A Day at the Races

Today we celebrated Auntie Claudine's birthday at Bay Meadows. It was an absolutely awesome day -the weather was beautiful and we all had so much fun. In fact, we barely took any pictures, we were so busy! Mason and I bet on 2 races - I picked 3 to win in my race and Mason picked 10 to win in his race - and we both won!! It was awesome. We made back our wagers and walked away with $36. Yippee. Applebee's, here we come. It was great spending time with Claudine, Lance "Uncle Wooie" and all of their friends that we like so much. Happy birthday, Beautiful Claudine. Thanks for letting us share in the fun.

You would never know from the look on his face that we actually won...

Happy Birthday, Morgan James and Mia Denise

Morgan turned 3 today! He had a great day at school, eating gluten free cupcakes made by mommy (who was only able to cook them because his rock star daddy fixed the oven) and getting presents from his friends. He got to have fish sticks, tator tots and hot dogs for dinner and a very small piece of yummy gluten free cake (which caused him to stay awake until past 9:00, which is another story). His present to himself was a shiner on his left eye, which he received when he tripped on the big hill at school.

His birthday party with his friends will be on Saturday at a small park down the street. Not sure how many people are actually coming but we'll have a great time none the less. Lots of balloons and Backyardigans paraphenalia. Woohoo!

Happiest of birthday wishes, my dearest boy.
We all love you so very much.

And a very special birthday wish to Mia who turns 5 today. I think it is the coolest thing in the world that my best friends daughter, Mia, and Morgan share the same birthday. And I think it's just as cool that Mason and Mia are 3 weeks apart. Life is good.

We hope Mia had as wonderful of a day as Morgan did and that her party on Saturday is full of lots of presents and happy memories.

We love you too, Mia.