Memorial Day trip

This is just an example of the planning ahead we do....

We received a call at around 10:30am, Papa, Rebecca and mommy were all outside "gardening" (ie: making wholes in the back yard) when Daddy says "Want to go out today?"



Of course Mommy says "yes!"

Daddy "We have twenty minutes to get ready. Will you make it?"


Mommy looks around, Rebecca is brown with dirt, hair has little rocks in it from digging, and then looks at herself, and looks the same as Rebecca. But she also looked around and saw that she had two choices, 1- stay home and do some "gardening" with Papa or 2- go out have fun with family and friends.

Mommy quickly replied "Yes! we can make it in 25 minutes."

An hour and 45 minutes later we were in Truckee, Ca. sitting and having lunch at our friends' pub the Half/Half with eight other friends and two, 2 yr olds. We ended up at a little beach shore, were and walked across to the Safeway and had some good Starbucks.

We were all freezing. On the way home, we encountered rain, snow, and a beautiful wintery road.

Thanks Daddy for driving us out and giving us a great day to remember.

Trip to FairyTale Town

Fairytale Town

is the place where all the fairy tales come to life.

Here Rebecca is sliding down the Jack and the Bean Stock slide. We had just come from visiting Eeyore, and Owl, who as you may all know, are great friends of Winnie the Pooh.

This was a trip we took with some of our Mamis from Mami Latina. Rebecca is the one with the green Coconut Tree sun glasses, her best buddy Jordyn is styling the pink sun glasses, and the two boys are just going to hang back the rest of the day.

This was only a two hour event, and they were all exited and terribly exhausted by noon.

It was a great day.

A Great Day

We enjoyed a great day today. Thought the temp was triple digits again, we stayed cool the entire time.

Here we are at the Nugget Market yet again. This time we needed a few lemons for tonight's chicken dinner. But if anyone is familiar with this grocery store, you know that they have wonderful food too.

Mommy is so smart to have scheduled the day just so, and we could enjoy a great noodle lunch at The Nugget. Rebecca is enjoying her fresh squeezed lemon and Orange blend. Nice and cold just perfect for the walk back home. The pictures with the noodles are never going to be seen in public. Sorry but we are trying to teach Rebecca that being sloppy and gross is not what we do.

(But they are pretty funny, so you can always come see us in person if you ever want to see any of "those" pics.)

We were still enjoying the day even for dinner.

We had our Mami Latina group come for our monthly meeting. Rebecca was so excited to have her friends over, she kept opening the front door and saying "Come in, Please!"

We see all the kids playing in Rebeccas' play room. the biggest surprise here is that she is actually enjoying herself and not being terribly sad about everyone grabbing and playing with her toys. She was actually being a great host.

The kids seemed to have forgotten their moms were present at all, and were having the greatest of times. Of course because it was a late meeting, all kids that attended were asleep before arriving home.

The kids were well aware that Irving was present. He was in fact the person who cooked for them and was supposed to be watching them while us moms discussed the group and future events. Rebecca seemed so proud of her Daddy, that she continued introducing him to everyone. But of course he is the one next to the Blue M&M man.

On this night, Rebecca slept so well, she didn't wake up till 7:30am the next morning.

Did I mention it was a great day?

Birthday Celebration Part II - Zoo Time

Since Rebecca's actual birthday was on Monday the 14th, we planned to have her actual birthday party on the weekend. This year we had her birthday party at the Folsom Zoo with a picnic at the neighboring park afterwards. It was a nice day, unfortunately it was a little chilly in the morning so we had chase the sun to stay warm!

The Folsom Zoo is a nice small zoo, the best thing being that kids 4 & under are free so most of the kids in attendance were free. The group got to see a peacock spreads its feathers.

We also saw, bears, tigers, cougars, and wolves, among the many animals. It was nice to see the kids having a good time watching through the fences. After a little while in the zoo the group headed out to the park where Nehal and I cooked some hot dogs and hamburgers while the kids played in the playground.

Despite the wind, we were able to keep the candle lit long enough for Rebecca to blow it out. (she did a really good job of blowing!) She even managed to put most of the cake in her mouth and not in her dress. It was good to see all the kids and adults out and about, thanks to all that came.

It was a very good day and Rebecca really enjoyed it!