Patrick's 2nd Birthday Party

We had such a fun time yesterday hanging out with a few family members and friends. Patrick has been playing with his new toys all morning and we tried to use up some of the leftover bread from the grilled cheeses by making french toast.

Here are the pictures we have from the party. If you have any good ones, send them to me and I'll add it to the album.

http://picasaweb.google.com/jennifer.woods/PatrickJune2009#

For those of you who got to try the watermelon punch. Here's the recipe:

Watermelon Punch

*pulp from a watermelon
*can of frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
*2 cups pineapple juice

Put the melon pulp in the blender - seeds and all. Blend until smooth. Strain through a mesh strainer into a large punch bowl. Add the lemonade concentrate and the pineapple juice. Mix and serve in pretty glasses over crushed ice. For extra panache, throw in some mint leaves. I will do that next time. :)

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Sunny with dark sky. Locusts. Love this weather.

6 pictures for you

Bye Bye Indigo Young from Music Together, you've been great. Patrick is ready for his next set of classes: swimming! So far, he's hating them but he'll get better. Then this fall: preschool!

Here is Sean and Patrick at the farm's Farm Day last Saturday. We ate lots of great stuff. Check out my blog post about how the day went (haven't written it - as of this posting time) at crookedskyfarms.com.

Bye bye Camille and the Craws (John, Lydia, Sam and Rachael) we will miss you and wish you much luck in Kansas City. We hope you eat lots of great BBQ in your new house! Thanks Beth and Chris for lending us your house for the goodbye party this last Saturday night.

In case you didn't know already, Patrick is obsessed with trains and Thomas the Train. Here's his Thomas overalls. I think these used to be Sam's. Thanks Camille!

Just liked this cute picture.

And this one too.

Note: for all you blogspot bloggers, if you email your pictures from picasa to your blog email (the one you set up) it takes like two seconds to put them in a post, then go edit. I did that this time, kept the title as the email title it uses when you use this method. Lots of pics lickety split.

New craigslist rug ;) love it!

Farm Day RSVP

Hi! Wanted to see who all of my friends can make it to the farm day this Saturday at Crooked Sky. You're all invited but I wanted to know who could make it so that Frank knows how much stuff to buy and I know how much stuff to cook. If you could email, text or comment to this post, that'd be awesome. Also, I need to know by the end of the day today. Sorry for the late notice, hope you get it! :) If you don't reply in time, you're still invited! No worries!

Memorial Day Weekend - Video

Will's Birthday Party - Video

Memorial Day Weekend

Sorry it's taken me a while to post about our trip to San Diego over a week ago. I've posted the pictures on our web album: May 2009

We had Sean's co-worker David watch the animals and housesit for the weekend.

We drove over in our new used 2006 odyssey and boy was that a nice difference from the little Mazda 5 (that I still like) but we have much more leg room and it's just nicer all around.

We got checked into the Sheraton Symphony Hall downtown and then met up with my family and Sean's friend Jerry and his girlfriend Christina. We motored/sailed the harbor for the evening and Patrick did a great job wearing the life jacket. However, he did not do a great job sleeping that night.

Didn't matter 'cause we had such a fun day the next day that we didn't need much sleep to keep us going. We were lucky to have the Ethnic Food Fair going on at Balboa Park. We ate food from France, Lebanon, Argentina and Ireland. So good. We also went to the Railroad Museum and checked out the model trains and a Thomas play area. Patrick was stoked.

After Balboa Park Patrick napped in the car while we drove up to Torrey Pines State Beach for some sun and sand. Patrick wasn't into getting in the water so we just built sand castles.

For dinner we drove down to North Park to visit with a college friend of my dad's Jim Keenan and his wife Sam. They made some great ribs and slaw and Patrick climbed the stairs in their backyard about a hundred times.

The next morning we played in Shelter Island, eating at the cool new breakfast place that still has the Boll Weevil sign up. I think that's a good idea so that not too many people find out and make it too busy to frequent. Great menu and we were stuffed.

We played at the park the Cabrillo Elementary School for a while to work off the breakfast and then walked over to Keenan's place to say goodbye.

The trip home was easy and we'll definitely be back again soon. Maybe 4th of July? :)