September 2011

I got lazy and forgot to blog about Dallas’ birthday and a little Sunday trip we took to Northern Nor Cal (haha!)

We took him to Chuck E Cheese for his birthday dinner. We played for a long time and had a great time.

The next day I baked some cupcakes for his class. All the kids were so sweet, and the teacher told me how excited they were about getting a treat that day! His teacher gave him a little birthday crown for D to wear that day

The following Sunday we drove up to a city called Redding where they have the Sundial Bridge. Very cool!

Then we looked on the map and noticed that Mt. Shasta was an hour away so we drove to check it out. We had lunch at Black Bear Diner, the food is great and the salads are huge! New favorite place to eat. It’s really beautiful up there, it reminded me of Utah for a while.

On our way back home we stopped by Shasta Dam. It was a bit frightening to look down, but the view was amazing.

Mt. Shasta

Also, yesterday we got back from a week in Utah. We had a very productive trip, it was great to see our families (minus my mom who is in Argentina) and I got to hang out with two of my friends. Ben had some meetings and it’s looking really good for his application to the U’s school of medicine. We saw his surgeon and some other people from the Burn Unit, they were really happy for us and the progress we’d made. Then we walked over to Primary Children’s and unfortunately I couldn’t chat with 2 of Conner’s GI doctors but we did talk to his geneticist. He is such a great guy, he was so happy to see us and was really excited to hear Ben’s plans. Conner had such an awesome team in that hospital.

Now it’s back to routine, back to school for Ben and D, I need to find a new job. I also have to work on D’s Halloween costume, which these days is Transformers. We’ll see how it turns out!