Labor Day Fun!

Hope all of you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend and were able to relax on Monday. We had a nice weekend with Tom and Pat visiting. Their time was filled with fun trips to entertain Ella intermixed with house projects. Tom has trouble sitting still when he comes to visit so we always try to find a little project for him (and Andrew) to work on while he's here. Although, we are pretty much all projected out now. Next time, he comes to visit he may just be forced to relax.

This trip's project was putting new faucets in our bathroom. We pretty much added all new fixtures in there except for the lovely gold and white faucets installed by the previous owner. They just aren't my style and well, just didn't match anything else in there. So we got new faucets. Of course, everything with a household project cannot run smoothly, so after working on it all weekend, the sinks are finally done. You can see the faucets here: Before and After.

Aside from household fun, I took Tom, Pat and Ella to the LA Zoo on Friday morning for a couple hours. As usual, Ella liked to just be free and run around as opposed to really looking at the animals. But she did spot a few of them. We were fortunate enough to hear quite a choir concert from one group of monkeys. On Saturday, we visited a place called the Kidspace Museum in Pasadena. It's for kids ages 2-7, but a lot of it really was for older kids. They had a babbling brook set up that you could wade in and Ella loved that! She was a tad bit angry with us when we told her it was time to go (after being there for at least an hour!)

Saturday night, Andrew and I were able to actually go out and enjoy a long peaceful dinner just the two of us while Tom and Pat babysat for Ella. We also went to see the Wedding Crashers (I'm sure we're the last people in America to see that movie this summer). We both really enjoyed it and found it pretty funny.

We went shopping at the Galleria (our mall here in Glendale) for a few hours and managed to find some good Labor Day sales. Monday, we went to the Hilton where Tom and Pat were staying and went swimming. So all in all, we jammed just about everything we could into one holiday weekend!

Check the Latest Pictures link on the right in a few days for new pictures!