New Beginnings: February 2014

This will be short and sweet, because the pictures will do most of the talking. Amaya and I flew to California for 5 or 6 days to visit our family that we haven't seen for over a year and a half. I cannot believe it had been that long since I had seen my family and since Amaya had seen her cousins, and grandparents, and aunts and uncles. I vow to never let that happen again.

CALIFORNIA was soooooo much fun. I spend Tuesday night with my Mama Sadie and Papa Jim. Mama Sadie literally cooked Thanksgiving and I got to eat all of m favorites, such as: Yams, black eyed peas, macaroni and cheese, greens, hush puppies, etc. It was Delicious! My grandmother is amazingly sweet, and I was so happy that I got to spend valuable time with her, as well as my grandfather. It had been too long.

We arrived at my parents' house later that night and stayed up for a long time. Amaya was excited all day on the flights, had a ball with her cousin Madison at my grandparents' house and stayed up late once we got to my parents house. On Wednesday, Amaya and I went to lunch at Famous Dave's (at the Plant) with my sister Sandra. Then we took my nephew Kimani and Amaya to theeee biggest and best Chuck E. Cheese! Chuck E. showed up and ran around throwing tickets in the air. Let's just say every parent was on the floor scrounging up the tickets. Lots of fun.

Thursday I took Amaya to the park around the corner from my house that I used to play at, play basketball at, because it was such a beautiful day. The weather was beautiful, especially on our drive to Madera to see my brother and his family.

Friday and Saturday we spend in Madera (and Fresno). Madera was much closer than I thought and more beautiful weather. It's the valley, so it's always a lot warmer there than San Jose.

As you will see in the pictures, Amaya and her cousin Leila (who just had a birthday on January 27th turning 3 years old) instantly were theee best of friends. They were two peas in a pod and had no issues at all either days. It was all love and fun between those two. So I said this post would be short, well I lied. I had a lot more to say than I thought. lol. But while in Madera we went discount shopping at DD's discounts and Falala's (some thing like that). On Saturday, we drove into Fresno and went to Aerosports and jumped on trampoline's. Then we went to Boomers! and played arcade games. For dinner my mom and sister made Tamale Pie (Delicious! The food is always delicious if you haven't noticed) and we ate my Mom's Gumbo that she made for New Year's and froze for us. Spectacular!

Now on to the pictures::::: (These are in no particular order)