Peaceful Noah

Its rare these days for Noah to sleep later than me - he's just like Michael - an early bird. Normally he comes into our room and climbs up into our bed to say "mom, its morning time GET UP!". So I loved being able to sneak into his room and catch a few seconds of watching him sleep like an angel.

This summer's first visit to Scully's Ranch and a bounty of good food!

We headed out to Napa to purchase some veggie plants for our dream (yet to be created!) garden. Michael was cramming to study for a LEED certification exam that he had to take Monday morning, but he was a trooper and would look at his notes while I did the driving. We met up with our friends and their daughter and son. Noah got to hold a baby chick and Chloe just climbed around to her hearts content.

After the farm we drove on the windy'est road I've been on to Chateau St. Jean for a picnic on the lawn. www.chateaustjean.com

After a sunny lunch and lots of catching up with our friends we followed them to their favorite bakery near Bodega Bay for the world's most enormous cinnomon rolls, delicious bread and amazing hazelnut biscotti. Check it out at: http://www.wildflourbread.com/

Noah had his heart set on ice cream so we drove to Sebastopol to Screamin' Mimis to finish out a driving tour of some of our new favorite spots. http://www.screaminmimisicecream.com/contactus.shtmlThanks Mihn and Karyne!
We had fun driving around with you guys and with all that cramming - Michael passed his exam!

Noah's Graduation

Noah had the first of his 15 (if I calculated right) graduation ceremonies last night!



And the class performed a bunch of cute songs like "puff the magic dragon", "a doe-a-deer", and my personal favorite...


Chloe could sense all of the excitement and really enjoyed watching all of the music and wanted to join the other kids. She had a blast later going up and down all of the slides at the school's playground.



CONGRATULATIONS BIG BROTHER NOAH!

No more babies

Chloe seems so much older all of a sudden. She's definitely a toddler now. Even Noah tells me that she's not my baby any more. Here's my little one with bed head. She empties out her crib every morning and after every nap!

Happy Memorial Day 2009!

We headed out to Mill Valley to see the local parade. We were planning on being in the parade and handing out flyers with our church, but ran into a slight parking problem (and in some really steep hillsides!) so we watched along the sides with everybody else. Noah collected candy and liked watching the little kids do their karate moves.

We sat right around the town square and got a feel for this small town just south of where we live.

Our focus has been on getting the house in order so our grill is in need of much love after sitting outside neglected all winter. So we went to Marin Brewing Company after the parade for yummy burgers and spent about an hour letting the kids splash in the fountain at Larkspur landing. We got a few snide looks from the ducks that apparently have taken up residence! Then everyone went home and the kids crashed. Michael spent several hours below our house removing this evil, evil weed that creates foxtails that get stuck in Hux's fur. We just found out about them at his vet appointment. The foxtails have barbs on them that prevent the splinter portion from working its way out. They can work their way into an animals body so far that they cause damage to organs or eyes or eardrums. Hux had several locations that are so bad that he's going under tomorrow to have surgery for them to be removed. Poor Hux.

Daddy's little helper

Chloe's off and running and climbing and dumping now. She also loves to be with her daddy any time he is at home. We are turning our garage into a playroom and he was installing cabinets this weekend. Chloe made sure that she didn't miss a thing.

Face painting before bath time

Noah's discovered that eraserable markers are great for painting his face and body. Then he discovered how much more fun it is to paint on mommy...


Here he is when I have to take the markers away! Time for a bath Noah.

Doggy Wash

Our local pet shop has this amazing animal wash at the back of the store and we've been utilizing it to wash Huxley. For a $15 token you are able to wet, shampoo, condition and even dry your pet. Its perfect for us because we can leave the puddles and fur at the store and go home with a fluffy dog! Its worth every penny.




Chloe LOVES to play in the water so she'd jump right in the tub with Huxley if we didn't keep her strapped into her stroller.

Pixie Park Fair

A park near us sponsored a kids fair and Noah got to go "fishing", make a sippy cup and bounce all day long. The weather was steaming and hit a 100 so both kids were zonked out o the way home.

The golden gate bridge was covered by fog on our ride out of Sausalito to Angel Island on a ferry boat full of kids on their field trip to hike and play on the beach.






The fog rolled out and was rolling back in again as we made our way back to the dock.

Field Trip to Angel Island

Food Frenzy in Berkeley, CA - good eats and great friends

Okay, this time Lucca is the one to get down...



Lucca got Chloe dancing at Cheeseboard Pizza when we met up with his mommy for pizza and walk down Shuttuck street. Cheeseboard serves one type of pizza a day and that's what you are going to get! Good thing it's great pizza and the line is out the door at lunch. Being a college town there are loads of students munching on their pizza right on the green strip between lanes of traffic with signs posted every few feet right above there heads about not loitering on the green strip. I found a gem of a bead store for when I have time to start making jewelry. And Karyne took us to a great bakery for a phenomenal piece of strawberry rhubarb pie. I have to take my mom there and try the pear rose pie next time!


Cheese Board
(510) 549-3055
1512 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709
Cross Streets: Between Vine St and Cedar St
cheeseboardcollective.coop

We're out of the bubble!

Once the rainy season was over we were excited to be able to paint the exterior of our house. Unfortunately once we had all of the windows covered in plastic the weather took a turn for the worse and we lived inside of a "bubble" for about 2 weeks. Now that the paint is all finished we are soooo excited to start on landscaping our front yard.

Summer Weather is here, even if summer is not

After a few days in the 90's Chloe was having fun in the sun. We tested out our AC after toughing it out the first day (it works!).

Happy Mother's Day

How true...