorite cookies, Blue Chip are no longer SF and second the line for ice cream at Ghirarelli's was enormous. On our way back down from the Redwoods we stopped back in SF and saw Chinatown, the Full House houses and tried to get a Hill Family picture of the Golden Gate bridge, but there was so much fog we couldn't see it from land. Lighthouse in Trinidad, CA Simon ranks Highway 101 as one of the most scenic routes he has driven. It's hard to really appreciate how beautiful the Redwoods are without being there. Our camera just didn't do justice. We hiked the into the Lady Bird...

We had our first round of Christmas before we left Germany. Thanks Mom and Dad and Kyle and Melissa! We enjoyed all the cool stuff you brought us. Auby getting ready to open her presents! The aftermath and Auby enjoying one of her presents with Daddy! We celebrated Christmas with all the Hills in San Diego. Auburn had no idea what was going on Christmas morning, but seemed excited. I think all of the excitement was too much, she took a nap in between opening presents. We ventured to Coronado for a few days with the family. Thanks Brad and Lupe! Auby loved getting to know her cousins, Samuel, Brandon and Caleb!