W...O...W

I cannot believe it's been this long!!! Where does the time go? Well, we just got back from California and I will have some great photos for you guys soon but let me just say how FABULOUS of a vacation it was.

I cooked almost every night, and it was wonderful because there was always someone to entertain Jace so I didn't have to worry about him at all. Ether Josh or Grandma or Grandpa would pick him up and entertain him if he got grumpy.

He's TOTALLY army crawling around town. I can put him down in the living room and he'll 'crawl' his way into the kitchen, trying to get into things too. Harlee's food is on this plastic stand and he tries to reach up for it and it's going to fall on him one of these days...

But back to Cali, it was so nice to cook and enjoy it. The weather was great in the 60's ... and the last day in the 80's!! We took family pictures which came out AWESOME and I cannot wait to post some of those either.

We visited Josh's very closest childhood friend Chris Swanson (and his fabulous wife, daughter, sister, brother-in-law, and 2 neices!) ... we had SUCH a good time laughing so hard!! And I, of course, had my nose in a book half the evening!

Josh and I went on a date to see 'when in Rome' which was quite cute and we went on a walk every morning. My parents neighborhood is 20-30 years old so it has all these big, mature trees and all these walking paths and it is SO beautiful! We always go on walks, and it was SO fun to have Jace there with us. It's peaceful & serene.

And attention all Californians: Cafe Rio is headed your way!!! (pretty freaking amazing)

With lots of love,

-Mame

Ohhh, the holidays

I feel like the holidays dragged on forever this year. Not to be a Scrooge or anything, but you how you have no routine during the holidays? there is always a different party to go to, some family gathering? well, it was a little much this year - but that's because I wasn't prepared for it. Our holidays really were so much fun.

We had one of my best friends Camille (and her son Eli and her husband Jesse over - what's funny is I almost typed son Jesse, which could probably fit too... :o) Jesse and Joshie (haha!) get eachother on a roll and it's actually quite amusing. I don't have pics uploaded from that night, so mabye i'll come back and edit this post. maybe. We had a good dinner (if I do say so myself) made by ME. And fabulous cupcakes recipe by Martha Stewart suggested by my dear friend Adrian.

We went to a GREAT friends party with a while elephant gift exchange that was a blast. I got a great cake platter - well actually Josh got it for me, and I got a classic record album. From who you might ask? I don't even remember the guys name....

Christmas Eve was pizza and singing at Josh's family which was such fun. For our above dinner with C&J we had a soft-taco type deal, and got Cafe Rio House Dressing to go with it. Well, we had some left over (bc they now sell a quart size!) and so we used it to dip our pizza in ... DELICIOUS. But I will warn you that I pretty much could eat cardboard if it had that dressing on it. When we were singing we called Josh's 3 siblings that were not present and sang a song to them all. (mind you Josh is the youngest of 8 so we had five siblings present, as well as spouses, and 12 grandkids)

Christmas Day Josh's mom had a brunch for those of us that don't have in-laws to go to so it was just a few of us there. It was peaceful and relaxing. For Christmas my favorite gift was my 4 pack of Hardcover Twilight Series books. :o) Yup, that's right, and come this winter on a snowy few days, I can't wait to curl up and read them. Jace ripped open some presents (obviously not knowing what a present is, or why he got to tear paper - but he sure did enjoy it)

Josh is continuing his look for a job as well as working on his company that he's been working on for the past few months. It ends up that company in San Jose gave no full-time offers due to the economic situation. hmph. dumb economy.

I went to early morning gym class this morning, and got my TRASH kicked. My shoulders are so sore it makes it hard to type.

Jace's top teeth are completely threw and are now growing in. He's such a good baby, and trying hard to crawl. He gets up on his knees and hands - but then just rocks back and forth. He is VERY ticklish (like his mom). He's a great sleeper. And, well, we LOVE him to death. Oh, and his cheeks are pretty much eatable.

mmmmm mm good.