Home from Nor Cal

So we're back home from northern california. We visited Patty and her new baby Emily, Master Rick and Jenny, Grandma Spring, Auntie Sherilyn and Jessica and cousin Kailee (not sure of how she spells it though), Aunite Jen, Grandma Deb and Grandpa Al, Brian and friends and for the most fun we got to see cousin Carol Ann. Carol Ann is exactly 7 months older but her and Mary play together pretty well. They give hugs and kisses and are good at being gentle with each other.

We had quite a week last week. We kept a pretty hectic pace and Mom is pretty warn out. But Mary was a party animal and kept up pretty well. We went to yosemite one day and played in the grass. We also went out to dinner on a couple of nights. Grandma Kay was nice enough to take care of the little munchkins to while me and Diane went to Derrick's graduation in Davis. He recieved his PhD last week and now works at UC Merced. It was also Diane's brother Brian's 24th birthday. We celebrated with Sishi and Italian food, and some beers.

We're hoping that we can go to Salem, OR (where Carol Ann lives) in October to celebrate Halloween with her. The girls will both be walking by then (Carol Ann has been for a few months) and they'd love going out and meeting new people I'm sure. They both love other kids and maybe Mary will have more teeth so she could eat some of the candy. We live in apartments right now so it'd be hard to trick or treat here anyways. But we've got a lot planned this year so we'll see how we feel when it comes time to buy the tickets. We miss them a lot though.

This week Grandma Kay comes out to visit and we're going to go to the Wild Animal Park and Legoland. That's going to be fun. Hopefully we'll get some sleep in there somewhere.
Talk to ya'll later.