Girl Time

Yesterday Natalie had a birthday party right after school. Cara had a playdate set up that fell through at the last minute leaving me feeling bad for the poor girl. I felt even worse saying to her, "Sorry about that, let's just go home and hang out while your sister enjoys the party," I decided it was time to go have some girl time with my oldest.

Since I needed one anyhow, I decided to take Cara along to get a pedicure with me. I can never decide what color to pick, so I let her choose. She picked out matching red for both of us.
It was a nice hour just relaxing with Cara listening to her tell me about her day. As I was sitting there with her I realized how long it had been since we actually had some fun time with just the two of us. With me feeling lousy for the last two months, and all the running from one activity to the next and just trying to keep up some days, it had been a while. I love the little moments like this.

Matching toes. Can you tell which ones belong to the kid though?

For Posterity

I posted this on my Facebook page, but figured I'd post it here as well.

I'm Not Dead

In the words of Pink, I'm not dead. True, I've ignored blogging altogether for the past 4 months. It's one of those things that you find you've fallen behind on and you wonder, "Do I try to catch up or just ignore that hole in the timeline and just blog forward?" Well, I guess I'm just going to blog forward or I'd never blog again.


So, just a brief catch up. We had a nice summer that flew by way to fast. We didn't do much in the way of vacation since Jeff couldn't really take much time off work. I worked and the girls spent a lots of time in the desert with Grandma and Grandpa Moody. So I won't say we didn't travel since I spent much of the summer in the car driving back and forth. They had fun spending time with their grandparents, going to movies, amusement parks, swimming and working in Gma & Gpa's yard. When I wasn't driving or working, we spent lazy days at the beach. We even managed to squeeze a quick trip to Utah to visit their little cousins.


As the summer was winding down, I got the shock of a lifetime. Despite my well crafted plans, I guess kid #3 will be coming in April. It was shocking and I'm going to be honest and say I'm still coping with the idea of 3 kids. But Cara and Natalie are soooooo excited and it is fun to watch them. Eventually I'll probably post the video of us telling them just so it's here for posterity.


The girls are settled in school. Cara is in the third grade and Natalie is in second. So stay tuned. I'm going to try and stay on top of my blogging...again.

It Sucks!!

I'm not a big fan of appliances but I feel that if I have to do a job around the house, I want good equipment to make a boring job easier. I've had my Dyson for several years and I'm still impressed. The other day, I was vacuuming and I noticed it wasn't picking up as it normally does. So I quickly checked a couple of the hose areas and I when I opened one area, I noticed this:

Yes, it's a pen! Who vacuums a pen up and 1) doesn't notice it and 2) leaves it in there? Well, judging by the drywall material found with this pen, I have a good guess.

But regardless, I'm still happy that my vacuum really sucks :)

Budding Chef

Cara always has to be busy doing something (I wonder where she gets this from?). While my mom was visiting for a couple of days, Cara was in heaven cooking up a storm with Grandma. Last night, we were treated to a special dinner planned and prepared by my 8 year old.

It was a tasty meal of fruit salad and Dizzy Dogs :)

Church Socks

Jeff and I have an ongoing debate. I hate clothes with holes, snags, etc. If you have a pair of socks with holes in them, when you take them off THROW THEM IN THE TRASH! Sounds logical right? Why waste the energy washing them just to put them in the trash? However, my husband feels that the laundry is the place to put things that need to be thrown out.

So Jeff has a few pair of socks that have worn through on the bottom (however, he does have many pair that are perfectly acceptable). When I am being the wonderful wife that I am and folding his socks, I am just matching pairs up and putting them in his drawer. I don't have time or the inclination to inspect his socks before lovingly folding them and placing them in his drawer. :)

The last time I saw him wearing a pair of these "holey socks" I stuck my finger in the hole and gave it a nice pull. Who would want to wear socks with a big hole on the bottom? So today, I look over to see him sitting on the bed...what do I see? Those dumb socks with a huge hole on the bottom!

So I walked by and gave a nice tug on the hole...Here's what happened (note the hole in the left sock as well).

Let's see if they make it to the laundry again. I have a feeling they will.

Dream Job

It kind of seems late to actually post about my job since I've technically been there since February. But since it's now official that they're actually going to PAY me to design, I thought it was post worthy :)

I had the opportunity to intern with Deborah Davis for a day in October last year. In January, she called and asked if I was interested in interning for her. So for the past three months, I've been working on Mondays and Wednesdays, but I've been earning course credit instead of a paycheck. I was happy to continue working for free since I was learning so much and actually loving what I was doing. But when I asked Deborah about continuing my internship, she said that based on my work she just wanted to hire me (before I've even finished school!!).

As of Friday, I am officially gainfully employed working for Deborah Davis Design. The firm does both residential and commercial design but most projects lately have been commercial. Her biggest client is actually E! Entertainment, (which also includes Style Network, G4 and I think the new Fear channel too). So her office is located in their corporate offices, which is a bit of a commute, but I actually appreciate the time I get to myself while I'm driving (plus I get to satisfy my love of the city by working in the heart of LA).

I'll continue working two to three days a week in the office and I'll be able to work from home other days-my boss is super cool and practical about this. I've done work on some interesting projects and I've already been given lead on two designs (including Joel McHale's office).

Here are a couple of pictures from one of the jobs I worked on. It's a shampoo room for Chelsea Handler.

So, if you think I've fallen off the face of the earth, I haven't. It's just been busy around here with 9 units of classes, the internship and all the rest of my mommy/wife jobs. Even with all the craziness though, I am loving every minute of it :)