April 20, 2013

Tonight we had dinner with some friends at Cucina Enoteca - an Italian place at the Irvine Spectrum.  The food was good - Charlie and I shared two dishes.  The one with the braised short ribs & pappardelle pasta was fantastic.  We all shared a bruschetta sampler too that was super yummy.  Isaac was somewhat well behaved and Luke was terrible.  Here he is eating fruit snacks out of the back of a Matchbox pick-up truck, but moments later he was actually climbing the shutters on the window behind me, kind of like a ladder.

Afterwards we let the boys burn off some energy by running around the fountain and this Cadillac display.  Luke wanted to get inside the car really badly.  He tried his hardest to open the door, but it just wouldn't budge.  Ha!  This picture cracks me up.  

April 19, 2013

Charlie mowed the lawn this evening, so we all ended up in the backyard.  Charlie & I worked together to get the yard cleaned up and the boys mostly just played in the dirt.  I unintentionally dressed them in almost identical shirts this morning.  Here they are admiring some sort of worm/slug thing that Isaac found.  I'm not a big fan of worms.  Maybe someday I'll have a little girl...  But meanwhile I'm so very grateful for my two handsome, worm loving boys.

April 18, 2013

While I was showering this morning, Luke thought it would be fun to make a giant pile of Charlie's & my shoes and then crash into them with a train.  He thought he was so hilarious.

Isaac and I went to Fashion Island while Luke was at speech.  I hadn't been in the C Wonder store yet, though I did go to one in Atlanta a few months ago.  While I was browsing Isaac came and grabbed me because he wanted to show me what he'd found.  Yep, we are a family of dog lovers.

And here's something else I found at Fashion Island.  There is a new little macaroon bakery.  It is a tiny little store with a gorgeous display of brightly colored macaroons spanning the room .  Charlie loves macaroons so I decided to bring home a box for us all to share.  We'd already eaten half of them before I thought to take a photo.  But I'm sure we'll be back.  

April 17, 2013

This is not a flattering picture of either one of us, but tonight my sister Sandy took me out for a belated birthday dinner.  I picked Nordstrom Cafe of course and opted for the lemon coconut cake rather than the boston cream tonight, just to change it up a bit.  Afterwards we did a little shopping and then just sat in the car and talked because we could!  No interruptions.  It was a fun night.

April 16, 2013

Today my friend Erin and her two boys Cody & Dylan came over to visit.  Erin and I worked together at Kaplan years ago, right after I graduated from BYU and moved back to CA.  We've stayed friends and try to get together every few months.  Isaac had a bit of a meltdown at first about sharing Legos, but he eventually got over it and the boys had great fun building fighter jets together.

April 15, 2013

Luke has been begging to go to the beach.  I don't even know why he is so obsessed with it, but for the past two days he has been telling us repeatedly "go bee."  And then he lifts up a leg like he is stepping into a bath tub to show us he wants to get in the water.  It is kind of hilarious.  So Charlie suggested that we go to the beach tonight when he got home from work.  We went down to Crescent Bay and explored the tide pools for a bit and then walked back to sit on the beach.  The weather was overcast and it was colder than we expected.  But we all had fun until Luke was running from the surf and a little wave got his feet wet.  Drama!  "Oh cold, cooold!  Shoes cold!  Feet cold!" For the rest of the night he kept bringing up his cold feet and would start crying again.  The water was cold but I don't think it even reached his ankles.  I think he was more upset that it got his (water) shoes wet.  Hopefully we can get over this trauma before our trip to Hawaii next month.  

April 14, 2013

Luke loves going to the nursery at church.  I went with him for a few weeks leading up to his 18 month mark, and after that I was assigned a new primary class to teach so he was on his own.  It is so nice that he goes happily each week.  Today I was peeking in on him through the window between classes and a friend asked me to go in and ask about her son (he doesn't like going and would cry if he saw her again).  Luke was all smiles and sitting so nicely in his chair waiting for snack time.  I couldn't resist snapping a quick photo before heading back to Primary.

April 13, 2013

When the workers re-installed our appliances yesterday they discovered that our dishwasher has a leak.  There was some mold and warped boards when they pulled it out originally, but we assumed it was from a previous leak that we fixed about a year ago.  Nope, it's still leaking.  We have been to Lowe's and Home Depot nearly every day since starting this kitchen project.  The look on Isaac's face pretty much sums up how we were all feeling by this point.  We had to pick out paint, a new dishwasher, and a few other things and the boys were not very patient.  The enormous plastic car cart is only entertaining for so long.

April 12, 2013

The kitchen is still under construction, which means another night of eating out.  Tonight we went for pho and Charlie gave Isaac one of his rice noodles to try.  Obviously Isaac has figured out the best way to go about eating very long noodles.  

April 11, 2013

Isaac is still on Spring Break (week 3!) and I'm doing my best to keep these guys entertained.  I needed to shower after the gym and wanted to make sure the boys were busy for a few minutes.  This is one of the few things they can do together without any fighting.  Sit in the rocking chair and watch movies.  Luke loves these Baby Genius DVDs (sing-a-long childrens songs) and Isaac for some reason always wants to come watch too, even though he lost interest in them years ago.