Congrats Susan & Trace!

On Saturday my best friend from growing up, Susan (Ring) Williams and her husband, Trace, welcomed baby Ethan! When I talked to Susan on Sunday she was on cloud 9! We are so excited for them and can't wait for our little girl to meet Ethan!

Our little Hoosier dog...

It was a sad weekend for our little family this weekend. We had to take our little weiner dog, Hoosier, to a rescue organization in LA. He had bitten me pretty badly a couple of months ago and then two weeks ago when I went to pick him up at the kennel they told me he had bitten one of their personnel and would have to be quarantined by animal control for 10 days because of it! That was kind of the last straw for us since he has a history of doing things like this and we can't have that around the baby when she is born. So, we had to make the very difficult decision of giving him up. This was not easy for either of us since I bought Hoosier for Kurt as a birthday/Valentines gift back in college. He has been with us for 8.5 years and so we definitely feel an emptiness in our house now. Please say some prayers for us that we can now have some closure with this, especially Kurt since he spent so many years in Austin before we got married with Hoosier. We have faith that he will find a good "adult only" home- hopefully with people who have had dachshunds before and know what to expect!

From NYC to SB...

My good friend Christina, who actually grew up right around the corner from me, came all the way out from NYC to visit us this weekend! She spent the first part of last week in the San Francisco area, then rented a car and drove down the coast to see us. We had a nice meal out on Friday night at Opal, a cute little place we can actually walk to from our house. On Saturday she got my typical driving tour of SB, then we joined up with Kurt and did the State St. thing. For lunch we were all excited to have some good mexican food (which I'm happy to report closely resembled Tex-Mex for once!)! We ended the day with a stroll on the beach with Stella- she loves to run off leash with the big dogs! So cute! We both really enjoyed our time with Christina! We just always seem to have the best conversations with her and I really enjoy reminiscing about old times since we were best friends back in about the 5th grade!

On another note- WELCOME HOME HONEY!! Kurt was in training last week in LA and it was so lonely around here without him! It feels so good to have him home again!!

Fiesta...forever!

I forgot to post that last week was Fiesta here in SB! This is a big event around here with events starting Wednesday night and continuing through Sunday. You wouldn't believe the amount of confetti eggs being sold on the streets in all different colors and sparkles- so fun and of course we couldn't resist cracking a few on each other! We went down to shop at the vendors (we bought Jumper- that's what Kurt calls her since she always jumps around so much on ultrasounds- a cute little senorita dress), eat some authentic mexican food, and listen to some music! We decided to get Stella a little something to celebrate the occasion too and she was the hit of the party in her sombrero! Ole!

An LA kind of weekend...

Kurt is in training in LA this week, so we decided to go down a day early and see some friends! On Saturday we drove down and checked into our hotel (after about an hour of sitting in LA traffic on the 405!!). Then we headed over to meet one of my best friends from home, Alison Spencer and her hubby Earl at their hotel. Alison had a hookup and got us some awesome Dodgers tickets and a VIP parking pass and everything! We were right in the middle of the 3rd base line about 12 rows up and were able to see Manny Ramirez hit his first homerun as a Dodger! Super cool since we were in Boston last year for the world series. Alison's Mom, Katie, and her stepdad, Bill, were also along for the fun night! We had such a great time hanging out and catching up with them!

On Sunday Kurt and I laid out at the hotel pool for a while, then he had to start his training, so my friend Tracy who lives in LA came to pick me up and we went down to Hermosa Beach to shop! So fun!