I'm baaaaaack

Wow - it's been a while. 3 months to the day to be exact. That's too long...

Too long to catch up so I'll put some up some photos instead... (seeing as the only people who read this already know what I've actually been up to).

We went to San Francisco for Christmas.
Had a lovely dinner at Luna Park with Claudia and Sarah.

We saw Amara, Nick and Leslie!

We went to the Nutcracker with Tara, Jordan and Linda!

We were utterly charmed (again) by the cuteness that is Levi!

We went to the park with Erin, Levi, Tara, Jordan & Linda to see...


Linda's community project (one of many) - getting the community together to do these amazing mosaics in the local park.
Neat, huh?

We got to see Phillip too. He took us on a really cool tour of San Fransisco.
It was really cold that night, but really pretty out. Full moon too!
Got to see some wonderful friends, like Surly and Brian!
This was a lovely way to spend Christmas Eve!
And Christmas morning found us at Claudia and Sarah's house for brunch! (In the photo: Brian, Surly, Sarah, Claudia & Carla, Claudia's adorable sister).

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Fast forward to January and Ben's birthday!


We went to Disneyland!
With Abby & Jimmy

They still had the Christmas (oh sorry, holiday) lights up.... Oh and it rained.

Obviously I am most upset about the rain.

Maya came to play....



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And in February (after a couple of very annoying bouts with the flu for both of us) we MOVED!

Welcome to Mount Valentine - Silverlake edition.


My favorite room in the house - the kitchen!

Soon this will be the dining room and the big chair might go, but the writing desk, my writing desk, will stay.

The living room - so cozy!
Ben in The VIPER Lab: The Valentine Institute for Performance Enhancing Research Labratory.

The kittens love it here!


So much good sunshine in which to nap!

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March took us back up north to get Ben's furniture!

Fun on the U-Haul ramp.

Claudia and Sarah were once again our gracious hostesses... too short a visit though!


Back in LA - more furniture means easier entertaining!

St. Patty's day pie-making with SP

That's enough for now...