Zmajovski dnevnik

Nutella pizza for desert

2009-08-02T01:06:00.000-07:00

Gialina Pizzeria in Glen Park and nutella desert pizza. The rest is history;-)

Iowa Reunion in California

2009-08-02T00:50:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday Nenad came to visit from Texas. And after many years of not seeing each other it was nice seeing him. On top of that Natasa also moved from Florida to California so we live not very far from each other.

We spend a great afternoon together in the company of Branka, Goca, John, Nikola, and Sasa.

Some movie adventures

2009-06-10T00:25:00.000-07:00

Few movies snippets from last couple of months (all of them are in Serbian).

1. The first one is Petar explaining how babies are made

2. The second one is Marko singing "Budjav Lebac"

You can see the original song in the video.

3. The third one is Petar at the gym performing with his group

LOL

Crnogorci

2008 - Year in Review

2009-01-19T03:23:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

I had unrealistic expectation that I will be able to post on blog once a month. Well... Life is busy;-)

Since the previous post was more than a year ago I thought I am just going to update you with what happened in 2008 for us. Despite economic crisis, the year was very good for us.

January:
- visit to kumovi (very good friends) Popovici in South Carolina - we had a blast!
- lottery for Marko's school - we got the school that was our #1 choice

February:
- Marko's 5th birthday
- Maja Samardzija-Orth and Lola visited us

March:
- Went to Tahoe for a ski trip with bunch of Serb friends
- Marko started Karate school
- Petar and Marko visited local fire station with preschool class
- Kumic Aleksandar (Branka's and Micah's son) got baptized

April:
- Marko graduated from preschool
- Dragana and the boys went to Serbia for vacation
- I stayed at home to mow the lawn;-)

May:
- I joined them in Serbia for vacation
- We visited few friends and family members and had fun

June:
- We came back to Pacifica
- Marko started Kindergarten summer camp
- Pater joined Marko in Karate class

July:
- visited Felicia and Goran in Fresno
- went berry picking in local orchard and spend a lot of time on the beach
- a friend (Sohail) moved to east coast

August:
- I got my motorcycle license
- went to circus two times within a month
- we went sailing with Howard on the bay
- Marko started school on August 30th

September:
- Mina and Ivan visited from Nis
- Petar started preschool
- we has several "pool parties" - weather was great
- Marko started soccer practice
- we went apple picking and visited Santa Cruz
- Petar's 4th birthday

October:
- visited several local farms and pumpkin patches
- Halloween party - always fun for kids. Boys were Power Rangers and I was roman slave

November:
- Marko was "Star of the Week" at school
- Petar fell in love with Maya
- little grandma came to visit

December:
- preparations for the holidays
- went to see Nutcracker
- went to Tahoe for New Year's break, spend a week skiing, sledding, and having fun in snow
- bought my motorcycle

You can see few pictures from Tahoe visit here.

Long awaited update

2007-09-17T00:41:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

last few months has been pretty busy. Many of you have asked about Dragana's recovery. She fully recovered from her procedure and is good as new;-) Doctor said that she should lose few pounds (as well as I) and that is about it. Apart from annual control, no further treatment is necessary.

My mom was here until mid May. As spring came the yard work crept up on us. Luckily, my mom is born with a green thumb so everything was fine while she was here. After she left, some plants have left this world.

We have also visited the Filoli Estate that was portrayed as Blake Carrington's mansion on soap opera Dynasty. The estate itself if gorgeous and has sixteen-acre formal garden, but also plenty of walkways in the woods. Despite the fact that it is associated with soap opera, it is definitely worth seeing.

In the meantime, boys have been boys. Petar open up swim season in late April by falling in Ada's and Tara's swimming pool. He was not too happy with the event. Luka decided to make Petar feel better so he jumped as well.

The summer went very fast. We did not have any BIG vacations but managed to squeeze in few smaller ones. During the 4th of July break, wee went to visit Vanda, Steve, and Nina in Richland, Washington. It was nice to see them after more than 2 years, but temperatures above 110ºF (43ºC) made long to come back to Pacifica (and our 58 to 68ºF temperature range).

Also we have visited Maja and Joel in San Luis Obispo over the Labor Day weekend. That was nice trip too that boys thoroughly enjoyed. They loved playing with Lola (4 month old Labrador puppy). Although after getting a small scratch from her, Petar declared - Lola has very sharp teeth;-)

Petar's birthday was today and we had a party yesterday at Limos Farm. I am going to post the photos next weeks from the event at our website.

Until next time, be good, and don't do anything I wouldn't;-)

Dragana's operation went well

2007-03-12T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hello World,

Dragana's operation went well. I took her to the hospital Tuesday morning last week. Since I was not able to come even near the operating room, I went to work. Three hours later I got a call from the hospital staff to get her out of there. Since she slept through the operation, she looked bedazzled and was not sure if anything happened at all;-))) But, by the time we got back home she was feeling much better (see picture).

Boys have been generally good. Marko had his 4th birthday party last weekend. A lots of his friends showed up and they all had a blast. The party was in a local gym and Petar was particularly happy. He was somewhat infatuated with parallel bars;-)))

All that running and jumping in the gym might have contributed to them getting a flu later that week. Petar started coughing first, but then Marko took over. All in all, they are doing much better now.

Dragana is recovering very nicely and she is going back to see the doctor next week. I've been pretty busy at work and trying to spend some free time with the little ones. Saturday we went to Skyline College for a walk. Weather was beautiful and the view was gorgeous. The boys enjoyed the time spent with their grandma.

So long for now. I will update the blog soon with the new adventures of Crnogorac family.

Milan

Weekly update and Tahoe trip

2007-02-26T22:08:00.000-08:00

We survived another week! Dragana went to see a doctor for her deep vein thrombosis. It is serious enough for her to have an operation on March 6. The good news is that the thrombosis is not life-threatening.

Little grandma (Nada) came on Tuesday and with one day to recover from a jet-lag we packed her up again and headed to Tahoe for a long weekend.

The trip to Tahoe was nice. We had quite a bit of snow - perfect for hitting the slopes. I enjoyed skiing, and the boys had a blast in the snow. As we were getting ready to head back to Bay Area a big storm hit.

Saturday night and Sunday during the day there was approximately 30 inches of snow (75 cm). Our normal drive that usually takes 3.5 hours took almost 12 hours. Fifteen miles of road around Donner Summit (7085 ft = 2160 m) took us 5 hours to cross. I am sure that all you math-buffs can calculate that we were traveling 3 miles per hour. We could have been faster walking if it were not for the white-out conditions and blazing snowfall;-)))

Cheers,

Milan

The first one

2007-02-13T02:23:00.000-08:00

Hi all,

here is the first official post. Last week was somewhat uneventful. Kids are doing fine. I managed to publish a bunch of pictures (154 to be exact) on the new website (www.zmajovi.com). I will still continue to update www.milanc.com from time to time, but www.zmajovi.com allows me more storage space so it is easier to store humongous amount of pictures;-) On the new site you'll find pictures from July 2006 through end of January 2007.

Dragana went to see a doctor for her vain inflammation. She was diagnosed deep vein thrombosis, and we will know by the end of the week when will she have an operation to remove it.

My work has been steady and keeping me from the boys more than I would like. Things are going well there so I can not complain.

We are getting ready to celebrate Marko's fourth birthday, so keep an eye for that update.

My mom got her visa today and is going to come to visit us next week (for our birthdays).

Thanks for reading. Talk to you soon.

Milan

Welcome

2007-02-03T01:55:00.000-08:00

I am jumping on the bandwagon and starting a blog. My intent is to have a single spot where my friends can get an update on important (or less important) staff that happened during that week.