"Happy Valentine's Day Birthday"

"Happy Valentine's Day Birthday" is what Rohan has been saying ever since he learned that AZ became a state 100 yrs ago on Valentine's Day.  Pretty cute..:)  We celebrated the centennial with some local craft beers with a friend from TGen and capped off with some tacos at a local dive (Tacos de Juarez) that is pretty scary, but awesome food!
Tuesday we had a nice dinner party at our friend Shannon's place. She cooked an awesome goat cheese, fig, and onion dip that was outstanding! We mad some Pao de Queijo and we also had steak, great mashed potatoes and gravy and great dessert!  Rohan had a blast putting on his shirt and tie and getting dressed up with everyone.  He was quite the charmer for all the single ladies at the party...:)

Wednesday we had another dinner party, tacos this time, at another friend's house.  Mara had to work so it was just Rohan and I.  There were 2 larger dogs there so Rohan kept busy hiding from them and throwing toys.  He may, or may not, have been trying to sleep in their kennel...:)

Satruday we fianlly got around to going to the Phoenix Zoo.  We got there around 10am and walked for the next 3 hours around the zoo.  Rohan was so excited he walked the ENTIRE time too, probably over 3miles!  He was nice and tired at the end.  We saw lots of cool animals and Rohan now has a couple zoo books from the library.  After hitting some balls on the driving range, we went over to our friend Patrick's for an amazing wine & cheese night.  Patrick is from Luxembourg and has a great taste for cheeses and wine.  Rohan played really good with another 5 & 7 yr old there and they were all passed out hard by the end of the night.  Rohan, somehow, lasted until Midnight, even with all the zoo walking and only a 45min nap.  We hung strong until 3am before heading home...I was a little sleepy the next day...:P

Sunday we took Rohan to one of the parks by our house and took his training wheels off.  He had been wanting to do it and he was really excited.  He did WAY better than we expected.  The only time he fell was when he started thinking about falling, then he started bracing himself to fall even before fell...:)

We capped off the night with a run to Best Buy and picked up a new Asus Transformer Tablet.  Pretty much in geek heaven right now...:)

Other than that, just planning my trip to Vegas to climb in the Red Rocks this week, did a couple destiation runs, and even relaxed long enough to watch a movie...Shreck, with Rohan...:)

Rohan Raring at the Jaguar:

"That a big turtle!":

Rohan sans Training Wheels:


Rohan's wipeout: