Kevin's 30th Part II

To not leave all the fun details of Kevin's 30th b-day to only our memories and hence ourselves, I brought my camera along for the fun, here's a brief recap of Vale celebrating her daddy's big day with him. First stop was the delicious and always happening bird rock coffee roasters in la jolla, this place not only has the best coffee in town, but they also have a kids play area, healthy kid snacks and there is always an abundance of babies, toddlers, big kids and dogs for Vale's entertainment. I'm only a coffee sip stealer and not a regular drinker but I do love their tea latte, yum yum! Vale is always watching daddy and getting a hold of the empty coffee cup was a total score for our little one.

The next stop was La Jolla shores to check out the seals and let Vale run around in the lush grass area. People couldn't get enough of her with her oh so cool dress, a christmas gift from tita Kalani. Standing in that grass I couldn't help but remember all the times I've been there...Once pregnant waiting for my dad to finish the half marathon and later running into Kevin and Mr. K and Kalani who had also just finished the la Jolla half marathon. And last year with Vale now in tow, waiting for Kevin and my dad to finish the race. I wonder who we'll be cheering on this year...

none b-day side note: I want to give Vale bangs, but I'm such a CHICKEN! I love her side sweep and there's something about her first haircut that makes me want to postpone it as much as possible. I don't want her to look like a big girl and I think that bangs will make her look it. But by the end of most days the tips of her hair are full of oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, cough syrup (she's battling a nagging cough right now), you name it, if she ate it, there are remnants of it in her hair. I think we'll wait till her 1 1/2 to give her the trim she so desperately needs. Also, I think with the way her hair falls naturally to one side it won't look like those cute bowl looking bangs every girl wears as a baby. What do you guys think?

that face!

dancing with grandpa to the jukebox tunes

After a delicious meal cooked by Mr K, came the cake and the traditional jukebox happy birthday song!

last year!

Happy Birthday Kevin :)

mariquita Vale

Our very first repeat holiday!(Is halloween a holiday?) Last year Vale was a sleeping M&M, this year a ravenous ladybug. Vale strongly dislikes beanies, hats or anything covering her head so we weren't too sure she'd let us pull the hood over her head...but once the ooo's and ahhh's started she couldn't be more excited about wearing the super cute antennae.

The first set of pics are from tita Kristin's soul session partaay, (which was a total blast btw) and the last two pics are from the 31st. We got together with our apartment buddies to watch the Chargers game and pass out candy. Vale munched on a delicious apple cinnamon rice cake throughout the evening completely unaware of the delicious chocolate she was carrying around the whole time.. sneaky parents, mwahaha!


It doesn't look like we dressed up, but we did...I was a leaf and Kevin a gardener-the perfect accessories to our little bug.

Valentina's very first birthday bash

On Saturday we celebrated the first birthday of our little girl Vale. We couldn't have been more ecstatic about celebrating such an important milestone with all our family and friends. The location was decorated and setup marvoulusly by Mr. K himself, the super talented Ryan Santos and Stephen Alberts where behind the camera documenting everything, add to that a taquero, cake, candy, chocolate fountain, live music by tudamax, a jumper, a DIY photobooth and scavenger hunt for the kiddos and we had ourselves a real fiesta!





cheering to get that candy

running for those clues


Vale had her very own cake but seeing as she doesn't have much cake eating experience she went straight for the decorative all too familiar strawberry and was very content eating just that....until a minute later when the frosting was discovered! yum!


The photobooth was a smash hit! Kids and adults alike got their silly on to be a part of Vale's b-day scrapbook, good work tita Kristin!



leave it to tudamax and the maxicans to bring the beat, they were awesome as always, I even saw people dancing!



my dear friend Blanca who has an AMAZING voice serenaded Vale with "Las mañanitas" thanks girl, I know you don't sing for just anyone :)




as the party came to an end and the clean up party began we took one last family photo under the pretty lights.

bubbles in our faces!

Gift opening had to wait until most of the cleaning was done, but Vale and I cheated and found Clifford! yeahy for red dogs, she loooved him!


thanks to everyone who came and to everyone who helped make Vale's b-day party a success!

p.s. Vale's b-day is the 29th, this Thursday, we're planning on hanging out in the apt. Kevin is gonna make her delicious homemade pizza and maybe even some cake, this will be her third cake encounter, lets see how she does :)

Del Mar fair is more than fair, it's AWESOME!

sure we spent all our hard earned money, used up a weeks worth of calories on deep fried junk, almost lost said deep fried junk food purchased with hard earned money, but boy was it worth it!



battered potatoes!
not pictured:
fried zucchini
fried twinkie
fried Klondike bar
cinnamon role
apple caramel tower
huge maple bacon donut
gyro
polish sausage
french fries w cheese
(these were purchases made by all the people in our party, not just Kevin, just wanted to clarify)


checkin' out the farm animals






who sometimes do the petting.

Melody and her sweet son joined us too!




Then we ran into my sister and her family!




and my other sister too, and her gf!

when in Rome right?....tickets in hand ready to get our scream on!


my parents, checking their text messages. Always makes me smile. I wonder who texts them, oh wait..me.

before

during (poor Vale got a whole lot of nada, again)

after



I love the fair, it reminds me of summers past. I hope Vale gets to enjoy it next year as much as my niece and nephew and Melody's little man did this year.