City of Hope Picnic

Every year our family volunteers at the City of Hope pediatric picnic and we have a blast. We are in charge of popcorn and the corn dogs. Its a great event benefiting our kids with cancer. Thank you to everyone who came out and volunteered.




Me, sofia and Tamara in the carriage.




Special moment.



Us with the Superheroes.



Sofia and Tamara as posers.




All the characters with us on the side.




Brad and Savannah enjoying one of many snowcones.




Christopher and Darth Vader.



Posing with all the guys favorite Superhero - Wonderwoman.




Too cute.




Robert, Niveet and the Star Wars characters.



R2-D2 and the kids.




They weren't afraid of Darth Vader.




Even Mickey came to visit.
























The old folk with the young superheroes.

Republic

We finished off the night by going to Republic in Hollywood for dinner. It was a nice evening even though the food wasn't so great. I don't recommend Republic for the food. However, the company was great and we had a really nice time.


The girls.



Sonal and I by the red door.




The six of us.




Me and my honey.

Happy Birthday Nilam!

Today marks the start of a very busy weekend for us. We start off by sending the kiddies away and going out to dinner with our best friends. The Patels came down to celebrate Nilam's birthday so we all went out to Mojitos in Pasadena for some very good food and drinks.




Twins.




Birthday boy and Jeena with their PINK mojitos.




Us girls, Jeena didn't get the purple memo.




The boys.

Concert in the Park - B-side players

The B-side players came into town today for the Playboy Jazz Festival in Woodland Hills. We spent the afternoon enjoying the outdoors and listening to some nice relaxing music. What a fun day.

Julianna with her Nino.




What a sweet picture.



Julianna and her Nina watching the B-side players.



Robert and the girls, Julianna is just Chillin'



The Compadres.




Our setup.




A good moment.




Tio Damian and B-side players.




The Munoz Familia.




So cute!

Seussical The Musical

Our Saturday was filled with many activities including getting up really early for our first day of marathon training, taking Tamara to gymnastics, going to the farmers market for some much needed fruits and vegetables, taking a nap and then finally a last minute activity, going to watch a musical at the Pasadena High School. Tamara's gymnastics instructor was a "Who" in the "Seussical The Musical" so we went to check it out. Wow! What a great show! We all had a great time. I felt like I was at a broadway show. The kids were great, the singing was amazing and the storyline kept us interested. It was based on "Horton Hears a Who" and a variety of Seussian characters from several of Dr. Seuss books...Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, the Whos of Whoville, the Wickersham Brothers (Tamara's favorites), Sour Kangaroo and the Citizens of the Jungle of Nool. We gave it 5 stars.





Dr. Seuss starts off the performance.






Tamara meets the cast - JoJo (resident of Whoville).





Horton the Elephant



Dr. Seuss - She was amazing.



This is Tamara's gymnastics coach who also performed as a "Who".



A cupcake for good behavior.

Training begins

Its official. Today we started our Pasadena Marathon training at the Rose Bowl. We are actually going to do it again. Pretty crazy. This time however we will have to figure out how to train 4-5 times a week with two small kids. It will be a sacrifice but I think we can do it. We already bought the double jogging stroller so that both of the kids can train with us. Save the date for November 16 and come out to the streets of Pasadena to support us....we will need it!

Another day at the happiest place on earth!

One thing about being the baby is that you get to do things a lot earlier than your older siblings. Julianna got to go to Disneyland and California Adventure for the first time at 2 months old. Im not sure how much she got out of it but it was fun for us. Our only complaint is that we couldn't go on all the rides together and had to take turns. But overall, we had such a great day. Tamara rode Thunder Mountain for the first time and LOVED it. She is a roller coaster freak! Weekdays at Disneyland are GREAT! Do I have to go back to work?



We dont have to hold her anymore.




Tamara's first "solo" picture with a character.




Having a great day...look she is wearing PINK!




Time for a snack... Chocolate dipped strawberries. YUM!




She ate most of them!




Daddy's girl.




Chillin'




Best friends.




First ride on the Jungle Cruise.




Us girls.