oh man, we are so behind with posting! I was going to not post about Mother's Day because it already came and went but I needed to memorialize the day/night on our blog because it was EPIC!
First, I got to sleep because Scott and the girls made me a lovely Sausage, Tomato and Cheese Fritatta for breakfast. Then, I got to open my lovely gifts:
Many handmade cards and lots of gifts!
An original Scott Simpson cutting board
Close up of the beautiful berry bowl from Orcas Pottery.
Then, we headed over to Seattle to have some playtime and brunch with our pals Blakely and Graham. It's been a Mother's day tradition (see here and here) to hang out with the Kriegler family and we had a blast again this year. The boys made a wonderful feast and Scott even freshly squeezed grapefruit so we could have Grapefruit Mimosas! Unfortunately, no pics of the lovely spread or of the kids goofing around of of the beautiful weather that allowed us to sit outside after lunch. I'll do better next year!
Last came the best part of all - after rushing home to make a quick dinner of fried rice, we left the girls with a babysitter (our neighbor's daughter!) and went to the U2 concert! These tickets were actually my birthday gift from Scott but the concert happened to be on Mother's Day. Pretty lucky to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, eh? HAHA.
The last time we had U2 tickets, the concert was postponed because Bono was sick and the new concert date was the same day as Evie's due date! We had to sell those ticket but this more than made up for it because guaranteed that this playlist was way better than the one we missed. This was the Joshua Tour 30th Anniversary tour and they played the entire album, plus 1 new song and a few more of their biggest hits.
The sound was sometimes off (not sure if it was due to the venue, the set up, or that this was their kick off date for the tour and they just weren't tidy yet) and the stupid lights kept shining in our faces, but I had a great time. I sang and bopped along the whole time (Scott joined in occasionally).
You can't tell, but Scott had EARPLUGs!
He is turning 40 this year, after all.
Couldn't see the stage when this stupid light was on.
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
I had to do a quick trip to LA towards the end of July to say goodbye to my Uncle Pang, who passed away a few weeks earlier. I have fond memories of fun cousin time at his house in Palos Verdes and Uncle Pang taking us to the beach when we were younger. I remember how he delighted in making us kids squeal with laughter by pretending the car ride was a rolleroaster - we'd take sharp turns and all of us kids would slide to one side of his Volvo station wagon or he'd slow the car down to a roll and we'd all chant that we couldn't let the car stop and it would inch slowly forward at a stoplight. Although it was a sad reason to get together, I think he would be happy to know that the weekend was also a wonderful get together with family. Because it was fairly last minute, none of the kids flew over which meant us "adult cousins" were able to have long talks and linger over food. Kin and Meredith were able to host a summertime bbq at their house and we had a nice t
Nora got glasses! Now all of us in the family are four-eyes, haha. Her prescription is low but she was super excited about getting these. When she is older and hates glasses, I'll have to remind her how happy she was to get these!
I had fun! What a great day for a great mommy.
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