Cherries

Looks like spring is starting to spring in Stockton...

"Suburro" - Burningman 2010

Our friends little sub was a champ during their trek to the playa...

Looked like our sub 2 years ago :)

Burningman 2010

Sigh....we had tickets, but given how little E's been sleeping lately, and his need for constant movement (of his own control - crawling, scooting, furniture surfing), we decided not to go. Both Ray and myself are feeling a bit sad... but check out this wonderful picture of the playa after the rain on Monday (thank you Burning Blog for keeping us updated and letting me share this photo with others).

If anyone needs their virtual playa fix, check out ustream.tv

Graduating with My Masters

Well, it's been a long road, but I'm finally done.

A month after Emmett was born, I presented my Creative Work Project to the Design and Industry Department.

It went very well, and I'm happy to report that I graduated with my MAIA in December 2009. But, this saturday I'll be attending the Commencement ceremony, and saying my final goodbye to San Francisco State University; I leave the excitement of the university to those 15 years younger than me... :)

You can see my project here. I must profusely thank Ms. Alicia McHale of Allen Elementary in San Bruno, California for welcoming me into her classroom and acting as an advisor to the project.

If you're wondering what the project entailed, I was responsible for conception, design and development. That included:
- logos

- layout

- coding

- editing blogger templates

- editing content

- creating animations (storyboards, accompanying audio, and timing adjustments)



It was alot of work - I was a one person educational web dev team!

T Plus 1

One day overdue for peanuts arrival... I went walking for about an hour to try to encourage peanut to vacate the premises, but he/she is holding steady.

As soon as there is any sort of action, I'll be letting you all know.

Until then, keep good thoughts going for a safe delivery.

Thank You for the Peanut Shower!

It was great to see everyone come over for a little baby bbq! Thank you all for coming. Ray and I feel truly lucky to have so many wonderfully supportive people in our lives.

Making Way for Peanut

This last weekend was super productive, we got the guest room emptied out and converted to little peanuts room. I'm still not sure about purple wall color if it's a boy, but Ray thinks it'll be fine; the one thing purple's got going for it is that coordinates well with green, orange and yellow.

Ray researched the infant carrier and we're going with a Chicco KeyFit 30. And he found a place online that had great information about cloth diapers. So two more things checked off the list...

Maggie's obsessing on the dangle turtle on the bouncer and snatching it away whenever she can, so that's a bit annoying. But, she spent most of Sunday hopping in and out of a bucket full of water - super cute!

We also cleared out the Burningman shed, so be ready for a post in the coming weeks regarding coming to grab supplies from the pile.