Sacramento Trip

We had a great time on our mini-trip to Sacramento and ended up being able to visit with quite a few family and friends. We arrived in Sacramento on Friday afternoon and met up with Bubba and Ray for dinner. They took us to a fantastic dinner at Luca's in mid-town Sacramento. Both Ben and I were amazed at all of the urban renewal that had taken place over the past 8 years since we left the area. After dinner and our visit with Bubba and Ray, Ben took me to Leatherby's for the famous caramel sundae....yum yum!!! We then headed over to Leah and Dan's and caught up on current events. The next day we headed over to Land's Park for Gabe's, Leah's, and everyone else's birthday party. We were really worried that the weather was going to be hot and unbearable, but luck was on our side and it was a beautiful sunny day....perfect for the park!! Gabe was adorable and we enjoyed spending time with everyone.

We left Sacramento on Sunday and headed to Stockton. Our first stop was to visit Dre, Suzy, and Zen to drop off a "backup" teddy bear for Zen. We then headed over to my grandparents' house and went to lunch with my grandparents, parents, and sisters for Father's Day. After some dim sum, we got back on the Golden State Freeway to travel back home.

To sum up our weekend, as Ben might say, "I'll take a three day trip to Sacramento and a baby over a two week trip to Australia and Hawaii any day -- provided the kid is mine!"


(1) Ben practicing his bratwurst barbecuing skills (2) photo for Michelle's next endeavor - "Hu's Tacos" Taco Truck (3) the party hosts (4) Gabe after a bite of ice cream (5) Gabe snatching my ice cream cone and claiming it as his own

Busy June

We've been keeping pretty busy the past couple of weekends with Jamie's graduation and Ben's birthday. Two weekends ago we drove up North to attend Jamie's graduation from San Francisco State. Can we just say that this was the longest graduation that any of us have ever been too....and between all of us we have been to quite a few. We left the house on Saturday morning at 10 am and didn't arrive back until 5 pm. Crazy!! Here are a couple of pictures from that day......

Ben insisted that I post these before and after pictures of my trip to the port-a-pottie. I avoid public restrooms at all cost (see past post) but had no choice in the matter this time. Ben would like to point out how hesitant I look in the first picture as we are going in (while my sister is an old pro and has no hesitation) and my disgust after the port-a-pottie experience. Ben had a field day playing with our new camera and somehow managed to take 92 pictures - half of which were of the most random things (imagine a close up picture of the head of the man sitting in front of us and a picture of the cameraman "chillin"). And last but not least here's a picture of the graduate with our parents.

For all of you that have been asking....during our trip up North, Ben managed to take a couple of profile pictures of the baby and I while we were watching my dad pick pai pa go (loquots in English) for us to take home.

This past weekend, Ben celebrated his 32nd birthday. For his birthday we went to Porto Alegre Churrascarria Brazilian BBQ, where Ben consumed a tremendous amount of meat....it was amazing!! He was so stuffed he couldn't eat his birthday cake so we had to wait until the next day.....

We're heading up North once again next weekend to Sacramento where we'll meet up with Ben's parents and Bubba and Ray on Friday night. Then on Saturday, we'll be celebrating Leah's 30th birthday and Gabe's 1st birthday. And of course, since we'll be in Sacramento we will be making a couple of trips to my favorite ice cream parlor.......Leatherby's!!!