Happy Father's Day

Hope you all had a wonderful father's day. We tried to make Daddy's day special here. Breakfast out at Arizmendi, followed by a nice walk at the lake, picnic in the backyard for lunch and family over for fun hang out and BBQ dinner.

My Little Martians

I thought I'd share Max's Father's Day gift which we just finished assembling together. We make it a habit of giving each other simple gifts for holidays. The truth is we always insist to one another, no gift, no gift, but seem to always end up with something sweet and simple. It's a frame of our 3 little martians for Max's office. Max took various photos and these are the ones we selected together to put in this frame. Although the background looks white (there's cardboard behind it) this is one of those frames where the photos appear to be floating in glass. I just love the way it came out and I'm happy that Max is pleased with it too.

1st Family Camping Trip

We had our first annual Father's day camping trip this weekend. I'm calling it our first annual trip because Max announced during the trip that we should do this as a tradition, every father's day have a family camping trip. I think it's a great idea. So this weekend we went camping at Chabot Lake, with 2 other families, twin mom friends, the Nunes and the Longs, there were 6 adults and 8 kids (ages 4 1/2 - 2 1/2). Sounds scary right? That many young kids....surprisingly it went well. The kids really entertain each other, we took them for several walks and one afternoon drove over to Cull Canyon for some swimming. The most difficult part of the trip was putting the kids to sleep the first night, they didn't go down til close to 11pm, you know all the excitment of sleeping in a tent was just too much to handle. By the second night though, they were sufficiently tired so they went to bed a bit earlier, more like 9 - 9:30. The best part of the camping trip was camping with friends. I really think it would be much more difficult and less fun if we went at it alone. Looking forward to more camping trips.