m.i.a. & milan

dreams came true this week. we grooved to chase's pack leader, m.i.a. she is amazing!

moby & ernie submitted to theirs, cesar milan aka the "dog whisperer." cesar is amazing! friends were everywhere, we even found one of our two legged buds, dan davis. he was there for "work," truth be known he is a closet dog lover.
it was suuuuper hot, but the pools and water bowls saved the day. we were so excited to find that ernesto, the dad terrified of dogs had put the event together. (fellow d.w. fans, you know the episode....the one where cesar gives louis away! p.s. louis was there & ernesto is in the pic with the pack leader.) it was a miracle to see him with all of the dogs. we got to talk to him, he was taken with ernie. as were the movie scouts who asked him to stop by for an audition! haha two words: calm & assertive

mama in da club

yes, we went clubbing. chase, me, colton, my amazing aunt robin, and the grooviest mom ever. so fun! the classixx played......and we love them!!!

return line

as we found ourselves in the return line at walmart late last night surrounded by an allstar line up of shoppers around us, we anxiously looked to the registers to gauge our time, when we got sucked in to the most awkward situation ever. i don't know what went wrong for this rock and roller, but gel-part made some sort of error and rocker was not happy about waiting for a manager to come correct the problem. their angry and blank stares crossed, ricocheted of the three-quarter carpeted walls and right into our faces.

dr. doogie howser

there has been a long standing joke about me and the doogster. i have been to regis and kelly twice. i love them. i got so excited both times to see a fun celeb. who can i count on not once, but TWICE.....neil patrick harris. one of the dullest and disappointing stars. well, last night colt and i went to a couple of art shows. who should be right behind me......DOOGIE. why? why? why not the beckhams?! (obviously not the beckhams because we were in culver city, we will never be where they would be) it got better. after colton and i had our budget friendly dinner at inn & out, we thought we would splurge on desert.....amazing pudding and totally worth it!

but sitting behind us was the child star of roseanne. i don't even know his name. you all know who i am talking about. the night of the 90's child stars. the galleries were really cool though. we went to shepherd ferry's studio (he did the obama hope poster.) i thought it was really cool. here are some of the show.

fashion island & balboa island......neither one is really an island

we spent the weekend with our dearest friends......... mary and jake carter. we are so grateful these two are in southern california with us. we had a lot of fun in newport. we did a little shopping at fashion island, ate some nummy food, and watched a beautiful sunset from the balboa beach colt titled this photo "technology." please blow up for full effect.

breaders cup

we were so excited to go to the breaders cup, but more excited to have don and joanie in town. they spoiled us rotten! colton had been planning to research the horses in anticipation for the big event, but luckily for us don and joanie are experts themselves. it was a beautiful day. santa anita was in her prime. we even got to sit at our own table with an umbrella. the horses were stunning. even more stunning were colton's winnings. he had decided the night before to put some money on 'desert code' whose jockey was dressed in a green shirt with a big toad on it. it was the long shot and we all thought he was crazy, but the joke was on us when the $2 bet on the 32 to 1 odds came in first place. we had so much fun, come back soon.

times are tough

fleas + economic crisis + student loans = a homemade haircut by yours truly. a talent learned while on a mission comes back to serve the needy.

i wish my parents lived in california

my folks came down for a visit last week. i have been crying since they left........i am not kidding. we had so much fun. the night they came into town we went to the julieta venegas concert at the nokia theater. it was a cultural event. we first ate at taco nazo, we were the only people not from mexico. that theme continued into the concert, julieta is a mexican musician. she doesn't sing in english and my mom and i don't speak spanish. we just make up words to her songs, and this didn't stop us from singing at the top of our lungs.
the fun did not stop there. lucky for us it was dollar day at the santa anita race way. lance could not have been happier. everyone got a hot dog, drink, and ticket for a dollar. we were also able to see a statue of our relative georgie wolf. he was a jockey that road sea biscuit. my mom put a dollar on atticus jack, the horse with the curly hair, and he won!
our luck stopped there since we had to leave for the bonnie hunt show in culver city. my mom has always been a big bonnie hunt fan. it was really fun to see her show and meet her. she was a hoot in person.
what bingham visit would be complete without a stop at disneyland? there were halloween decorations everywhere. it looked spooktacular! here is a photo of why i need my mom here, they remember everthing, even plastic bags for splash mountain!

we are just keeping up with the kardashians

last night colton and i got to go to dancing with the stars!!! it was so much fun. we got to sit right behind bruce and kris jenner along with kourtney kardashian. love them! unfortunately, we also saw kim get the boot, but at least we got to see her boot...tay ........amazing. we got to get all dressed up and see everything in action. i am obsessed with t.v.
after a most fabulous show, colt and i walked around the gove and enjoyed an ice cream. it was an enchanting evening.

breakdowns, beck, beach boys, and the baby

what an eventful weekend! our friends the johnson's came up........they are wonderful. we are so grateful that chase went to spain and met tim, because then we met tim and nicole! and now we are all in california together. we had so much fun! we ate, shopped, and hung out in melrose for hours! not by choice. the saab once again started acting funny. next thing we know colton is running his little heart out looking for a service station. then he returned with a little treasure named art acosta, a mechanic who saved the day! the johnson's were such troopers, we sat on that corner waiting for kim kardashian all night!


the next morning we went into old town pasadena for breakfast and a stroll. it turns out yoko ono has an installation with a handful of trees where people can leave wishes on. we spent a while looking at wishes and even made a few ourselves. rumor has it that all the wishes will be put in a time capsule and stored somewhere in iceland. weird.


then the next day my man and i enjoyed his birthday gift. i got colt tickets to the beck show at the hollywood bowl. the venue was gorgeous! an outside ampatheater where you can bring in picnics and enjoy the outdoors. beck was mindblowing! we also got to groove to mgmt and spoon. we were afraid we weren't going to see any of it because once we got through the first gate our tickets seriously disappeared!!! after a frantic search they reissued us tickets and the others are still a mystery?! but we rocked out pretty hard. beck did it all. he worked it out with the l.a. philharmonic and then a simple beat mixer.


the next morning was so wonderful. my amazing friends dan and nicole blessed their beautiful baby presley. that baby is so sweet and so beautiful. it was our first meeting and i fell in love. nicole is the most natural mom. she looks like she has been doing it for years. and on top of that she made the most delectible brunch! i ate myself sick. the pesto chiken salad and homemade cupcakes were too good to resist.
after the lovely morning we headed over to visit tim and nicole at their new condo, then headed over to three arch beach. who also happended to be at three arch breach that day... the beach boys playing a private concert? unreal. as they sang "i wish they all could be california girls" i couldn't agree more. both nicoles and there sweet friends couldn't be more wonderful.

in da club

the other night we went and saw chase d.j. at some club in l.a. it was a little late for us old folks, but we had a good time and it was fun to see him and listen to his music.

our big adventure

last week in one of my classes, we had an assignment to create a u.s. stamp. the project was kind of a warm up to start off the term in sort of a light hearted way, playing off of the traditional nature of the postal system. i had the idea of doing a series of pee wee herman stamps. i have always been a huge fan of mr. reubens, and although he was blacklisted for his inappropriate actions of the past, i feel like the universe has missed out on some potential greatness by shunning him from popular media (not to mention all the other perverts and infadels who still are widely accepted?) so after pretty much completing my stamp, chase got a call from a friend from ygg, who invited us to the hollywood forever cemetery where a screening of pee wee's big adventure would be shown. (¿coincidence?) i wasn't going to let anything get in my way. tara wasn't totally sold on the idea, but thought it would be interesting and concented for my sake. we got to the cemetery, which happens to be the final resting place of Cecil B. DeMille, Jayne Mansfield, Rudolph Valentino, Victor Fleming and Douglas Fairbanks to name a few and it was packed with people and thier blankets and picnic dinners. a d.j. played some music and then as the m.c. introduced the movie, non other than paul reubens stepped on stage and spoke for about ten minutes. his co-stars dotie and samone came on stage and what a joy it was. the movie was great and we all left glad we spent the evening at the cemetery.