my favorite things

so far of this year....

• our new president
• seeing him in the flesh - the first president i ever saw in real life and a really really good one at that ;)
• the yelp iphone app - we need never eat at a crappity generic restaurant again no matter where we are in the world :)
• listening to 'Stardust' by Nat King Cole, on a moonlit drive to Cape Cod for our anniversary
• our wonderful-crazy-busy nonstop tour of Washington DC and the White House :)
• adopting pet rats (and unexpectedly falling head over heels in love with them...)
• learning how to make reeeeally deeply fudgy brownies at last :)
  
• rediscovering Michael Jackson and seeing how much my kids adore him and his music
• driving to Vegas when it's still dark and stopping to look up at the thousands of stars above death valley
• making new photography-mad friends who are absolutely lovely to spend time with, and having playdates that last all day
• getting a shimmery lavender bicycle with a basket on the front this summer
• Mrs Kay :)
  
• getting disneyland passes and wearing them out
• a weekend away, just me and Sam