Golightly thru Life

Friday, July 16, 2010

Summer Time Haircut

Nicholas got a summer time haircut from his Daddy. I miss the curls already and he looks so grown up. Still my handsome boy though.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Nicholas was invited to his first birthday party last weekend. His only concern before accepting the invitation is do they have birthday hats and cake. Since they did, he was happy to go and had a great time! All the kids did (and I think the parents too).

The party was at Romp N Roll. They had tons of mats and slides and jumpy things and fun games for the kids.
Here's Nicholas climbing up a rock wall

Marino & his Daddy

A parachute game

Dancing with bubbles

Catching bubbles

Here's the birthday boy with his Yo Gabba Gabba hat

Balloons, hats, kids, kids, and more kids

Nicholas in the ever important birthday hat

Chowing down on some cake and Rita's Italian Ice. (Sara knows how to make me a BFF really quick)

A shot of Marino and his gorgeous Mommy, Sara. I'm so sorry this photo came out so blurry, it's a really sweet picture.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Picture of the Week

This week's theme: 4th of July Little Ones

Here's Nicholas on his first 4th of July in 2008. He was almost 4 months old.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Picture of the Week

This week's theme: Little ones and their friends

Here's Nicholas & his best buddy, his cousin, McKinzy. They took turns giving fishy kisses.

Monday, June 28, 2010

California Vacation, June 2010

We're back from California. We had a long trip but a nice trip. We came home exhausted but with some good times and great memories.

Our first day we went to Castle Park amusement park. Nicholas LOVED all of the rides. He's going to be a thrill seeker for sure. He was really upset that he wasn't tall enough to get on the roller coaster or bumper cars. I was kind of relieved.

Here he is flying an airplane way up high.

Riding a tiger on the carousel

Nicholas & Mommy on the carousel. This ride is more my speed.

Bad to the bone on a motorcycle.

Flying a spaceship

Nicholas went swimming in the pool for the first time. The water was extremely cold but he really enjoyed it.

Nicholas & Kenya in the pool

Monday we left the hotel at about 5:30am and drove in tons of traffic to the Laker's championship parade.
L.A. traffic & skyline

Walking to the parade

Eating ice cream waiting for the parade to start

Nicholas & his cousin, Demetrius playing before the parade

Nicholas & Demetrius & Demarcus still waiting for the parade to start

Fans lining the street

Lots of people

Eating more ice cream, waiting for the parade to start.

Some wigged out fans

Nicholas & Alicia

Go Lakers

Nicholas has a great view from Daddy's shoulders

A Laker fan

LAPD motorcycles

Here comes the Lakers

Laker girls

Pau Gasol

If you ever wondered what the back of Magic Johnson looks like, here it is

I swore this man was Phil Jackson and was happy I got a pretty good picture. Then I later found out he wasn't even at the parade. Now I have no idea who this guy is.

Derek Fisher

By the end of the day Nicholas was passed out. I don't know why but he insisted on playing with the phone and fell asleep.

We found a park and Nicholas got to play around a bit.

We went to Hollywood and visited all the famous streets: Hollywood & Vine, Melrose, etc.

Walk of Fame

Sinatra's star

Brando's star

Hollywood sign

Capitol Records building

Then we headed to Beverly Hills to see some fancy shops on Rodeo Dr.

Palm trees to Beverly Hills

I recognized a lot of restaurants like Fogo De Chau and this one

All the cousins

Our last day we headed to Newport Beach. The water was freezing but Nicholas had a blast.
Great beach

Shoveling in the sand

So excited to play in the water

He would have walked all the way out into the very deep if I would let him

Brrrr.....

So happy

Nicholas & Uncle Gregory

Group shot before we said goodbye

Nicholas had a great time with his cousins and Uncle Gregory. I think it was nice for him to play with some "the guys" as he called Demetrius & Demarcus.

Nicholas & Demara