March 2011

Babymoon Day 1

We arrived in San Diego last night and are staying at a really quaint hotel built in 1928! At first I was a little creeped out by it, thinking it was haunted, but this morning when I woke up, I heard birds chirping outside my window with a cool breeze blowing in and when I got in the shower, I could smell the rose garden six floors below. Its in a really cute area of San Diego called Balboa Park and we are loving it so far.

We headed off to Escondido this morning to go to the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park. On the way we past a huge, beautiful vineyard on San Pasqual Valley Road. Normally I would insist on some wine tasting and purchasing, but I didn't think that would be so good for the baby so we passed.

When we got the Wild Animal Park or the Safari Park as it will be officially known as starting tomorrow apparently, we got the VIP treatment. A friend of mine connected me with a rhino keeper there who left us passes and took us on a 2 plus hour tour of their extensive plains area which is normally only tour-able for a large extra fee. The highlight of that tour for me was definitely seeing my very first baby, a rhino named Dakarai...not so much a baby anymore, but a 2800 pound, 5 year old rhino who they are trying to get to become a mommy herself.

Speaking of babies, there were babies all over this facility. They are definitely doing something right and their animals are obviously extremely happy as successful breeding is a good sign of that. There were big babies, little babies, and babies on the way ALL over the place!

What a great day and an awesome start to our Babymoon. Now we are headed to Arrevederci for a nice authentic Italian dinner.

Happy Birthday Kayla Rose!

As of 10:29 AM Canada time, we have a new niece, Kayla Rose. She is the first girl on the O'Neill side (Dang it, they beat us to it!), weighing in at a whopping 9lbs. 4 ounces and measuring 22 inches long. Its fun to not just welcome her as our niece, but also as Baby O's newest cousin. We are SUPER excited for our trip to Canada at the end of April to meet her and see her big brother Brennan, mommy and daddy, and of course the Winnipeg countryside (???). Congratulations Claphams! We love you lots...all FOUR of you!

Spencer's Birthday

Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband, baby daddy, and bestest friend! Today he celebrated with cupcakes at work, dinner at Olive Garden and relaxing after work. Yesterday we celebrated with a trip to Shark Reef and the Titanic Exhibition and dinner at Taco Bell.

On The Way To Arizona...

Spencer's friend Matt is moving to Arizona. He and another friend Adam decided to make a stop to visit us in Las Vegas on their way. Last night we went to Yard House....where the boys took full advantage of their yards and their pregnant designated driver. I on the other hand was bored out of my mind drinking water (8 glasses to be exact and 1 rootbeer) and waiting for them to be done...they kept ordering and ordering and ordering. They were quite obnoxious and amusing and I FINALLY convinced them it was time to go home...where they promptly bought more beer, turned on Star Wars and passed out about ten minutes later. Ha ha! I hope they had fun together! :)

Go Cubs!

Today we spent the day at the baseball field and got sunburned watching our Cubs play the Dodgers! It was a perfect day...felt like a hot summer day in Chicago even! And the Cubs won! Woohooo! Go Cubs!

Colin's Blanket

Today is our nephew Colin's birthday so it was his turn (finally!) to get his blanket from Aunt Heather!

Here are some pictures of the blanket when I finished making it:And here are some pictures of Colin enjoying his blanket:Happy Birthday Colin! :)