#94 - Happy New Year 2011!

On New Year's Day I met up with sorority sisters, Andrea (holding daughter Kiera) and Suzanne, in Temecula. Exciting news...at lunch, Suzanne announced that she is 2 1/2 mo. pregnant and due in July!
I uploaded that last one out of order so go back a day to New Year's Eve - Marissa and Tony picked me up from work (we got out early!) and we went wine tasting in Temecula.

Afterwards, we went to Kevin and Autumn's house (Lui and Kevin worked the duty so they couldn't partake in the festivities) then had dinner at The Melting Pot. Here's Tony's ying-yang martini:

We ate SO much good food but still found room for dessert -

Here we are heading back to the Cooper's house to do the countdown to midnight! I picked up Meadow (Lui's goddaughter) and she let me know I may have squeezed her stuffed tummy a little too tight, sorry!!

#93 - Baby V

At lunch today, my mom met me at Andrea's (brought us all Chipotle for lunch) and I got to meet baby V for the first time! I held him for a little while as I sat on the couch but I was SO nervous, he is SO small. I'm looking forward to him getting bigger and chasing him around!

#92 - The babies are here!

I've been joking with Lui that the babies (my niece's and his brother's) were going to be born on his birthday...and one of them was! Here is Vincent Lee Navarette III who wasn't due until 12/16 but was born 12/08 at 3:43PM weighing 7lb 1oz and a looong 22 1/2 inches:
Ironically, Lui's sister-in-law checked herself in to the SAME hospital on the same day but she didn't have her baby until 1:30AM the next morning. Here's Hazel Cruz born 12/09 weighing 8lbs 6oz - her momma didn't have time to get the epidural so she was born naturally (ouch!).

#91 - Double Vision

A couple of weeks ago I went to one of Andrea's birthing classes (her boyfriend had to work that evening). The topic was breathing and positioning during labor. Being the fully supportive aunt that I am, I stuffed my shirt with Andrea's sweater and played along as another preggo woman in the room. It was actually pretty educational - I also learned about being dialted vs effaced. Andrea is due 12/16/10...stay tuned for an update...

#90 - More wedding photos!

My co-worker took the photos (her side job) - they turned out SO AWESOME!

Here is our table at the reception - we sat with the best man (Kevin), his wife (Autumn) and Kevin's parents:

Look who caught the bouquet...AND the garder!! ;)

#89 - Mr. & Mrs. Zwetow!

Our good friends, Tony & Marissa were married on Friday! Here is Jill, Marissa and me toasting before she walked down the aisle (Marissa's new niece took this picture). I didn't take too many pics at the wedding because so many other people were so I'll post more photos when I get them. P.S. I caught the bouquet...and Lui caught the garder. ;)

#88 - Pumpkins!

Here we are (I still need to get the group shot - there was about 20 of us) carving pumpkins the Friday before Halloween. It's our good friend Tony (getting married to our good friend Marissa on Friday!!), Lui, Mike and me:
I found two things on-line that I wanted to do so I made mine double sided, here's the ghost:

And the other side was a silly face:

There was voting and a trophy for the winner (that gets passed aruond from year to year) which went to a guy who carved 2 pumpkins so it looked like something from Silence of the Lambs (where one pumpkin was eating the other's brains, yuk). Here is Lui's with a facial expression that Lui likes to make:

It was our first time at this annual carving event, thrown by friends of friends - can't wait to do it again next year! I should mention that I left them out on the patio and the 95+ degree heat ruined them and I ended up scooping the moldy, mushy mess into a trash bag - GROSS.