Happy Valentines Day!

I spent two days trying to get the perfect pictures for my Favorite Valentine. The trick was setting up the tripod and letting the three year old press the shutter and then run back to sit with me and baby. We got 3 or 4 great pictures out of about 10 tries. Not bad. And it was completely out of my control. I didn't even look from picture to picture.



Pictures from our first day attempt...

Elliot did not want to take pictures that day :(


On the other hand, Alex was a Superstar!










Hope you all had a day full of love and a wonderful weekend. We had perfect gorgeous weather here in Southern California.

Another Fun Playdate!!!

More fun at the Rice House. Elliot's BFF. Mine too...

Good Bye Jay Leno...

...Hello Law and Order. What a happy day. Jay Leno has forced me to watch Seinfeld reruns during the ten o'clock hour for the last 5 or is it 8 months. I don't remember if it started in June or September. He took over what was normally Law and Order hour. Even when he was on at 11:30, I refused to watch him, and after taking over what was normally a Law and Order hour, I hated him even more. Now he is going back to 11:30, and I still can't stand him. And since 10:00-11:00 is my main tv viewing time, I get Law and Order back, woo hoo. The bad new is Lee hates Law and Order just as much as I hate Leno, so I will still be watching Seinfeld on the nights we watch tv together. And you are probably wondering why we don't watch 16 and Pregnant or The Jersey Shore or some other really interesting cable show. That would be because we don't have cable.

Just a few pictures from the weekend

More Puddle Jumping!!! He loves it...




Elliot building his tent. Great rainy day activity


Elliot in his tent


Alex and his Daddy


Elliot dancing around while Lee and I tried watching Parenthood. Classic movie!

Wish it were Wednesday

Instead it's a rainy Saturday

Good things about last Wednesday...
Trader Joe's Truffle Brownies, they are truly the best brownies ever.
Trader Joe's Cheese Pizza
Good little boys playing dinosaurs who found worms and salamanders.
Taking fun pictures of Alex and Carol's pretend baby. It brought back such great memories of times spent at the Rice Home when Elliot was a baby.
A little bit of digital scrapbooking.
The house keeper came.

Why today isn't as great...
No fun friends to play with.
Rain, lots of rain. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
I have a cold. And Zicam didn't help much this time.
A dirty messy house.

Pictures from Wednesday. It is so fun collaborating with Carol to get great pictures.

Elliot and his BFF Danny


Danny stuck in a basket


Elliot checking out worm. They also found a salamander.


Looking for donkeys, chickens and camels and more.








I love my boys' profiles...


Alex, wearing his camera!!!

Excitement on our Street Today...

So some teenage dude assaulted another teenager on the Main Street around the corner from us and stole his ipod(or something like that)and then ran up our street from the cops. Apparently he lives on our street about a block south of us. Anyway the police were on a manhunt around our house for a couple of hours during Elliot's nap, with a helicopter and all. It seemed like a bit of overkill over somebody stealing an ipod, but the more I think about it, it wasn't just an ipod, he assaulted somebody. So I feel safer knowing the cops were all over our street and not going anywhere until they caught the asshat. And catch him, they did. In the bushes at our next door neighbors. The whole time they had him out by the police cars he was crying. Seriously, if you are going to do the crime, you better be ready to do the time. Oh man, I sound like an old lady. And I thought we lived in a nice neighborhood. Well, we will be moving soon, anyway.

All I was worried about was getting a couple photos. And irritated that
I shouldn't go outside to take them. So they are all from inside.

The worst part for me, is that I had a delivery coming via UPS, but I don't think he made deliveries on our street today. Oh well, I should get it tomorrow.

The helicopter above our neighbors house


The cop cars in front of our house