Blogs for a Cause

Last year I decided to update my blog. I was planning on doing it myself with something free and simple but while lurking on another blog came across a site run by young entreprenuer and goodwill ambassador. After looking at her site, blog make-over work and knowing that something else is coming from my fee I decided I would HAPPILY pay her to makeover my blog instead of doing it on my own. (though I do hope to tackle this craft one day!).

www.madebynikki.blogspot.com

I encourage you to also talk to Nikki about re-organizing your blog. She does great work both with HTML code, design and helping children and those in need across the world.

I will be utilizing Nikki's talents again so check out our new design coming soon.

Basketball: I Did It!

Zach is very proud of his accomplishments often shouting from the rooftops, "I did it". He is currently perfecting his basketball skills along with dancing, singing, and household chores. Below is a video of his proud basketball accomplishments.

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

On a side note, a week ago Zach was dancing in the living room. I said, " You are a good dancer". He replied, " Thank you, I know". It might be time to teach him that we must be humble.

BEST. MOTHERS. DAY. YET!

I had the best weekend. That's right, I said it! Doug asked me over the last couple of weeks what I wanted to do for Mother's Day. I wasn't sure of specifics, yet I knew I wanted to do something with him and Zach. Doug has been very busy with work lately so we were REALLY looking forward to having a work free weekend.

Here is what we did. On Saturday we thought about having a fancy pants dinner, we ended up grabbing burgers at The Counter in Westlake Village. This may sound lame to some people but since we were able to eat outside, try someplace new and do it in Westlake Village (one of my favorite places), I found it to be a PERFECT night!

On Sunday, we woke up early and decided to grab breakfast (another favorite of mine). There is something about our breakfast routine. We never went out to breakfast when we lived in Texas, yet here, it has become a really fun routine I look forward too. We don't go every weekend, but try to go at least once a month. Our Favorite place is Brents Deli (also in Westlake Village, are you noticing a trend here?). I don't know if it is the food I love so much (though it is the most important meal of the day) or the fact that Zach tends to sit through a Breakfast meal out more than others, either way it is something I hope we always do.

While we didn't make it to Brent's for breakfast (40 minute wait, obviously others like it as much as me!), we did go to Jack's across the street. My new favorite breakfast meal was enjoyed (egg white omelet with carved turkey and swiss cheese, yum!). After breakfast we headed down to Santa Monica. We planned to go for a bike ride at the beach, HOW FUN IS THAT!!!

There is a 30 some mile bike trail along the coast from Malibu to Pacific Palisades, I can't say we rode all 30 miles, but we did have a good two hour ride around with Zach trailing behind.

I hope your mother's day was just as good as mine!

Yumm.... Cupcakes!

Spending the day with Thomas the Train

On Thursday this week I was reminded that Thomas the Train was visiting in nearby Fillmore. I heard Thomas was in town, but I thought it was only for one weekend, LAST weekend. Talk about a slight case of Mom guilt, when last Sunday evening rolled around and I was sitting down thinking, hmmm, I feel like there was something I was supposed to do this weekend, hmm......than as if on cue Zach starts playing with one of his Thomas the Train books. ACK! Thankfully, while at the gym on Thurday my trainer Courtney showed off her pictures of taking her kids to see Thomas, then reminded me he was there this weekend too, FRIDAY, Saturday and Sunday. SWEET! So I called Kim and her son Nicholas (aka Nicky or as Zach calls him Nit-Knee), who is a Thomas afficiado and expert on all things Thomas and Friends.

As we drove into downtown Fillmore (very cute BTW), we drove past Thomas on the track. Zach proceeded to get very excited than very sad as we kept driving looking for a space. Once we got out of the car and walked back towards the trains, Zach and Nit-Knee, both saw Thomas and said, "Hi, Thomas". It was very cute.

Going on a Friday was great, there were only about 50 other people there. It got a little busier when we were leaving but no lines or craziness, other than our own boys running away from us (mostly Zach).

So we got there and took a picture with Thomas, walked around the tents, had a snow-cone (I ate most of Zach's) then went on a 25 minute train ride, led by Thomas. It was great. A simple shot out and back but it was open air, went through a tunnel, crossed a busy road where cars waved to us, through a field with waving workers and past constuction sites with working "diggers" as Nicky called them. Both boys were great at pointing out all the sites.

Working part time is WONDERFUL! as it really allows me to find cool things like this to take Zach too and spend time with friends like Nicky of Zach's and mine with Kim!

Here is Zach's new excitement for trains.

And we are back!

Zach would like to say hello.

Broken Computer

We are currently without a home computer, somthing that is INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING! Hopefully we will be back up and running in a few days. I have lots of great photos and stories, so fingers crossed I will be back to updating the blog this weekend.