A Visit from an Dear Friend...

First - a tangent...
The last two days have been amazingly productive ones.  Here, I am sitting, the dishes done, the house clean, the laundry folded, and myself showered.  Since it is such a rare occurrence to have all this at once, I felt that I just had to mention it.  It's nice...

Last Sunday, Garrett, one of my oldest friends, came by to have lunch and catch up - face to face for once.  Garrett and I went to high school together for freshman year, then he moved to Calabasas.  Then he moved to Texas for college, and in the last 8 years we have seen each other twice.  This visit was one of them.

Some friendships, truly, are amazing.  Despite not seeing Garrett for 5 1/2 years, it felt like we hadn't missed a beat and I am so grateful for that.  He's been a listening ear and a source of encouragement for a long time.  Thank goodness for free long distance calls.

I hope it doesn't take another five years for us to get together, but even if it does, I know our friendship will still be strong.

By the way, if you didn't know - Josh is amazing.  He entertained Corban the whole time so I could enjoy myself.  My husband rocks. 

Family Photos

Last Friday night Josh told me that he wasn't working the next day.  (Not working on a Saturday has become quite the rarity).  So, we decided at about 8:45 pm that we'd take family photos the next day for our Christmas card and what not.  So, at 9:30 I headed to Target to try and piece together some, at least, semi-choreographed outfits. 

We went to Rancho Sierra park and my sister-in-law, Megan, was gracious enough to be our photographer with such short notice.  This has to be one of the shortest family portrait plannings ever, but the day was beautiful, and Target came through for us, so we ended up with some nice shots.

 

My absolute favorite.  I admit, I'm pretty partial to pictures of my boys.

Really, I don't think we were supposed to be tromping around off the trails in a State Park, so don't report us to any park rangers.  

Thanks again to Megan.  You did an awesome job.

Change of Scenery...

Well, it's been just about forever since I posted, but I think I have a better reason this time than laziness.  Early in November our family officially ended our days as apartment dwellers and moved into a little house.  Now, when I say "little," I'm being quite literal.  It's 640 sq. feet - 300 less than our apartment.  But all the benefits of living in a house far outweigh the size issue.  I won't list all the joys of "single family unit," but my favorite, by far, is letting Corban play in the yard

hiding between the trashcans

sampling dirt

Sorry everyone, but I can't help but do a bit of bragging.  My kid is just so dang cute -

 Yes, face full of dirt, but I still think he's beautiful