The weekend we've been waiting for...

On Friday Nick and I headed down to the bay area for my graduation. Nick and I have both been looking forward to this weekend for a long time...finally I get my Saturdays back and no more crazy manuals! I was really glad that my parents could come down for the graduation especially since mom has been dying to see me walk across a stage. After the graduation we tried to go to dinner at TGIFridays but as it turns out they are closed for remodeling. After panicing a little because I had no idea where to go we looked across the street and decided that Benihana would be a GREAT solution to our problem. Lucky for us, Dad agreed that we could go...It was such a fun experience and of course Dad made friends with the people sitting next to us who, small world, happened to be members of the church. Thanks to everyone who has supported me these past two years especially my husband, my family and my partner in craziness Miss Jenny.


After dinner Nick and I parted ways with Mom and Dad and headed to Stanford to spend the night in anticipation for the DCI show on Saturday. For those of you who aren't married to Nick DCI stands for Drum Corp International. We stayed at a great hotel. Our room had a king size bed, overlooked a koi pond, and was about a minute away from the show. Unfortunately the show didn't start until 6:30 so we had to think of some things to do to fill up our Saturday. We went and had breakfast at this restaurant called Stacks, looked around the Stanford shopping center, and then treated ourselves to Transformers 2. After the movie we headed to the show a little early in hopes of catching some of the corps practicing around the campus. We ran into some of Nick's old friends and my feet got VERY dirty from all the walking.



After the show we headed home. We finally got home early this morning around one o'clock very tired. I'm officially a fan of the Santa Clara Vanguard (their marching is INCREDIBLE) and the Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets. The cadets show was my favorite though because I knew all of the songs that they played. I was glad that I got to be a part of something that Nick loves so much. We had a great time this weekend and are now taking today to recooperate before we start real life again tomorrow.

Emus, Cupcakes and Dad...

This weekend was packed with fun things to do. On Saturday Nick and I woke up and decided that we were going to use our free passes to the zoo. I KNOW that the Sacramento Zoo has a gazillion birds but everytime I go I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't have other things. We had good time though and saw all that the zoo has to offer. My favorite this time around were the emus because they looked just like Edward and Edwina from the children's books at my school.

After the zoo we headed over to the Esslinger's to celebrate Jill's birthday. Kate made the coolest cupcakes and even though the weather wasn't excatly screaming that it was summertime there were some who decided to go swimming. Jill loved all of her presents especially the baby doll from GG. I was just glad that she still thought that getting books was exciting.

Sunday was Father's Day and after church we went to my parent's house to celebrate. The food was good, the company was good and the cake was cool looking and on top of that I have one of the best Dads in the world. Below is some picture's from Jill's party...enjoy!