Matt and the Munchkin

Last last weekend, Matt and I hung out with my good friend, Marie and her son, Landon. Marie and I used to love going to the farmer's market, so on that beautiful (but chilly) Saturday morning, we decided to grab some coffee and walk around the farmer's market. It was Matt's second time ever hanging out with them, so of course Landon was kind of shy. But within 20 minutes, the four of us were running around the farmer's market acting like idiots, especially Matt and Landon. It was nice because I got to catch up with Marie, and Matt had fun because he was able to act like a kid (mind you, Landon is only one and a half, so I guess Matt was acting more like a toddler). We were able to sample lots of fruits (and lots of real food too, the hummus man is my fave!!). I think it must be because it's winter time, but the fruit didn't taste as spectacular as I remember. But we did score a free samosa (I bought two and the lady threw in an extra one for free!).

After we decided that we had had enough of the farmer's market (aka all the vendors started giving us mean looks for trying to snag more of their samples), we decided to head to Target, because no one loves Target more than Marie and I (and apparently Landon). This kid love the place. Marie had to ask him multiple times to get up and stop trying to lick the floor. Funniest thing ever. Plus we spent at least 20 minutes in the toy section. I could hear Matt mimicking Landon's babbling from 4 aisles away. Those two are probably going to be best buds some day.

I think the real plus was Landon opening his present at the end of the morning. What an excited kid he was!!

After hanging out with Marie and Landon, we grabbed some Philz Coffee (best coffee in the entire freaking world) with Brandon (Matt's brother) and his wife, Caitlin, and walked around downtown San Jose. What a great way to spend our last morning of 2011. 

Baby Bob Marley

How cute is this kid and his head bobbing to Bob Marley?

Wonderful Wednesday with Friends

Yesterday, I got to hang out with my friend Marie, whom I haven't seen in FOREVER. So long that she now has a little munchkin who is almost 5 months old. His name is Landon and he might be the cutest little dude I've ever seen. Hopefully I get to hang out with him more soon, but for now, I'd like you to meet Landon the Landosaur!!

The Landosaur says "RAWR I'M CUTE"

landosaur likes the giants.

Today was equally as awesome. My friends, Ping and Jon just adopted a new puppy from the shelter. His name is Denny and he is 2 years old (so not really a puppy). He is just about the cutest thing I have ever seen :) I was soooo excited to hang out with them. While the puppy ran around, Ping and I made cookies for her boyfriend Jon. If you remember from last week, I made those 3-ingredient pumpkin cookies. They were just as easy this time as last time. I recommend Betty Crocker Spice cake mix and the pumpkin puree from Trader Joe's...they make better cookies than the Duncan Hines Spice cake mix and whatever pumpkin puree we bought from Safeway. The cookies still turned out good, even though Denny tried to eat them. Unfortunately, I had to leave them, but maybe I'll get to dog sit for Denny soon!

Anyways, after I met Ping's dog, I met up with my friend David. I wanted to take him to this place by San Jose State called La Vic's for these awesome burritos. If you remember, the key to these burritos is the awesome orange sauce they give you. However, he didn't want burritos because he was getting them later that night. We decided to go to Armadillo Willy's, this local barbecue joint. We parked, ready to go into Armadillo's when we noticed a taco truck across the street. Having never eaten at a taco truck before, David agreed to eat there instead. But first he made me look it up on yelp because he doesn't like ghetto trucks. We crossed the street and ordered some AWESOME tacos. Actually, David got 2 carne asade quesadillas...which was a little expensive since it was 5 bucks per quesadilla. I got 3 tacos, 1 carne asade taco, one bbq pork taco, and 1 super chicken taco (with cheese and sour cream). Get this...I only spent 4 bucks!!!! The tacos were DELICIOUS! I LOVE THIS TRUCK. Next time Matt comes up (and Amber comes home), I'm taking both of them! PS. David and I sat on the curb eating our mexican food. It was a great time :)