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Hey There! My name is Raffinee, but most people call me Raff. My wife, Micaela and I are Bay Area locals and mom to three toddlers born 7.5 months apart. Want to know more? Just ask!

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  • ✈️Still traveling- Now off to Colorado! 🏔 The kids have been officially traveling for 31 days straight, away from their comforts of home- and they are rocking it. So impressed with their ability to adapt and go with the flow♥️ Also if anyone has suggestions of fun things to do with kids in Colorado Springs- leave them below👇🏼You guys always have the best tips!
  • We knew that Celebrity publicly (and fiercely) supported our 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ community, but we didn’t know just how deep their values went in ALSO supporting and empowering women👯‍♀️With a female CEO, employing the FIRST female captain👩‍✈️ of a Mega-Cruise ship and having more women on the maritime team than ANY other major cruise line, @celebritycruises is making 🌊waves in more places than the seas! Giving women the opportunity to take👏🏼up👏🏼space👏🏼in roles traditionally filled by men is HUGE. While onboard, we also learned about their commitment to global female education- Malala is even the Godmother of the @celebrityedge! Oh and not to mention they throw a pretty AMAZING 🌈Pride Party at Sea! AND pssst they just released their dates for next years event- who’s ready to #getonboard?! Click the link in my bio👆🏼to read my blog post all about our experience onboard! #celebritycruises #celebrityedge #pridepartyatsea ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
  • 🌴Summmmer time and livin’s easy😎 (relatively speaking😜)
  • Loving being back with our babies, but fully missing back to back to back date nights with this wifey of mine🥰 Love you @memicamd ♥️
  • ⁣Everyone is always so curious about our kids and what their personalities are like, so I thought I’d share a little more about each of them...⠀ ⠀ Mateo 👦🏻Cautious, empathetic and intellectual, Mateo loves to observe before diving in🧐Once he does tho, it’s game on! If you are lucky enough to win Mateo over, he will be extremely loyal to you. He is our rule follower and likes to “help” make sure everyone else follows the rules as well. However he has has been caught urging Luca to do things he knows he isn’t suppose to do🤫He loves to run 🏃🏻and is actually quite skilled at it. We are fairly confident he will be a sprinter or soccer player because he gets pretty competitive! He is most likely to get a comment about his lips or hair🥰 He is also incredibly neat and hates to be messy!⠀ ⠀ Luca 🧒🏼Voted least likely to fall asleep during nap time and most likely to win over any stranger, Luca is a comedian!🎭He’s the most outgoing of the crew and is quick to make a friend (of any age!) wherever he goes. Without a doubt, Luca makes me full on belly laugh every single day with his antics. He is one of the most expressive children I’ve ever seen and has a contagious laugh. He is probably our most cuddly child, but also the one who gets in trouble the most! Mateo and Lola started repeating Luca’s middle name before knowing their own🤣“Luca Eli!” He is the first to pick up 🎼musical rhythm and absolutely LOVES to sing. He will willingly give up his toy to a sibling if they are unhappy and generally loves seeing other people happy. ⠀ ⠀ Lola 👧🏼Micaela and I often joke that we are going to the World Cup🏟with this one! In addition to being built like a professional athlete, Lola is incredibly coordinated, fast, and aggressive- we don’t doubt that she will dominate whatever sport she is passionate about⚽🤸🏼‍♀️🏐She is a quick study and loves competing with Mateo intellectually📚She is most likely to be found within a 3 foot radius of me. Lola is the most feisty out of the crew and isn’t afraid to loudly speak her mind😜 She is definitely the biggest daredevil of the crew and often runs the show!
  • 🌈Just your weekly reminder that LOVE makes a family..... and to go watch the Women’s World Cup!! 🇺🇸🏆⚽️
  • Deciding to go to Europe without our children was a BIG decision. Part of us wanted to bring them along so they could experience all the wonder, but we also wanted some MUCH needed “us time.”👭 Between Micaela’s demanding residency schedule and wrangling in three toddlers on the daily, “us time” is something we haven’t had a lot in the past three years👧🏼🧒🏼👦🏻 To say we loved our uninterrupted time together is an understatement! It made me realize how we need to do a better job of making US a priority in our everyday lives- not just on a cruise🛳 I almost forgot what it was like having Micaela all to myself😏 I’m so thankful for the experience of a lifetime with @celebritycruises and can’t say enough about the customer service, amazing vegan food, and exceptional entertainment!💃🏻Micaela and I were on cloud 9 the entire time and will never forget the memories made!🌈 For all those parents out there, how often do you end up having uninterrupted time with your partner? And more importantly, how do you make it happen?! (Not asking for a friend- asking for myself!😂) #GetOnBoard #celebritycruises #celebrityedge #pridepartyatsea
  • 🎆Happy 4th of July from us and our three little firecrackers! 🧨🧨🧨 Spending the holiday in New Mexico and celebrating ALL the flags🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Thanks to @humanrightscampaign for these awesome shirts!!💙💛
  • ⁣☀This Summer we decided to travel for 45 days straight with the kids! Micaela doesn’t get much time off during residency so we decided to take full advantage of this window before she starts her fellowship👩🏻‍⚕️We weren’t sure how the kids would do not being home for so long, but honestly they seem to be thriving and are loving the🤸🏻‍♀️adventure of always being in a new place!⠀ ⠀ To make the transition from place to place as seamless as possible, one of the things we have been doing is staying consistent with their routine- and that includes daily reading!📚 We’ve recently discovered using the Google Home Mini to take story time to the next level! It adds sound effects to the story as you read along and really brings the stories to life! The kids (and us!😂) have had so much fun reading with the sound effects on their @disney stories! To get started all you have to do is say: “Hey Google, let’s read along with Disney!” and let it know what book you are reading! Make sure to check out my stories to see @googlenest in action! Bundle available at Walmart for $49 until 7/28❤🧡💛💚💙💜#giftfromgoogle

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  • ✈️Still traveling- Now off to Colorado! 🏔 The kids have been officially traveling for 31 days straight, away from their comforts of home- and they are rocking it. So impressed with their ability to adapt and go with the flow♥️ Also if anyone has suggestions of fun things to do with kids in Colorado Springs- leave them below👇🏼You guys always have the best tips!
  • We knew that Celebrity publicly (and fiercely) supported our 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ community, but we didn’t know just how deep their values went in ALSO supporting and empowering women👯‍♀️With a female CEO, employing the FIRST female captain👩‍✈️ of a Mega-Cruise ship and having more women on the maritime team than ANY other major cruise line, @celebritycruises is making 🌊waves in more places than the seas! Giving women the opportunity to take👏🏼up👏🏼space👏🏼in roles traditionally filled by men is HUGE. While onboard, we also learned about their commitment to global female education- Malala is even the Godmother of the @celebrityedge! Oh and not to mention they throw a pretty AMAZING 🌈Pride Party at Sea! AND pssst they just released their dates for next years event- who’s ready to #getonboard?! Click the link in my bio👆🏼to read my blog post all about our experience onboard! #celebritycruises #celebrityedge #pridepartyatsea ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
  • 🌴Summmmer time and livin’s easy😎 (relatively speaking😜)
  • Loving being back with our babies, but fully missing back to back to back date nights with this wifey of mine🥰 Love you @memicamd ♥️
  • ⁣Everyone is always so curious about our kids and what their personalities are like, so I thought I’d share a little more about each of them...⠀ ⠀ Mateo 👦🏻Cautious, empathetic and intellectual, Mateo loves to observe before diving in🧐Once he does tho, it’s game on! If you are lucky enough to win Mateo over, he will be extremely loyal to you. He is our rule follower and likes to “help” make sure everyone else follows the rules as well. However he has has been caught urging Luca to do things he knows he isn’t suppose to do🤫He loves to run 🏃🏻and is actually quite skilled at it. We are fairly confident he will be a sprinter or soccer player because he gets pretty competitive! He is most likely to get a comment about his lips or hair🥰 He is also incredibly neat and hates to be messy!⠀ ⠀ Luca 🧒🏼Voted least likely to fall asleep during nap time and most likely to win over any stranger, Luca is a comedian!🎭He’s the most outgoing of the crew and is quick to make a friend (of any age!) wherever he goes. Without a doubt, Luca makes me full on belly laugh every single day with his antics. He is one of the most expressive children I’ve ever seen and has a contagious laugh. He is probably our most cuddly child, but also the one who gets in trouble the most! Mateo and Lola started repeating Luca’s middle name before knowing their own🤣“Luca Eli!” He is the first to pick up 🎼musical rhythm and absolutely LOVES to sing. He will willingly give up his toy to a sibling if they are unhappy and generally loves seeing other people happy. ⠀ ⠀ Lola 👧🏼Micaela and I often joke that we are going to the World Cup🏟with this one! In addition to being built like a professional athlete, Lola is incredibly coordinated, fast, and aggressive- we don’t doubt that she will dominate whatever sport she is passionate about⚽🤸🏼‍♀️🏐She is a quick study and loves competing with Mateo intellectually📚She is most likely to be found within a 3 foot radius of me. Lola is the most feisty out of the crew and isn’t afraid to loudly speak her mind😜 She is definitely the biggest daredevil of the crew and often runs the show!
  • 🌈Just your weekly reminder that LOVE makes a family..... and to go watch the Women’s World Cup!! 🇺🇸🏆⚽️
  • Deciding to go to Europe without our children was a BIG decision. Part of us wanted to bring them along so they could experience all the wonder, but we also wanted some MUCH needed “us time.”👭 Between Micaela’s demanding residency schedule and wrangling in three toddlers on the daily, “us time” is something we haven’t had a lot in the past three years👧🏼🧒🏼👦🏻 To say we loved our uninterrupted time together is an understatement! It made me realize how we need to do a better job of making US a priority in our everyday lives- not just on a cruise🛳 I almost forgot what it was like having Micaela all to myself😏 I’m so thankful for the experience of a lifetime with @celebritycruises and can’t say enough about the customer service, amazing vegan food, and exceptional entertainment!💃🏻Micaela and I were on cloud 9 the entire time and will never forget the memories made!🌈 For all those parents out there, how often do you end up having uninterrupted time with your partner? And more importantly, how do you make it happen?! (Not asking for a friend- asking for myself!😂) #GetOnBoard #celebritycruises #celebrityedge #pridepartyatsea
  • 🎆Happy 4th of July from us and our three little firecrackers! 🧨🧨🧨 Spending the holiday in New Mexico and celebrating ALL the flags🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Thanks to @humanrightscampaign for these awesome shirts!!💙💛

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