Thanksgiving weekend with Cesar

Cesar came up to visit for Thanksgiving Weekend! We had a good time just hanging out at home, showing him around my hometown and shopping for Christmas gifts for my family.

Headed out to take Cesar to my favorite Thai restaurant, Lone Tree Thai Cuisine

Pics from our hike at Mt. Diablo

Stopping for gas....

I found this random branch that looked like antlers and decided to have some fun!....

.....Until Cesar broke them! Of course! Ha Ha!

As we were driving out of the park, I saw this giant tumbleweed and just had to stop!
....Yeah, I'm a dork! And I Love it!
It really was pretty heavy! No joke!

Thanksgiving 2008

This year for Thanksgiving, we had an early lunch at my brother's house. His wife, Chrissy had to work so we ate at noon. Chrissy invited Patryk's best friend, Mike and his family over. So, I got to play with a baby for Turkey Day! Yeah! Getting my baby fix! lol

Baby Tanya and me

My big bro, Jason and Tanya
Mike as "The Hulk", Christian, Tanya and Patryk (not sure what he was, but earlier he was "Venum" aka "Black Spiderman"

Saying good-bye to Mike, his mom Lana, his dad Luis and his baby sister, Tanya

Later that night, my cousin, Mike, his wife, Lindsay and their daughter Madison came over to visit. That was a nice suprise...been missing them and tried to convince them not to drive up to Calpine this weekend so they could meet my new Beau, Cesar. No luck...they're going up to get their Christmas tree!

Patryk and Madison keeping busy coloring

Momma Lindsay...worried Maddy would make a mess!

Maddy, quite the artist...very precise in her brush strokes!

Christian, getting his "project" set up

Bub, is spur of the moment suprise gift for Uncle Mike

Maddy wasn't thrilled with the idea of taking pictures...tired little lady.....

....but as soon as she realized she could see herself on the camera after we took the pics...she's was all smiles!



Patryk trying to sneak into the picture, but a couple seconds too late.....

....but he made it this time! What a bag of peanuts!

San Francisco Botanical Gardens

Since I arrived early to see my doc in SF, I decided to take some time to myself to explore and take some photographs. Last time I was in SF, I didn't get to take all the pics I would have liked to since I had the entire family in tow. . .they don't have the patience that I do for exploration, photography and simply wandering about enjoying the scenery! It's hard to share my views with 5 and 7 year old boys and my folks! :-)

I explored The San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. I wish I had more time, but I spent a lot of time goofing around with the local "wildlife"! If you can call domesticated squirrels "wildlife"! You'll see what I mean with the pics...they aren't great, but the best I could get under the circumstances. I will for sure go back again, probably after I buy my new camera of which I covet and save for...until I had to pay the doctor in SF that is!!! *crossing fingers* I hope to have the money saved in the next 2 - 3 months.

*Hard to believe that all this exists in the midst of all the skyscrapers and concrete!*

"The Bully aka the food hog!" He was a mean little bastard! Guess you can't really blame him!
This poor little guy was getting bullied away from the stash of food!....So I grabbed some and tossed it his way! :-)

Cute, but also sad how they have no fear of humans...and it's our fault for feeding 'em! I'm guilty of it too! But they're so cute! I couldn't help myself!

Little buggers were crawling all over the strange guy who held the large bag of garlic-dusted peanuts! They thought I had some. . .maybe I do, maybe I don't!

Yes. . . I had some, thanks to the "squirrel man"! Didn't take a pic of him though, he and his strange woman friend wouldn't even take a pic for me, so I doubt they wanted to be a subject in my camera lens!

He was looking at me like I was Nuts! Maybe just a little... :-)