cute kids

babycakes

how are people in LA skinny with all these dessert places?!

life's a beach

all seven of our kiddos. perfect day!

hollywoooood

happy 14th birthday, adam! he wanted to spend the day in hollywood so that's what we did! first we had to eat mom's famous swedish cardamom bread though!






walk of fame



Grauman's Chinese Theatre

The Kodak Theatre is home to both the Academy Awards and American Idol!

The El Capitan Theatre debuted on May 3, 1926, as "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama." we saw Alice in Wonderland in 3d at the imax (but not at the el capitan).

lunch at hard rock cafe in universal city. btw i celebrated my sweet sixteen at the hard rock beverly hills!



more yogurt! how can you resist not getting all these flavors: pistachio, cheesecake, peanut butter, green tea, cookies n cream, butterfinger, vanilla wafer cookies n cream, red velvet cake batter, or tiramisu??? just to name a few.

bff date night

my favorite so cal friend, joy and i went to belmont shores for frozen yogurt, dinner and yes, more yogurt.
first was pinkberry!

then we went to open sesame for hummus, baba ghannouj, tabouleh, grape leaves and falafels!

and then to yogurtland oh my! it's self-serve and then they weigh your cup at the end. i think i had like five different flavors of yogurt. and five different toppings! ha!

goin' back to cali

on a whim we flew to CA to join my sister's family for their spring break!

i think natalie is giving penelope orders!

and penelope is thinking, "yeah right girl, i do my OWN thing!"

little rascal

President's Club

congrats to JR for winning Outstanding Performance at Freightquote's annual President's Club!

evie, reece & nora

how cute are natalie's friends?!

tinsley was a boy last time we checked

but he's a big scaredy cat and was trying to get in natalie's carseat on our roadtrip back to kc.

forgotten pics

this is our lobby. i don't know that this pic really does it justice but it's really cool and the theme is all throughout the building.



our closet is huge! i only brought the ten articles of clothing that i wear so we've still got plenty of room! it also reminds me that i wear the same colors: black, white and grey...with jeans. this season i added a couple browns (same shade) and a couple turquoise (also same shade!) whatev...