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Big Boys

Marie and the rest of the Sumino clan came up to SF for the weekend. It was so fun to spend the day with them and play with Cole just like I used to before moving up here.  Marie and Kenji look great and seem to travel rather well with two boys.

Brandon is growing quickly and he’s such an easy-going baby who smiles every time I call him name. I took them to the park across from my house, gave them the 2-second tour of our condo, and we had Dim Sum in the afternoon.

Cole is such a big boy now at 3 years of age and I couldn’t get over home much he talks now. I guess I’m still used to the little 18-month-old that ran around pulling the DVDs off my shelves. He still loves Koa and Koa actually remembered him. Once they got back to our house, Cole chased him around and fed him carrots. I guess a friendship between a boy and dog really does endure the test of time.

Here are a few photos from our afternoon.

I can’t keep up.

The Olympics Opening Ceremony was just 5 nights ago and I’m pooped. With coverage running live from 8:00 pm through past midnight every night, I’ve been losing a lot of sleep. I just can’t help getting sucked into the Olympic Games every four years and since I read the newspaper every morning, it doesn’t help to TiVo the games. So, it’s 10:30 pm now, I’m falling asleep, and gymnastics hasn’t even started yet! *sigh* Not sure I can hang on for 11 more nights of this.

still learning

This is the view from my workstation on a rainy day.

One year ago today, I started a new job.  Now I’m settled in and have made a few good friends.  I’ve rounded out my peds experience with lots of feeding and splinting and have lots more to learn.  I’m also a couple weeks away from my first real teaching job.  My my my…a lot has changed since my days in Irvine with the crazy parents and evil attorneys.  I haven’t had my annual review yet but I’m hoping that it goes well enough for me to earn a raise.  We’ll just have to see.

It almost broke.

Rob and Kelly had a photobooth at their wedding and the boys had a little too much fun.  They crammed about 7 of them inside and the booth couldn’t really handle all the shoving and rocking.  You can see their reaction to the booth almost collapsing in the fourth photo.  I love the looks on Jes’ and Victor’s faces.  The poor dude that built the booth had to repair it for the next 30 minutes.

Here are photos from the weekend (and wedding).

Table for 15 1/2

This morning we met up with everyone for a little Dim Sum before heading out for our return flight to SF.  Brother and Joy joined us and we ended up squishing 15 people plus a small child at a table that is really meant for 10.  We even tucked Elise away in the back corner as she slept in her carrier.

It was such a great way to end the weekend and I was impressed with the turn out of this morning’s brunch date.  It was like one gigantic family gathering with three sets of siblings, 2 children, and a bunch of old friends of at least 19 years.

By noon, we headed out to the airport.  Thanks for the ride, Brother!!  Once we arrived at the gate, I got a random call from Vyl.

Vyl: Hey, are you at LAX?

Me: Yeah, how’d you know that?!

Vyl: Uh, so am I – at Gate 7.

Me: Hey! So are we!

I guess she was sitting around waiting for our flight and noticed two people that looked like us from afar.  So, we had the pleasure of flying back to SF with Vyl who happened to be down in LA for a wedding as well.  It’s funny that we’d seen each other just the week before and didn’t realize that we’d both be in the same place.  Go figure.  To make matters a little more interesting, she glanced at our boarding passes and saw that our places in line were B18 and B19.  Hers was B17.  Pretty trippy.

We got home by 3:30, which gave us a good Sunday afternoon to rest.  We had pre-paid the Dog Walker to come 4 times so I treated myself to an evening of staying in and letting Koa go out with Adrienne as I lounged on the couch.  I felt so spoiled and it was awesome.

Robert & Kelly’s Wedding

Robert and Kelly got married yesterday in Newport Beach and it was a beautiful and emotional outdoor ceremony followed by an indoor reception complete with an open bar and dancing. Everything was covered in pink and white with touches of brown everywhere.  Gorgeous.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t sitting in the best seat for taking photos during the ceremony so I actually didn’t take as many as I would have liked.  However, once I decided to put the camera down for the night, I was able to enjoy the event as a guest and not as a roving photog, which was a nice change.

The reception had lots of bells and whistles including a photobooth (that the boys almost broke when they crammed everyone in at once), chocolate covered strawberries, and a wedding cake with two tiny Star Wars figurines on top.  Victor’s Best Man speech went well and resulted in Robert showing off his Rubik’s Cube skills in front of all the guests.

It was so nice to not only be outside in the warm Southern California evening but to also be surrounded by old friends as well.  I also got to meet little Elise, Ti and Thilan’s 2-month-old baby girl.  Unfortunately, she cried everytime I held her.  Boo…  The evening was a hoot and we even finished it off with a trip to Denny’s.