Baby Showers

Before we had our 2nd baby, Erica had a couple of baby showers thrown in her honor.



The first was a very intimate one with Erica's closest friends at our house. The guests included Aurena, Nora, Michelle, Rochelle, Annie, Steph, Sheryl & Yella. They played several games including Who's That Baby, Who's The Celebrity Baby, Guess Mommy's Measurement, Beat The Clock, Baby Price Is Right, Baby Parts Quiz and Wright Family Poem.











The following day, the Buenaventura's threw Erica a baby shower at Beijing Chinese Buffet in National City. This event included 65 of our close family and friends. We also played games including the measurement of Erica's belly, memory and an assortment of raffles.

Erica's 30th Birthday Celebration & The Ellen Show

On February 9th, 2010, Erica was welcomed into the 30-year-old club. That same day, she became officially 37 weeks pregnant. Both of us went to work and took a half day. At work, Erica was greeted with Happy Birthday's from her coworkers as well as a cream puff cake. We spent lunch at our favorite restaurant, Onami's in Mission Valley. After lunch, we headed to several baby appointments. Erica's parents came in that same day and we picked them up from my parents house. We capped the rest of the day hanging out with them and got ready for a day in Burbank for the Ellen Degeneres Show.













The following morning, Erica, her parents and I took a day trip up to Burbank for the Ellen Degeneres show. We got tickets for the Grammy's show, which aired the following Friday. We woke up at 4am in the morning and left San Diego at 5am. We did not have guaranteed tickets, but rather standby tickets. This means that we had to show up at the WB Studios at least at 830am to get first-come-first-serve ticket numbers. Once we got there at around 840am, we were approximately numbers 40th thru 43rd as standby members. We had about 4 hours to kill so after we got the tickets, we ate at Bob's Big Boy, then proceeded to the streets of Hollywood, where we checked out the Hollywood sign, stars and the Chinese Mann Theatre. We finally got into the show and the guests included two performances by Ricky Martin and Samuel L. Jackson. Erica scored a free shirt since she was "13 months pregnant" and we all came home each with a Grammys Hits CD for 2011 and a Ricky Martin CD. On the way home we stopped by Irvine for some Thai food and then picked up our little man from my parents house.