Weekend Fun

Andrew's parents came for a quick visit last weekend. We had a fun time with them. We went swimming in the Hilton pool. Ella had a great time jumping around in the water and gave Grand Tom and Andrew a good arm workout insisting on being thrown up in the air. It was Lily's first time in the pool and she LOVED it! She wasn't scared or nervous or anything at all. Ella was a little leary her first time in the pool when she was 10 months old.

We all went down to Long Beach and met up with Andrew's cousin Ed, Yolanda and Patrick. We visited the Aquarium of the Pacific and said hello to Dory and Nemo (or "How are you" and "E-O" as Ella refers to them respectively). Then we had dinner and stopped in at Coldstone for dessert. YUM!

Sunday, Andrew and I left the girls with Grand Tom and Grand Pat and went to see Posiedon (typical all-action movie, but gave me a headache from all the moving camera shots and bright light flashes. Can it be that my brain can't take watching a movie on a big screen anymore?!) We also spent some time shopping before returning home. The girls had a great time hanging out with their grandparents.

The week was pretty low-key. I did take the girls to the Huntington Children's Garden again. This time it was great, there was no one there. However, they happened to be doing construction on most of the garden and so only one set of fountains was working. They didn't say anything about that at the ticket booth. I asked on my way out and received a free pass to return at some point when hopefully they are not doing construction. The whole trip was not at a loss. For those of you who like to keep track, I did have a star sighting. I saw Amy Yasbeck (actress and John Ritter's widow). She was there with her and Ritter's daughter, Stella. Just the two of them spending the afternoon together.

Andrew was able to get home a little early on Friday to start our Memorial Day weekend off. Saturday we took the girls to see Over the Hedge. We missed the last 20 minutes or so because Ella got antsy and decided she was ready to leave. There was an animated short at the beginning of the movie that we hadn't anticipated. But I think she enjoyed what she saw of the movie. She keeps pointing out every merchandise with Disney's Cars on it and she is very interested in the new Garfield movie coming out. So maybe we'll venture out to those.

On Sunday, we visited with our friends, the Harveys, at their house in Pacific Palisades. Their little daughter, Grayson is soooo cute. She's a couple months younger than Lily. We went swimming in their pool and enjoyed lunch poolside. It was Grayson's first time wading. She loved it, she just chilled and took everything in.

Today, we just hung out around home for most of the day. We ventured out to a park in Pasadena for a bit. But mostly just took it easy. (Well, I did. Andrew did a bunch of laundry and took stuff to our storage unit. So maybe I should just say, I mostly relaxed and took it easy). :-)

No new pictures for this post. Maybe I'll get things updated and uploaded tomorrow and post some new pictures! Hope you all had a GREAT three-day weekend! I wish every weekend was a three-day weekend.....