Happy Birthday Aunt Wara!

Happy Birthday Aunt Wara! We love you and are so grateful that you are such a great sister and Aunt! We hope you have a great year and we can't wait to see you! Love you!

Excuse this Home

Some homes try to hide the fact

That children shelter there.

Ours boasts of it quite openly,

The signs are everywhere.

For smears are on the windows,

Little smudges on the door;

I should apologize I guess,

For the toys strewn on the floor.

But I sat down with the children:

We played and laughed and read.

And if the doorbell doesn’t shine,

their eyes will shine instead.

For when at times I’m forced to choose

The one job or the other,

I want to be a homemaker

But first I’ll be a mother.

--author unknown

Happy Birthday sweet Audrey

Our little Audrey turned two last week. I can't believe I have a two year old daughter...where does the time go? Here are some pictures of her actual day of birth, her first birthday and then her second birthday. Our little girl is growing up!
About nine hours into labor. Hurry and come baby girl! Audrey was nameless in the hosptial for a whole day!
Dave, Audrey and I are so lucky to have both our families so close by. They came to meet their first granddaughter!Wasn't she a beautiful newborn?Birthday Girl!!! Audrey got booked for a modeling job on her birthday and I almost didn't take her because who wants to work on their birthday! But I decided to, and I'm so glad I did. The photographers made such a big deal, and everyone sang to her numerous times, gave her suckers, blew bubbles for the birthday girl, and she loved every second of it! This is Audrey in the waiting room...she loves the chalkboard on the wall!Audrey's first birthday at the Discvoery Museum. I love her little face!Audrey's second birthday at the exact same place. My how she has grown...especially her hair!Dave and I decided that for Audrey's first birthday we would go out to a nice dinner at Roy's Resturant. We thought she was too young to really understand it was her birthday and we wanted to celebrate!Roy's brought Audrey this yummy little dessert for her birthday. It was our anniversary the week before and they wrote that on there too!Roy's Resturant was so yummy, and made us all feel so special on Audrey's first birthday so we decided to come back for her second birthday as well! This time her plate said, "Happy 2nd Birthday Audrey!" Our great friends Regan, Joel and Maggie joined us this time too. We can't wait to celebrate Maggie's second birthday at Roy's! I LOVE that place.



We threw Audrey's second birthday party last Saturday at the church. I know it sounds so lame to do it at the church, but it is the only place that can accomadate parking for more than one car that didn't cost $1,000 to rent! Thank you for all who helped! This was the yummy food table.

We had the adults play a game where they tied a balloon on their ankle and then had to try to pop everyone elses balloon. It was so funny to watch them all jump around!

I thougth Audrey would be afraid of all the ballon popping but she loved it! She kept yelling, "Kick! Balloon!" and would laugh so loud! Notice the shirt she is wearing...I bought it at a boutique when Audrey was about 16 months old. You can't see it very well, but it has the number 2 in diamonds on the front.

So this is basically the worst picture of me ever, but it is the only picture I have of the shirt I was wearing, and the ring I was wearing. My sister Jessica came to Audrey's party wearing this shirt and I made her take it off and let me wear it! It has all these hearts on it with Audrey Hepburn's face in them and then on the bottom of the shirt it says, "Audrey". Of course I had to wear it! The ring I am wearing (on the hand that touching my hair) is the ring Dave gave me in the hospital when I had Audrey. He picked out the gems, designed it and then had it made. I love it and I wear it on all of Audrey's special days. Memor and Fafa gave Audrey this perfect Cinderlla dress, and then Fafa made Audrey a book! They are both very special gifts. Thank you!Aunt Ritz and Aunt Alli.Some of our great firends. Angela made Audrey this beautiful princess cake for her party. Thank you Angela for sparing me from having to try to make something that cute!Pinata time!
Happy family.
We are so blessed to have our family so close! We had a great time celebrating our little Audrey's second birthday. Happy Birthday little miss.

Weekend with Jess

My youngest sister Jessica is headed off to college in two weeks. I can't even begin to imagine how much I am going to miss her. When Jessica was born I was nine, and therefore I thought I was her second mother. I dressed her up, taught her dances, and I think every picture we have of her childhood, I took! When I moved back to CA four years ago Jess and I became really close. I loved going home to my parent's house and talking with Jess about anything and everything. Now she has become Audrey's Aunt Das and Audrey will miss her like crazy too. For one last sister get away before she left, Jessica and I went to Southern CA for the weekend. We had a great time eating, going to a movie, laying at the beach, and we even made up a dance! I love you so much Jess!
Eating at Sizzler on the drive down. Holy cow, I LOVE that place! I haven't eating at Sizzler in probably five years. The cheese bread, the salad bar, the dessert bar...yummy!
I love the beach! Thanks Jess for a great weekend!

Six years ago today...

Six years ago today I did the best thing I have ever done...I married Dave. I can't believe it was six years ago, where does the time go? If someone would have asked me on our wedding day where I thought I would be in six years, I never in a million years would have thought Dave would be in dental school, or that I could be so happy. I married the man of my dreams, and the last six years only make me more excited for the next sixty.

Little Girls...

Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses are tied with sashes and wrapped up in dreams.
-Author Unknown

Happy Birthday Memor!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful mother-in-law, and Audrey's Memor. We love you and are so grateful for all you do for us. You are a wonderful example of service, kindness, and how to spoil your daughter-in-law and your grandkids rotten. We love you!

450 miles for the Diamond

Dave loves Diamond Rio, and I love Dave. Diamond Rio was playing at the Hanford County Fair last weekend, so Dave and I dropped Audrey off with Dave's parents and drove down for the concert. Ever hear of Hanford? Didn't think so. It is south of Fresno! Round trip was six hours of driving and 450 miles, but it was so fun! We ate In-N-Out on the way there, then at the fair we had: two ears of grilled corn on the cob, soup apple ice cream, corn dogs, fresh squeezed lemonade and cotton candy. I love fairs, and I love fair food! We stood in line for two hours so we could get good seats and we were right up front! Dave knew every word to every song and it was fun to sit and listen and then towards the end we stood and danced. On the way home we stopped at Taco Bell...great way to finish off the night!

Red, Blue and White

We had a great time celebrating RED, BLUE and WHITE this last week!
RED
Happy very late 4th of July! We had a great day of swimming, eating and hanging out with Dave's family. I love the 4th of July.
She really is a fire cracker.Waving the red, white and blue.Audrey was desperately trying to get her popsicle to push up!

BLUE
On 7/7/07 we celebrated the upcoming arrival of my second nephew to be. These are Dave's fabulous sisters and Mom. The one holding Audrey is the pregnant one. Hard to tell huh?

WHITE
On Wednesday we celebrated Dave receiving his white coat and being able to treat patients! I am so proud of Dave and all his hard work. He saw his first patient on Thursday, and I am so proud of my Dr. Dave!Being "hooded" with the white coatThank you for coming and supporting us Marianne, Bruce and Kristin!Wahoooo!!! First year is over! Bring on the patients!The wives. We earned these coats too, right?These are my new shoes I got from this fabulous website my sister found called endless.com. I love them, but I didn't think they were blog worthy until Dave told me they were his favorite pair of shoes I have ever owned.Audrey stayed home with my mom so I could enjoy the ceremony. Thanks GranD.

Say Cheese!

A's ad for Baby Gap is out! I think this is my least favorite picture of her EVER, but hey, it will help pay for her college!
I think they messed with her eyes in Photoshop because her eyes do not look like that.
You can see it bigger by going to http://www.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=36354, or just go to BabyGap.com, click on "Baby Girl" then on "Infant Outfitting". This picture was taken on May 9th. Here is a picture of A at the shoot.

I feel kind of lame doing this, but some people have asked me when it was coming out, so here it is. Here is the ad I did for Byer. Not bad that two out of the three outfits are totally modest!
http://www.byer.com/agb/index.html
I can't figure out how to that fancy link thing, so you will just have to copy and paste it if you want to see it.

Catching up...

I feel like we have been doing so many fun things during D's break from school and I haven't been keeping up. What a great life we have...


Girls Night! Rebecca recently moved from the city, so she summoned other girls who have recently moved, plus some of us who still live in the city, to her beautiful new home for a night of good good, great friends and lots of laughs.

We went to Discovery Kingdom with Memor, Fafa, Aunt Ritz, Aunt Alli, Aunt Andrea, and of course Nathan. We had a great time and it was fun to watch the dolphin and whale show, but it was SO much fun to watch the kids reactions!
The brave adults went on a fun ride. A kept saying, "hair" because she could see our hair when we flipped upside down!
Thank you Memor and Fafa for such a fun day!

I did it! I made the cover of the Martha Stewart magazine for my dinner group! It was pretty tasty. Thanks for the picture Rachel.

My birthday! I turned 27 on the 27th. It was my Jubliee birthday! D made my day so much fun. We went to breakfast at this great bakery Tartine, then to Costco where I got a new phone, then naps for everyone, and then my sweet sister came and picked up A so D and I could go out to dinner and then we went to see Oceans 13. Perfect, perfect day.

My sister kept A from Wednesday until Friday (thank you Aunt Das, and GranD of course), so D and I took advantage and hiked Mt. Tamalpais on Thursday. We hiked for five hours and had a great time talking and just being together. For those of you who know my husband, know he is a pretty even tempered kind of guy. I have never really seen him loose control of a situation...until now. I present to you, "Dance of the Attacking Hornets":He was using our trail map to swat away the hornets who were "attacking" him. I was laughing so hard I cried. Thank you honey for your wonderful dance. I know it was just for me for my birthday! :)

Some of the beautiful things we saw on the hike:
View from the top:

We went to my parent's house yesterday to celebrate my birthday. I loved it. My mom made my favorite meal (Hungarian goulash...don't ask) and I got to see some of my favorite people, my family! We love the newest addition, little S.
Happy Birthday to me! Thank you everyone who made it so special!