Baby Cade

This little guy (and his parents :) came to stay with us last weekend. All the guys went to game while all the girls and kids came over here where we partied from 8:00 am until 10 pm....long day, but so much fun. Once the older kids got here and played the pictures were no more. Bentley LOVED having a baby at her house to play with :)



Couldn't you just squeeze those cheeks!!


Bentley loving every second

Bentleys First Day of School

This precious baby started school last week (obviously I am behind) and has LOVED every second of it. She is going 3 days a week. She walked right in started playing and has never looked back. That doesn't surprise me a bit. She and her brother are complete opposites.



No more pics mommy


Walking in by herself like a big girl


She ran straight to the puzzles

and started playing

Labor Day Weekend - LA

Joseph and I spent Labor Day Weekend in LA. We had a wonderful time. We stayed at the Beverly Hilton where the Golden Globes are held each year (for free thanks to all the traveling Joseph does :) LA is such a neat place and never in my life have I seen so much money. Almost every other car was a Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborgini, and the list goes on and on. I'm sure we saw many celebrities, but the only 2 we spotted for sure were Jennifer Anniston and Michael Lohan.



All of the roads in Beverly Hills look like this, BEAUTIFUL!!!

WE "looked" along Rodeo drive, no purchasing..LOL However, you could get a shirt for $1,500

Chinese Theatre

Hollywood Hills, where we saw many celebrity homes, but they are very hard to photograph

Santa Monica Pier

20 minutes from LA: Smoggy and COLD!!

We took a tour and he took us up here for this beautiful view

He took us to see TONS of homes which were hidden and hard to photograph, for obvious reasons. This one is Dr. Phils house. Also in his neighborhood...Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Russell Crow, Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Anniston, Tom and Katy, and many more

Then we went over to Bel Air, where we saw this famous house...ring a bell????

The house they used for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
This neighborhood is also home Nancy Reagan...who has a HUGE house and about 2 acres

This house is the reason I wanted to go to LA...look familiar??? Its the "Walsh" house from Beverly Hills 90210, my all time favorite show. However, this house is not in Beverly Hills, actually about 20 minutes away.

2 houses down the street...."Dylan's" house from the show

Then, we drove another 20 minutes in the opposite direction where we found this......the place where they film the show The Office. Joseph was so excited, this is his favorite show. It is in the middle of nowhere and NOT on a great side of town.

Here are all of their cars. Too bad we were a day late, they were outside filmimg the day before.

We also ate at some really famous places and had some GREAT food. This is a Japanese place where the Kardashians eat all the time on their show. There was paparazzi all outside this place, but we didn't see anyone that I recognized.

Another famous place, where you tell the waiter what kind of food you like and he picks your meal for you.

Mario Bertollis place....sooo good!

And of course you can't go to LA and not eat a Pink's hot dog. We stood in that line for 45 minutes, and yes it was totally worth the wait!!

We had a great time and I have many more pics, but these are some of the highlights. Our tour guide told us the day before we went he had a group of high school girls from Canada and they stopped and looked over and it was Mark Wahlberg who I have loved since his Marky Mark days..LOL He got on the bus with them and said hey to everyone. I could have died when he told us that. He also shared many other celebrity encounters with us :)

Trisha's Shower

We had a baby shower for Trisha and "Cooper" a couple of weeks ago. She got some cute stuff and is ready to welcome him in the next 5 weeks.

The Hostessess