What?! I'm 32?!?!?!

Thursday evening Stacy & Shelby took me out to a nice Italian dinner to celebrate as a family. Shelby helped Stacy wrap one of my gifts and I have saved the piece of the paper that says "Mom" in Shelby's own handwriting. Then, Friday morning, Shelby jumped in bed saying, "Surprise! Happy Birthday, yesterday." Not sure what the 'yesterday' was about. Then proceeded to count how old he was...1, 2, 3, 4. And then me....OMG...32 takes FOREVER.

I dropped Shelby off in Fairfield in the afternoon, and by Friday evening Stacy and I were in Arnold for a fun adult weekend. It all began with a fabulous cake from Nancy to celebrate!
The weekend was a product out of the previously discussed Jazz Gala (yes, still need to get up action shots from then.) Karen (left) purchased a weekend at a condo in Arnold, CA. It was an effort to send her off to Qatar! We can't believe she's leaving us this week!!!! (sniff...) And then it combo'd with my bday for a fun filled weekend. (Karen, Shari, Erica & Me)
Erica & JermaineThe guys were such troopers with us women dominating the trip. Nancy bought Karen "Eat, Pray, Love" as a sendoff to her own soul searching time in the Middle East.

And as the pie/cake dangerously began Friday night, some seriously fabulous lemon martini's (recipe of Oprah) made by Erica began a hysterical Saturday night playing Taboo.

Stacy & I hit the hot tub. Nice!

And while we were partying it up, Shelby was camping with the Olsens'! Brent & Anissa are seriously the best to take on our child for the weekend. I think they finally believe me when I tell them their 4 kids are the equivalent effort of our 1.
Brent and "Shelbarooni"
Dallin
Braden
Oh great, Shelby acting da fool.
Huge family tent!
Anissa taking on a friend's kid, one of her own, and mine....SUPER WOMAN!
Shelby could not stop telling us about the seagulls eating the crabs. He thought it was the greatest.
HUGE thanks to Brent for capturing the trip for us.

And when we got home, Shelby was rewarded with his gift from a precious little candy shop in Murpheys. Panda...of course!

Thanks to everyone that worked so hard to make my birthday special this year. Thanks to all that called, texted, sent cards or gifts, and just thought of me. Love to all!

Bay to Breakers 100 Years!

Bay to Breakers was definitely an item on our "To Do while in Cali" list, so when Nicol decided that's what she wanted to do for her birthday, we were in! Stacy ran it while the rest of us walked, but we all met up at the end.Nicol (aka Birthday Princess), Carol & me before the race began. The day started early with Janea showing up to babysit at 5:45am. We were on the BART by 6:20am and the costumes began piling in there. DISCLAIMER: I have TONS of pics of naked people, but none will be blogged. I will, however, have a scrapbook avail for any visitors. ;-> The best was texting a pic of 3 dudes' naked rear ends (old, wrinkly rears) to my brother only for him to call later and inform me that he received it while in church! HA! My bad, bro.

Carol & FeathermanNicol's friend was preggo, and still walked over 7 miles like a real trooper!By the posting of this, May 21st (billboarded as Judgement Day) has come and gone....guess this dude was a little off.SWEET! It's KISS!
Ummm....I had no idea there was a waterfall in the middle of the city.
Cupcakes
7+ miles in stilts.....holy smokes!The mass ahead......and behind. It was never-endingAnd even more amazing was the crowds at people's places just partying and watching the show.WHEW HEW! Thought we were done! Little did we know we had another mile to get our medals, another 1.5 after that to get our t-shirt and yet another mile to get to the shuttle. Whatever...you knew it was coming with my bday 5 days later....heheheStacy, me, Carol, Nicol & JasonShelby had his own fun with Janea and George! Poor J, he told her that next time just George could come and babysit him....LOL He loves "Alabama"

Gentleman from Texas

I've got so much to catch up on blogging I don't even know where to start! However, in effort of sharing stories (see below Stacy's recent Shelby story) I wanted to capture another: THE GENTLEMAN

Stacy's big rule in our house is about raising Shelby to be a gentleman. Yes, Ladies, chivalry will not die with this generation if we have anything to say about it. HOWEVER, my son quickly learned how easy it is to offend today's woman with chivalry. I watched the story unfold before me at the couple pictured above and told Stacy, "this would have been you and me, had we met at 4 yrs old!"

Shelby met this precious little girl at Merritt's birthday party (1 yr already!) across the street....more pics from party to come....

He was instantly smitten. Mikey got Shelby a juice packet, asking if he wanted a drink. Shelby look at the little girl and said, "Wait, she don't have one." He immediately ran over to the cooler, got the young lady a drink and proceeded to hand it to her. Awww..... Except she took one look at my son and said, "I can get it myself!" LMAO.........

Wow, my poor little man, he's already confused by conflicting messages at 4 years old........

The same little boy that when we play Candyland and I remind him the rules say "youngest player goes first" says, "No, Mommy, Ladies go first."

Good Luck, kid!

Math Whiz

As a father who is a math dominate mind, I am proud to say that my son is following in my steps. First off, I have to remind everyone that this is the mind of a four year old.

We were having dinner, just Shelby and I. I made tortellini with venison marinara sauce. Shelby is doing well eating, but he wanted some Gold Fish with his meal. He already had two bites, so I said that he has to have two more bites before he can get the Gold Fish. He then tells me to not watch him while he eats. I can see out of the corner of my eye that he takes two bites of the tortellini. He then tells me that he can have Gold Fish. I tell him that I did not see him take any bites, because he did not want me to watch him. He gives this big sigh and says "Then that means I will have to take six bites." At this point, I am just amazed that he did the math so quick. I still made him take two more bites before he got whole bowl of Gold Fish.

I was trying to tell him how impressed I am with him doing that addition, but he did not even realize what he did. Maybe that means that math will be second nature for him.

Maybe a future rocket scientist.

Yosemite for Mother's Day

Almost a year ago, Stacy booked my Mother's Day present as a trip to Yosemite. It was FABULOUS!!!! I have a ridiculous amount of photos to process, but couldn't stand not blogging a few favs from my Mother's Day weekend. :->We saw a little bit of everything....from snow (how in the world can one be playing in the snow while appropriately wearing shorts for the weather)to meadows...to freezing rears off at waterfalls!We know how easily Shelby becomes tired and itchy when breaking a sweat, so we prepared ourselves with a carrier. Though I can carry Shelby as well, he kept telling me I'm "too short, Mama."Stacy is quite dedicated to the thought that one can do crossfit anywhere...including a National Park!

THANK YOU to Stacy & Shelby for the most amazing Mother's Day celebration! I hope our own mothers enjoyed as fabulous a time! LOVE TO ALL THE MOMMAS OUT THERE!

Karaoke Night at the Olsen's

If you have 12 minutes to spare, entertain yourself with the HR team (and families) version of American Idol! Brent & Anissa hosted everyone for a karaoke party!!! We had a ton of fun...though you all know Stacy and I do not sing in public....thank goodness Shelby doesn't mind.

ENJOY!

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