The Big 3

I can't believe my baby turned 3!!!! When did that happen?!?!?!?! Daniel had a great weekend. On Friday Daniel celebrated his birthday at Laura's house (his babysitter) with chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. Late Friday Marge flew in to help celebrate the big day. Daniel's big present this year was a bouncer (which Matt let him open EARLY!) and it was a hit at the party. Daniel didn't want to get out of it to do anything, not even to blow out the candles out on his cake. I have to thank Marge and Dave for taking all of the pictures. They really turned out great.

Daniel got a lot of great presents for his birthday, but I have to say the one he liked best was 2 NASCAR cars from one of the people I work with. Hope you enjoy the pictures! http://picasaweb.google.com/jebarreto77/April252008

Snow in Seattle!!!!

It's April 18th and we had a couple of inches of snow tonight. Can you believe it!!!!! Daniel had a great time building a snowman for Soli and throwing snowballs at me. I can't believe that it's a week until Daniel's birthday and we have snow. I have to say that I thought that Spring would be here a lot sooner than this.

Turtle Bay, Hawaii

We had an awesome time in Hawaii. We stayed at the Turtle Bay Beach Resort on the North Shore of Oahu. Daniel LOVED the ocean and building sand castles (really it was knocking them down). He never wanted to get out of the water!!! The resort has 5 miles of secluded beaches so we really enjoyed going on long walks. Daniel liked looking for crabs, shells, coral and even coconuts! We took my parents down to Kailua one day, which is the town we went to last year for my birthday. We all ate as much shave ice as we could. We even went to the the first shave ice on the island, Matsumoto Shave Ice in North Shore. On the way to North Shore we also stopped at Turtle Beach and there were five giant green sea turtles (honu) sunning themselves on the beach. We had a great sunset dinner at Jameson's By the Sea. The last night we were in Hawaii we went Waikiki for dinner and walked along the beach before we had to head to the airport. Click here if you would like to see all the pictures; http://picasaweb.google.com/jebarreto77/April102008

First Barreto Family Blog

It seems appropriate that the first post would correspond with the opening of the baseball season. Last night we braved the elements (it was VERY cold) and went to a Mariners game. Daniel enjoyed his peanuts, cotton candy and cheering for the M's. I have included a few photos from last night. Enjoy.

We are heading off to Hawaii next week (courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa), so I am sure you will see many postings next week.