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!

Camping!

This past weekend Nick left me to go camping with Chad and the Young Men at Calveras Big Trees. I'm pretty sure that our young men go camping more than any other young men. They always seem to have a great time and judging from the pictures it looks like this trip was not as cold as snow camping but just as much fun.

A Good Reason for a Walk.

This morning was the annual Race for the Cure in Sacramento. My sister Katie started the tradition of walking the 5k three years ago and I was so excited that I got to participate this year since last year I had to be in the bay area at school. This year was especially fun because ALL of the girls were there including Megan, my new sister in law, my mom and Jill, my niece, who was about a month away from being there the first year we walked. We all made it in one piece and even got a cool shirt. It's incredible to me to see everyone who comes out to support this cause and all the survivors in their pink shirts. The walk is such a simple way to show support to those who are affected by breast cancer and I'm excited to keep up this great tradition.

Walking the walk...

All the girls after the race

Go Team Pink Mommas!

Getting Fit with the Wii

What's the best way to get excited about moving around and losing some weight? Spending a lot of money to get a brand new Wii Fit!





Nick and I finally gave in after weeks of both of us talking about how bad we wanted to try it. I'm a little bit nervous that my Wii will tell me I'm fat but super excited that you can hoola hoop...

Adventures in babysitting...

Last night I got the chance to work one of the best gigs EVER. The family that I babysat for has a four and half year old boy that goes to my pre-school and then the craziest one year old girl. I just love them and because I love them so much here are my top five favorite reasons that I got to babysit them last night. (In no particular order...)

1. The parents. At work I deal with some seriously ridiculous parents, so it's really nice when I get to interact with super cool ones. Both Mom and Dad are just nice, happy, laid back people who you can tell adore their kids. Plus they helped Nick get his job at Fastenal.

2. Steve's Pizza. Everytime I babysit they leave me money to get pizza and I got to tell you, it's delicious.



3. Their crazy little girl. She was EVERYWHERE last night. She was crawling all over here brother like he wasn't even there and she does some great animal noises including a snake and the silliest monster sound you've ever heard.

4. The amount of red Power Rangers. The picture speaks for itself.



5. Great Conversation:

Me: So what did you want on the pizza tonight?
H: Ummm...pepperoni and pears
Me: You mean like pears with the pizza on the side because I'm pretty sure they don't put pears on pizzas at this place.
H: Oh, Miss Marianne yes they do. We got it last time.
Me: Are you sure that I know what pears are?
H: The yellow things that go on pizza!
Me: OH! Pineapple?
H: Yeah, pineapple. I got confused. They both start with 'pah' right?
Me: Yes you are correct.
H: Well, then why haven't you ordered the pizza yet?!
Me: I have no idea.

As if I needed another reason to love the Hungry monster... He plays the trumpet!!!