Kelly & Ryan

As a family our favorite hobby is the love of travel. We love to visit new cities, new states, and new countries; to experience their food, lifestyle, and surrounding nature. Vacation memories are things we cherish and want to always be able to give the gift of experiences to our kids.

Gabi has a lot of her own classes throughout the week. She enjoys: Kidstrong, cooking class, messy class, music class, library days, Muay Thai, dancing, ISR swim lessons, and homeschool preschool class. We like to put Gabi in a wide variety of classes so she can learn what she likes to do.

We also love family hikes, fun pool swim days, cooking dinners and desserts, walks around the neighborhood, crafting, playdates with friends, celebrating holidays and birthdays, park and picnic days, farmers markets and more.

We are in a great family oriented community. There are many children on our street that we are close with and have frequent playdates with. Several amazing parks in the area, one within walking distance. We newly built our house and love making it a home filled with lots of love. We have welcomed one furry friend named Luna Bear Wiggle Butt, Luna for short. She has brought so much laughter and energy to our lives and can't imagine life without her (not to mention good lessons for kiddos).

Within driving distance to: Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, California coast, Hoover dam, Joshua tree national park, Zion national park, etc. We have many options when it comes to education including public, private, charter, magnet, and more.

Our family was started by adding Gabi to our lives first and the story is quite kismet. We fully believe Gabi was meant to be ours as Kelly is a labor and delivery nurse and adopted Gabi from work one night when a birthmother wanted to put her newly born baby up for adoption. Her and Kelly met and the rest was history, we all bonded immediately, had a mutual love and respect for one another, but more than ever for Gabi. We all wanted her to be loved and cared for in the best way humanly possible and give her the greatest life we could. From that day forward, that has always been in our thoughts everyday.

We have surrounded ourselves with all our closest friends and family. We truly believe that friends are just chosen family members and we treat them as such. We are lucky enough to have Gabi’s Nana and Pops right down the street within walking distance. We frequently have family fun days at Nana and Pops house swimming in their pool and making dinners together. We have many playdates and educational kids classes with friends that make our days fun filled. This family we’ve been given and the family we've chosen make our lives rich with love and support

While some of us are near and some are far, we make every effort to stay in frequent communication and spend as much time together as possible through Facetime.

One of our most recent and favorite adventures was a trip up to Alaska. We traveled through several cities and explored all around. From an authentic Alaskan husky pulled sled ride to the kenai fjords whale boat tour to walking the beach looking for shells, to hugging highland cows, to walking next to a bear, it was truly remarkable. We had the best time bonding as a family, being in nature, and making all the core memories.

Another wonderful fun filled trip was when we road tripped to Cedar City, Utah. It's so nice to live close enough to drive to so many beautiful places. This trip was a favorite because we were able to just go with the flow and make up what we did day by day. Some days were more laid back with an indoor pool day or discovery museum another. Other days were in adventure mode when we went into national parks Cedar Breaks one day and Zion the next.

We cannot wait for many more adventures to come, hopefully the next one will have 10 more tiny toes.