Lauren and I drove back Thursday to see Dave and then Friday Missie came with Sam and Adam. It was fun to get the kids together and chat about their new house. Dave came home about three and the kids were still napping so we chatted with him and then when the kids woke up he took all three of them to the park and let me and Lauren go to Starbucks. We thought he was some kind of saint! Then we went to the park and Lauren and the boys went to go get their Daddy. Dave and I got pizza and made Sangria and waited for them to come back. The next morning we headed to Santa Cruz for some coffee and shopping and ended the trip at Marianne's Ice Cream. Dave has some cute pictures on his phone of Kate eating Marianne's I will post them later. Then we headed home for naps for all of us. Mark and Lauren and Dave and I fell asleep on the couches and then they headed out. It was fun as always.

Valentine's Weekend!

I can eat cheerios or swallow cheerios we don't really know which (I only have one tooth).



Friday Kate and I went on a walk and then Dave came home with red roses and Kara's cupcakes. Saturday Kate and I made Daddy waffles, whip cream, bacon and strawberries. Then we headed to the city for Ritual coffee and lunch in the Mission District then we went on a last minute trip to Sacramento. Dave got a call from Jackson Krista's boyfriend Friday night saying he was going to propose to Krista on Valentine's Day and was having a small engagement party on Sunday so we headed to Sacramento late that afternoon. Sunday we left all the kids to nap at my parents and went to Krista's parents to celebrate. Then Dave and Mark drove back to Palo Alto and Dave took Mark to the airport in the morning. The only downside was he had to spend his day off without me and Kate and we missed him a lot while we were with Lauren and the boys. We missed him so much on Thursday we decided to come home and surprise him. We got home cleaned the house made him a special dinner and yelled surprise when he came home. He loved it. Then we had a fun two days with the Bernardinis.

8 months

Kate is eight months old now. My dad took some pictures over the weekend so I thought I would share them. She has one tooth now. She sits up and can scoot around in a circle. She loves the song Bringing home a baby bumblebee, and loves to listen to Daddy sing Pedro and the Lion and Ryan Adams on the guitar. She rocks back and forth to music. She likes the swings and Charlie. She loves attention from anyone who will give it to her. We love her.

Who says Standard Poodles aren't guard dogs?

Last night someone tried to break into our house! It was about 2 in the morning and I heard Charlie get up and walk into the kitchen. I immediately started thinking Charlie do not wake up the baby! But then I started hearing our back door open. On the back door of our house is a lock that works similarly to a chain lock but instead of a chain it is a metal bar. So the lock was locked but the knob was not. I started to hear this opening and hear Charlie growling really low and loud so I wake up Dave and tell him someone is breaking in and Charlie is growling (so he will believe me because this is not the first time I have told him someone was breaking in). He gets up walks down the hall and finds our back door open to as far as the lock allows for luckily no one was still there. We called the police and they came to take a look so despite no one getting hurt it was creepy all the same. Needless to say Dave and I are really thankful we have a large Standard Poodle and locks on our doors. I bet you all wish you had a mop of a dog guarding your house now.

Random pics off Dave's iphone

Kate in Walnut Creek

Ivan our nephew

Roman right after Dave and Mark secretly gave him a Mohawk

And Miss Kate

The Swings

Kate on a a walk

Miss Kate Adeline

Playing on the floor

Eating Bananas

My mom, sister and nephews came

Today my mom and sister came with the boys to give me my Christmas present a vanity that did not fit in the Jetta. So we shopped and ate and then came back and put all the kids down for a nap and chatted for awhile. When the boys woke up they painted on plexiglass and then we took Dominic to the park to ride his new glide bike. Came back had pizza and then Dave made us coffee and a fire and then we said Goodbye. Thanks for coming it was so fun!