What great weather!

What a great weekend! Eric had Saturday off of work. Originally he was going to play in a soccer tournament with our church but they couldn’t get enough players together to form a team. Instead we had a family day and what a blast this weekend was! Jarem is feeling so much better. It is incredible how we got used to him being sick and didn’t notice that he was acting differently. He has so much personality and is all over the place! He is all smiles and loves to babble all day long. He is all about playing and interacting. It’s so much fun to see him like this again!!
Thursday evening we gave him his first bath following the surgery. It was hilarious cause we wanted to take pictures of him with his cute ear plugs in and we had a hard time because he was splashing so much. The entire bathroom floor was soaked, not to mention we were soaked, too. But he was having fun and so were we! He hasn’t played like that in so long during bath time. We were cracking up watching him and really loved seeing our baby boy come back to normal. He is just a crack up!!

Saturday we started the morning with a Costco run. After we stopped by to visit my dad. His company was having a model home sale near our house so we stopped by for a little while and hung out. Jarem loved the banana that poppa fed him. He also loved crawling around the big empty model home! We used it as a mini photo shoot opportunity. The lighting was great in the front bedroom and Jarem was having a blast crawling back and forth.

After visiting Poppa we went and picked up Josee for her birthday date. For my cousins, (Josee, Chloe and Korina) we give them birthday dates for their special day. They get to choose where we go and what we do. It’s our special time to hang out with them one on one and have fun. Well eventhough Josee’s birthday was back in December, she got to celebrate her birthday in February for the first time! (Oops, we were really late scheduling this date due to busy schedules!) She decided she wanted to go mini golfing. The weather here has been so nice that it was perfect. While driving there we decided to stop by Native New Yorker for some wings for lunch. Well as we were about to turn into the driveway, Eric noticed Tito and Tita driving right in front of us with Chloe and Korina in the back. We honked and followed them for a half block before we all were able to pull over. They decided to join us for lunch. Josee got the suicide wings. I have never seen somebody eat such hot food. She is AMAZING!!! Chloe decided to try one and then Tita tried one, too. HILARIOUS! We had such a fun time at lunch together.
Once we got to Golfland the real fun began though. I started the first whole with the ball shooting back at me twice before I could even keep it on the green. Eric was pretty stellar the entire time and only struggled with a few holes. Josee had fun and warned us that she wasn’t good. But hopefully she still had fun, we definitely did! Jarem just watched us and enjoyed the beautiful outdoors of AZ. After golfing we played some Dance, Dance Revolution and of course, air hockey. Josee killed both of us on DDR but what a blast! Josee, remember when I let go of the stroller down the ramp and watched it tip as everything fell out all over the floor?!? (DON’T WORRY! The baby wasn’t in the seat…)
Joanna was back in town for the weekend so after golfing we stopped by her cousin’s house where they were having family dinner. We didn’t stay too long because my back was starting to tighten up again but long enough to get some hugs and visit with Joanna and her family. We love having her here in AZ with us!! We’ll keep praying for you, Joanna! Sunday we looked at some houses with Joanna in Gilbert and hopefully, maybe, possibly she will move back. We’ll move her personally!! But in all honesty, we support whatever decision she makes. Just having her in our lives is a blessing.
Yesterday was Miss Korina Elizabeth’s 7th birthday. Aunt Stef threw her a party at the park. We had a blast being the photographers for the day. We took over a thousand pictures with our new camera. YIKES! But it was great watching all the “kids” (myself included) play. The weather has been amazing and I have to admit that I got my first sunburn of 2009. It wasn’t bad at all but I got a little red after being out for so long this weekend. We had an amazing time at the park. Jarem was really into playing on the toys so that was a blast to watch. I love this picture I took of him going down the stairs. He did such a good job! All in all it was an amazing weekend...