black friday

it is our magical 4/4/4 anniversary on 9 april 2009. every 4 years 4 months and 4 days something HUGE and AWESOME happens. marriage/babies/more babies...etc. anyway that week we will be in Boston, MA............. (whispering:) i think we are going to move there and that day we will buy a perfect little white house in East Sandwich, Massachusetts with a distressed picket fence, overgrown hydrangeas and double hung wooden windows with a white starfish in each pane (and walking distance to a windswept dog friendly beach) :0 i am so not kidding :) this has been the year of the Boston cream pie diet, Boston legal marathons, even my very first wonderful whistlestop tour of MA... and i heard from my spy on the Cape that they even have Trader Joes there now... so it's practically a done deal.

went to the mission viejo mall today. i didn't buy a damned thing. well i bought 2 chocolate velocoraptor/turkeys and some aveda moisturizer but those are practically daily essentials :) i saw absolutely nothing worth buying even at half price with 20% off... but the boys did try on some funny hats and jackets and i applied a decadent amount of issey miyake in sephora.... so it was still worth getting the car out for :)



we decided to go to the park instead... absolutely no vacuous bluetooth/baseball cap wearing moms for miles around today. yeehaw black friday!!




then we made delicious m&m brownies and hot chocolate and hung the surviving starfish all over our christmas tree. Sam played Madonna's Santa Baby 35 times in a row :)

Sam's miniature tree skirt (why yes of course he has a christmas tree in his room:) completely inspired by Jill McDonald's greatness :)

completely random: number 8 on my list of favorite things about vegas... this particular joshua tree which we are counting down to visiting very very soon :)


time for apple pie and Boston Legal!