San Jose Round 1

The past two weeks I have been out of town working around my old stomping grounds of San Jose. My co-worker down there went on vacation and with a lot of turnover to a newer and better water treatment plant I was able to get a trip down there to help them out. They needed someone with facility knowledge and since I had worked down there for a while I was able to be put right to work. The weather was perfect. I was able to get a lot of vitamin D and overdosed once while down there.

Before I left I was able to get out into the garden at our house and harvest these carrots that have survived nicely over the winter. I hope next year we get as good of vegetables as we have received from the previous owners.
Brenda was also able to come for the weekend I was going to be there and that gave us a great excuse to get back together with our friends. Myron, Andrea, and Jake came up from the Visalia area and we got to spend some time with them. Andrea and some of Brenda's old friends threw her a baby shower and she was very excited about it.
Here is Jake...this kid laughs all the time as we had a great time going to lunch with them in downtown Campbell.

Notice the blossoms on the trees already...very nice weather.

Here is a pic of Brenda opening her shower gifts. No I was not there to take this picture. Men did not attend the shower but we went to Brett's house to play video games and toss a few back. A man shower.

Here is another random pic of the girl fun.

Another gift. Everyone was very nice and Brenda loved being the center of attention (as always). Myron and I showed up at the end of the shower to pick the ladies up and of course they had more talking to do so Myron and I stepped outside onto the back porch. I think that had I been inside, I would have hearing loss from all the talking and laughing that was going on in there.

Mindy and Amy are also pregnant...as if you couldn't tell. Guess us guys finally figured out how to get it done at about the same time.

Lots of friends made quite the effort to be at the shower. Lyndsay Schenk came down from Riptown with her twins and they were very cute. Next time I go to CA I am going to make time to get out to the central valley and catch up with them over a few cold ones.

This is the reason I don't go to showers. Camille is Jen and Jeff Baham girl who really liked to play and was gracious enough to lend me her crown and sunglasses.

Some more shower pics

After the shower we wanted to get together with some friends and have dinner. It was about 630pm and Brenda went to put our name in at BJ's....to find out that there was a 2.5hour wait for a table. Well I guess they don't want our money that bad, and the economy is doing just fine. We decided to go to Brett and Michelle's (where we were staying) and get some pizza and brews. This turned out much better and we had a great time.

Here is everyone getting ready for the group photo.

And then it was time for the serious one.

Two big girls.

I tried to strut my stuff as well and think I did pretty good for just being out of shape. I am not really that fat.

Unfortunately Mindy and Harry had parked in the wrong parking space that was not marked for guests and got towed. Michelle brought them to the tow yard and they were able to get their car back, but make for an expensive night.

For all the time we were at Brett and Michelle's we did not get enough pictures of them. Here is their adorable girl named Bria. She was a very happy baby and seemed to be very easygoing from my perspective. She also laughed a lot and was right on the verge of crawling. I tired to train her to crawl so her mom and dad's life would be more difficult, but I failed.

I also messed around on image editor the other day and thought of what our kid may look like when they grow up. I have come up with the image below if it is a boy(right) or a girl(left). I know it is bad when I have to tell you which one is a boy and which one is a girl. Sleep easy as you dream of these two options.

Wow is parenting going to be scary or what.