February to April in May

This is really ambitious, but I'm about to catch all the way up from February through April in one post...so buckle down, maybe get some snacks, cause this might be a long one. February I went to my first Shark's hockey game in San Jose with both my Aunts, uncle, and a couple of their friends. It was a lot of fun! The Shark's won, so that made it even better!

I had a birthday. It's weird to not be 25 anymore... My family was able to come down to celebrate, which was so nice! We had homemade raviolis and pink sauce! yum! and I got some really nice gifts, including a Cal Poly Dimploma frame...after two years I guess it's time to take it out of the envelope it was mailed in.

I also got to celebrate my birthday again at a bonfire in Carmel. I felt so special that so many of my friends came out to celebrate, even ones far away! It was baby Liam's first beach trip too, you can tell he was excited!

March My brother celebrated his birthday, we went cosmic bowling and had a yummy dinner with Chicken Rolls! Double yum! I did take pictures, but they all turned out terribly blurry...but here's one anyway. And appropriately, they were playing 80's music and showing the videos on the drop down screens. seems like a perfect way to celebrate!

The end of March we said goodbye to one of our friends/co-workers. Our population of people under 40 in our office is dwindling fast!

April Technically it was the end of March and beginning of April, but that doesn't really matter. Brad and I went to Yosemite. We had been gifted 2 nights at a B&B in Mariposa for Christmas and we were so happy to use it! I've never been to Yosemite so early in the year, but it really was beautiful covered in snow! Of course, it wasn't covered in snow when we got there, it happened on the first day in the park while we were on a 6 mile hike. Yay for adventure!

We saw lots of wildlife at the park and at our B&B

Here are some other sites of Yosemite and the surrounding area

More to come for the month of April...for now this should keep you busy for a while.

January in April

This might just become a habit...posting every other month, catching up on the larger items of our life. It is a shame that I don't document the smaller things that make our life so enjoyable together, ah, to be a fly on the wall during our nightly conversations, the odd stuff I come up with, the humorous responses from my witty husband and our ever going infatuation with out-"drawing" each other with whose stick figures are the coolest and who can guess our clues fastest, if you have no clue what we're talking about then you should really download "Draw Something" app for your smart phone and start a game with one of us. In other "small" news Brad and I have beat Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 on our Playstation, now we have to go back and get 100% by casting spells on all the things we couldn't during our first round. It's silly, I know, two grown adults, playing video games, and not even adult video games! I'm sad that we won't have any more Lego Harry Potter games. I guess I'll have to find another one that strikes my fancy (and more importantly, matches my skill level). Now, onto the bigger stories and catching up... January I went on a trip to Tahoe with my friend Erica. It was pretty sad to see Tahoe so barren over MLK Jr Day! That's usually a huge ski weekend and Tahoe was lacking an ever so important ingredient to skiing...SNOW. You can see some snow on the beach, on the logs, but pretty much the pictures remind me of summer, certainly not winter, except for maybe the fact that I'm wearing a beanie.

The big even for January was BRAD'S BIRTHDAY! The big 29! I can't believe I'm married to someone who's almost 30, still seems so old and far away... Brad's parents came to town for the weekend, we went out to dinner at Old Fisherman's Grotto and on Saturday we had a dinner party with friends. It also just so happens that Devin recently moved to CA and his birthday is 2 days before Brad's so we did a double celebration candle blow-out. I'm really horrible at taking pictures of others, I've decided I'm completely obsessed with Brad and nature/details and pretty much nothing else...so...sorry to not represent the occasion very well with who was there with us, but for fun,here's the roll call: Rita, Kim, Devin, Michael, Gabi, Kai, Erica, Brad, and myself.

Last even in January, we went to an art exhibit opening. They had a women's Japanese drumming group that was awesome and then the art itself was very unique. I really found the safety pin artwork intriguing. Art is so subjective, but I liked some of this stuff. If you look closely you can see the safety pins, and also paper clips wrapped in newspaper and other paper scraps.

This is all the blogging energy I can muster tonight. You will have to wait to see what exciting adventures we've been up to in February and March.

Playing Catch-Up

So, I haven't been very good at keeping this thing up to date...and honestly, I haven't been very good about taking pictures, not even one during Christmas. Now I can blame that on the lack of memory card, but I think I've just been feeling guilty (or liberated) about not posting anything on the blog or facebook and therefore haven't taken to my normal shutterbug tendencies. But here are a few pictures I HAVE managed to take in hopes of catching up with the present. So here it goes... November brought on some rain.

In December I went to LA with some friends, we say Jay Leno at a comedy club, walked around Rodeo Drive, went to a museum, wandered around the Chinese Theater where all the hand/foot prints are, and were audience members on Let's Make A Deal and The Price is Right. But that's not all...Erica won big on the TPIR, she won the showcase showdown!!!

I won tickets to a meet & greet with Parachute at a Christmas concert. they were AMAZING. I also got to meet Rachel Platten, I LOVE her music, so upbeat and catchy, reminds me of Ingrid Michaelson.

December also brought on a slew of Christmas parties, first was Brad's work party, then my work party, then a union party, and finally a friend's party. All of which were awesome in their own ways.

We spent Christmas in Utah and had a good time hanging out with friends and family! It's fun to see all the nieces and nephews and family. New Year's we spent with my family at my aunt's annual New Year's party. This is about as much blogging as I can handle for now. Next time I'll catch up on January/February...and whatever other months pass before I update again, but I will try to be better.