What a long drive.
It was the shortest day of the year but the longest drive ever. On Saturday, we left the house at 11:30 am. The drive started out well but then as 1-580 was merging with I-5, it became a bumper-to-bumper nightmare. Here’s a photo of Kumquat when we stopped for lunch at Panda Express.
Luckily, Kumquat did well on the drive down. However, at about the 7-hour mark, she was done. We were all done. Fortunately, traffic was moving past Kettleman City but it took us about 6 hours to get half-way down and then a total of 10 hours to get to Cerritos. *sigh*
When we arrived at the Magical House, it truly was magical. My mom had prepared a tasty Chicken Rice dinner and had ice cold Singha waiting for Jes. Thanks, Mommy!!
On Tuesday, we decided to have an impromptu HH at Cato’s on Wednesday. I actually skipped out early at 4 pm to drive home and pick up Kumquat and then drove back to the East Bay for this and it was totally worth the wait in traffic on the way back to the East Bay.
It turned out to be a fun little mini holiday party for us and was just the right combination of people, food, and drinks.
Kumquat was a trooper and was passed from one auntie to another all night while she grubbed on puffs. The girls got a good laugh while she ate her puffs and also blew snot bubbles from her nose. Here’s a 
We were able to stay out until at least 8 pm and my little sidekick rocked it all evening without a single complaint.
I love these ladies and I’m so glad that we were able to hang out and celebrate the end of another year together before going our separate ways for the holidays.
Aunties Steph, Mai, and Karen were there too and they each got some time with Kumquat.
Here’s a photo of Karen with both of the chubby cheeksters.
The best part of the party was watching Sophie enjoy her first taste of cake and frosting. Good stuff…
This year’s ornament came in the mail today. It was perfect timing for the tree trimming tonight.
Sadie and Theo turned one on Friday and there was a party for him on Sunday afternoon.
We rode Caltrain down to Sunnyvale and my uncle picked us up. The ride down was pretty fun and Kumquat had a good time looking out the window.
Once we got there it was baby mayhem with babies everywhere.
Ishya did a nice job with the decorations and there was a gated-off area for the rugrats to play.
They had their first cake and Sadie seemed to enjoy it much more than Theo, who just sat and stared at it.
Kumquat also got to hang out with her 2nd cousins and it was nearly impossible to get a photo of all three of them sitting next to each other.
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