Happy Birthday, Margaret!

Happy Birthday, Princess Margaret! As our favourite Californian Kramer, we hope your day was a special one, and that it was filled with cake, family and friends!

Here is your virtual cake...

We hope you enjoy this cake, although we are sorry we are not there to share it with you.

May God bless you today and every day, and May God grant you many years of fruitful and devoted life.

We love you very much, and we hope to see you soon again.

Happy Birthday, Sophia!

Happy Birthday, Sophia! We wish we could be there with you, and try out that lovely looking cake your Mom got you. But since we can't, we are sending you this silly Princess cake. It makes us think of you, because you are lovely like a princess, and funny too!

God bless you today! We hope you have a wonderful day!

May God grant you many years, and Our Lady, Star of the Sea, intercede for you.

Happy Birthday, Lizzie!

Happy birthday, Lizzie!

Well, it is your birthday today, and hopefully your day is filled with your favorite things, like flowers, birds, and friends.Maybe you will be even suprised by a few things.

Enjoy your cake from a couple of years ago. By now, the frosting is rock hard like that candy in that dish at Grandma's house that no one has touched in several years, and you are afraid to eat.

May God bless you on your birthday, and grant you many years of life.

Happy birthday, Lizzie!

Happy Birthday Marta

Today is a good day for birthdays!

Nicholas, our Schola director's little grand-daughter, and you, Marta!

So just for you, here is the tradtional (you like traditional stuff, right?) Mendozablog birthday cake.

Okay, I know it says 6, and you're actually 21, but that's just a minor detail. The point is, we remembered!

Have a blessed birthday!

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart!

No, this is not a repeated posting!

Happy birthday, sweetheart!

Here, enjoy a delicious Princess cake.

Also, please enjoy this video of a love song by a 70'2 big haired rocker who amazingly is still alive.

Happy Birthday again, Sweetheart. I love you very much.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Laurie! We can't take you to Chuck E. Cheese, so we hope you will like this picture of a cake. I know it says you are six, and we all know you are twenty-nine, but close enough, right? And who doesn't love Disney Princesses? So we hope you are having a great day, Catholic Kansas Mom!

Happy Birthday, Margaret!

Happy 2nd Birthday, Margaret!

It is a lot warmer over here in the land of your birth today, although we have not had snow either since 1962.

Enjoy yourself some cake and presents, as we enjoy this time-traveling cake.

God bless you, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary, who appeared on this day to St. Juan Diego, ever look after you.

We love you very much!

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, Dear Elizabeth,
Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday greetings, not from the past...
Not from the future...
But rather like Star Trek or Lost,

From an alternate universe!

Yes, an alternate universe where Birthday Cake from Shaw's is health food, and vegetables are junk food.

An alternate world where all you kids go to public school.

An alternate world where Ulysses is a Hippie. With long hair. And a Volkswagen Bus.

And don't even ask about what your Mom and Dad is like here.

An alternate universe where our families actually live right next door to each other. As a matter of fact, you are over here right now, and it is really creepy because you are watching me type this. Whoa, this is weird.

Hey, stop hitting me with your Riding Crop! That hurts!!!

In this universe, you are still having your birthday today, although this month is known as Glacqnor (the Q is silent), so you were born on the 41st of Glacqnor here.

There is one thing here that is the same: You are a very precious young lady to us here too, and we love you very much.

And so, your alternate universe friends wish you a very Happy Birthday. We hope you enjoy lots of yummy Brussels sprouts and asparagus which is what we'll be having here.

Hey, quit hitting me with your Riding Crop, and stop kicking me (O.K., I guess some things don't change, even in alternate universes)!

Happy Birthday, Rafaela Sanchez!

Happy Birthday, Monica!

How appropriate you should be born on the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and on the anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

You are a soft, delicate flower, just like an earthquake, yet you have a love for Our Lord and his Blessed Mother like St. Margaret Mary.

God bless you on your birthday. You Mom and Dad love you very much.

Sometimes.

Most of the time.

Just where does your personality come from?

At least I did not misspell YOUR name.

Happy Birthday, Eddie!

Happy Birthday, Eddie! You are a good Father, and you give witness of a real Catholic and a real man. Your family is blessed to have you as a Father and Husband, and we are happy and blessed to have you as a friend.

Have a blessed birthday, and enjoy your day!

¡Feliz cumpleaños, 'mano y compadre!

p.s. Happy Feast of St. Placid & Companions!

Happy Birthday From The Future, Miriam!

"Hello, Miriam! Wait, is this thing on?

Hello, Miriam! This is future Mendozas, wishing you a Happy and Blessed Birthday! How can you tell this is from the future? Look at the Princess Cake. It has a '6' on it, and you are not yet '6'! Therefore, it is from the future!

Have a Happy Birthday... well, we know you will have one, because we are from the future. Oh, and do clean up that mess you are going to make when Mommy and Daddy tell you to. It will be for the best, trust us.

Signed,

Future Mendozas

My Wife Went To Panama City For Spring Break And All I Got Was A Shirt!

The conquering heroine comes back to San Jose Airport. Her plane ride was alright, and did not land on any strange islands with smoke monsters.

The kids ran over to greet her.

Every angle must be photographed!

Come on Delta, It was only one flight, and you still manage to get a tear on the bag? This was a carry-on bag, but on the small plane from Atlanta to Panama City and back, they do have to put bags in cargo. They managed to put this on her bag.

Now for the fun stuff! A Shirt.

A nice cool hat.

A shell covered box.

Another shirt...

Here is the shirt I got.

I did get a visit from someone in Southern California, so I guess that counts for something. Plus, it's a Kramer sighting, and it just might have been a real one, too! Don't remember that light green shirt, though.

Easter Dresses

Here are a couple of dresses that were made for the girls. They are from Sense and Sensibility Patterns. Here are just three pictures to show some progress.

The Bodice for the smaller dress.

The nice straight edging for the larger dress. So proud of this!

Holy Saturday in Santa Clara. They came out so well! Finishing them was a bit tricky, as the button holes were only finished on Holy Saturday, in the car, just past Gilroy, and that child had to change at the restroom at Our Lady of Peace!

Happy Birthday, Heather!

Happy Birthday to my Third wife, Heather! Of all my wives, you have been my favourite. Have a Happy Birthday, and keep in touch!

The lawyers called, and the restraining order has been lifted!


Thanks for the birthday suggestions, Eddie. I will see what I can do.

Happy Birthday, Monica! And thanks for the French lessons!

Happy Birthday, Monica!

One more year, and you'll be a teenager!

Who the heck gave you permission to grow up so fast? It was only a short time ago that you were putting Butter in your hair to our amusement.



Yeah, we're saving that for future dates that come to the door.

Today, some Jehovah's Witnesses came aound. They come up to Monica. Here is the conversation:

JW: Hi, do you speak Spanish?

Birthday Girl: Non, je ne parle l'Espangnol.

JW: Oh. Would you like a pamphlet?

BG: Non, je suis Catholique. Avoir!

That's our little girl!

Happy Birthday, Dan!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Dan from the Mendoza Family! Enjoy your cake.

Happy Birthday, Eddie!

Yes, just add a few more candles and maybe lose the Belle from Beauty and the Beast decoration, and it wold be appropriate. And maybe lose the shocking Pink frosting.

Other than that, it would be pefect!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

You're next, Dan!