Labor Day Weekend

We had a nice relaxing weekend and were able to get a little bit of "everything" in!

Saturday - We went to a celebration party for our friend and neighbor Francesco!

He is from Italy and he became an American citizen!
It was so great to see someone so excited about becoming an American after working so hard to go through the proper process. Congratulations Francesco!!!

Then we had family over for a BBQ that evening...

Sunday - After church we headed to San Diego and went to the Torrey Pines Gliderport. Check out their website here - http://flytorrey.com/cms/. It makes for a great afternoon visit!

Then we headed into La Jolla and strolled around and ended with a drink at George's.

Monday - We stayed around the house all day. Daniel prepared for his work presentation and I did some crafting for an upcoming party...

All in all it was a great weekend!

Palm Desert Weekend

We met the Damato's and Thomas family in Palm Desert this past weekend!

We had a great time being together, cooking, shopping, helping the kids scrapbook and relaxing by the pool.
We even had a special birthday dinner celebration for Marie!
We wish we could do this more often...
God has truly blessed us with awesome friends!
Click on the photo to see more photos of the weekend get-away...

Grace turns...8!

We can hardly believe it! Gracie turned "8"!

She had us over for a birthday celebration dinner complete with her favorite ice cream cake.

We love you Gracie and pray that God blesses you this coming year...

Click on Gracie's photo to see more photos!

A day at home...

We spent the day at home today...

We needed to do some things around the house and get caught up bit! Daniel did the "outside" things and I did the "inside" things...

One of Daniel's outside things was to check on our little "garden"...we have 2 baby tomatoes and a new flower bud starting!!!

We also enjoyed having our neighbors - the Shumate's - over for dinner!

A Fabulous "50th" Celebration!

My friend Barbara turned "50" on Saturday!

She hosted a Fabulous "50th" Cuban Birthday Bash!
The party was complete with great Cuban food, libations and salsa dancing!

We all had a great time...and doesn't she look Fabulous (she's the one in the red dress)?!?!

Dan In Real Life...

No, not my "Dan"!
Well, actually I prefer to call him "Daniel" even though he is known as "Dan" on the East Coast...:)

We rented the movie called "Dan In Real Life" this weekend.
It is a Blissfully Funny and Touching film as quoted by Peter Travers, Rolling Stone...and we agree!

If you haven't seen this movie yet, you need to!
Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche and Dane Cook are great in it!

My "Daniel" says - where the movie takes place reminds him of the lake house where he would spend summer vacations with his family...
What a great memory!

For the link to the movie click on the poster.

Fresh Fish

Daniel's friend at work caught some fresh YellowTail and gave us some to cook up. (Thanks Dave!)

We found this great recipe online and it turned out to be a great meal! Click on the photo of fish dinner for the recipe...

If you don't have time to make the salsa you can use pre-made mango/papaya salsa from Trader Joe's (that's what we did)!