The first week of the month Bruce was away as your already read. The week was a fairly usual one for the rest of us. The boys had school and I had the usual work. Everything was the same, nothing out of the ordinary. Jamieson had baseball, which was not great for them, they are a young team and it’s going to be a long season I think. The boys had a minimum day at school and officially went into their holidays. We had picture day on the weekend then caught up with the Rivera’s and they came to watch Jamieson’s game. We spent a quiet Sunday at home, I cleaned and the boys chilled out. Then we finished the weekend at the airport picking Bruce up from his trip away. YEAY!!!! It was definitely time for us to all be together, we missed him and he missed us.
The next week Bruce got stuck back into work, the boys chilled out and did a little homework everyday, which kept them out of trouble for a little while anyway. I spent a good part of the week working on a new contract we have, a little community about an hour away called Manteca. They have no systems so that will be a big job as well as we will also be helping them process special projects. It’s going to keep us busy for a while which is good considering the development community is feeling the pinch along with the housing market. Pete and Fleur arrived for their visit on Thursday.
We drove back making a pit stop at Costco’s for a bit of shopping and a Costco dinner. They got some good stuff had a HUGE slice of pizza and made our way home. We had a quick catch up then off to bed for all of us. I took the Friday off work and Bruce took them for a drive around the city in the morning so Fluer could see the sights and then we went out for some bargain shopping in the afternoon. 3 stores and 4 hours later I had to get home to make Pete his lasagna and we all sat down to a nice dinner then watched the Cats play the Saints LIVE!!!! Yes, we have the International sports channel, so we get around 3 AFL games every weekend, I think it’s all the free to air ones, Channel 10. What a game!!! We didn’t see the lot of it, but we love Direct TV with the DVR, we can program shows so whenever they turn up on the guide it records.
The weekend was upon us, Jamieson had a baseball game in the afternoon and then off home to have a bbq with the Rivera’s and Daneluk’s. Paula’s mum and step dad were over from Idaho (Justin’s first communion on Sunday) so they came too. They had a busy day in the garden then baseball so they were a little late. Carlos dropped in the say Hi before heading off for his flight to Sydney. We had a fun night; Bruce set the bbq on fire, which was funny even though there was fire everywhere. The kids all ran around playing and the adults just chilled out and chatted, it was a good cruisey evening and Pete and Fleur got to meet more of the family we have over here, which is always great.
Sunday (HOT) I got dressed for church and went to see Justin make his first communion. We spent the afternoon at Paula’s, it was a hot afternoon so we all just sat around and drank and the kids swam (pool was COLD, but it doesn’t matter to them) We had a great time with Paula’s mum and step dad, especially after the others left, we had a great time just chilling out talking. We got some take away for dinner and went home for a quiet night. Pete and Fleur started their packing with an extra bag from us, which is about right, Pete shops like Bruce used to over here.
We got up on Monday morning and helped Pete and Fleur do the rest of their packing and all jumped into the car and made our way to San Fran via the Vacaville outlet Mall, and some more shopping and another bag to add to their stuff. Jamieson also scored getting some new (size &7 Nikes, got help us!!) We made it to San Fran drove around and found the hotel, dropped the bags off and headed to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was blowing a gale and cold even though the sun was out. We got some good pics and then dropped them off for their tour to Alcatraz. We had some dinner after the tour with them at the Rainforest Café (Mum, be glad we didn’t go there) We dropped them off and said our good byes, then took the long ride home. It was late when we got home but it was a good day even though it was cold. Cross fingers, Pete is going to try and make it back for Thanksgiving.
The rest of the week was a little catch up from the couple days I took off and starting to get ready for the next school movie night. Flyers etc to get out…..nothing really good to show so we just settled on Alvin and the Chipmunks. I lodged blogs for everyone and the boys just did the usual at home and playing at the park while Bruce did his usual juggling. Jamieson had baseball; he got to pitch and did well, but still losing. He seems to be dealing with it ok, still enjoying it, which I thought he would be over it by now. I’m not overly happy with the coaches. The team is young and they aren’t teaching them, no training sessions, it’s a little disappointing and Jamieson isn’t improving at all!!
The next week I worked full time to get through all my stuff before our trip to Vegas. We found our new offices, now it’s just time to organize the lease and the move, I’ve done it before, I can do it again…it just takes some organization. I went out and did some present shopping for Bruce to take home on his trip, the timing worked so that I wouldn’t have time cause Bruce was leaving 2 hours after I got home. We had community garage sales in the morning and Bruce went out and got himself a bike and then we had baseball hit a thon, it was just like a little carnival and all the kids got to hit.
Sunday rolled around and I packed for our trip to Vegas. Paula & Steve picked me up around 12.30 and off we went to the airport. It was a short trip, we arrived and check into our room at the Paris Hotel in Vegas. We walked down to the Wynn Hotel and had some dinner at a sports bar of all places (we thought that was pretty funny, the boys would be proud) then we headed to see the show Le Reve, it was a great show, we had no idea what the story was but the show itself as a spectacle was amazing!! We walked back to the hotel and Paula gambled a little and we met up with her friend Bret (from Texas) we had a couple of drinks and inevitably started talking about work so around 1.30 I left them chatting and went to bed.
The next couple of days were working during the day, dinner and out to see a band or dancing. IT was a fun time, but exhausting, most nights we were 1.30-2.00am finish and up at 8.00 in the morning. It was nice to be home, even if I was home for 2 hours and Bruce and Carlos left to come down to visit the homeland.
I was exhausted but it was good to be home, but lots of work to be done and catching up to do. I have lots of projects on the horizon the big one would be moving to our new offices.
Hope everyone had a great month.
A big happy birthday to my DAD!!! Love you…XXXXX
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