A long 4 day weekend..

I had a nice long 4 day weekend :). My company had Monday off for Martin Luther King day, and I took Tuesday Inauguration day off as vacation to watch history and a change I am looking forward to take place.

In true me fashion, the weekend was filled with lots of fun times. Daddy threw his back out last week so he has been resting it up, and I have been trying to keep Darrian busy while he heals. Friday Darrian has his 15 month wellness check, more on that in another post. After the Dr's. we met my friends Laura, Kelly and their husband's for dinner with the kiddos. We went to Little Star Cafe --where the kids can play with each other, and the adults can sit and ACTUALLY talk! We had a great time. Saturday Darrian and I ran to Target, then went with Grandma to Sonoma for a picnic. It was a bunch of fun, although hard to contain Darrian for running all over in a big open space. Sunday Darrian went to a birthday party of one of his pal's Ty, he had a blast playing in this car the WHOLE time (he does the same at Little Star Cafe, they have the same Car). After a lot of fun he was out, and took a 3 hour nap and I used the time to go shopping with Kelly. :) Kand I watched a movie, a good movie but sad people live like that.

What day am I on now??? OH yes.. Monday. We met Kelly and Greyson at LSC (Little Star Cafe) to play and have breakfast. Then came home so D could nap. When he woke up we took him to this little park nearby to feed the ducks, and play. He was more interested in the "wa-wa" (water) and had to spend a lot of time keeping him from going for a swim.

Tuesday I made breakfast for the family, and we all sat (and I cried some) as our 44th President took office. I AM so excited to see this change, to have lived this moment. I am excited for the future, which feels great.

Looking at the Airplane. :)

Love this deciding what to do next look..

I know this is blurry because he can move fast, and my view finder was on the background.. but you can sort of see the look of joy on his face when running.

haha this face cracks me up.

The birthday Party..

He was in the Car MOST of the time. I did pull him from it a few times so others could have a chance. The birthday boy's cousin was trying to trick him out of it by getting him interested in the horn. It did not work.

Goodie bags. with Train whistles which D loved.

The cake.

It was a train themed party, because the bday boy LOVES them. Here he is, at the train table of course.

Pinata time, where they pull strings a GREAT idea and so much safer than arming a 2 year old with a bat!

D in the mix.

I LOVVEEE this picture. Cracks me up because he loves phones, and is acting like he really is getting a call from the dispatcher. I have to get him a car like these, he loves them.

Shake your groove thing..

A little glimpse of D dancing to Ellen a week or so ago. This is my last post of the day, I promise :)

Baby Please

Baby Please....

D's cutest words.. I took this last night, he is saying please for the camera and trying to come and get it. He stole the plate from the kitchen, his new fav thing to do. It is the cutest when he come and says "wah-wah pwweeaassee". How can I say no?

Baby D being silly..

Darrian is funny. He honestly makes me laugh, he doesn't know he is, he just does with the way he does things. When I get home from work, I put him down and go to get changed and get dinner going. The other night he decided to go into the bathroom (he knows how to open the doors) and climb in the tub, with all his toys, and Dad's brushes. He thought it was so funny when I found him. The second picture is his new hiding spot. He will go there and sit, for a LONNGG time. Just thinking.

Happy New Year

Happy New YEARRRRR!!!

Goodbye 2008, hello 2009. It is going to be a GREAT year. Part of me is typing that believing it, part of me needing to believe it. Last two not so great. This one, I want to look back at the end of it and go.. EVERYTHING about this year was great, it was a great year. Part of that is positive thinking, so I am trying.

I had 5 days off work, that was fun. I met up with some friend's and kids on Wednesday and had a great time at a playdate with them and the kids.

Mom and I decided to take daytrips on those days. We went to Standford shopping Mall, then to the foothills (long car ride, lots of rain), then to the SF Academy of Science to play (the place was PACKED STILL), then K and I took D to the childrens discovery place on Sunday. It was a good long weekend that of course went by too fast.

Hope your 2009 is treating you all well!!

Christmas Recap

Christmas Recap.

It came and went really fast. It did not feel like Christmas that much to me, I guess it has to do with the changing of traditions that we were used to. In time I think that we will be used to them and then it will feel right again. Darrian had a great Christmas. He really loved all his stuff, and he got a ton. He liked Elmo that Grandma got him. My favorite gift was a camera lens I have been drolling over for almost a year, and a external flash. What more could a Camera hungry girl ask for right??

Christmas eve I took Darrian to the children's Mass at church, it was not as enjoyable as I wanted it to be because Darrian is not into sitting in one place for an hour. We lasted as long as we could, and then I went home to cook dinner for the family. Mom stayed the night to be there when Darrian opened his gifts in the morning, and Auntie Dev came over for breakfast on Christmas morning. That afternoon we went to my cousin's place Christmas dinner. It was a good time, we had a bunch of fun like we always do.

Friday we went to Monterey where we had a really nice time relaxing, going to the aquarium, and the beaches. It was a great ending to a long Christmas weekend.

These are in no order