March

Mardi Gras was in March.  We celebrated with jambalaya... 

and king cake.  (But no baby inside.)

We went to the Star Wars exhibit at the The Tech in San Jose. 

It was awesome. 

We even got to ride in the Millennium Falcon cockpit. 

The Activity Day girls in P3 had a daddy daughter activity on Pi Day.  They dressed appropriately. And I made pie. 

 St Patrick's Day.  We went to the parade in Dublin...

... to lunch at Salito's...

 ... and tasted the rainbow (cupcakes).

On March 18 Ryan and I celebrated 20 years of being engaged. What a couple of clueless kids we were!

February

Of course the big news in February was Rachael's 9th birthday.  We celebrated with six friends and three cousins at California Pizza Kitchen.  We got a tour of the kitchen in the back (so cool!) and each kid got to put toppings on their own pizza.  It was a lot of fun.  

I made a pizza-looking cake for the birthday cake.  Probably her easiest birthday cake ever.  

Since her party was not on her actual birthday, we had a candle and a cupcake on the 16th.  

I thought Rachael might be old enough to appreciate our version of cookie dough ice cream.  Ryan thought maybe not.  He was right.   

And finally, daffodils bloom in February in NorCal.  Wow!

January

Recapping 2014, one month at a time...

We cooked a turkey and made dressing and mashed potatoes for New Years Day. Mostly so...

... we could make this amazing leftover panini sandwich. It's really that amazing. 

We went to Tiburon and I had crab cake eggs benedict.  Really my life is all about food I think.

Our ward had the opportunity to provide service at the Oakland temple by helping to take down Christmas lights. There were only four kids from our ward there and Rachael was the only girl.  We got really dirty taking lights out of the flower beds but we learned a new appreciation for the lights and the amount of work it takes to make them look amazing. 

In January our dishwasher broke down so Ryan taught Rachael how to wash dishes by hand.  It was fun the first night.  The next six weeks of hand washing were less fun.  

Ryan finished reading the last Harry Potter book to Rachael, so we celebrated by watching the last movie with butterbeer and snitch cake pops.  

We decided to celebrate random holidays and food holidays this year, starting with Chinese New Year.