Hello deliciousness...

Last week Jake took me to dinner to celebrate Avery's impending arrival.

We went to Bouchon Bistro and of course they took amazing care of us. The best part of the night (besides the company of course) was the dessert they brought out. I told Jake we could share one, and he insisted that we each have our own.

I'm glad he knew what he was talking about!

Home pedicure!

This is how Justin finished his weekend...

He's all grown up now...

On Thursday Jake graduated from high school. After everything we've been through, I am so proud of him.

In August --after Avery's born of course-- he will be taking off to Europe for a couple of weeks with a friend. I always wanted to do that so I am just a little envious. I know he'll have a great time! Once he gets back he'll be moving to the Peninsula to go to Foothill College in Los Altos.

I keep telling myself there is no way he can take care of himself all alone in a new town, but I know he can. I just still think of him as a little kid. I'm happy he will be moving away and experiencing a new place for this new phase in his life, but I am even happier that he's not moving too far and I can still see him often!

Here's a picture from graduation day. He looked so handsome.


Now to get Thomas through high school and I will finally be able to sleep at night -- ya right!

Jake goes to prom!

Today Jake went to his senior prom. I can't believe how many pictures I took!

Here's one of him and me. I felt really frumpyAnd here is one of him and his date. All the girls look like this, which didn't help my feeling frumpy... either way she is adorable!

Boot Camp!

Patricia is getting married in less than 2 months! This means standing in front of scores of people in a form fitting dress all the while knowing that somewhere in that sea of people, someone is taking a photo that will haunt me forever.

So I decided to take fate into my own hands. Patricia, my friend Jess, and I enrolled in Adventure Boot Camp. This idea was introduced to me by Teresa whose been doing in since August of last year. I figure since Teresa looks so FANTASTIC why not give it a shot?

Last week we started our "trial" week where you go as many times as you want to see if you like it before committing to a full camp (which is 4 weeks). We all loved it! So today we officially start out 3 month commitment to fitness.

My personal goal is to lose 6lbs before Patricia's wedding on July 10th, and another 6lbs by the end of the 3 months.

Wish us luck!

A Little Birdy Called: Twitter

Follow me into the future of communication. I finally caved. I signed up for Twitter I'm not exactly sure how to use it yet, or what the real benefit of having one is, but it's fun to see what other people are doing especially public figures I'm interested in.Check out my page and check out whats going on. If you like it, follow along as Justin and I navigate the journey of young marriage.

You never know what might happen next. ;-)

Brenda

Married Christmas

Since we are in the process of moving back to Napa, Christmas has been very crazy! Last week we drove to Idaho to get our stuff and clean out our place. It was a 14 hour drive because on the way there Justin's car instrument panel stopped working and we ran out of gas in Truckee. We while we waited for the tow truck driver, we had the emergency flashers on so when we got the gas & tried to start the car, we realized that we had ran the battery out! After we got going, it was pretty much smooth sailing from there. We stayed in Idaho for a couple days and then turned around and drove back. We had to leave in the middle of the night to beat the snow storm in Oregon. Once we got through that we stopped in Winnemucca, NV and slept in the car for about an hour just to get a second wind. It worked and we made it home with no troubles.

Now that we are here, we are staying with my parents for a couple of weeks until our place is ready on the first. I love our parents for being so supportive, but it will be nice to have our own space again!

Christmas day was so much fun just hanging out with the family, opening all the homemade gifts and playing Catch Phrase! I can't wait to start Family Game Night now that we are home.

We will post pictures soon!

Merry Christmas to everyone, and Happy 21st Birthday to me!