Aria's First Valentine's Day and Tahoe Trip

Well hello there. Since we last spoke Aria has experienced yet another holiday. She was a pure cupid angel on Valentines Day! Auntie Gabby bought her a cute little red plaid skirt with tights attached to it and she wore her "free hugs" shirt that Melissa and her mom gave to her. So adorable! We woke up in the morning and Kevin had to work at 10am. There were no flowers, but he made up for it after work. We got me beautiful roses from Los Gatos and cupcakes from Icing on the Cake, red velvet sooo good! Gabby and I shared them! My wonderful mama made us all a little Valentine card with delicious See's candy heart. I ate my entire heart in one sitting, so bad but soo good!

We have been planning on going to Tahoe with our friends Mike and Lauren for months now. We had many instances of the plans falling through and the entire trip being cancelled and shortened. But in the end our will prevailed! We did it! Last Friday we drove up to Tahoe to stay and Mike's family friend's cabin in South Shore. The trip was not without extra rumples right before leaving.

1) Gabby had a sudden interview at BC! Resume send on Tuesday. Phone interview on Thursday. Offered the job on Friday. Turned it down on Monday b/c they are cheap asses and offered much less pay than what I made to do the same exact job!! Not cool. But at least she already has 3 jobs so she wasn't in the position to need this one. All of this equals stresss right before leaving.

2) Gabby was horridly sick during this process and threatened to skip Tahoe all together. Woe is me.

3) Kevin gets told on Wednesday that Apple is hiring at the Valley Fair store for Lead Genius. He needs to submit application and letter of intent by Friday (the day we are leaving). We can't find his resume. I invent a new resume for him. He changes it. It almost killed me to do.

4) Because of stressing over peoples potential jobs, I am not able to go shopping to prepare for the snow! I finally went to Sports Authority with Raph and spend $200 (*tears*) on snow pants and jackets. Thank God in heaven that we already had boots and gloves!

5) Aria had a terrible barfing episode on Wednesday night. We were laying in bed and she was eating like normal, when suddenly she pulled away and projectile spewed all over me, the bed, the pillows and her self. It was EVERYWHERE! I figured I fed her too much. So we cleaned up changed everything and got back in bed. Then guess what….yep, it happened again! After 4 times and nothing left in her stomach, we called the urgent care after hours line. Well Kevin called, because I was attending to my poor barfing baby. The nurse said as long as the inside of her mouth felt moist she was not too dehydrated. She said to feed her just a little every 30 minutes. At about 4am everything quieted down and went to sleep. We were afraid to lay her in her bed so the little princess stayed with Mommy and Daddy. It turned out that Yaya, had given her a sip of soy milk the night before, unbeknown to us. And just like with the formula, she was terrible allergic to it! All of this made for an extra exhausting Thursday!

So as you can see, there was a lot going on right as we were about to embark on our first trip. But in the end, it all worked out and we made it out the door by 1030am with a car packed to the red hinges!

The house was gorgeous. Two stories, two bathrooms, Three bedrooms. The Jensen/House crew slept upstairs and Mike and Lauren took the king suite downstairs. When we got there we all went outside and played in the snow! So much fun after not seeing snow for 7 years!!!

I have a million photos that I will now share and caption so you can get the gist of the amazing time we had!

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Let's see what else…Aria can now pick up and eat all her puffs on her own. She LOVES them! She has tried purple sweet potatoes/blueberry, sweet potatoes and Grandma Carol brought her some banana ones that she loved!

Carol came over on Friday and we went to the park. It was a beautiful day and there were tons of kids at the park. We had a fun time.

Friday was also Kevin's last day off and unfortunately it was a bit marred. He got a call at 225pm from the manager at Valley Fair saying "So Kevin, our meeting was scheduled for 220, were are you?". Needless to say, Kevin freaked out. It turns out that they had emailed his Apple work email LAST Friday the day we sent the application in to set up the interview. He was off all week on vacation (checking his personal email 5 times a day) so he didn't see it. It's not his fault b/c he had no way of accessing his work email when he is not in the store. It's just unfortunate. They rescheduled for Monday, so we will see…

Guess what? I'm pre-baby weight!! Woooohoooo, it only took 8 and a half months! 145! Now just 10 pounds from ultimate life goal! Hehe.

Until next time, Rosie xo