My baby is 11 today.

Eleven years ago today I was in labor for 21 hours. At 4:05 p.m. I gave birth to a 8lb 8 oz. little baby boy! He was so awesome, did not cry, he just looked around as if to say "Hello world here I am!". He was a great baby, happy, did not cry much and he was chubby as could be.

It is really hard to believe so much time has gone by already and I only have 7 childhood years left with him. It makes me sad and happy all at once. You want to see them grow up into beautiful adult people but also keep them your baby forever. As parents we are forever torn by this I guess.
At 11 he is strong, outgoing, imaginative, artistic, loving and everybody just loves him!!
He will come home today and open his presents and have cake etc. and then on Saturday we are going to Fisherman's Wharf to the Wax museum and Ripley's Believe it or not!!


He is a handsome boy. I love him.

Easter and the Tech Museum 2008

This was the Tech museum.
The kids were on Mars.
Melissa catching shadow art.



My little scientists...

San Jose bobsled team!


Me, gma Joe, Kyle and Missy in a body heat picture.
First cut from friends at dog park!

Dozer kickin it in the front yard.

Kyle and Melissa Easter egg hunting.

Alice feeding her dog audience(find Pepe!)

Four generations of ladies.

Mommy time.

Sniffing the Gerber daisies we bought at the farmers market.

So this weekend we were very busy. We had went to the Sunnyvale Farmers Market. That was nice because we had a girls day out. Grandma Joe, myself and Melissa went and shopped in the awesome warm sun and then had lunch at Gumbas and italian cafe. Then we went home to prepare food for Easter Sunday. I forgot my camera, so no pics of the market.

On Sunday we went to pick up Melissa and Kyles 4th cousin Alice Cariani. Her and her husband owned the Cariani Salami Co. of San Francisco. She is 95 years young- and I mean young. She trucks around like she could be a spry 70 year old!! She is very independent, has better hearing than me (thats not hard!) and still lives at home by herself. I figured out that we had 4 generations of family in our house. It was pretty cool. She is our last surviving family member from the old country. Her father signed my grandfathers papers on Ellis Island when he came over from Italy at the ripe age of 18! Anyways she loves Pepe also.

So here it is!!

Today my mom and I are going to go get our hair cut. Her a trim and myself a major whacking!! I am nervous as all get out but need it badly. I am sooo sick of my tattered looking frizzy hair. So off it goes! I feel like I am going to puke-seriously. Hopefully it does not make my face look fatter or make me look like Christy McNicols!! I need something easier to do in the mornings and to make me not look so worn out all of the time. Well here goes and pictures to come........

Ok I still really suck at this and you have to bare with me. Scroll to the bottom of this and then read your way up...Thanks!!
After I walk him I return home and take out Dozer for a really good, long and fast paced walk. So fast that my ankles are sore today. I love my ipod and my neighbors probably think I walk funny but that is just the beat of the music I am walking to!!


So every day I walk the kids to school with Pepperoni if you dont know what a Pepperoni is here you go...


Me and Melissa and my 3 chins!!




My beautiful and very happy daughter!!




My familia Grandma Joe, Grandpa LeRoy, Kyle , Bean and Tavia. We had a lot of fun and by the end of the night we were singing "Under my Umbrella"! The restaurant just loved it-not...



Our chef was Pat Moritas double!

Here are more picture from this past weekend. Out to dinner, Ballet, etc.

Quality Family Time

Now Kyle loves his aunt but he even makes a big deal out of her kissing him so I am glad it is not only me. He is getting so big.

So This weekend we celebrated my sister Christinas' birthday. It was fun but I think we (my kids) wore her out!My kids were in her face all weekend. It was great quality time.

By the look on Missys' face you can tell how whacked out she was over Bean being here!! Did we give her extra sugar or something??!!

What I cooked for her dinner: Stuffed shells with a ricotta,mozzarella and Parmesan mixture, BBQ rib eye steaks, extra large steamed artichokes from Watsonville(yum) steamed baby carrots and grilled ciabbatta bread

The Last Two and a Half Weeks...

So here are some pictures of our house, walk to school, dog park, weekend trip to Monterey, rock climbing class, gymnastics and the pets!!! More to come soon....