Jake's Rubber Ducky Party

Here are the pics from his party. No 1st birthday party is complete without giving the baby their own cake and seeing what they do with it. I think he was wondering why everyone was staring at him and so he was a little more timid about it at first.

This was the main cake I made:

Everything is ducks...

A kids game we played was "pin the tooth on Jake"

A game for the adults was a Jake Trivia game, where the top scorers had to race in a bottle drinking contest...it was pretty funny to watch.

Here's most the kids at the party...cousins and friends

Grandpa Frank, Grandma Barbara, Aunt Kathy, Aunt Veronica, Uncle Mike and cousins Nathan and Sean

Grandpa Mark

Grandpa Gordon and Grandma Marianne

Gene and Adam

Karen, my dad, Tim, and Trina

Timmy, Shannon, and Luke

our friends Gene and Julieour friends Kenneth and Tiffany

Disneyland

My little baby boy just turned 1 years old and we had his party on Saturday, but I can't post pictures yet because the cord I need to get them off my camera is in Bakersfield...so those pics will be coming soon. I have been busy with planning Jake's and Marc's parties (Marc's is this Saturday), going back and forth between Bakersfield and home to help with the play, and being a single mother for 4 weeks this month (which I am very sick of) while Marc has been in New York, Vegas, and now in a hotel in Hollywood, which is oh so close, but yet we can't see him cuz he's busy morning til night doing work stuff. I will be so grateful to have him back home after this week. This week I started to flip out which ended up in getting a friend to watch Jake while I went and got a massage...which led me to decide when I'm rich I'm going to start off every day with an hour long massage--now that's the life!

Anyway, I never posted pics from our recent trip to the happiest place on earth. It was Jake's first time, and we joined on for a day to Rachel and Mike's vacation there. My favorite part was taking him on It's A Small World cuz he loved looking at everything.

Ten years ago when Rach and I were busy doing NSync dances, it was hard for us to picture this day of us as moms with our kids at Disneyland...just look at those cute faces:)

So the only downside for Jake was that he was the only boy that got pulled into going to a "Lunch with the Princesses." His reaction to the event is shown in the picture below. Jake's thinking, "How in the heck did I get dragged into this? Even Mike was able to get out of it!" Us girls on the other hand, had a great time:)

All in all it was an easy and fun day, other than the fact Winnie the Pooh and Tigger might file harassment charges against me for rough handling while trying to get a picture with them as they were walking from the back gate to their spot where people were waiting in line (I seriously don't know what came over me)...this picture does not show the extent of the harassment...
Thanks for having us come along Rach!

A few pictures

As you all know, I have been dealing with a tragedy. In this last week I have thought about how long it has been since I've done a post on my blog, and I've wanted to do one, but everything has seemed so trivial to me lately. And then I've debated about if I should just do my usual type of post with random pictures of our daily life, or if I should post about the person I'm really thinking about. But, I'm not ready to do that. So for now, I guess the random pictures will be good. And I want to say thank you to all my friends and family who are making me feel so loved during such a hard time. I can't tell you how much it has meant to me.

A couple pictures from Christmas time

Me and Jake on my birthdayOut to dinner for my birthdayOne of my birthday presents (from Jake)...a baby bike seatHe's trying out his helmet for the first time...luckily, he finally accepted wearing it after a few days of tryingJake loves his storiesMarc filled in for the bass player in my Dad's band. It was fun for him and fun for me to get to be his groupie.