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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:
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!
