California, April 2010

**There are two more posts below this one from our weekend before California. Don't miss them!**

As a family, we went out to visit my family in California from Sunday, April 11, to Monday, April 19th. We traveled on Sunday and Monday, so no pictures from those days. I split the pictures up from day to day to make it easier for me. We had so much fun with my family, especially since G and his cousin Lacie are only 4 months apart. I also loved seeing my nephews, Zander and Keaton.

Monday, April 12th: Hanging out at home and visiting Tiffany (and nephews and niece)

Zander saying that G's head smells after taking his helmet off

Lacie was always trying to push G over or attack his face. G doesn't know how to defend himself yet.

Tuesday, April 13th: Went to visit Tiffany again; had fun with Keaton, Zander, and Lacie!

Wednesday, April 14th: Chico, Aunt J, G, and I went to visit my grandparents in Sacramento. It was a long day, but G had a fun time hanging with his great grandparents.

J & G

J, Great Grandpa O, me, and G (this was towards the end of the day and he was starting to get cranky)

Oh he loves great g'ma O!


Thursday, April 15th: We went out to eat at Lincoln Chinese -- the best chinese on earth (I think I put that on every post when I go to California, but its sooo true) ... and the friendliest Chinese ladies on the American continent. :)

The whole crew, minus Papa Mark

Auntie Stacie with the babies


Friday, April 16th: My mom, dad, sisters Tiffany, Stacie, Jill, and my grandma O and I went to the Sacramento temple Friday night. It was such a beautiful day -- but nothing compares to the beauty of the House of the Lord:

My parents

My mom and sisters

Saturday, April 17th: The WHOLE family went to Six Flags Marine World on Saturday (the whole day -- ugghhh, it was fun but challenging with a baby). I didn't take too many pictures because I was having FUN. But a fun little side note is that I had my hair back in a pony tail with my mom's heavy duty hair spray on. I went on multiple roller coasters and my hair stayed in tact. So if you're looking for a really good hair spray, talk to my mom. :)

My cute boys waiting for the Shouka whale show to start

Shouka

Grandpa and G watching the elephants

At the end of the day -- we just had to try on some ghetto fabulous hats


Sunday, April 18th: Delicious dinner at Grandma & Grandpa O's house. Spare-ribs, potato salad, rolls, strawberry cheese cake -- YUM!

Stacie with G

G and Lacie

August 2009, California Trip

I have another post below this one, so don't miss the opportunity to check out that post too!

Alejandro and I went to California to visit my family on August 8-17th. That seems like a long time, but it really went by too fast! Since I am almost ready to have our baby, we really didn't do too many activities. I am getting more and more tired, so we hung out at my parents house, as well as my older sister Tiffany's apartment. We baby sat for Tiff a few times and saw her kids pretty much every day. I didn't take too many pictures of us, but mostly the kids and my baby shower.

On Friday, we went down to San Francisco to get Alejandro's passport renewed. My dad, mom, Jill, Stacie, as well as Alejandro and I went down to the Uruguayan consulate. It was just a room in a real estate firm's building. That cracked us all up because we always make fun of the fact that Uruguay is such a small country. But when we walked in the room, there was a huge bookshelf and on the bookshelf was a picture of President Spencer W. Kimball. All of us were shocked to see that, especially in the middle of downtown San Francisco. We asked the Uruguayan consulate if that was his picture, but it wasn't. I guess it belonged to the owner of this real estate firm, which is HUGE and has many offices throughout the country. The owner is now over 80 years old and has Parkinson's disease, so he doesn't work any more. But the real estate agent working told us that this man is LDS and had known President Kimball and even went to school with the elder George Bush at Yale. It was pretty cool seeing that picture. My sisters took a picture with the picture, even.

Besides hanging out, we were able to go shopping and out to eat with my Grandma and Grandpa Ommen, as well as go to a few of our favorite places to eat, including Lincoln Chinese (THE best Chinese food on the planet). We stayed in most of the time since it was extremely hot! Well, here are some highlights from our trip:

Jill with her little furry friend Zoey. I always have to get a picture in of our dogs. I didn't get any good pictures of Roscoe.

My nephews Zander and Keaton. Keaton was trying to fit into his old bouncer. It's too small for him though! Zander was offering me a piece of watermelon. :)

With Keaton. I had the hardest time getting him to smile for the camera! He is such a muffin.

I posted this mainly to show how big I am now, since it really isn't flattering for anyone in the picture .. ha ha. This was on Saturday, August 15th, and I am 35 weeks along!

My baby shower cake. Sorry about my cleavage...I can't really help it at this point.

One of the many baby shower opening presents pictures. I also wanted to show my funky new haircut, courtesy of my mama. It's really cute though.

At the baby shower with my sisters and mom, from L-R: Stacie, Jill, me, Tiffany, and my mom. They were so awesome in throwing such a wonderful baby shower for me.

Keaton finally smiling! Tiffany had to tickle him for me to catch it on camera. He has the cutest, heart-melting smile, but he never does it for the camera. So glad I got a snap shot of it!

Our family's newest addition... our little Lacie love. What a sweet heart too. Seriously the best baby ever. I hope I am lucky enough to have a baby that's a good of sleeper/eater as she is.

My mom did Jill's hair (highlights), but we all had planned to play games at Tiffany's apt., so she left the foils in and drove over to Tiff's. But Jill actually had to walk out of the car and through a crowd of 12 year old boys looking like this in order to get to Tiffany's apt. She said they all turned and stared at her while she walked up the stairs to her apt. She's never been so embarrased! Ha ha

We also celebrated Jill's 18th birthday party while we were in town. Her real birthday was actually on August 17th. Can't believe my youngest sibling is now 18! Here she is with Nick (who doesn't look to happy) and little Z man. The cake was absolutely disgusting though. We have always enjoyed my G'ma Ommen's homemade cake, but she's getting too old to make them now and had to order it from Winco... don't ever order from there, it was gross!

California in a Nutshell

I went to California for two weeks this June to visit my family and friends. Mostly I went to go to my sister Jill's graduation. It was fun to see my family and go to my friend Evelyn's wedding at the temple. I also spent a lot of time with my little nephews and my new niece Lacie. She was blessed when I was home, which was the first time I was able to be home for one of their blessings. It wasn't as hot as I thought it would be, so I was lucky I was sweating the whole time. I tried really hard to condense my pictures. These were some of my favorites.

Little Lacie Lou Lou all pretty in her blessing outfit. Her headband/flower were so freakin adorable! She had on these little bracelets too.

Jill and me with Lacie... I look disgusting

Me and Jill with the Red Robin bird. My mom, dad, me and Jill went to eat there one night.

Me and Zander man. His smile just melts my heart.

Aunty Jill let Zander and Keaton play on her. I just sat there and watched. :)

Zander and Grandma (my mom) at our friend's wedding reception. It's cute how he is grabbing her around her neck like they're old buddies.

Me, my old friend Gin, my sister Stacie, and my other old friend Megan at the Sacramento Temple for our friend Eveyln's sealing.

Me, Jill, Stacie, Nick, and Tiffany at Jill's high school graduation. This was the original reason for me going to California.

Lacie all snuggly and cute

Aunt Stacie put this hilarious and nasty wig on Keaton's head.

Keaton and Zander eating their Cheeze-Its by our backyard door and watching our dogs Roscoe and Zoey play

I babysat Zander and Keaton one morning when my sister Tiffany went to the doctor. They love to play on the trampoline for long periods of time. So cute.

Thanksgiving Continued...

These are the rest of the Thanksgiving vacation pictures I promised. My camera battery was dying last night and I was tired of uploading pictures. And I was just plain tired from the long day of working. Well, enjoy!

Me, Zander & Jill. Thanks for ruining the picture, Jill. ;)

Keaton and me hanging out on Thanksgiving Day. He is such a snuggle bunny. I love it.

Zander in a little cubby hole at Grandma O's house on Saturday. She has this old icecream/butter churner. He was busy working.

I guess Zander really has the paparrazi blues. He didn't want his picture taken. :)

Jilly and me at my Grandma & Grandpa Farrimond's house on Thanksgiving

The following two pictures are of me, Stacie, Jill and some of my good friends from California. We were watching the annual Ommen Thanksgiving Day soccer game. My dad has been organizing and putting on this soccer game for as long as I can remember. I only watched this year though.

Turkey Day 2008 & Gas!!!

Alejandro and I went to California for Thanksgiving and this is a summary of our trip. I, ironically, don't have any pictures of Alejandro .... but I promise he was there. But we did so much more than what is pictured below. I am such an idiot...I didn't charge my camera battery and so I don't have half the pictures I wish I did. So, this is mostly from Thanksgiving Day and then on Saturday at my Grandma's house (for Stacie's birthday party).

We flew out to California on Tuesday morning and just hung out most of the day. Ale and my brother in law, Ben, went to see Quantum of Solace and loved it! Then Wednesday me, Jill, and Ale went shopping with my Grandma (for Christmas...yeah!) then that evening all the girls went to see Twilight. And let me just put this in: I LOVED IT!! I know there were some corny parts, but overall I really liked it. So did my mom and sisters. Thursday, of course we played soccer in the morning and then went to my mom's parents house for the big meal. We played some games after dinner and I got to see my new little cousin...and I didn't take any pictures of him either! Sorry.

Friday we went shopping again (CRAZY!!) and then we drove up to this cute little mountain town for their annual Cornish Christmas. There were vendors there and music and dancing. It was lots of fun to be up there with my family. On Saturday my younger sister Stacie went through the Sacramento Temple to receive her endowment and then we went to my Grandparents (my dad's parents) to celebrate Stacie's birthday and have another Thanksgiving on that side of the family.

I would just like to say that I love my family. That seems so obvious, but I really do. I never have as much fun as I do when I am home with everyone, including Alejandro. He makes it so much better when he is there. I know I go home without him sometimes, but I always miss him so much and think about him constantly. So it was nice to have him there with me. My whole family loves him a lot too! I probably won't be going home again until June when Miss Jilly graduates from high school. I can't believe that she is graduating already.

Anyway, I would also like to say how much I absolutely LOVE the gas prices as of late. I filled up my tank today for about $16.50. I couldn't believe how CHEAP it is! I am praying it stays this low, but who knows. Well, until I take pictures and post again....

**I just deleted two pictures I had up...I will make another post with those pictures because I want to go to bed!!**

Keaton eating his dinner

Zander and I hanging.

The following pictures were taken by none other than Zander himself. I taught him how to take pictures and he was off from there. He was cracking me up though with his picture takin' skillz. ;)

What up? This is a little too close for comfort...

Jilly

Pops