May happenings

I need to get back to a weekly blog. I'm doing catch up now. After the weekend at the beach and surprise party the week went by like all. I'm still enjoying my time off work. I know reality is I need to get to work but it is nice just enjoying life. Mother's Day weekend was nice. Nathan came home for the weekend. On Saturday we had our annual Mother's Day lunch at The Blue Agave in Pleasanton. My mom, sisters, aunts, cousins friends all get together for a lunch. There was about 20 of us. It was a lot of fun. We relaxed and had a great time. The weather was wonderful almost 90 degrees...love it!

On Mother's Day the kids made me a wonderful breakfast then we went for a hike at Castle Rock. It was beautiful...I love hiking glad I'm able to hike again. No more broken foot no more surgeries. After the hike we went to lunch and had a great day.

On Monday I met my friend Hilda we spent the afternoon together and then she came joined us for dinner. Wednesday I met Sandra at Santana Row and we had a nice visit. Then Brittany met me there we sat in our favorite lounge chairs and relaxed and talked. Thursday I met Leslie at Starbucks in the AM. It was a nice visit. Thursday was my starvation day...I couldn't eat a thing...had to prepare for my lovely colonoscopy on Friday. Well...I have tried 2 times to have a colonoscopy and first time I ended up in surgery 2nd time they couldn't do it cause of scar tissue. Third times a charm. Again I had to go under....that always kind of creeps me out but at least it wasn't all the way under. It's great though cause I wake up and it's all over. The test went well and Dr called me and said everything looks good.

This past weekend Scott & I took Shannen and her friend Emily to Capitola. We went to go visit my brother Bert and Kathi they were staying at Kathi's parents place. We hung out at the beach I got a little color. We had a great day. Sunday Scott and I got up early and went on a hike at Alum Rock Park. I love that park.

Brittany's Surprise Birthday Party!

May always starts off with Brittany's birthday on the 3rd. We had a surprise 19th birthday party for her at the beach. This was great she was really surprised. She was actually very easy to fool..haha.

We rented a beach house at Pajaro Dunes in Watsonville. There were about 15 teenagers/young adults there. Scott and I and his sister Sandy and husband Bob were the adults there. It was great on Friday night it was just us adults at the house. We went to dinner and just had a really good time visiting. The view from our room was the ocean..so nice! The next day people started getting there around 12:30 Britt got there about 1ish. She was completely surprised I loved the confused look on her face..hehe...it was great. We had great food and drinks and dessert of course. Everyone had a good time. At night we had a fire on the beach. The weather was really nice it was sunny on Saturday. About 10 of the kids stayed the night. The next day we just hung out inside most of the day since it was a windy cold day on Sunday. But it was so beautiful looking out the windows. We ate relaxed and enjoyed the day. Left about 5pm. What a perfect weekend.

Month of April

Wow...can't believe it's been a month since the last blog. Where the hell does time go? Let me think...April was a good month. On April 8th I had a great day. In the morning I went to Trish's house in San Ramon she made me breakfast..so cute...we then went on a walk and hung out. I then met my friend Karen at Whole Foods for lunch..nice visit. Then I stopped by Fremont to visit Michele and we ended up hanging out there going to dinner I didn't get home until 9:30. It was a full day but a fun one. On April 9th my godchild Cristal had an art show at Santa Clara University. Her work is amazing! She graduated this year. Here are a few pictures from her show.

On April 5th we had a surprise 50th Anniversary party in Willits for my in-laws. They were really surprised. It turned out nice. That Sunday we went to a dinner for Holly's birthday. Fun filled weekend of parties and eating!

April 26th Shannen went to the Bellarmine Jr. Prom...eeek..my baby at prom.

On April 20th our friends daughter Olivia had her first communion...she looked so pretty, the party after was lots of fun.

I've been exercising again, which is a great thing. I've been on several hikes in April which I really missed. It's been since last June before I broke my foot that I've been on a hike.
April was good!

George's 40th Party

This last Saturday was also George's 40th birthday party. It was lots of fun. Everyone had George drinking shots of ta-kill-ya. He wasn't feeling to good the next day..haha Scott had his share of drinks as well...I drove home. Great time..here are some pictures! There were lots of people lots of fun! G's brother and sis-in-law threw the party...turned out really nice!

Holly's Shower

This last weekend was the party weekend. It started off with Saturday afternoon. Terri T and I gave Holly a baby shower. It was at Terri's house in Livermore. It turned out nice. We had about 20 people there...good food...fun games...yes I usually hate the games but Terri did a good job with them. Most importantly there were good people there! Holly's mom even flew out from Utah. Can't wait until the baby is born then we'll know...is it a boy or a girl. I won't guess cause I never have any idea.

Easter Sunday

Easter was a great day. We all went to Ruby and Tom's in Morgan Hill. Lot's of great people and great food. It was weird all the kids that use to do the Easter egg hunt are all teenagers now. There use to be about 20 kids searching for eggs. This year we only had about 6 looking for eggs. It was cute. Brittany wasn't able to be there for Easter. She had been sick since Thursday....high fever...sore throat. Took her to Dr on Friday they gave her the wrong medicine. I had to take her back to dr on Monday and they did another test she had strep throat. So it was sad she wasn't able to be there at Easter. This year our friends Holly, Frank and Mike and Chantal and George joined us. It was nice to have them there. It was also good to see all the family from Modesto area I don't get to see that often. Another good day!

First Day of Spring!

Today is the first day of spring...it was a beautiful sunshine day. I met a friend for lunch in Los Gatos and enjoyed the sun.

I'm officially off of disability it's been 2 months since my surgery and I'm almost 100% not quite but doing so much better. Now reality is hitting and I need to find a job....blah.

This last weekend my daughters and I met some friends at Nordstroms early in the morning for the spring makeup trend show. It was a lot of fun. We all had our makeup done...just girlie stuff.

Sunday morning Scott & I took off kinda early and went to breakfast in Campbell and then to the farmers market. We went to go see our little godchild Ava to bring her her b-day present. She turned 2 on March 10th. She is so darn cute. I just love that age. I miss my kids being cute and little....not that I want to go through all that again...eek. Teenagers...tattoos, piercings and all that good stuff...oh joy! argh!

I met my friend Michele for lunch this week. She took me for my birthday...oh my the birthday keeps going..hahaha. It was great to see her and we had a really good conversation. Of course I was whining about my daughters 'lovely' bull nose piercing and she just put things in a different light for me and I am just letting it go. I really appreciated it a lot. She is great!

Good Friday is tomorrow my parents are having a big fish dinner with the familia. I'll probably make the dessert!