Anna's B'day party continued

 Sunday after church we went to Anna's in-laws for a continuation of her birthday celebration.  Anna and Amadeo cooked a ton of delicious food; carne asada, marinaded Mexican chicken, guacamole, salads, tortillas, etc, etc etc.  They are the best cooks.  The best!!!!!!  There were lots of friends there and lots of babies too.

 Anna baked the most delicious cupcakes.  They were white cake with raspberry filling that was out of this world delicious.  I think she would win Cupcake Wars.

 Coco with Mommy Kera.

 Bowen with Mommy Dominique.

 Nana with Charlie.

 Elke and Allan

 Joneaux and all of the kids loved the cupcakes and the adults loved them as well.

 Erika with Eli and Eva.

 Some of the Mommies watching the kids on the trampoline.

Donny has been a friend of Amadeo's since childhood and now they are both Fathers.

 Monday we went to the Lotus Thai Bistro for lunch.

 Joneaux loved the food and he also liked making an orange mustache.  Funny boy.  He is adorable.

Baby boy's quilt

Little Joneux is going to be the big brother.  We are all so excited and can't wait.

We are just loving our visit here with them.   I made the baby a quilt.

                      It will keep him nice and warm and I hope he will like the bright colors.

Winchester Ward Activity

 Saturday afternoon we went to Rocky and Ericka's ward activity.  It was held at the "home" mansion of one of the members of their stake.  Oh my gosh look at these photos of the place.  It was huge and so so nice.  This is the outdoor pool.  It is huge.

 The curvy thing on the right is a gigantic water slide.  You walk up the hill and then there are two slides side by side.

 In the bath house (pictured below) is this huge indoor pool.  There is also a full basketball court, kitchen, game room, activity room, and others.

 Joneaux loved being in the water most of the day.

 Here is cute Anna.  Only 7 weeks to go til the baby will be here.

 Joneaux loved being in the boat too.  There was a little incident where he was floating and one of these little boats floated right over him.  He was stuck under the boat and when he came out his eyes were wide open and he was very frightened.  Luckily Amadeo was right there to grab him.  It just takes a second for something to happen.  Very scary.  Good job Amadeo.

 Here is the house.

 The little beach area.

It was soooooooo hot that day.  I was just sweltering.  Those that were in the water felt just right.

Anna's B'day

 We are in San Diego area visiting Anna and Amadeo and Joneaux.  We got here just in time to celebrate her birthday.

                   In the evening we went to Roy's a Hawaiian Fusion Restaurant.  We had a great time.  The                                                              food was outstandingly delicious and the company was wonderful.

                                             Mary, Amadeo's sister, and JD went with us.

The birthday girl got a special treat at the end of the meal.

 Then we went to Extraordinary Desserts.  The desserts were all so pretty and so delicious.

                                                    Papa chose a bread pudding.

                                                   Amadeo had Creme Brulee.

 Anna had a Raspberry Chocolate.     We all tried each others desserts.  Her's was my favorite.

              Mary had a blood orange, ricotta tort and JD had the puffy strawberry something in the back.

I chose a Chocolate Truffle Bundt..

                                         We had the most pleasant and fun evening together.

Petty's Visit

Our good friends Robin and Rick came from Texas with their granddaughter Hayley for a wedding of one of their other friends.  They got to stay with us and we had fun enjoying their company for a while.  One day while they went to the temple with the bride, I watched Hayley.  I took her and 3 of my little granddaughters to see Brave.  As we drove up the the theatre, Hayley shouts, "The Cupcake Wars!  I love the Cupcake Wars.  I see their shop.  I'm going there and I'm going to go in and shout,  I love you guys.  I saw you on TV."  It was so cute and so funny.  Of course the very next day Robin and I went there with her. She was so cute.  The cupcakes were yummy and the shop is very cute.  We also bought some cake balls and cookies.  My favorite was the Almond Joy Cookie.  It is incredibly delicious.

That evening we all had dinner together.  I made pork chops with a delicious sauce of Russian Dressing, Apricot jam, and the dried onion soup mix packet.  We also had fresh corn, garlic bread, and a large green salad.  We had Sweet Fairy goodies for dessert...Yummmy.