St. Patty's Day party!

This year my parents' St. Patty's Day party was on March 15. It was tons of fun and great to see so many of our friends! I didn't take very many pictures on my camera. I think my sister took many more on her camera! Here are a couple of the pics that I had!

me and my honey

me and Danielle

The Biggest Fat Lip in the History of the World!

So this is what Cody's lip looked like after taking a fall at day care!

This is still the fat lip, but it's also a good picture of Cody's favorite activity-basketball! The fat lip was a while ago, but he is still enjoying the basketball hoop! (Thanks again Steph and Steve!) And he is LOVING March Madness! Thank goodness Momma loves watching college basketball too!

Go UCLA!!

San Francisco and ADPi

Well, it's been over a month, but there's still something to celebrate. My good friend (and fellow ADPi advisor) Stephanie had never been on an airplane. NEVER! She said that she was afraid, but I think it's just because the chance had never come up. This year ADPi's District Leadership Conference (DLC) was set to held in San Francisco so I had to talk Steph into taking the big step so that I didn't have to go by myself.

The big day came and Steph started getting pretty nervous on the way to LAX, so after we checked in and made it to our gate, off we went in search of a cold beer to calm some nerves! The take-off was a little shaky and the landing was worse (although I have since regained full use of my arm), but we made it through!

The other good thing is that we now have six advisors so I wouldn't have had to go by myself anyway!

Here we are before take-off: Alison, me, and Stephanie

We were able to go down to Pier 39 on Friday night for dinner and some shopping. We all had a great time learning and for some us re-learning to use the public transportation in SF! For the remainder of the weekend, we were stuck in meetings and such, but it was a lot of fun. It was wonderful to get to meet with so many Alpha Delta Pi's!

These are all the members from our chapter at CSUSB that attended DLC.

Random Cody pictures

So I bet that you didn't know that my son is a model.

Check out this pose-taken while he was sleeping!

This is one of Cody's favorite things to play with! As we pull into the driveway after work he starts saying, "outside, outside." It's cute because he says it like a question- "outside???" He's pretty good too. He runs down the grass, kicks the ball, runs to the ball, kicks it again,

on and on it goes!

This one is great! Hey Mom! Look what happens when I stick my fingers down my throat right after I've had a cup of milk!...in the car, on the way home! Did I tell you how much I love being a mom??

Surprise! It's Rob's birthday!

So we got back from Vegas on Saturday afternoon and I had arranged a surprise birthday brunch for Rob on Sunday morning at our favorite brunch spot, El Torito. I had Spleeve and Steph in on the surprise. Boy, are they good at keeping secrets! Anyway, Rob thought that we were just going to meet Spleeve, Steph, and their son Stephen Lucas for brunch. When we got there, he was surprised to see both of his parents, his sister and niece, his brother and his girlfriend, my parents, and my sister and her boyfriend! It was a lot of fun and we even got to sit in the cantina with our favorite waitress, Martha!

Cody with Dada
Mike and Caryn
Spleeve, Stephanie, and Lucas
Rylee, Grammy, and Cody
Cody, Colleen, and the birthday boy!

Happy Birthday to me!

So it's been like a zillion years since I've added anything to my blog! Life goes on! I'll try to be brief and still get you all caught up on the Kiemele family goings-on!

I keep reading on my friends' blogs how their husbands are the greatest husbands in the world. Well, I have my own story, but like I said, I'll keep it brief. So for my birthday (Feb. 13), Rob informs me three days in advance that we are going to Vegas for my birthday with Spleeve and Stephanie. He has already called my parents and arranged weekend babysitting! We left on Valentine's Day and headed off! The big surprise was Friday night-Rob had said that we had tickets to a show and I could not for the life of me think of what show he and Spleeve would take me and Stephanie to. After dinner on Friday night we found out! They had bought tickets to send their wives to see the Chippendales show at the Rio. Huh??? And not only did they get us tickets, they got us the best seats in the house-front and center! Steph and I had a great time! It was so much fun! Especially watching Steph yell at the hot guys! I know people say that most of the dancers are gay, but who cares, they are still hot!

Do I look happy?

Steph and one of her men!

After the show, we met up with the boys again and headed up to the Voodoo Lounge on the 51st floor of the Rio. We had a great time up there dancing, drinking, and taking in the view. Rob really enjoyed the ride in the glass elevator! He actually hates heights so he really didn't enjoy it at all! But we did have fun taunting him about it as he had his face to the wall!

Thanks for a great weekend! I won't forget this birthday!

Sad News

Tonight I have some bad news. Our dog, Rusty, died today. My parents are in Florida on vacation and won't be home until tomorrow. Herman found Rusty in the garage at my parents' house. He was lying down on a rug in the sunlight, where he always like to sleep. We got Rusty and Bailey in October 1994 when they were only 4 months old. Rusty was such a sweetheart and we will miss him so much!