We've had a pretty hectic last few days. It started on Saturday. We made some food and took it down to Monterey to celebrate Unca Vince's birthday. Happy "29th" birthday Vince! It was a good time of hanging out, eating good food, and ragging on each other.
We played Family Feud, the DVD version, for about an hour before we figured out how to play it correctly. Maybe we should have read the instructions first. Rick and I had to leave early because it was getting close to Emi-chan's bedtime.
The next day, we took my Bro Jeff grocery shopping and then went to little Paulie's birthday party in Newark. Happy Birthday, big boy! There was tons of good food, oodles of cute kids, and best of all, Rick and I got to eat a whole meal without getting interrupted! Paulie's grandmother and then later on Auntie B held Emi-chan while we ate. Plus, we were able to catch up with a few people we haven't seen in awhile.
On Monday, I went to a Premier Jewelry show hosted by Auntie B's house. The demonstrator was a friend, JoAnn. It was fun looking at the jewelry she brought and at the catalog, but Emi-chan got fussy so I had to leave before I could place an order. So, on Tuesday, I went back to Auntie B's and had lunch with some friends, placed my order, and visited a bit.
On Wednesday, I took Gran Gran to the doctor. He said she's doing well considering she had surgery just a few weeks ago. Yeah!
Today, I went shopping for a couple of baby showers I'm going to in the next couple of weeks. Whew!
Today is Rick and my third wedding anniversary! Yeah! It feels like 30, but in a good way. Seriously, it has been three very good years. It amazes me how much our lives have changed in a fairly short period of time. Five years ago, we were weird, geeky, timid single people. Now we are weird, geeky, timid married people trying to raise a baby not to be so weird, geeky, or timid.
Tonight, Grandma and Grandpa came up from Watsonville to help take care of Emi-chan. We took this opportunity to go out to dinner to celebrate our anniversary. We went to an awesome Middle Eastern restaurant called Dishdash. From the flat bread and dipping oil, to our entrees, everything was delicious. Rick had mashwi, charbroiled prawns and sea bass.
I had sambusak dajaj, chicken, almonds, and mushrooms baked in filo dough on a pool of spinach sauce. I really liked the sauce. They also gave us a complementary dessert called kenafeh. It's made of cheese, covered with shredded filo dough, and served with rosewater and pistachios. At first we were a little scared. Cheese as a dessert? What's rosewater? It turned out to be really, really tasty. It was nothing like what we expected. It was pleasantly sweet. The filo dough crunchy. The cheese faintly sweet and soft. We really enjoyed the dessert.
Later, we took a little walk through a street fair called Music and Market on Murphy Street, kind of like a farmers market with a concert, less food, and lots of crafts and artists. Apparently, the city of Sunnyvale has been sponsoring this event for six years and we just found out. Oh, well.
We had a very nice, low key, very enjoyable anniversary.
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ctually, it was yesterday, but that's okay. Happy Birthday, Rick!
After a long night of binge drinking milkies, marathon readings of Star Wars novels and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and whooping it up with Mama, Papa, and Lamby, Emi-chan collapses in an exhausted slumber. Poor girl. She lost her toga.
Here is Rick and Emi-chan spending some quality bonding time, doing something we like to do as a family: watching TV. I don't remember what they were watching. NOVA? Star Wars IV: New Hope? MythBusters? Monk?I know it wasn't Napoleon Dynamite or Miami Ink (that would be my TV time). We really need to break this bad habit. Sometimes, Emi-chan pays more attention to Dr. Phil than to me.
