Brittany's Quincenerra

Brittany has been Jake and Jessica's babysitter for the past 3 1/2 years (maybe even more).In South American culture, it is customary to have a huge party that is basically the same as a wedding (except no groom) for your daughter when she turns 15. Brittany Johnson's mom is from Guatamala. Jake and Jessica were part of the Royal Court escorting the princess "quincenerra". It was very nice. They had to walk in and bow and curtsey, stand in a line with roses, do a candle light ceremony and the "waltz" dance.

House Update

Here is the latest pic of our house. It looks like they are getting ready to drywall and put in the windows this week. We found an apartment that we will be living in this summer. We have to be out of here by June 23 (escrow closing). Our apt is ready June 18. I leave for Oklahoma on the 25th and Gary leaves for SFO on the 24th. I guess we could have waited on the apt...but it will be nice to have a place to put some of our stuff. The storage movers will be here on the 20th to move most of our stuff to storage until Sept when the house should be finished. Until then, we are down to beds, suitcases and a few toys for the kids. We don't want to have to move too much stuff to the 2nd floor apt.

Newport Beach

We spent Memorial weekend in Newport Beach. We stayed at the Island Hotel near Fashion Island, shopped at South Coast and Fashion Island, frequented the local Sprinkles (it was Gary's birthday), spent a little time on beach (it was cold that weekend) and ate some great food. We tried a restaurant- Oysters, which was pretty good. We also did Cheesecake and PF Changs, which I know are chains, but not located in Valencia, so we like to go when we can. We did a small harbor tour where we saw sea lions and celebrity homes in the Newport and along Balboa Island. The kids had fun swimming. It was really nice and relaxing. (Of course it helped that our house had sold the day before we left.)

Jake at the beach

I really think I should put him on a diving team or something....