Spaghetti Dinner

On friday, I went to Cheryll's school's fundraiser. It was an all-you-can-eat pasta night. The food wasn't bad and it has been years since I have had orange drink. We walked down the road to pick up Owen from daycare so he could join to party. As soon as we got our food, Owen reached over and grabbed a handful or noodles in one hand and spilled Cheryll's punch with the other. Then he grabbed some spaghetti off the plate of a woman walking by. We were cracking up. I sat down on the bench and one end went flying up and I fell onto the floor. Thank goodness I had already put my food down on the table. I sure don't miss that cafeteria seating. In the silent auction, Owen and I bid on a bunch of goodies baskets, but I don't know if we won anything yet. Cross you fingers that I get the 'haircuts for a year' prize. Patrick needs it!

Band Trip

This last week has been really eventful. My cousins came down from Eureka. Kris was being a chaperone on Kaitlyn's band trip to a competition at Disneyland. They had a stop over here and played a concert at a local high school. She's a flute player in the symphonic band and they were pretty good. Go Band Nerds! The boys wore tuxedos and the girls had on black cocktail dresses. What happened to those great, dorky uniforms with tassels and tall hats? Kaitlyn and her friends slept at the home of a local host family (with kids our high school's band) and Kris came over to our house. It was great to see them even if it was a short visit.

R D I & Sac

I abandoned Patrick this weekend and went to help out at an autism training in Sacramento. He had to work :< Mom, Cheryll and I saw Definitely, Maybe at the cheap theater. It was much better than we expected. Mom fell asleep in the middle, but only for a few minutes. She isn't a wild, night-owl anymore. I didn't get to see Owen walk, but Garrett has this fufny game with him where they both start sniffing at each other and he makes this crazy face. I tried to get a picture, but every time the camera came out he stopped. I came home on Saturday night and woke up sick, which was a bummer b/c I wanted to clean the house. Patrick went hiking in the woods for a few hours. He went so far that he ended up on the road and wasn't sure which way would take him back. I had to come pick him up and drive him back up the mountain to his car.

Julia's Kitchen

Last weekend we went out to dinner with Patrick's buddy from work an his wife. It was the first time I had met them and they are great! We wish they lived in our part of the county.
I was in the mood for snooty food (as usual) so we went to try Julia's Kitchen in Napa. It is the restaurant inside of Copia that is a kind tribute to Julia Childs. The dinner was awesome, but dessert left something to be desired. I had a grilled fish that was perfectly seasoned and flaky. MMMmmm, but by banana roulade had no banana flavor. Patrick had lamb and this crazy deconstructed rocky road dessert, which included a mini milk shake. It looked cool, but ended up being impossible to eat. The food was really expensive, not that this was unexpected and service was meduim. 3.25 stars out of 4.

Spring Bedding

Spring is here and Patrick has taken the plastic off of our windows. (Yes, plastic. We are too poor to afford new double pane windows and sliding doors, especially since the housing market has crashed and we may never be able to sell our townhouse to get a house.) And I have changed our bedding to the spring/summer collection. Thank-you to all of you who gave us any of this stuff for our wedding. Doesn't it look great!

Beard Fans

All you fans of Patrick's beard will be sorry to hear that is has been shaved. I liked his homly hair, but it scratched my face when he kissed me and he says it was itchy. I'm sure we haven't seen the last of that hairy beast as the busy farming season is begining.