Ezekiel is TWO!

Saturday, May 16th was Ezekiel's second birthday! I can't believe he is already two years old. We started out the morning with surprising him when he woke up with his big red wagon downstairs and a couple of presents!







I made him his favorite breakfast, blueberry pancakes! He was very excited to blow out his birthday candles!



Then we got ready and took Zeke to the beach and had a picnic lunch. Again, I forgot the camera so we don't have any pictures from the beach. We had a great time even though it was pretty over cast! We came home and Zeke took a quick nap before his second birthday party. I think he was so excited that he took a very quick nap! We just had a small family bbq but Zeke loved hanging with everyone and absolutely loved all his presents. Thank you to everyone who came and spoiled our two year old: Great Grandma and Grandpa, Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop, Ommy and PaPa, Cioci Sheila and Uncle Joe, Uncle David (or D) and Aunt Amanda! We had such a great time.

Here is a little slideshow with some pictures from Zeke's 2nd Birthday. You can click on the slideshow to open up a new window to see bigger pictures. Enjoy!

4 YEARS!

Mike and I celebrated our four year anniversary on May 14th. I surprised Mike and picked him up from work and we escaped to Coronado for two nights. A big thanks to mom-mom and pop-pop for taking Zeke! We had a wonderful and relaxing time at the Loews Resort in Coronado. Here is a picture of us with our view in the background:

Early Mother's Day

Mike and Zeke surprised me on the Thursday before Mother's Day! Mike had to work on Mother's Day so I got to spend an early Mother's Day with Mike and Zeke. I was given a hand made menu to choose what I wanted for breakfast in bed! Then breakfast came with two beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers and Zeke even shared my toast with me. It was just a great start to what turned out to be an absolutely wonderful day. I opened up my mother's day cards and found 3 tickets to the Padres game that afternoon! I have really been wanting to take Zeke to a game this year so we all enjoyed Zeke's first Padres game.
Here's a picture of Zeke and I walking in to Petco Park



Mike got us the best seats on field level and we even had a fence in front of us so Zeke could walk around a little bit without bothering anybody in front of us. We were even able to stay in our seats for 5 full innings! Here's a picture of Zeke chowing down on a hot dog



And here's Mike trying to explain the game to Zeke which I probably should have been doing!




After 5 innings, Zeke was getting a little antsy so we went to the Park in the Park which is just a big grassy area where kids can run around and they do have a little baseball diamond where kids can play but Zeke is still a little too young for that. Zeke loved it and ran around all day! He did have to hydrate and get some water from mommy.



We left at the end of the 7th inning as Zeke was getting pretty tuckered out. He was asleep in the car before we made it to the freeway. Thank you to Mike and Zeke for making this Mother's Day so special. I am so lucky to have such a great husband and a wonderful son!

On the actual Mother's Day, Zeke and I headed over to Sheila and Joe's for what turned out to be fiesta to the fullest. Sheila out did herself as usual and made homemade tortilla soup and chicken flautas. We celebrated our mom who is the best! Of course Mike is the photographer in our family and I forgot to take the camera so I don't have any photos from this wonderful day. Thank you Sheila for having Mother's Day and thank you mom for being such a great mother and grandmother!