Just call her slow at blocking.

Poor thing got a black eye today.

It was an accident. The little neighbor girl at my parent's house decided to swing around the musical keyboard, and bam... right into Emma's face.

So when I picked her up from Ahh's house I decided that the poor kiddo needed to be cheered up. So we took a trip to...

Chuck E Cheese

And then I decided she needed some McDonald's french fries.

This was a special treat!

And of course we had to make a stop at Toys R Us.

She kept saying "play" as we passed all of the fun toys.

And the cherry on top was that her Da yee (Daddy) came home tonight after being gone this week for work. That was what cheered her up the most.

After all of that cheering up, she is doing great!

St. Mary Fiesta

Yesterday afternoon we headed to the annual church fiesta.

We rode the big slide, saw some good friends, ate some yummy food and then ate some yummy treats.

Poor Emma wanted to ride the crazy spinny thing so bad.

Daddy had to tell her no and she cried so hard.

Nothing that a little hug from "Ahh" couldn't fix.

We call Abuelita "Ahh" around here. Emma can't say Abuelita correctly,but I love how she does say it.

What a great way to end the weekend!

This weekend's wedding.

My days of working for a company as an event planner have come to an end.

Actually they ended months ago, but I said I would follow through with this last wedding.

I left for many reasons, but primarily for my family and friends.

The strain of the extra work hours just seemed to be too much.

Back to the wedding... it was beautiful!

I didn't get a chance to take many pictures, but I did snap a few.

Doug was a faithful helper as always.

He walked around Teddy the mini pony.

Teddy had beers in his baskets.

We got this fun idea from Mark and Courtney's fabulous Texas wedding, except they had a mini donkey. We tried it with the ranch donkey, but turns out he didn't like it.

A super big THANK YOU to Mitch, Susan and Douggie for being the best helpers this weekend.

And a HUGE thank you to Abuelita Rose for watching Emma ALL weekend!

I would like to say I am sad that I am done planning events, but it is just the opposite. I am so excited to spend more time with my family, friends and especially Emma. And of course I can still plan insanely fun birthday parties for her to get my planning fix. :)

21 Months

Today Emma is 21 months!

She is such a kid now and I love it.

Her most impressive thing this past month has been her crazy vocabulary.

She can now say 116 different words. Yep that is right... I am crazy like that and we have been taking notes of all of her words.

Today she said PRETTY.

And here is why...

Mama brought Emma a little surprise.

She caught a little glimpse of it.

Immediately wanted her shoes and socks off.

So Mama helped.

Look at how fancy Emma is in her new shoes!

The little girl is in LOVE!

Seriously in LOVE.

She walked around the house in her fancy new shoes all evening.

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Toledo

This past Saturday we attended the Wedding of Bryan & Emily.

It was a beautiful ceremony performed by Father Rich.

I have known the Goncalves Family for nearly 24 years now, and it is nuts to think that "little Emily" is all grown up and married.

Abuelita and Papa came to the wedding as well.

Emma and Jillian were such silly little girls and loved playing under the belly bars.

We found out Emma loves to dance on dance floors...

and she always loves her ketchup!

We loved having Kristyn, Jason and Jillian there to hang out with.

And of course Melissa (Maggie) was a hoot to hang out with as always.

Abuelita and Papa were so nice and they took little Emma home so that Douggie and I could stay a little later.

What better way to end a night, then to go to In N Out for a little 4th meal.

It was a perfect wedding that came out beautifully.

Exactly what Bryan and Emily deserved!

Mr. & Mrs. Toledo

Yesterday we attended a fabulous wedding for these two beautiful people!

I will share more soon. Right now I am still so tired, it must have been the midnight In N Out run after the wedding. Or possibly the bar we hit up before In N Out??? :)

Congratulations E & B!

Happy Birthday Ebit/Tia Lizzy

Today is my sister Ebit's Birthday!

Gotta love sweet little Ebit at age 3.

We had a little BBQ at our house this afternoon just for her.

Too bad it was 100°+ outside, so we decided to all hang out inside in the cool AC.

The Charger and Seahawk game was on TV.

Douggie was in heaven!

I made some cupcakes and cake pops just for Ebit.

We hope that you had a great day.

Happy Birthday to the best sister in the entire world!!!

Play and Learn class

Yesterday morning we went for our 2nd Play and Learn class, and guess what, we actually played and learned. Our teacher actually showed up for this class, turns out she completely spaced it and forgot about the first one.

Ms. Marla is a great teacher for both the kids and for the parents.

She watched the kids all play together and gave the parents some great tips.

We are looking forward to next week's class!

Quick visit to LA

Douggie was traveling this week, so I decided to invite myself along for part of the trip.

Emma was lucky enough to stay with Abuelita and Papa while we were gone.

She even packed her own bag.

She saw me packing her real overnight bag and she went and got this little bag.

She picked out her own items to put inside; a mixing bowl, a wooden spoon and of course Dr. Pepper lip gloss.

Douggie left super early in the morning.

I worked for a few hours and then joined him by taking the trains up.

Sprinter: from San Marcos to Oceanside

Amtrak: from Oceanside to LA Union station

I even treated myself to a beer and chips.

And the strange lady behind me treated me to her singing... loud singing.

Metro: From Union Station to Wilshire/Western stop

Douggie was held up at work so I decided to walk around for a bit.

Well that bit turned in to 3 hours and nearly 7 miles.

I just kept walking because some of the area was sketchy so I walked until it got nicer.

I ended up in Beverly Hills by the time he came to meet me.

Walking for 3 hours in flats = sore feet!

We met up with Madana and Matt for dinner.

Matt is off to Montana on Monday, where he will be the best Dentist Montana has ever seen!

He bought Emma a UCLA bear that plays the fight song.

He said he wanted it to remind her of him.

I bet Douggie and Emma will play with it and think of him often.

We will miss him tons and hopefully we can go visit him sometime soon!