Princess dress

Auntie Ame has been in town the last few days to visit little nael and baby j. She arrived last week and gave little nael an adorable blue Cinderella dress. Well, little nael simply loves the Disney princesses especially Cinderella so this dress was the perfect gift! She tried the dress on immediately when Auntie Ame gave it to her and has been wearing the dress everyday. She puts it on first thing in the morning after breakfast. Then, Auntie Ame got her a tiara at the mall yesterday which she now has to wear with her dress. She parades around the house now -- her princess dress, tiara along with a pair of my high heeled shoes!

Oreo

Little nael's preschool class has a guinea pig named Oreo and on weekends, a family can take Oreo home. So this weekend, we volunteered to take care of Oreo and little nael was excited to bring her home. Little nael fed Oreo carrots, watermelon, strawberries and bananas. She also wanted to play with Oreo in the backyard but we didn't get a chance to since we got so busy this weekend. Maybe next time...

Sunflower Farms/Walden adventure

Had a fun day at Sunflower farms last Saturday with snowboarder and the kids. We also met up with Tanja and Allie there. Little nael had fun playing/climbing on the treehouse and crossing the bridge. She rode a pony for the first time, played in the hay, jumped on a trampoline and shoveled sand.
After we left Sunflower Farms, snowboarder suggested that we drive further up north past Fort Collins to explore the area for fly fishing spots. Since I've never been to Fort Collins and anywhere past north of that area, I agreed. So we stopped at a gas station, filled up the tank and snowboarder armed himself with a Colorado Road atlas.
We reached Fort Collins 40 minutes later and kept on going then snowboarder had an idea: If I was up for it, we could stay overnight in a town called Walden! He pointed it out on the map. It was still early in the afternoon, we didn't have any plans for the rest of the day and we weren't in any rush to get home, so I said yes on the condition that I could stop at a grocery store to pick up food/milk for the kids. We turned back to Fort Collins, found a Safeway then made our way to Walden. So our adventure began...

Day Out with Thomas

Thomas the Train

Went to the Railroad Museum so little nael can ride Thomas the train. Little nael got a temporary tattoo of Thomas on her arm when we first got there and before we headed home she wanted a tattoo of Percy on her other arm! I think that little nael had fun riding Thomas...she's been asking if we can go back to see Thomas again!

Zoo

Headed to the zoo with the kids yesterday. Met up with little nael's friend, Allie and her mom, Tanja. Little nael had fun feeding the lorikeets with nectar juice and watching the orangutans up close. She was also having fun taking pictures with my camera just like Allie was taking pictures with Tanja's camera.

LA-LA land

The kids and I along with snowboarder were in LA for a few days. We checked into the Beverly Wilshire hotel and we were upgraded to a one-bedroom suite courtesy of one of our good friends working at the Front Desk. Snowboarder and I used to work at this beautiful hotel many years ago and it was nice to be back as a guest! We saw a few familiar faces and it was nice to be recognized as well by the staff even after all these years...the same people we used to work with! From valet parkers, housekeeping attendants, bellmen, servers, bussers...
Snowboarder was in town for business, meeting with some Bravo folks while the kids and I just tagged along to see my family. I also got to see the ol' BH girls. Had drinks at the bar, took the Rolls house car and had a wonderful dinner at La Dolce Vita.