Happy Birthday, Ed!

On February 28, Ed (Grandpa; Great-grandpa) celebrated his 92nd birthday. Mom and I took him to El Torito to celebrate (and so that we didn't have to cook dinner). Ed and I had shrimp fajitas. Mom ordered this appetizer plate and actually put away a lot of it!

The server kept taking our picture when Ed had his mouth full. Happy 92nd Birthday, Ed! You look fabulous and we love you!

Pathetic!

What did we do before the techy toys?????

And, then, there's always the low-tech version of enjoying oneself. You go, Omi!

Another Super Busy Week

Last weekend - Alex's girlfriend, Shawna, spent four days with us (actually with Alex, but we were here, too).

Sadly, Ed wasn't able to join us because he wasn't feeling well AND I don't have any pictures of the weekend! But we had fun.

Monday - President's Day
Took Andy to the airport super early.
Went to the movies with Mom (The Vow).

Tuesday -
Took Shawna to Martinez to lunch with Alex (who is still on jury duty). Shopped at a few antique stores. Took Shawna to the airport. Babysat at 47 while Beth did tutoring. Sorted pictures for eventual scrapbooking.

Wednesday -
Super busy day at work after not being there for two days. It was "Kids eat free day" at Chili's so Mom and I joined Beth and the kids for a yummy dinner. Sorted pictures for eventual scrapbooking.

Thursday -
Another super busy day at work followed by "cut and color." Vicky did a fabulous job! Had to go back to work another hour so missed the RS Dinner/Conference. Sorted more pictures for eventual scrapbooking.

Friday-
Yet another super busy day at work followed by a scrumptious Indo dinner fixed by Mom. Sorted more pictures for eventual scrapbooking.

Saturday -
Up early to clean the church building followed by Costco for staples followed by house cleaning followed by picking up Ed's birthday dessert, which I won't be able to eat (sad) followed by big get-together for Ed's 92nd birthday. He still looks fabulous.

Phew, I'm tired.

The Preparation is the Hard Part

After FOUR days of sorting these

and these




and these




I am still not finished...

But when I finally am, I am going to have so much fun scrapbooking!!

15-minute "Computer Time"

Aron and Will are allowed 15 minutes of computer time. Sometimes they choose my iPad, sometimes they choose the computer, sometimes they choose the Wii. This past weekend, after eating dinner at our house, they chose to play Mario Cart. See if you can figure out who won...

Starting the race

Driving on the track

Those tricky turns!

Is Will turning off the track???

Where are you going, Will?

What the heck, Will?

Who won?

Sarah ready to roll with her

gloves on and her spy glass

All that just made me hungry and it was

"free day Sunday." So, I made a Bananas

Royale - so yummy!

At 9 PM, I Was Asleep on the Couch

What? This doesn't happen to me...I'm the one who easily stays up until midnight or 1 a.m. I think the week's activities and too many super late nights did me in. Here's last week's history:

• Saturday, El Dorado's came to Concord - Cooked, ate, played, stayed up late to make Primary puppets.
• Sunday - Church, Sharing Time, crab feed, stayed up late chatting with Theresa.
• Monday, school holiday - cooked, shopped, cooked, El Dorado's left, worked on school accreditation documentation, met Theresa in Vacaville at 10:45 p.m. to hand off Arie's backpack that was left at our house, stayed up REALLY late to finish accreditation documentation.
• Tuesday, Valentine's Day - Early to school for accreditation team visitors, had to be on my game all day for the visitors, took the fam to dinner for Valentine's Day, stayed up late watching a depressing movie about a cancer patient.
• Wednesday - Early breakfast with visiting teachers, drove to Sacramento for federal funding workshop with school administrative secretary, stayed up late preparing bedroom for Alex's main squeeze.
• Thursday - Early appointment for CT scan, spoke at M.A. graduation, spoke at RDA graduation, played cards with Mom, cleaned out linen closet with Mom, stayed up late signing staff time sheets.
• Friday - Long meeting with RDA staff, followed by another meeting, followed by intense clean-up of piles of papers on desk. After dinner, watched TV with Mom and fell asleep on the couch by 9:00 p.m. Woke up just in time to post this before midnight.

I'm looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow, getting to know Alex's girlfriend, Shawna, and a nice, long holiday weekend of laziness and my favorite thing - cooking!

Good night!

Keunings, Crab, and Fun

Mark, Theresa, and Arie came to visit last weekend. It became a whirlwind weekend of fun, eating, working, eating, playing, eating, shopping, eating, and eating.

On Saturday, Mom made a giant pot of nasi goreng and pangsit (Indonesian fried rice and fried wonton). Yum! Then, we played Joker and Mom and Theresa helped me make puppets for my sharing time lesson.

On Sunday, we ate Cinnabons (did you know Costco sells them?) and eggs for breakfast. In the afternoon, the 47's joined us and Mark, Andy, and Alex did a mini Jam Session while Arie and the little guys played video games. Then, for dinner we ate Dungeness crab (my ultra favorite), salad, and sour dough bread (lots of it) with baked salmon for the non-crab eaters, followed by ice cream. Thank goodness, it is a free challenge day for me. Theresa, Alex, and I watched Downton Abbey.

On Monday, for breakfast, we ate chicken-apple sausages and avocado-cheese omelettes and for lunch, homemade deli sandwiches. The women then shopped at TJ Maxx while the guys played video games and read.

Then, the Keunings left and it became really quiet. It was a great weekend.