D. Family Coffee Break

Happy 21 months and 1 day, dear Buggy!   The weather has been extremely weird and went from 90 degrees to 60 degrees.  So your parents are not insane for dressing you in boots, a sweater, and a hat (that you took off) in May. Between last month and this month, your vocabulary has increased exponentially.  Some words you once pronounced properly have now become twisted. You've also been chatting away quite quickly (I wonder who you get that from?) and even Mommy can't follow your thoughts.  You have so many!  It's hard to choose what to respond to (if you even let us respond at all!). With no little brother or sister in sight for awhile, you've been learning some life lessons from Lo Bear.  Spending time with her is teaching you a lot of lessons about sharing, love, and family.  We're not sure how many of those lessons have stuck, but we're working on it. Thanks to Barney, you've realized that your family goes way bey...

What did I do before this guy? It doesn't even matter what came before we started dating.  What happened afterwards was amazing. Now we've got Bug and she's pretty fun.   She knows everyone in her class...even her teachers!   Nightly walks.  Someone just cannot get her legs  up the "hill". There was that one time she was watching Barney at the beach and she decided she too would get her beach gear on.  It was going well...until Mommy had to turn the camera off to explain to Bug about not yelling and hitting. Life is good.  Tiring, but good. God Bless, Kat

This weekend, I went away overnight to Santa Barbara for my friend, Elyse's bachelorette party.  Sometimes you need a girls night out- to let loose, have fun, and not worry about anything except for the aforementioned things.  :) Happy bachelorette, Elyse!  :)  We cannot wait until your wedding! As much as I love being with the girls, my best friend is this little cutie pie.  I love coming home to all of her hugs and kisses, and these days, never-ending conversation about how she pushed her cousin or what she and Daddy did together while I was gone. Daddy did a fantastic job taking care of her and made it through without any sweat (or tears).  :)  Being with a lot of women this weekend who have yet to have children, there come a ton of questions about what it's like to have kids.  My responses may frighten people out of having children.  I don't mean to do this.  I'm just being realistic.  Having a kid is hard....

At a lot of offices, when a report is drawn up, they have these fancy "mini" reports called Executive Summary Reports for the upper up people who don't have much time to read the real report that you put all your hard work, sweat, and tears into.  They're busy.  You know.  I decided you might all be too busy to be reading about my almost week-long family vacation to Escondido (to Bug, "Es-a-con-dio").  So instead of bombarding you with a thousand pics from my real camera, I will provide you with an Executive Summary of our trip to Es-a-con-dio, using my Instagram pictures and maybe incoporate some of the cute pictures from a camera.  I'll admit it now.  My Executive Summary may be for you (whom I consider Executives in your own right). but not much of a summary. :)  Enjoy! Goodbye, L.A. Lunch break in Carlsbad... Practicing her writing before her meal arrives. ...which also turned into a shopping break.  Sunglass...