It's Been a while....

Well its been a while since you all heard anything from our small part of California, and for that we apologize. But we are back and hopefully on track to get this blog rolling again. I will start by saying that we are all doing fine, Rebecca continues to light up our life on a daily basis. We can't wait for the next addition to the Birmingham Family to come next year. But first, lets close out 2008.

With that in mind, I wanted to share a quick rundown on our first family Christmas in California. Up until 2008, we have been heading to Memphis/Mississippi to celebrate Christmas. This year we went to Tennessee for Thanksgiving because we didn't want Susana traveling during her third trimester. Luckily we were able to be joined by Granny Birmingham (out in Cali for work), Tio Ofilio (from the bay), and Capt Joe and Caroline Nason (Co-worker of Irving)

A good time was had by all as we each got to play with a few new toys, of course Rebecca made out the best (as it should be). Though the big kids got a chance to play some Guitar Hero with Drum set on the Wii as well. Rebecca even got her own guitar that she could rock out with. See the video below for some of her strumming! (Granny is on the phone in the background)

All in all it was great Christmas Holiday. Best wishes to all of you in the New Year.

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.

Is this Gardening?

We had a date with Papa today.

He wanted to do something called "Gardening" in our back yard.

I don't think Rebacca understood the idea behind this activity.

Mommy calls going out in the back yard "weeding" we tend to pull everything the grows back there, out. Papa wanted to make wholes and take rocks out all day. What was that about?

All weekend, Rebecca has been preparing herself for this date with Papa. Today, she picked out her clothes, as you can see, she picked a skirt (not what she would wear for weeding) and was ready to go when Papa got here today.
To her surprise, they headed out back, grabbed different tools than what mommy uses, and started "gardening."
I really don't think Papa was prepared for what he found back there. We do live in the city of Rocklin and it has that name for a reason. the ground here is all rock.

Irving says 'it was a rock quarry before the houses started being built.'

I think he should have spoken up sooner.

At the County Fare

Our very first County fare!

I have to admit, this was sooo much fun. We invited Rebecca's best buddy Jordyn to come along.

I think they started to get a whiff of what having a large pet is like on this picture.

Here they are by the stables eating waffle cones (no ice cream:

Rebecca does not even know what ice cream is yet.)

Rebecca cannot believe how big cows are in person. She was so happy to have seen baby caff as well. It took me 15 minutes to get her out of the 4-H club section. She wanted to see everything, from cows, to bunnies, to chicken and ducks, we saw sheep being sheered and pigs being pigs.

She loved it. And again, we had a great day, and this time she was so tired she didn't even want to get out of her stroller when we got to the car on our way out. She walked all day.

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.

Side Walk Fun

We are here again in the middle of three digit weather.

This time we are waiting for Daddy to come home for dinner. So we were in the front lawn, under the shade of out big oak tree.

The great opportunity came along, and the neighbors sprinklers started to water the lawn. Of course, Rebecca found it very opportune and decided to make the best of it.

I think I have also mentioned this, that Rebecca does not like getting too dirty, or messy.

Here she is sitting beside the sprinkles, with her juice beside her, enjoying the spray of the water while staying just out of the main sprinklers' way.

There are some of her ingenious ways of getting cool, staying clean, but getting the most out of her fun all at the same time.

Did I mention what a genius Rebecca is?

Lunch with Daddy

On the rare occasion, Rebecca and Mommy go to Beale Air Force Base and actually get to visit Daddy.

Today was one of those days. We visited the PX, The Airman's Attic and got Rebacca a couple of shorts for this wonderful weather we have been having.
But the best part was that we actually got very lucky and were able to have a great lunch with Daddy at The Pub.
So now Rebecca knows that Daddy works at Beale, and that he is working there til he comes home for dinner.
She is still trying to say Beale A.F.B., but comes out as Bill ABC.