Richmond School Fall Festival

The other week we took Siena to the school where she'll start Kindergarten in a couple years. They have a whole fall festival with booths, games, food, and silent auction.

Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh... (by the way, pretty muscular Ariel, don't you think?)


Siena saw her friend Gabe, and was elated to be chasing him around the school yard. He also won Siena a sucker, thanks Gabe!


Funny.

Halloween 2009

Lu, the little chicken and Sawyer the little pumpkin



Annual BYOP party pumpkins!


the girls! Carrie (black eyed pea), Stacy (gili), Sheri and
Nicole (Reddoor cheerleaders)


The most beautiful, Snow White

u2

People love U2. I had no idea how much. Here is the crowd
of people we waited with from 7:30 in the morning until
5:00pm. We were packed like sardines--it was CRAZY
but worth it...we were so close to the stage.



Black-eyed-peas--they were so much fun-fergie is HOT!

Bono (see how close we were?) There were 96,000 people there.

And of the 96,000 we were numbers 794-799!

They wrote your number on your hand and

people were "suppose" to wait in line in order-

yea right!

Dining Table Make Over

We decided to refinish the dining room table we've had since we were first married in 2005. You may notice the hot plate burns, wine bottle rings, salad dressing oil drips, crusted on oatmeal, Elmo fork stabbings and other unidentifieable wear and tear. There was also some motivation to match the table with our wood colors a little better.

Here is the "before" shot.


The bench has been sanded to show the difference between the two.


Up close.


After a Dark Walnut stain and 3 coats of polyurethane.


Hopefully the polyurethane finish will act like a force field against the continuing onslaught of Siena and Sawyers dining festivities... Godspeed dining room table

The fastest year of my life.

This has been the fastest year of my life.
I cannot believe it is HALLOWEEN already...how did that happen?
I have had 2 Halloween's with Siena (see pics below)
and this will be my first with Sawyer--I wanted him to
be "Max" from "Where the Wild Things Are" but
never got my act together (this is what happens with
the second child) so he will probably
wear the pumpkin costume Siena wore her first
Halloween (is that horrible?)

me and my boy:)


We carved our pumpkins in the park this year...easy peasy clean up!
Plus, a gorgeous view of the Pacific Ocean!



Si as a bee last year (08)


le petit potiron (the little pumpkin) (07)

Happy Halloween.

Every girl needs one of these!

A girl's weekend (away)!

It was just what this tired mom needed.
We talked and laughed, ate, stayed up late, slept in, danced,
layed out by the pool and did I mention that we ate?

The only thing that could have made this weekend any better
was if gina and katie (both of whom are pregnant) could have joined us.

BIG thanks to my husband for watching our kids and doing
it like a pro...nice work babe!

Vegas, part III & misc.

Who is this little diva? She looks so grown-up.


Last day, catching some rays and snacking. As I write this, I realize how ridiculous it is that we're only now posting this one-month after the fact. Hooray for parenthood!


Ariel and Snow White were seeing which jewels went best with their gowns. The girls really enjoy all of the princess dresses that were handed down to us from friends in Steamboat.


Siena entertaining Sawyer in the exer-saucer.