Fly. Sleep. Drive.

Thursday October 8th

We dropped the girls off at the neighbors and headed to the airport where we were off for a quick trip to CA to pick up a new car and visit with friends and family...VERY quickly! We had a 45 minute delay and only heard "oh his hair is soo cute" like a million times. I must admit, although he is adorable with it I ONLY consider cutting his mohawk off when it draws so much attention. If only the mohawk didn't TOTALLY fit his personality and of course, look SOO adorable. Either way, with a 45 minute delay and a 1.5+ hour flight we figured the best thing to do was wander the airport and take some pics!

Friday October 9th

We woke up, at 8am which is AWESOME, considering at home we wake up no later than 630 am. haha. Then off we went to Kohls in Downtown Napa for some late b-dcay shopping for Carina and Rian. We also picked up an outfit for Noah and Aaden, after all who can resist shopping for baby boys! NOT ME! So we shopped and then dropped off my mom at home so she could go grab my brother from UC Davis with my dad and off we headed to visit with the Snooks for an afternoon visit at Mary's for lunch and and evening BBQ. Man I forgot how nice it was to hang out with friends. Tiff and I FINALLY got to do our traditional Tequila shots, with some REALLY expensive Tequila (thanks Jaime) that is actually meant for SIPPING, but hey, when you have a tradition you use the best stuff on the shelf! Hehe. Needless to say that was ALMOST the only drink I took, outside of a Mikes Hard Lemonade and the rest of the time I hung out outside, inside, outside, inside...well you get the point. That night we sang some Karaoke (well RC and Gabe did) we heard Gabe sing with his Father In Law who looks like my boss, we heard Tegan and Peyten play the drums as well as use the harmonica (both of which made my ears ring) we ate yummy food (that Gabe and Tiff were so gracious to cook) and we chatted about sleeping babies (or the troubles we have all had trying to GET them to sleep) and we also took a few pics to remember that we are still able to have good times. I think the hardest part for me and RC was getting out of parent mode and it seems that it's harder than it seems. I mean, gooodness, we were telling other folks kids to not play by fires, not throw rocks, not run to close to the beers and then at the end of the night we also questioned if we were "stiffs" or "prude parents" and maybe we are but at least we know it. To bad for our kids I guess. haha.

Saturday October 10th

We knew we had to head home Saturday so the plan was to lay low. We got to sleep till 8 again!! I think Rian was making up for the LACK of sleep he gave us in Sedona, and so we took total advantage! Then we headed off in seperate directions. Grandpa Pete, Uncle Gabe and RC headed over to Highway 29 for some YUMMY denver omelettes and greasy food. Grandma Debbie and I headed over to Starbucks then Target, did some shopping and then off to Grandpa Rudys house to hang out with him, Grandma Jackie, Melody and Peyten. Ya know, if there is one thing MOST people miss about their hometown it's the yummy food and that is FOR SURE what I miss. I ate Mary's twice and had Taqueria Rosita. YUMMY. STuff you can only find in norcal! Anywho, we visited with them, the SUPER manly boys played on pink powerwheels, tried on football helmets and practiced being daddies. haha. Yep, Rian LOVES to push strollers. Its soo funny. He doesn't care for the doll to be inside the stroller but he loves to push the stroller (minus baby).

Funny moment that day:

Melody and I were going to run to my parents house to get laundry I had put in and I was trying to convince her to leave Peyten with RC and this is how that went...

Melody: RC are you sure you can handle this...
(kinda looks at Peyten and you could tell she wasn't sure what to do)
RC: Sure I got this!
Melody: Uhm...
(she looks at me)
ME: He will be fine, he's got this!
RC: Yeah watch...
(Rc looks at Peyten)
RC: Peyten. SIT!
Melody kinda laughs as do I and within moments Peyten is sitting on the ground.

I was convinced before that RC was a fun dad but for him to convince Peyten that he is a good guy is a HUGE feat. Haha. He loves kids so it was a huge ego booster than Peyten stayed with him. Either way, that was our entire weekend because after hanging out at Rudy's house we went back to Mary's with my parents and Bro and RC's mom Jackie, then back to Gabe and Tiff's to drop off the pack and play, give hugs to them and the boys and then off we went! Phew. Although it all went WAY to fast we decided it was totally worth it. We had TONS of fun and now we have a sweet new car. Well new to us!

P.S. My "new" ride! Yellow isn't as bad as I thought, I am actually LOVING IT!!