getting back on the Spanish train

The Silicon Valley is a major melting pot of cultures. In our city alone, I consistently hear English, French, German, Russian and Spanish being spoken. It's been bugging me that I don't have another language to speak with Sadie. We had early and very exciting success with sign language with her, which was awesome. But that pretty much came to a screeching halt once she started speaking in 2 and 3 word "sentences" at about 16 months.
Andrew learned French in school and I learned Spanish. Unfortunately, we both have gotten terribly rusty, primarily due to lack of use. Andrew has picked up (and retained) a lot of Spanish words and phrases merely by living here for over a decade now, and I know he'd like to get better at it.
So, I have decided I'm going to make a serious effort to dust off my second language skills and get back on the Spanish speaking train. I may or may not be able to teach it to Sadie, but I know I will enjoy having my conversational skills back. I figure we have 2 things going for us. First, we enjoy being able to speak another language and second, we both seem to have a propensity for it.

Over the weekend we bought strawberries from a Mexican man who was selling them in our neighborhood and it was fun to talk to him. I have always enjoyed surprising native speakers with a decent exchange - especially looking as gringa as I do. This man was impressed with my pronunciation and once I told him that I am 25% Mexican, he said that my heritage explained it.

I have dozens of relatives in Mexico, as my maternal grandfather was from Delicias, Chihuahua. Recently I've been having instant message conversations with one of my second cousins who is 5 years my senior. It is so fun to chat with him because we just correct each other's grammar with no judgement whatsoever. It's an added bonus to be doing it over the computer, because I'm a visual learner, so seeing the words spelled out will help me remember them. I hope.
I'm going to borrow a book from a friend who teaches high school Spanish and I'm going to hit up my local bilingual aunt - who teaches Spanish at the middle school level - for ideas. I don't think I'll join a conversation group or take a course at a nearby community college yet, but those both seem like logical progressions from this point. I also intend to talk to my friend and fellow blogger C who took a class with her husband after being inspired by how beautifully their daughter was absorbing the language via her adoring Spanish-speaking caretakers.

Anyway, I hope I can stick with this plan. Espero que si.