Happy Holidays! New video!

I just launched our family website at 2journey.com which has our new video with our favorite moments of the year.

Here’s 2010 in 9 minutes! Happy Holidays everyone! Love, Jim, MaryAnne, Marissa & Jessie

If for some reason you can’t see the video on YouTube, I also posted it on our .mac page here:

http://web.me.com/purplemaniac777/wendtfamily

So busy… a couple of updates.

I will post mostly personal things on this blog and move all food truck related items on my new blog at Food Truck Noms! Please visit that page for food truck activities!

I have been falling off my gym schedule! So busy and lazy when it’s cold out! Today I managed to get to the gym and run 3 miles on the treadmill. I really need to get out and do more of that. Feels great!

We are also working on a couple of holiday projects. Marissa just recorded a Christmas song, which I will be using as the background audio for my video for our website that I’ll be posting up soon. I’m bringing back www.2journey.com for our family webpage. I’ve had that domain for years and it used to be printed on all our holiday cards. Well, I’m doing that this year! Fun fun fun. Hang tight. I’ll be lucky to get my projects out in time! May the force be with me… Hope everyone is happy and healthy this holiday season. I’m loving my family and friends so much. It’s been a challenging last part of this year, but we’re getting by and keeping a positive outlook for an amazing 2011.

Family Photo Day

Jessie and Marissa 2009

Today we are going have a family photo shoot at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. It’s our tradition to visit the giant Christmas tree every year. Hopefully we’ll get a good shot for our holiday cards. I am so tempted to make our cards this year. Am I crazy for wanting to make 100 handmade cards? Maybe. But it’s my once a year opportunity to get my creative bug out of my system. I just might do it!

Here’s a picture taken last year of Jessie and Marissa at Fashion Island. I can’t believe how much they are growing up.

Santa Train at Irvine Park RR

This is such a fun activity. We did this a lot when Marissa was younger and now that Jessie is almost 3, we’ll definitely go this year! More info about this event is here:

http://www.irvineparkrailroad.com/content/irvine-park-railroad-christmas-train

Happy Holidays!

Jessie & Marissa at Fashion Island, Newport Beach.

Originally uploaded by maryannewendt

Can you believe Christmas is just 7 days away? Wow, we are not even close to being finished with our shopping & photo projects! This photo was taken at Fashion Island in Newport Beach a couple of weeks ago. Jim loves his new camera. I bought him the Canon Rebel T1i.

So much holiday energy!

The girls had so much fun dancing to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” club remix!