Biff! Bam! Boom!

This weekend could have been better. It wasn’t horrible…but it wasn’t great either.

It started off with Walker getting Pink Eye and having to leave school early. He also has a bit of a cold and he had a pretty high fever all weekend long. It’s never fun when he’s sick and it’s really tough to see him having a rough time. It’s really depressing to not see him running around and laughing and smiling like he usually does.

A while ago, Margaret and I finally chose a color to paint the inside of our house. So I decided to begin the project this week. On Saturday I began the prep work of masking things off, etc… in the living room. I had originally planned to do 2-3 walls in there and then finish the rest up later. I quickly realized that there would be no way for me to paint down there during the day with Walker running around, so I’d have to do it at night. Because of this I decided to cut it down to just one wall. I started painting around 8:30pm and discovered that painting at night isn’t so great. The low light makes it really hard to make things out and I was having trouble distinguishing what I had already painted and whether or not I was getting good enough coverage. I finished the wall at around 12:30am, cleaned everything up and went to bed.
The next morning I woke up and realized that the color we had chosen (which looked great on the swatch) was WAY too light! You could barely tell the difference between the new paint color and the plain white walls that we had! I though it was because of the low light playing tricks on me last night and the paint not being dried, but it looks like we are going to have to find another, darker color to go with. Oh well, at least I only did one wall!!

Hopefully Walker starts feeling better, we pick out a nice new color for the walls and we have a good week ahead of us!

(So far, so good!)

We had a really nice time this past weekend. I was able to sleep in on Father’s Day, which was great! When I woke up, Walker and Margaret gave me my presents and some breakfast. I got a whole bunch of really cool loot! Walker made me a very nice Pen Holder at school. It was filled with Pens and Jolly Ranchers! I also got some really cool magnets with pictures of walker on them and a neat acrylic photo-standie of walker. Margaret also gave me the new Police greatest hits double CD that just came out!

My Mom, Dad and brother Jim came out in the afternoon and we had a BBQ and hung out. We had a real good time.

Here’s my little “photo-standie” of Walker. He’s on my desk at work now.

Walker is helping me take all the pens out.

We had a really good time playing with the tissue wrapping paper. Whee!

This weekend wasn’t so great (besides going the fun time we had at the babyshower of course). Walker has been sick for the last couple of days. Coughing, runny nose, etc… so he’s been having a tough time sleeping…and so have Margaret and I! Each time he had a coughing fit it would wake us up. Luckily he slept through them, but each night he would wake up crying at least once. We would get him to go back to sleep pretty quickly, but then he would wake up for good at 4:30am or 5am each morning (so much for sleeping in!!) At least he was in a good mood when he woke up, smiling and playing on the bed with us.

It’s really tough to see him sick. It’s kind of depressing. Hopefully he’ll be well by the time this weekend rolls around so that we can have fun at the zoo (and mommy and daddy can sleep in!)

Yesterday we went to Chad and Ivy’s house for a (co-ed) baby shower for their son Christian. He’ll be arriving sometime early August. We had a really good time and it was nice to see the family again. They have a really nice, big, house out in Perris. Walker had a good time running around and exploring it. There was also a bunny rabbit there for him to check out (he really liked that a lot. We’re going to take him to the zoo next weeked so he can see more animals). There were also some other little kids there for him to hang out with.

It was fun to watch Chad and Ivy experience the baby shower. It reminded me of when we had ours.

You can check out some pics on Walker’s blog.

We had a really good time this Memorial day weekend. It was nice to have the extra day off. Here’s what we did:

Saturday - Went to a BBQ at Erik and Kim’s house and got to meet they’re 6 week old son Liam! He is really cute and he’s doing great. He slept pretty much the entire time, even with everyone being noisy and stuff! I was surprised. It was good to see some of my old friends again. We had a good time hanging out. You can check out some pics here.

Sunday - Walker was invited to our neighbors daughters first birthday. So he and I went to that. He had a really good time playing and being outside. He especially loved playing with the bubbles and being inside the little ball tent…actually he had more fun dipping his hand in the bubble soap and trying to eat it, than he did making bubbles!

Margaret couldn’t make it to the party because she was out getting herself… a tattoo! It’s something that she’s been really wanting to do now for a while and it really means a lot to her. She got “Walker” tattooed onto her left forearm, where he laid his head for the very first time. It came out really good and it looks nice. I helped pick out the font. It’s called “Miss Fajardose“, in case you’re curious.

Monday - We just hung out around the house and played with walker. I pulled some weeds in the yard and then we BBQ’d some steak and hot dogs and ate dinner outside. It was a really nice and relaxing day.

This weekend we all drove out to Arizona for my cousin Chris’ wedding. We were a bit worried about how Walker would do with the 8 hour drive. He had a few little melt-downs, but we were all surprised and proud of him for hanging in there and being such a little trooper.

For some reason I kept getting tongues stuck out at me whenever I tried to take a picture!

The weather wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. Sure, it was 100 degrees or so, but there was a nice breeze to keep things relatively cool and comfortable. I even managed to keep my suit jacket on for pretty much the entire wedding!!

It was nice to spend time with our family out there, whom we don’t get to see often enough. We had a really nice visit and the wedding was beautiful. There was even a Bag Pipe player! The food was excellent (Best food at a wedding I’ve ever had!) It was a really nice day.

Here’s the lovely couple as they stroll down the aisle after just getting hitched.

We hope Chris and Bethany have a long, happy future together.

Last night Margaret and I went to the Sony Pictures Imageworks/Animation Wrap Party for Spider-Man 3 and Surf’s Up. It was at The House of Blues on Sunset Blvd. The whole place was taken over for the party. Clips from both of the movies were playing on a big screen and TVs throughout. There was food and even open bar! We didn’t eat very much, but we did take advantage of that open bar!

The night was a lot of fun and we both had a really good time.

(In case you haven’t seen it, the trailer for Surf’s Up looks really great! You can check it out here. We can’t wait to see that movie now!)