California ( am I ) DREAMIN'???

Swimming with Daddy! Too much fun...

We went to Ruby's with my friend, Susan and her daughter Sophia... she and Seth hardly got along at all...
They were only soul mates!! All three of the kids had a great time playing together.
Better get out and "galk" while you can- (oh, that's 'walk' in Seth language)- we're heading back to freezing in the morning!!! waaaaah!

Pool time
"Smile Porter!"... " I aaam! I'm making funny faces..." Apparently, some things are lost in translation...
This is the sight that made me cry. When did this little guy get so big? He was in HEAVEN!
If ever Porter went missing- one thing was for sure: he could be found- grandpa's hat on backwards, sitting in the drivers' seat of the "Super-Car". Grandpa took him for a ride in it and the big attraction (the one that made this 3 year olds eyes bulge) was not the power under the hood (as it should be), but the putting up and going down of the convertible soft top.

It FELT like a dream to be warm again...even on a cold week in L.A. Everything was green and flowering and smelled soooooo good!! I love the floral smell that is home- it's intoxicating. Anyway, we spent a wonderful week at Grandma & Grandpa Miller's house soaking up some MUCH needed sunshine and visiting with friends. Our outings included a trip to Oxnard to visit Grandpa McEuen and our Meyring cousins, an awewome trip to Costa Mesa where we shopped at the best mall in the country: South Coast Plaza (I'm sure that's a documented fact- haha...), we got to attend a friends baby shower, a family friends funeral (who passed away after 10 years of suffering from Alzheimers), and a birthday celebration (if my 30th birthday can even be CONSIDERED a 'celebration') at my favorite restaurant, The Charthouse in Redondo Beach. We played in the pool, at the park by the house my family grew up in, and enjoyed as many of the tastes from home as we could cram in. I kept trying to figure out how we could stay- you know, avoid coming home at all! But alas, it doesn't work that way. I love our home here- but I really loved being warm.... At any rate, we're back and we're coping.