Happy Anniversary!

I still can't believe it's been 7 years that we've been married and 6 years since the wedding!

Photo by Nanci Kerby Photography

Time flies and the wedding day was such a blur... But what wonderful memories we have made so far!

Wait For It

This has been one jam-packed summer! July was another busy month... First, we had a great 4th of July in Carmel! It was a long drive and a short trip but it was so nice to get away.

Then, since it was a short trip and we didn't get as much quality time as I would've liked with my family, my sister and her family were nice enough to come down to visit us a week later. As usual their visits are memorables ones. This time it was because....

We introduced them to Red Mango!

Ok, just kidding! Although the wonderfulness of Red Mango is reason to celebrate, this wasn't really why their trip was memorable =)

On this day we found out that we have a "little nudger" on the way! (Yes, I'm such a Twilighter!)

It was surprising but pleasant news. My sister was definitely shocked and didn't react until she saw the indicator stick. After I recovered from her screaming in my ear, together we schemed on how to break the news to my hubby.

He had a bad day at work and I told him I got him a couple of things to cheer him up, one was his favorite candy and the other, well you'll see... Here's the video of his reaction, which we we like to call "Wait For it..."

Here's a transcription, in case you have trouble hearing it...

V: Oh it's in the shape of it..yay!

B: It's not for me

M: You don't think it's for you?

V: You said a couple of things!

M: Did you see the other one?

B: It's not for Andre either.

V: There's another one?

J: What's in your hand Vince? What is that?...What's that other thing?

V: I see this one.

J: Ya but what's the other one?

V: It's a pacifier....ok, it's a pacifier....I'm lost....I seriously am lost....Wait a minute! Why is there a pacifier?!!!

B: Jean and I are having a baby! No I'm just kiddng!

V: You're making me sweat!...Ah that's why...I thought you were looking at pictures!

B: That's why we're filming...

M: Are you ok?

V: Why'd you get me like that?...Are you really?

M: Ya

V: How many tests did u take?

M: Two

V: Ok you can stop filming!

J: Vince it's positve...it's positive

B: It turned blue!

J: Are you happy Vince?

V: I'm blushing

J: Are you happy Vince?

V: I'm stoked...I'm so stoked...are you serious?

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What began as a pet project has turned into huge, ranked #5, Twilight fansite!

This is why I have unfortunately not been updating my blog. We are hoping to find more help with the site soon. I do hope to update again soon since there is a lot going on in our lives right now!

Busy, but fun-filled month!

My what an event filled month! I haven't posted in awhile due to 2 vacations in one month. The first was our Memorial weekend trip to Disneyland with my sister's family. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of that event, since I ended up with a horrible cold that weekend and it went by in a blurry fog of medication. I do remember, the few times I was "awake", enjoying everyone's company...it's always great to see Billy, Jean and Andre...and also spend fun time with my hubby. I'll also never forget that this was the weekend that we made Twilight converts out of Billy & Jean (evil laugh). More on that on a later post!

After, returning from the Disneyland trip, I had 2 and half days to get better and prepare for our Yosemite trip. I barely got well enough to make it to Yosemite and somehow pushed myself to go on a 5 mile uphill hike, bike 13 miles for 5 hrs and go stargazing. Chris and Chrissie joining us was certainly a lot of motivation! We had so much fun and the experience was so much more since we got to share it with them...Yosemite newbies! When we got home at 4 am on Monday, I crashed for the next 2-3 days. It was worth it though and here are a selection of pictures to prove it!

Yosemite Deer

Vince inside a giant sequoia

View of Yosemite Valley

Me and the hubby

Yosemite Falls during our 5 mile uphill hike

1 of 3 bears we saw

Me & Chrissie

Mirror Lake

Yosemite Falls

Birthday Thanks!

This is my last birthday post, I promise! I just wanted to send some thanks...

To my hubby, for the time you sacrificed and for the thought you put into celebrating with me and just your overall enthusiasm and love.

Mama, for thinking about me so much and for your generousity in your gifts as well as many things that you've done for me.

To Chris, Chrissie & Mom...thank you so much for the DVD! Can't wait to watch it!

To all my other friends and family who took time out of your busy days to email or call to greet me!

Last but not least, to my sister Jean, who's so thoughtful and sent me the cutest stuff in the mail as well as a book! I'm not one to toot my own horn but I did appreciate the descriptive post she put on her blog for my birthday.

Thanks so much from this worrisome, fastidious, French-speaking/German engineering/human calculating/dog whispering baby sister!

Let them eat cupcake!

My husband was generous enough to extend my birthday to two days! He reasearched and made enough calls to track down the book we looked for on my birthday. He found it at the Barnes and Nobles in Burbank, which conveniently is located nearby a cupcake place we frequent when we are able to....Yummy Cupcakes...and that's the name of the place, not an enthusiastic description of how they taste!

Happy Birthday to me!

Wednesday morning, after I spoke to my sister about my plans to celebrate, she enthusiastically reminded me to bring a camera. Normally I'm not the avid picture taker at events, but this time I realized..."Great idea! Pictures for my blog!" So, my hubby and I spent most of the day reading aloud together...well actually I do all the reading, but I've found that this is something I really enjoy doing! Anyhow, this was followed by our in town search of a book I've been wanting, Marie Antoinette The Journey. We were unsuccessful...so there was nothing picture worthy for most of the day. We decided later in the day to go to one of our favorite fine dining restaurants Maru Sushi. This place is not your typical Sushi establishment. The have a market fresh menu, execute french cooking techniques and make their own ice cream.

We were eager for the food to arrive since we knew how well presented it always is. As we waited hungrily for our food we took the time to remind each other to not eat the food until after we took photos. Unfortunately, despite the reminders we still completely forgot. We immediaetly ruined the appearance of our delicious dishes...Petit Filet with Soy-Espresso Sauce on top of Parsnip Puree and Snap Peas, as well as Seared Divers' Scallop over Creamy Risotto with oven roasted Heirloom Tomatoes, finished with a warm verjus-olive vinaigrette. Hopefully these descriptions convey how exquiste the food was, since the half eaten photos would not have done them justice.

We hoped to have better luck with dessert, reminding ourselves again and even placing the camera in the middlle of the table. Amazingly enough, we made the same mistake again! We did have slightly better luck though in modifying our mistake enough to take a photo of one of the desserts:


We were able to turn the plate a little to hide where we began eating it. The other dessert, bread pudding cooked in a ramekin so that it was both crunchy AND soft, and also topped with ice cream, was not so lucky. In my defense, I'm very new to the blogging world and it has not become routine for me to document everything!

Anyhow, the meal was a nice end to my day! And I hope I'll get better soon at this whole blogging thing!