California. . . here I come!

This week I'm in Los Angeles - getting some stuff done for work before the maternity leave. My kind-of relatives, Nina and Cassie came up from San Diego to have dinner with me. Great to see them and loved the food. If I could only get 1/4 of the good restaurants from Pasadena to go to Greenville.

Baltimore 4.4.09

Long story short:

I was going to Baltimore to visit my parents and Andy, and some of the relatives were planning on coming down from PA for spring break.  (I love it that they only live 2 hours away, and we get to see them more frequently).  Anyway, at the last minute I was told that they weren't coming down/over anymore, but we were going to go to PA on Saturday to visit them.  My mom and I went shopping in the morning, and when we got home, I had a HUGE surprise!  All - or a lot of - the relatives came down and threw a surprise baby shower for me!  I was SHOCKED!!  It was so much fun.  (This would be a better story if I actually had the pictures, but I haven't been able to get my hands on them yet.  I'll have to post them another time).  I feel really blessed to have a family that would do something like that for me!  THANK YOU for making me (and baby Miller) feel so loved!    It was great to see everyone.  

Mom, Grandma, myself and baby

Catching Up

Well, as we can already see - I'm a blog slacker.  I think I might be better when there is a little one to post about.  I guess it has only been a month. . . 

First things first:  

Tim has been building a retaining wall.  We had this large dip in the yard, which we wanted fixed before building a fence.  I think it turned out to be a bigger project than expected.  

Here is the before and after:

 Nice, huh?  I would hire him.