Playing In The Park

Every Friday a few girls from church all get together and we have lunch down at the little park in our development. There is a fence so all the kids can play and we don't have to worry about them running off. Noelle has the best time. I had a hard time getting a good shot of her because she was just running around! Here she is playing with sweet Lara Lorenzen. They live just around the corner from us. The weather was a gorgeous 80 degrees! We both even got some sun on our arms. Noelle refused to keep her hat on. Oh, the things we Mommies worry about!

Yard Work!

We have been doing so much yard work! I have the most wonderful assistant. She in charge of the hose. The only downfall is when she needs a nap - it is over!

And of course she gets to do other things besides working. There is a lot of play going on for Noelle when she is not handling the hose or snacking on dirt. The slide and the swing are so much fun. She cannot get up the slide by herself yet, but she gets on that swing and has a grand time!

Here is the Bottle Brush tree that I dug out all by myself! Cut it down and then dug out the root ball. It was a lot of work but I am so glad it is gone and I will not have to clean up all those red things everywhere! But, I will miss all of the humming birds that it attracted.


This flower bed was a terrible mess! It was full of those spider plants you keep in the house. They had taken over. I dug them all out and moved over some Azaleas and Camellias and were randomly planted underneath other shrubs. Let's hope they are able to thrive here. I will move the Lemon tree come fall. Next I will fill the flower bed with impatiens and re-seed the grass that died during out sprinkler malfunction. Meanwhile, crabgrass has infiltrated. Any ideas on how to get it out?



Hopefully this yard will be beautiful when I am all done. It's slow going by yourself and tending a baby. Let's hope I am done by Chirstmas!

Is This Working?

Here is to my first post! I really want to be dedicated to this, please help me stick with it!

Here we are last night after my birthday dinner. I cannot believe I am 29 years old! I sure am holding strong to my twenties.... Time goes so fast it is scary!

On the far left we have darling Melanie with precious Norah Ann in her belly due to make her debut in the next month. Then we have the birthday girl herself in dark pink having a great time. Next is my dear little Foxy in her light pink sweater. No jogging through the Trader Joe's parking lot today, OK? Then we have the Bird hiding her ta-ta's with a cute Pottery Barn blanket. She is always the perfect picture of poise and charm. Pulling up the end is Jakey's Mommy - Mrs. Meldrum herself!




Here we all are actually at dinner. Sorry these pictures are backwards chronologically but I have not figured out how to fix them. We had a DELICIOUS dinner at Sissi's Mediterranean restaurant in Encino. It was soooooo good. We definitely will go back. The pita sandwich with the hummus, salad and fries (INSIDE!) was the way to go! Oh, and the frozen mint lemonade is a must also. Waaaaaaay better than the meal we had at the Four Seasons (that was supposed to be free) the night before that cost us three months worth of groceries!

Thanks to my best girls.... It was so much fun. I must say, though, that the conversation was even better than the food. The stories, the jokes, the laughs, even the herpes. All fabulous.