Mason Turns One!

A glimpse of the birthday festivities...phew! Thank you everyone for helping Mason celebrate his first birthday. We are very grateful to have such great family and friends.

Mason takes a pre-birthday party nap.

My co-worker and friend, Carmen baked Mason his very own birthday cupcake. He was quite amazed by the candle and also by the amount of frosting on the cupcake. Thanks Carmen for being so thoughtful and making Mason's First Birthday Cup"cake".

This is a group picture of the kids who came to help Mason celebrate. Starting from the left bottom: Noah, Jaxen, Brandon, Mackenzie, Birthday Boy Mason, Angie, Melanie. The top left: Giovani, Daniel, Adonn, and Bobbi. Not pictured: Emily, Jonas, and Josh

Mason enjoyed his cupcake very much. Initially, we let him dig into his personally cupcake, however he wasn't getting anywhere so we switched it to a "normal" sized cupcake. He eventually figured it out and grabbed the cupcake with both hands.

"MMmmmm...may I have some more please?"

Mason followed Leticia everywhere yesterday. He just can't get enough of his favorite caregiver!

February 2009

February has come and is almost gone and I haven't posted to the blog. We can't believe Mason is turning ONE in 3 more days. We have been preparing for his birthday party on Saturday and can't wait to see him tear into his birthday cupcake! For those of you who don't know, my younger sister Debbie and brother in law, Marc are celebrating their daughters first birthday today! Happy Birthday Taylor! We love you!


Because I have been so bad about posting this month, here are a few pics of our exciting month. We celebrated Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day and we were able to spend a lot of time with our good friends from near and far.

We went to Ping Pang Pong to have some Chinese New Year dim sum with our good friends and neighbors, Greg, Linh, and Josh. After dim sum, Keith and I took the kids to Lake Mead to look for seashells. Mackenzie had a great time digging in the sand while collecting her treasures!


Mackenzie received Valentine's Day flowers from Dad. She was extremely surprised and excited. She also found some neat writing supplies and a puzzle in her Valentine's Day gift.





We had the crew from the Bay visit us on Valentine's Day weekend. We had a great dinner at Valentino's in the Venetian and spent most of the night hanging out at the V Bar and Lounge the rest of the evening.