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Got to see my sister in Napa last weekend. YAY! Because who knows when I'll get to go to Texas! We went to Oxbow Market with Aunt Di. She got me a jar of Bacon Pickles. Not pickled bacon, but hickory smoky pickles. Mark is disgusted of course but Cash and I love them. And I'm thinking they would go great in potato salad.



Anyway, if you go I highly recommend going to Kara's cupcakes (the Smores version is divine) and Three Twins Ice Cream (last time I got Horchata flavor). Someday I'll go to Oxbow and actually eat a meal, possibly here.


See? I could never live in Napa because I would be Large Marge! There is just too much good food. What would stop me from getting a maple bar at Buttercream every day?

Case in point: My mom came over this weekend and brought Cinnamon bread from ABC and it's the only thing I took a picture of all weekend. None of my children with their grandma or anything like that.

I need to work on my priorities.

hi

My neice Libby is the sweetest little thing. She's almost five months old and I haven't heard her cry. She just likes to smile at everyone and eat and snuggle. I'm so in love.

rainy days

The second graders at Marlo's school had dioramas on display recently, so when I gave her an empty box she knew just what to do with it. I lined the it with "grass" and "sky" like she wanted, and helped her a bit with the tree, but the rest is all her creation.

Sacramento zoo

Sorry, no animal pics (you know you wanted them). The kids had lots of fun on the play structures and the carousel and across the way at Fairy tale town. Mark and I shed a tear for the San Diego zoo and all its glory.






Cash is sitting on a bench and he's all proud and serious about it. Like when he's on our bed he gets the remote and leans back into the pillows and points it at the tv like he's just gonna watch himself a little show.

at her request...

Marlo wanted a picture in her panda hat.

She is really loving preschool. She tries to sound out every word she sees and loves counting to one hundred. She loves to pretend. All day long, it's "pretend I'm a baby kitten and you need to adopt me", "pretend me and the brothers are crabs and you're the mama crab" "pretend you don't understand my joke, okay" and then she tells it and laughs and explains it to me.

party over here