Home Sweet Home

When Dave and I lived in San Diego-- it was the greatest. Seriously, hands down, San Diego is the best place to live in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD. Besides the fact that Dave and I associate the place with late night gallivanting at Boomers, surfing and boogie boarding at the Shores, and really, the care-free life that comes pre-children, it's just a great place where we met some of our most favorite people (you know who you are...and who you aren't...j/k).

One of the best parts of living in this Eden, was the fact that whenever we went on vacation somewhere, anywhere, you name it, landing in San Diego or driving down the 5 along the Coast, we couldn't help but feel like we were starting on a whole new vacation but it was actually HOME. So, needless to say, going back to SD a couple weeks ago to meet up with our homies was a bitter-sweet homecoming.

We actually went to Cali to go to my sweet cousin's wedding where the twins starred as the flower girls-- they aimed to please as they very obediently placed rose petals down the aisle and then one of them proceeded to yell out, "oh no, I made a mess!" as both twins stopped in their tracks, and picked up each petal they had so deftly dropped just seconds before.

OH, I ALMOST FORGOT! Another great thing about Cali is going star-searching, like Hollywood Stars searching. We actually got to meet the one and only Jane Maynard, blogger-extraordinaire of This Week for Dinner. She even let me take a picture of her and her family.


I love it when famous people are so humble and let you take pictures of them looking like the people next door...

Anyway, the twins met up with one of their oldest friends, Cate Maynard (who happens to be Jane's daughter) and met the newest Maynard addition, little Anna-- what a sweet heart. The highlight of the trip must have been the play ground. Cate showed them the ropes and the twins were delighted to hang out with such a big kid. When bed time rolled around, the twins slept in Cate's room---- at 2am I was awakened by a suspicious chatter. Lo and behold, there were the 3 girls, huddled around each other on the floor, laughing it up like it was 1999. It was so cute.

The big kids were serious party animals too. Except for Dave, he went to sleep, on the floor, at like, 9. We made a feeble attempt to play Catan but since it was clear I was going to embarrass the Maynard's on their home turf, they sabotaged the game by claiming exhaustion. Whatever.

Anyway, it was a great trip except for the fact that Dave and I spent 90% of the time wrestling with evil custom's agents, who, by the way, are now going on 4 weeks, 4 freaking weeks, holding over $100,000 worth of merchandise until they review the 100+ production/cutting/import reports we compiled for them within 24 hours of their initial audit request. Does anyone know the port authority of San Francisco by the way?? I wrote a sob letter explaining that we are a small family owned company out of SLC and that our client could and would very likely cancel the order if goods weren't received within 7 days. Apparently, no one was moved. Fortunately, bebe has not canceled though- yet.

So that was our fun weekend get-a-way. We are hoping for another great adventure in May with the Riches if we can find a way to keep afloat and get someone to hold the fort down for us while we are gone escaping this world of fun we call being stressed 24 hours a day.

here are some more pics:

Slides are fun.













Fun with Cate and the headless Amelia Wignall.