Last week of work before vacation

WEEK 5

This week I have done a lot of baking.  There is a Christmas party after church on Sunday and I have volunteered to bring some goodies.  This is one of my favorite parts of Christmas – baking!!

Tuesday was our 3 year anniversary!!  We celebrated by going to Calafia – it is a local restaurant that only uses local produce and products.  It was Delicious!!!

I babysat Nealon Brodine on Wednesday and we bonded (that has been the highlight of my week).  We went to get bagels, to the library, to see the ducks and the train and swung by trader joes.  I also had my first Wal-Mart experience here – not so good.  Wal-mart anytime isn’t that much fun, but Wal-Mart at the holidays is TERRIBLE!!  Congestion, long times, grumpy people, etc.  Never again!

We had a breast-feeding seminar this week as well – a lot of learning for one week – but that was our last class – so we are experts now (pause NOT).  We got the crib mattress this week, got the pack-n-play set up in our bedroom and I packed out hospital bags – so we are officially READY for this little girl to come (I mean are you ever really ready?)

HOORAY because this is Patrick’s last week of work before the New Year!!  This means we get the next two weeks to hang out and relax and enjoy each other and California before the new addition to our family arrives.  We are really looking forward to it.  There is so much that we want to see – for example Half Moon Bay (the beach) and he hasn’t really been able to explore downtown Menlo Park very much, maybe San Fran… who knows.  Lots of options.

Patrick’s Christmas party for work was Friday.  It was a lot of fun.  They had it at a traditional Chinese restaurant (I am talking the name of the restaurant was in Chinese characters with the English translation next to it in smaller letters).  They served multiple courses of traditional Chinese meals – it was very good.  We used our chopsticks the whole meal.  They had a drawing after dinner and Patrick pulled the 37” TV and I got a Starbucks gift basket.  After the dinner and prizes there was a “famous DJ in this area” – it was awesome because all of his bosses were out of the dance floor – none of the younger people in the company really danced, but upper management did.

This weekend we kept the Wood girls (yes, all 4) while Britton and Elizabeth got their weekend escape to Napa.  So jealous, but it was fun to hang out with their girls for the weekend.  We spent Saturday at the park and had a picnic and then decorated cookies that night.  It was exhausting, but fun!