Jose O'Reilly's

We took Emily out to dinner for her birthday on Monday. Our neighbors love this place called Jose O'Reilly's, so we decided to try it. It's a pretty big restaurant in PQ (Rancho Peñasquitos), and the portions are huge (Rich would love that part!), but the food (in our opinion) is just so-so. Stephen liked the Irish nachos, which are very different from Outback's cheese fries. The Irish nachos consisted of a large plate full of big, chunky, criss-cross-cut potatoes smothered in cheddar cheese, carne asada and jalapeños. Cheese fries, on the other hand, are regular French fries smothered in cheese and bacon, and a YUMMY garlicky ranch dressing is used as a dip. Mmm!! We LOVE the cheese fries. Whenever we go to Outback, we order them. We can never understand what the big whoop is with the Bloomin' Onion, when the cheese fries are to die for!

Funny thing about Emily... she LOVES to nurse (what baby doesn't?) and she LOVES "people food" (table food, adult food, real food, regular food, whatever you wanna call it), but she has always HATED jarred baby food. She loves eating whatever we eat: macaroni, rice, eggs, bread, Cheerios (one of her all-time favorites), chicken, etc. She especially loves Grandma's Mexican rice. At the restaurant, she ate some of the potatoes from the Irish nachos, and she shared my Mexican rice. For only weighing 16 pounds, 9 ounces (at a year old!), this kid has quite an appetite!!

We got a couple pics of Em in a sombrero and her adorable yellow dress. We get so many compliments on our "beautiful baby" wherever we go. Jose O'Reilly's was fitting for Emily, seeing as how she's our little Irish-Mexican beauty! :-)