Rand a Rand

We went to Disneyland tonight!!!!  Woohooooooooooo

Georgia calls it Rand a Rand... naturally. We met up with Ryan & Julie tonight with their cutest kids. And we even got to ride a big kid ride!

Lovely pictures from California Screamin. You're welcome. 

The carousel is always a must. That is The Pheebs there on the right and she is just to DIE for that Phoebe. She adores Georgia & Georgia loves her right back!! They are so cute holding hands and hugging in line. Going everywhere together. I love them. 

Thinking they were about to ride the Gold Zephyr:

Wrong. They made us wait 5 minutes then decided it wasn't working so they kicked us off. Boo! 

And not shockingly my kids hardly ate ANYTHING tonight, but shockingly, they were into Greek couscous & tziki sauce. Ok.... This is Boston digging in moments before he took a HUGE digger and landed a massive bump on the back of his head :((((( 

He cried pretty dang hard, poor thing. He's so sweet. And Georgia spilled an entire soda on herself, Zach, and the table. Sweet. 

We finished up the night with Ariel of course. Surpringly only made that ride twice instead of the usual 23. ;) 

Also got to meet up with these love birds for a few before they called it a night (since he's a sad boring doctor now and he has to wake up early). 

Their passes expire this week and I'm sad about it. 

Nikki Said Yes

Nikki is getting married!!! At last, my childhood best friend that I have known since the age of 6, has found the guy!! And lucky me, I moved back in time to throw her a proper bachelorette party :) 

I was so lucky to have help from a old high school friend, Ashley Cook, who messaged me out of the blue to ask if she could offer any and ALL help, and my goodness, she blew me out of the water. I was constantly in awe of how unusual this was and how she just fell into my lap and completely made this a success. Without her, this would have been a sad party :) her in laws own a party rental store so she was able to help with the tables, dinnerware, etc, which was perfect! It left me to decorate to my hearts content and figure out the yummy food, games, invites, theme... So much fun! 

We came up with this cutest combo of neon pink, black, white, and gold 😍 and holy moly I loved it. 

Thanks to my trusty cricut (my newest craft obsession), I was able to make those gold glitter rings & print out the invitations, handmade with love. 

I also knew we HAD to have Ryan Gosling there. I mean 😍😍😍 drooling. 

Thanks to my friend Emily, this engineer print & poster board cost me all of $3! So easy and cost effective! 

And Target for the win, always. Zach helped me put up these twinkly lights over our back porch & im in love! It totally set the mood. 

Finally the day came to set up and I was so excited! I couldn't wait to sweep my kids out the door & just make this party happen. Ashley was a trooper, she came all the way from Ventura, dropped her baby girl off in Torrence with her sister in law, and made it to my house by 3:30 to help me all the way till the party started at 7:00. And she is a perfectionist like me, so we totally mesh 100% :). By 6:30 I was starting to get the jitters and feel weak!!! I'd never had the party jitters before... Maybe cause I'd thrown a party for anyone other than my babies... But it was nerve racking. Also... We all spent the entire night SWEATING TO DEATH and I'm shiny & disgusting is all of these pictures, THANK YOU California heat wave. We carried on. 

The food table & main table I guess: 

The incredible tables via Ashley. Yes those are gold rimmed plates & gold flatware 😍😍😍. Amazing! 

Details. 

The food was so yummy, just a light dinner of Asian salad, New York pull apart rolls, fresh watermelon, chips & artichoke dip (the spinach parm kind from Costco, I'm obsessed) and lemonade with fresh puréed strawberries! 

The tiny and perfect tables: 

Everything was perfect & for once I was on time! With even some room to take pictures with my Canon camera before the sun went down. 

Nikki soon-to-be Geiss there in the middle & Ashley on the right: 

Ryan. 

Plant the Lips on Ryan Gosling in action: 

The party attendees: 

The dinner table trivia, printed on white gold shimmer paper! I love the details. 

I was dying over those questions & memories of my Nikki! 

Good old banana ring toss among other fun games. 

And at last it was time to relax & open gifts. 

Every one needs a good muumuu haha!! 

It was such a fun night, small & intimate with just a few friends, just enough food, good conversation, and a chance to celebrate love :) 

We love you Nikki!!! 

Love is exhausting. ;) 

Date Night

Most morning, I spend my time being a human pillow. Every morning Zach brings Bos to my bed and he drinks chocolate milk while we cuddle and watch a show and wait for Georgia to wake up so we can make breakfast. Bos loves to crawl over and lay his head right on my chest, play with my neckline, wrapping it around his numb, letting me tickle him, or getting right up in my face and giving me kisses. He is the sweetest. I love my mornings with him. 

Then we went to Target & stocked up on muddy buddies 😜 (and the essentials) and came home to a surprise visit from Nana!! I was a little horrified. I was just finishing up laundry and getting started on cleaning, our home was a DISASTER. 

But she wanted to see Georgie's new room. 

After lunch, I stopped mid-project to play with Georgie outside in the sprinklers for a few minutes (yes I know we are in a drought) while Bos napped. I try to stop myself when my first instinct is to say no just because I don't feel like whatever she wants to do. So I dropped everything and let her play. She had a BLAST. 

Tears ensued immediately after when it was times for naps. But luckily she was tired and fell asleep quickly. Sometimes I feel guilty about what Bos misses out on when he's asleep :) 

Then for tonight, we left early for a 5:00 date night with friends!! We went out with our new friends, the Palick's. 

They are super fun. Sadly, they are only around till October, then they get to sail overseas all across Europe to play music on cruise ships!! Super cool. Tonight, we did a 90 minute Sunset cruise through Newport out of Balboa Harbor. 

We picked up Cafe Rio salads and ate it out on the deck with that view. It was beautiful and there were tons of Dolphins swimming beside the boat of course!

Then walked through balboa and ended the night with arcade games where we scored a nice couple's handful of tickets they were giving away. So we got some candy and toys for G & Bos. Then splurged on a photo booth op 😂 

And hula hooped our hearts out to some beats!!

 I felt like a kid again :) 

When we got home I was happy to hear the sitter putting Georgia to bed so I snuck in there and watched her face light up. I was so happy to get to snuggle her before bed time. I took the sitter home & when I walked through the door, I was even happier to see both babes awake in Zach's arms and eating corn of all things, just happy as can be and beaming at me. 

So we played & made Bossy laugh - he has the best laugh ever!!!! 

And then I tossed him in bed with ease & he was happy as a clam. He is so ease to put to bed these days. Just a binky and his stuffed zebra and a blanket & he's the sweetest happiest boy!! We love our babies!!!

Balboa Island

We took our kiddies to see one my all-time favorite OC spot - good old fashioned Balboa Island! I hadn't visited there for a couple of years!! I love the atmosphere. I wish I could window shop there all day :). First stop, of course was the Balboa Candy shop!! That salt water taffy is real business... :) 

The expert candy beggar:

I just want to give her handfuls and handfuls of candy!!!! And then not take care of the sugar high. 

Candy dance. 

Littlest Bos from afar 😍😘

He's so independent these days. Next stop was the toy store. They loved that launch dater toy outside!! Bos was cracking up every time Georgia launched it.

Heading to the harbor to see the ocean. 

On the way back I spotted this bougainvillea flower bush and had to steal a smooch in front of it. They always always remind me of my Camarillo home ❤️ where they grew up the front of the house. Love them!! 

On our way back, we poked around for some ice cream, but traded in the extra sugar and overpriced weird flavors for the cutest book shop tucked away behind some other stores. 

Bos was loving all this freedom and making a mess till I plopped him down on the bench. Which he loved. And I loved. And so did the lady next to me. She came over to say just how cute and adorable he is, and he did NOT like it one bit 😂

That pouty face scowl kills me!!! Every once in awhile he reacts to something or someone with that face and I die. 

Ending the afternoon in Newport with chili cheese fries & a rootbeer freeze from Jane's Corndogs of course, and a walk on the pier. 

Days like today are dreamy & I couldn't love them more. 

Georgie's Big Girl Room

I finally got to use these gold vinyl polka dots I've had for over 2 years!! 

Just waiting for Georgie to grow into her Big Girl Room. I'm so ready to move on from two babies 😉 but so bittersweet. I love the way it turned out! 

When Georgie isn't refusing food or begging for candy, she is spending her time being a very serious superhero. 

Or getting her nails painted like a diva. 

She's a bunch of crazy mixed with cute, clever, hilarious, and amazing. ❤️