Bath Time

Miss Irelan is spending some quality time with us while her house is being worked on. She took a bath yesterday and I recorded some pre, during and post bath pictures. So, here they are:


Pre- Bath



During - Bath



Post - Bath

A Royal Party

For Irelan's 1st birthday, I created a photo time line of her 1st year. I first created a spreadsheet which listed the day she was born to her 1st birthday. In between those 2 days I dived it by 52 weeks. 1 week each from her birth date to her 1st birthday. In between those 52 weeks I put in the dates that created the week. I then created 52 directories in my computer and started putting her pictures in each of the directory weeks. It makes it really easy when you can sort pictures by camera create date. I then did some photoshop work and created a template, 8x10 inches 300dpi which is what a Frontier printer at Longs prints and then started adding pictures to each template and labeling it for the work week being worked on. I'm sorry if I can't express it correctly but the picture below is one of the birthday pages. I basically had 52 pages with a cover and bound together. Everyone at the party seemed to like it.




The Party!

The party was a great time. One of Irelan's old friend ,Maddie ,stopped by and the both of them caught up on old times. There were quite a few people there and plenty, and I do mean plenty, of food to eat. Below are some pictures of my favorite 2 princesses.

A Perfect "Fathers's Day"

OK, I know I'm lagging, but I've been working on a project that I will reveal in a couple weeks, so hang in there. I hope to get into a regular weekly routine soon.
For Father's Day my family bought me a new Weber Grill and we went to a Hawaiian recital where Shimaine's friend was in the dance troupe. It was a great show. Gorgeous Hawaiin girls and awesome music. Of course Little Irelan went along and as you can see, she had to be the prettiest girl there.




Irelan playing with her kitty kat.




This photo was taken during Memorial Day and it shows off Irelan with a cute dress bought by Kristina

The Princess' 1st doll

This last week, Miss Irelan received her first doll from her mother. True to form, Irelan did what she normally does to her toys, toss it around to make sure that it's sturdy. Eventually she realized that it doesn't roll or bounce so she was more gentle with it.
As usual pictures are enclosed.

"Oh crystal ball, what does my future hold."

"Yes ladies, you just must come over and see my new doll!"

"All right kid, it's just you and me against the world"

For those of us that know Irelan, this is a familiar pose. On the ground, she doesn't crawl but rather scoots around on her two hands and one knee.



This picture shows some of Irelan's toys in our living room. Pretty much it's setup as a play room and a quarter of the room is filled with Irelan's toys

The Princess will have lunch in the terrace..

This past weekend we had Irelan and it was warm outside; so we decided to feed her under our porch umbrella. She pretty much devoured the carrots as evidenced by the photos below. She is getting very close to walking and when that happens, look out, she is one active little baby.

First 2 weeks....

Well my first 2 weeks on my new job are behind me. I am definitely in a learning type of mode. There's a lot to take in but my boss is great. She is very patient and, so far, isn't to bothered that she has to repeat instructions to me. The people are great and a fun place to work.

Last week I was going to visit the San Francisco office so that I can meet the employees there. The trip would have been great if I didn't get lost. I googled a map and thought I was set.......not. The map was accurate to an extent. I missed one turn and got put way of sync. San Francisco is not an easy place to maneuver. There are many one way streets as I found out the hard way. I turned on a street trying to get back to a point where I knew was correct and ended up on a one way street going the other way. I tried to back up to get out, but the traffic behind me wouldn't let me get in and the traffic that was coming towards me let me know that I may have made a mistake turning onto this road and that maybe I should go back to grammar school and learn how to read. Oh well, and I know this, next time bring a map. It is way to easy to rely on technology to guide you through life.

I am a full time employee

Good news for me, starting this coming Monday, I will be a full time employee manning the IT help desk for a travel agency in Santa Clara. The only down side to my job is that I will spend less time with Irelan. Hopefully, I can makeup for lost time on weekends. Anyway, I'm excited and can't wait to start my new job.