Visiting Isabella Alesandra

We finally got around to visit Berto and Maria's new baby. Gabriel was very funny, he was on the couch next to me and I was holding the baby, next thing I knew Gabriel's foot came out of nowhere and kicked the baby!!! If only we got a photo of that, oh well, we have this cute one of Gabriel smiling at the baby instead.

Jamal's visit

Jamal came back from Kuwait, came to visit us since Jessie was also here for the weekend as well. Here is a picture of Gabriel and Jamal, checking each other out!

Our 3rd Anniversary!!!

Wow, it seems like our wedding was not that long ago, but we just celebrated our 3rd Anniversary. In celebration we stayed at the Old World Inn a really nice B&B in Napa, our first night away from the baby! Jessie came back to help dad look after the baby while we were gone, apparently he was very well behaved, and he now has great references!!!
We went to a fancy Vietnamese restaurant :-) it was pretty good (not as good as mum's cooking of course). But they did do some interesting stuff like putting mango into the papaya salad.
The Old World Inn had free wine tasting with a nice party tray, they had fresh choc-chip cookies, they had a delectable range of chocolate desserts like choc fudge with the right amount of cinnamon, marshmallows with craisins and chocolate decorations on top and moist chocolate brownies!!! Oh, and breakfast the next day was pretty awesome too. I highly recommend staying there if anyone ever visits Napa.

Gabriel looking cute!

I just wanted to put this cute picture of Gabriel in his car seat with his strawberry hat and bright monkey toy! He is very inquisitive and knows exactly how to stare directly into the camera. Jonah likes this one better so I've included both in our blog.

Our new car

We finally got the car that met my criteria of being a small automatic hatchback. We drove all the way to Sunnyvale to get it, which meant that I had to drive it back by myself... I finally just booked myself to do the written test, so now I have a learner's permit and the earliest I can take a driving test is December 30th. It's pretty lame that my Australian license is not accepted here. Here is a picture of the new car and me filling up the tank for the first time.

My birthday celebration

My birthday was a happy event, turned 33, we celebrated over three days. Jonah took me out to dinner in San Francisco, mom made me a great pineapple cake and babysat while we went out to dinner, then the next day Renee and dad took us to this really nice Italian restaurant and Jonah took a photo of the desserts as a memento!

Our Favourite Sushi Restaurant

Our favourite sushi place is GetA in Piedmont, great fresh food at really reasonable prices. We always end up getting our favourites like seaweed salad, spicy avo salmon roll, real California roll (real crab) and agedashi tofu. Some other favourites include the tonkatsu, curry and rice, rainbow roll...so far we like everything we have ever ordered!!!
Here is a photo of Gabriel reading the menu and getting ready to place an order.