favorite things...almost as good as oprah's!

last weekend i had the privilege of hanging out with the always wonderful oc girls. my friend niccole had a favorite things party. those of you not "in the know" get ready to "know." you bring five of the same favorite thing of yours for under six dollars. everyone does the same so.....you leave with five new, great, cheap products! (after you draw names..yada yada.....i won't bore you with the technicalities) but so fun! and even funner is seeing my favorite friends.

nic girl, you know it is london forever thanks to the good gospel!

ps jaymie, thank you for the delicious, creative treats....i wish i had some of that talent of yours.
pss thanks for the party niccole, you were the perfect hostess!

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.

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.

lagoona beachers

tim and nicole were kind enough to show us around lagoona and let us stay with them. it was fun to get to know them better and we heart lagoona beach. we went to church a block from the beach, we had a good dinner at cheesecake factory with them and their friends jo, brit and baby owen. good times, good times.
thanks tim and nic

painting easter eggs and swatches

easter away from home......not easy. thank goodness for the carters! they are our family here in the great state of california. i don't know how i would have been able to make the move without knowing they were down the 605. so we had a great weekend together, in fact it couldn't have been better! the sun shone and we enjoyed the 80 degree weather. we went into pasadena and spent a little money at the largest forever 21 in the world. (just imagine the chaos) we had our favorite frozen treat...."frogo," we call it. i am pretty sure we made it up though. it's hard with the language barrier's around these parts to really know what anything is called. we had a nummy BBQ on the veranda. the food was delicious! ladies, i am telling you the way to get a man to cook is a $19.99 grill from walmart. and what is easter without a little friendly easter egg dying competition?

the painting continues with colton.......it probably always will. for one of his classes he has to paint all of these swatches in different hues. how hard could that be? apparently hard. i tried to help but wasn't even capable of that. it has taken him hours. mixing just the right amount of blue, red, orange.....today he dressed according to the next shade on the swatch train.