end of Summer things

we came home from Kauai and had endless amounts of Summer fun.

swimming and sleepovers at grandma & grandpas 

lazy days curled up with a book or laying out on the grass:

visiting Ellie's new Elementary School with the cutest painted mural in the history of ever:

hitting up fairyland with some of our favorite little friends (a summer must excursion) :

^^ one of my favorite moments was when my friend Jenny was being all nice and took most of the kids with her in one train car....making it pretttty dang full, and then a random man and his son climbing aboard, even though there were other empty train cars. yeah. it was awesome.

^^ i also loved how wearing her heels got Alice on some extra rides! who knew theme parks in heels could be so sneakily useful.

we also soaked up some beautiful park days:

some back-to-school shopping:

and lots and lots of swimming with friends:

i mean, look how adorable these little humans are!

on the night before the first day of school, we had a little cookies + milk party to celebrate. what a wonderful summer it was. definitely one for the books.

xoxo

the Beards move away.

our friends Elyse, Dale & Vivian are moving to NY to go to Cornell. it's too dumb to even talk about so i'm not going to. suffice it to say we're gonna miss the little jerks and so we threw them a party so they'd know it. 

i made my yummy lemon/cream cheese icing cake with blueberries. always a winner. 

 

my girls adore that cute Vivian- and loved the couple of extra times we got to have her over to play while they got everything packed up.

and for one last hurrah, some of us couples got together and went to San Francisco, where we ate like kings and queens (or at least rich people) and acted like them too. who knew that the Beards going to grad school would make us all act so fancy? it's a good thing they moved away for a while so we could pay off these bills. yeah. i don't even miss those jerks.

(these are the lies i tell myself to cope with how much it sucks when your friends move away).

 

HACKED!

HACKED AGAIN!!

 and AGAIN!!! those lil SNEAKS!

i really just wanna be mad but i can't so i'll go eat some ben & jerry's instead...because eating my feelings is all i really know how to do in the year 2013.

xoxo