We've Moved!

Well - sort of. Our new site, aspirasfamily.com, is up and running and we will be retiring this blog. No updates will be made going forward but it will remain for archival and backup purposes. aspirasfamily.com is currently a photoblog where you will periodically see pictures of our family life. Text entries will mostly be snippets but the way pictures are displayed, in my opinion, are much more pleasing to the eye. In the upper right corner you will see a link to our weblog which will contain all of our prior entries from our blogger blog and future entries. The formatting is a little off for the old posts but at least we got it in there!

The site is, as they say, a work in progress and will be continually updated in the future. In the near term, the goal is to create a "true" home page with the photoblog and weblog as separate links. I certainly hope everyone enjoys the new format and definitely feel free to forward any comments or suggestions you have.

This post will also be mirrored at our new site.

Enjoy everyone!

Our Children's Celebrations

Wow! It was a full weekend with Holden's Baptism on Saturday and Elliott's 2nd Birthday party on Sunday. Good thing we had Monday to recover! ;-) We were fortunate to have the whole Anspach/Aspiras family in town for the festivities along with several other family and friends.

Holden was baptized by Father Arthur Yabes at St. Cyprian Catholic Church in Sunnyvale. We enjoyed a beautiful reception at Coyote Creek Golf Club hosted by Lolo and Lola Aspiras.

Elliott had a Western themed party complete with pink cowboy boots and a rocking horse (instead of a real pony!) She had all her little friends come and celebrate with pigs in a blanket, mini sloppy joes, bean dip, potato salad, baked beans, cupcakes and fresh banana cake from our favorite little bakery "Icing on the Cake" in Los Gatos.

We will post a link to all the great photos from this special weekend real soon. Enjoy!

Elliott and Daddy Enjoying Elmo Makes Music

More to come. It was a pretty busy weekend for the family with the Elmo show, dinner with friends, Izzy Enerio's baptism, and, unfortunately, work. Stay tuned.

Holden on Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Weekend

Here's to all Mothers out there, whether they're new, experienced, or expectant, Happy Mother's Day!

If ever one needs a shining example of a Mother's love, see the below link to a Pulitzer prize winning pictorial by Renee C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee. I won't spoil it by describing it to you. You'll just have to see it for yourself.

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/feature-photography/works/

Tiny Dancer

This weekend started out with Elle and her two buddies Charlotte and Logan going to lunch at Happy Dog Pizza with the Mommies and Baby Holden, of course. Believe it or not, despite having three toddlers and an infant, we had a nice, leisurely lunch. We then hit Home Goods and survived that, too!

Saturday we drove up to El Dorado Hills (Sacramento area) with the Corona's for Sam Al-Esawi's big 30th soiree complete with fabulous Persian food and a gorgeous belly dancer. Elle loved the belly dancer and was dancing for the whole hour with her. We enjoyed good music, good food and good friends.

Sunday we joined the Cohen family (Charlotte) and the Corona family (Logan) and hit Gilroy Gardens which is a little theme park just minutes from our front door. The kids enjoyed a few rides and just "pal"ing around with each other. It was in the mid-80s and gorgeous. We got a season pass and will be enjoying the water park there many times this summer!

As usual, the weekend went by way too fast, but was full of quality family time and many good friends!

It's all worth it...

Once in awhile I wonder where my career would be if I weren't a stay-at-home Mom, but after I see pictures like these, I immediately realize that nothing else matters to me right now.