Another Year Older...

This is definitely the birthday week in our family. Yesterday Alexis, my sister married to Nathan, turned 29! We chatted on the phone and she said that Nathan had gotten her favorite cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory and a 4-hour massage/facial/mani-pedi at a dayspa in Chandler. Nice! Chelsea and I will be heading out to AZ tomorrow to join all of the sobrinhos for Halloweed, which should be a lot more fun than hanging out here with no kids and the last remnants of smoke and ash in the air (which, by the way, have me totally coughing these last few days). Anyway, Happy Birthday Alexis!

Doggie Birthday

Yay! Emma turned 13 today. I can still remember the Christmas morning we got her when she had so much fun playing in all the presents. Seriously the best present ever. Now her face is pretty much all white and she spends most of her time sleeping, like the photo above. Here's to my sweet (and crazy) dog!

Nathan Turns 30!

Yesterday was Nathan's birthday and I forgot to post (although we did leave an amazingly musical rendition of Happy Birthday on his answering machine if I do say so myself). I can't believe it was the big 3-0. Thanks for being such a great brother-in-law, wife to my sister, and dad to my adorable niece and nephew Nathan (as well as bringing that ever-creative engineer perspective to our family). I hope you had a great day and I know that Alexis has an amazing birthday surprise planned for you next weekend.