SO CUTE!!!!!!!

Everyone and their mom has said you have the cutest kids today. I sent out the ofoto album.

Pics from the big Day

Baker was awesome in the play and Mary Rowe loved ballet!!!!

ATL

Well, we just had a great relaxing weekend in Atlanta. Lyd, thanks again, you looked great. Drew is president of your kids fan club and he was noticeably upset when he realized that we could not take Mary Rowe with us. Drew's brother and I made peace so that is good. The lamb burgers were ssssoooo good. I will have to make those for a dinner party sometime soon. Magoo, you were right, Dill is so fit. Wow. He looked good. We were upgraded on the way home which was fun b/c Drew has never flown first class. He loved it and we passed out before lift off. Anyway, busy week. Off to Boston on Wednesday. Can't wait to super bowl on Sunday. This town will be out of control. Love to all.

Great Weekend

We had a great weekend with Lizzy and Drew. He was so cute, fun, easy to talk to and just plain charming. Good job Lizzy, he is a keeper. We of course ate our way through the weekend. Dill and Lizzy tag teamed and made lamb burgers and sliced them and served them in pitas. Then they made a cucumber sauce and a feta sauce and the best Greek Salad. So good. Tomorrow is a big day around these parts. Baker has his first school play. He is the golden light in the story of creationism. He and Dill made an awesome costume so he is very excited and practicing his lines. Mary Rowe has her first Ballet class tomorrow and she cannot wait. Liz bought her a barbie Leotard and she has not taken it off yet. It has been 2 days. Should be precious. Have a doctor's appt. on Tuesday which is always fun. Then giving my knitting lessons on Wed. and then coasting out the rest of the week. The biggest news though is that the Pacy Fairy came and brought Mary Rowe a pink bike!! MR left all of her pacies by the bed in a basket with a note to the fairy saying she wanted to give them to new babies. So the fairy came, left fairy dust, aka glitter, and left a bike. We have not heard a word since. I swear it is a miracle! Wish there was a poop fairy out there somewhere. Hope you are feeling better Luc.

From your red and white polk-doted sister.

Hey Guys,
Well turns out I am allergic to penicilan AND cipro, which is the alternative to penicilan. Good stuff. So my throat closed up tonight and I have a beautiful rash all over my body. Lovely. Justin is out with his guy friends and I don't want to call him to tell him even though getting a reaction is really scary because I don't want to ruin his guy night out. So I just took a steriod pill and am hoping this will go away. Good thing the hospital is only two blocks away. That has really been great. The last time I had a reaction, mom told me I had measles and I walked to the hospital covered in clothes, head to toe because apparently you get sun damage from the measles and I didn't want to get scars. Ha! Anyhoo, at least I know what's happening now when it happens. I always took pride in having no allergies. Not so much anymore. Nothing new around these parts. I'm going on a walk with Barbera Brooks this weekend and Elsabet. Then we are having brunch. They got a new minature poodle puppy who I can not wait to meet. Only two more weeks until my favorite show is back on TV....LOST! Woo hoo can't wait. We bought tickets to go to Cabo today for Justin's spring break. Two couples are coming down with us and my best friend Josh. Fun in the sun in the middle of nowhere. The house is 1.5 hours north of Cabo and is seriously remote. So we have to bring all of our food for the whole week. What is it with us going to really remote places lately and having to hike in with food?? I am so hard core ;) We are hoping to do some good fishing, good reading, and good guacomole eating. Speaking of hard core. The mavericks surf competition is coming up again in the next month. So anyday we will get a call to get ready to get up early to jump on a boat and check out the surfers riding 35 foot waves. Can't wait!! Lizzie, you would love this. Alright, pray that my throat goes back to normal size so I don't have to go to the stupid hospital. xoxo,
Lucille

ATLANTA

Lyd, so you have a dog, cat and potential bird...? Is French Fry alive still? You've got your own zoo. Sounds like Chapel Hill was just what the doctor ordered. Well, bad news. Drew's brother broke up with his slutty girlfriend. I SO wanted to meet her. Also, she made me look like a rock star in front of Drew's parents. Oh well. So, his brother is even more excited for the visit. Tell Baker not to worry, we'll keep the kisses to a minimum. We are SO excited. should be so fun. Lucille no worries on the trip. I think a three day weekend would work out better, too!

Rested and Refreshed!

We had an amazing weekend in Chapel Hill last weekend. Dill and I slept till 10 everyday and went out at night. The Carolina game was really fun and they won so it was even better. I swear the students looked like Elementary School kids. I guess we are just getting older. We spent Sunday night in a beautiful hotel. It was sleeting rain outside so we just ordered in pizza and watched football. Then we slept really late then went to Starbucks and then got breakfast. Now we are all fired up about Lizzy and Drew's visit. I told the kids that Lizzy was bringing her boyfriend and Baker said, "Oh Mary Rowe, Yuck, I bet we are going to have to see them kiss and stuff." ! So funny. Came back from Chapel Hill motivated to get a bird feeder because the kids loved watching the birds eat out of the Dill's. So I went and got one yesterday but no luck thus far. I don't know if you have to send the birds a formal invite or what, but we hope they come soon. Perhaps our maniacal dog and cat are detering our feathered friends from visiting. Quite possible. Luc, you should definately try to go to Chicago for the superbowl. That would be great. Love to all.

SUPER BOWL

Magoo, Get your butt out here for Super Bowl...! Lyd, bring on Atlanta!

ps...

lizzie, i had to get 7 one time, so i feel for you.

this is and that

i have gained 5 pounds and am feeling like a woman - justin loves it! none of my clothes are fitting me so i think i need to go shopping : )

it is market week at the design center which means lots of lots of cocktail parties - there are pretty much 3 or 4 every night. So I am busy this week!

The ballroom is coming around. I finally picked the color for the walls and we are moving forward. Love everybody! Lyd, did you get my message about Slanted Door for Dill & his co-workers?

L

4 fillings

I just got violated at the dentist- 4 fillings. Ugh. I still cant feel half of my face. BIG weekend. Wicked was just that- Wicked. I sent you guys some pics. 24 is on tonight. Oh, how I love Jack Bauer. looking forward to Atlanta this week. How are you two doing?

Uggh

I am sorry too Luc. Please tell Justin that you all are in out thoughts. We are gearing up for our weekend. The kids are so excited. It snowed today in Chapel Hill and is sapposed to snow on Sunday too. They would just die if it did. I am looking forward to a long drive so I can finish knitting a pillow for Baker. Dill is going to a Thai cooking class at the Viking Cooking School tonight. It was one of my christmas presents to him so I hope he enjoys it. Should be really cool. We have an ice storm here so we are just cozy at home cooking anything that we can think of. I am so excited about our hotel night I can hardly stand it. Love to all.

So sorry, Magoo!

Lucile, that IS terrible news. It must be so hard for you two right now. Talk about peaks and valleys. Life really is precious. Just last week, I was talking to dad about how blessed our family has been all these years with health and happiness. Give Justin and his family my very best. I think a trip to Chicago would be great for the both of you... :-)

Well, I am in Boston and it has been a very productive trip so far so that is good. Perry's company has offered him a job in their Boston office and he is here too so we are going to meet up tonight. I told him that Boston is nothing like New York but you gotta put your time in to get ahead and be successful so he should probably take the job. Last night I met up with Fisher and Parker. They both look really great and it was fun to see them. They took me to a place where they said made the best grilled cheese ever but it was peanuts compaired to the hut in Harbor Springs! Carrie and I are going to see Wicked the musical on Saturday and go to dinner. It was my birthday present from her so i am excited to do something cultural. More Bears on Sunday.

Love to all.

Tradegies

Well bad news bears around these parts. Justin's parents general house manager and pretty much member of the family passed away today. We are all in shock. She had an anyerism at age 42 and was in a comma for the last week. We thought she was going to be okay, but she took a turn for the worse. She really was a part of their family and we all really loved her. She was the first person I told that we were engaged and she started crying and held me for what seemed like minutes. I will really really miss her and am so shocked today at how precious life is. She was just here and laughing and crying with me two weeks ago and now she is gone. It is so strange.
Also, some more bad news - Justin's mom is getting a divorce. They announced it to us all this week. Lawry is going to live in St. Helena and they are selling their house in San Francisco. I think Justin is pretty sad about it because Lawry has been a really big part of his life over the last 22 years. He really thinks of him as a father. So Justin is going to put a lot of effort into trying to stay in touch with him. I think it will be good for both Lawry and Serena, but I feel bad for Carter, Justin's little brother.
Anyway. I guess it can't always be good news on the blog, can it? I am hoping to have better news for you in my next blog...

Brrrrrrrr

Well, it is cold here too, finally. I am excited. It is no fun being pregnant and wearing summer clothes in the winter! Love all of the pictures. So happy about the Scrabble. We have a great weekend ahead. We are driving to Chapel Hill on Friday and going to the UNC/Georgia Tech game on Saturday night. Will be great. Then Dill and I are leaving on Sunday morning to check into a beautiful hotel in Chapel Hill called the Carolina Inn. We are going to a really nice restaurant on Sunday night and then to brunch on Monday. We have never spent a night away from the kids by ourselves. I am not even exaggerating here, NEVER, so this is huge. Can't wait. I think I may hit someone up for Ambien and sleep like a baby into the late hours of the morning! The 2 nights we are at the Dill's the kids are slepping on the floor in their room so they can get up with them in the morning etc. so we pretty much have a 3 day break. Yipppppieeee doooo!! Can't wait until Lizzy and Drew come next week. We are definately the last to meet him and can't wait. We got a sitter for that Friday night, but are still deciding on the restaurant. Love to all.

Winter has arrived

Goodness. It must be 2 degrees outside. Burrrr. Well, all is great here. Drew is home and it is so great to see him. I don't know if just missed him so much or what but he looks so damn sexy! I like the mountain man scruff he's got going on. Anyway, i am off to Boston for the week. This travel is certainly getting a little tiring. The Bears have been so much fun to root for. Magoo, your pics are beautiful. I would love to go there. I had a really big meeting with Sean yesterday and he said my new job if I choose to except will only require that I am in Chicago for the 1st year which gives me the green for San Francisco! I told Drew last night and he was really happy that if we do it that we'll be able to go at the same time. I've lost some major weight and I really don't know how but I am wearing pants that have been gathering dust for some time! I get to see Fisher and Parker this week which is always fun. We are really looking forward to Atlanta Lyd. Love to all and go bears!

Back Country

Hey Guys,

Well we had quite a weekend hiking out to this house that was in the middle of no where with 19 other friends. It was a great time. The weather was a little cold, 5 degrees and -13 degrees at night. But our friend said it was the wedding she always dreamed of so that was great. It took us two hours to hike to the house on snow shoes. The house was built by the owner Dave and it was a very ecletic place. Anyway, Lizzie, if you ever move back here, we should get a group of friends together and go because it was great weekend gettaway. We played scrabble both days and I got an all time best score of 337! "Rewax" on a triple word score was a highlight of the weekend. I'll email some ofoto shots from the weekend. I went sledding for the first time - hysterical. I think I am the worlds worst sledder. Love everybody and am happy to back in SF.

New Orleans

Well, it is pretty sad down here. It's like a ghost town and all the heart and soul has been sucked out. I have been sick all week so I have not been participating in all the festivities. It has been great to see all the girls from my NY office, especially Simone. I have never wanted my bed or apartment more than I do now. Happy belated Chaz and looks like Olivia's baby will share the same birthday. Bears playoff game is Sunday so I am gearing up for that on top of the fact that Drew finally comes home and I CANNOT WAIT to see him. Love to all.

TGIF

Well, my ballroom project is already $6K over budget. Lovely. So it's been a wonderful week at work. So thrilled it is Friday. It is supposed to be 18 degrees in San Francisco tonight- unheard of. Might even SNOW!! We are driving to Tahoe tomorrow for our friends wedding party. Hope everybody has a great weekend.

Hello Hello

Luc, I am so glad you have been playing Scrabble. When I saw your pictures with the travel Scrabble, I figured you were just being nice about our gift. We used to play all the time. The key is to not go for the huge words. I even beat Dill's Mom, an English teacher, because she was always trying to go for the complex words. All is well here. Dill is in NY for a few days so the kids and I are hangin out. It is finally cold so I am making the kids wear the hats, scarves, mittens, sweaters etc. that I have knit for them this year. They look like the crazy homemade kids. Like the VonTraps wearing the drapes Maria sewed for them. I am headed up the Prayer Shawl Knitting group at our church and that starts up again tonight. I will teach people to knit and have them work an hour every Wednesday night on Prayer Shawls. Which are shawls that the women of the church knit and give to other women in the church when they have lost a child, a husband or are going through Cancer or any other serious ilness. Essentially it is made and given to them so they know others are thinking and praying for them. I am looking forward to it starting up again and hoping I have a lot of students!!! Going to a dinner party on Saturday night and then just looking forward to watching football and hanging out. Happy almost birthday Chaz. I am looking into my Chicago trip this week so I need to get with Chaz and Lizzy on dates. It will be just me and Mary Rowe and we will probably leave on Friday morning and come back Sunday evening. I hope there is snow there. She has never seen it.

Quite the life

Wow, Magoo, you are a busy woman and your are busy doing fun things! Wish I could go on hikes like that. Hiking in Chicago is called 'taking the stairs to work'...

My exciting news today is that Drew and I just bought plane tickets to go back to Colorado for some spring skiing over his spring break in the beginning of March! I think that we are going to get a hotel in Keystone or Breckenridge so it's not as $$$ as Vail was.

I have been on my new year's resolution kick (to be a little more organized in general) and I found that my company has still been taking NY state taxes out of my paycheck. Well, obviously IL taxes are much less so I am getting a fat credit issued back to me. Love it. AND, last week I noticed that there wads a charge on my credit card that I didn't make and I disputed it and they removed it. Great that I am finding this stuff but it makes me wonder how much money i have wasted by not doing so in the past. Kind of terrifying actually. Work is as busy as hell but blogging is still a priority! Off to New Orleans for the rest of the week this afternoon and the next three weeks will be spent traveling back and forth to Boston.

Scrabble and Dinner Parties

Hello all. Well it's been scrabble mania around these parts. We had a taco scrabble get-together last night with our friend Josh and we have been playing pretty much every night. I am hooked and Justin just indulges my obsession.

We did a little hiking this weekend in Marin and over by the Clift House where they put in a new paved path. We're having beautiful weather lately. I ran into a bunch of people I knew and San Francisco felt like a very small town.

I had dinner with James Smith to celebrate our getting engaged. He introduced me to Justin so we had to do a little celebrating. He gave us some delicious champagne so that was nice of him.

Construction on the Ballroom is moving along. It already looks better so it can only go up from here. Today has been a little bit of a funky day for a number of reasons, so I am hoping tomorrow will be better.

This weekend we are heading to Tahoe to celebrate one of our friends getting eloped. We have to snowshoe for 4 miles to get to the house where we are all staying - sound familiar Lizzy? There are 23 of us going - should be fun. We are having another dinner party on Wednesday night - we're trying to be as social as possible while Justin is not in law school so he can see our friends.

Justin's business applications are due on Wednesday, so he is trying to perfect all those before he submits them. I hope he gets in somewhere. Business schools seems like it will be easier than law school and much more fun.

Congrats Lizzie on Drew's fantastic grades! That is so great, especially after all his hard work. Tell him congrats! Lyd, the gorilla photo is hysterical. Baker looks so tall!!

Love everybody. Good night.

Chillin with Mr. Gorilla

We had a great morning at the Zoo today. It is really cold so we were the only people there with the animals all to ourselves. So fun.

Happy Monday

Well, I wish I was tan. I was supposed to meet with 'dr. feelgood' at 7:30am this morning and he ditched me so I am bummed b/c I was going to have him fire me up for my meeting with Sean about this new company next week. I have to go to New Orleans tomorrow afternoon. It was really great to read that there were 8 consecutive murders in one day in the french quarter on Saturday. Just wonderful to hear. No terrified for my life at all... Drew comes home this Sunday and I really can't wait. The week should fly bc I'm in N.O. until Friday night. the new season of 24 starts on Sunday night and I am stealing Lucille's idea and doing taco night for a couple friends. I'm bringing my camera and taking pictures in N.O. so I'll post on the blogger. Why the hell do we have to sign in every time? So dumb. Anyway, love to all.

Don't worry, I'm here

You aren't going to lose me. Had a great, relaxing weekend. Dill made amazing fresh pasta tonight with Chicken Francese. Soooo good. Watched a lot of football and sunbathed. It was 75 yesterday so we are still tan somehow. As we all know, it all comes back to Global Warming!! The kids finally start school on Tuesday. They got a 3 week Christmas vacation so I am ready for them to go back, as are they. Think Mary Rowe and I are going to Chicago in February or March. Think it would be great. Dill is taking Baker to a UNC game in Chapel Hill, so I want to take her somewhere too. Definately taking her to American Girl! Have a good Monday.

Ok, sack it up

I love the blogger, we can't quit now! I am up in the suburbs having dinner with the Browns. Getting a little colder here, in Chicago. Mellow weekend. Looking forward to visitors in February.

I know

I know, I don't know why they changed it. Google bought them so it has changed. It is harder to work.

I hate the new blog...that's why!!!

Sad showing on the blog thus far in 2007

Where are my peeps? Lizzy and I are it in so far fo 07'. Luc, we need updates! Dad? Chaz?? Clark?? Mom???? We miss you!!

Update

Well, they found my bag. Thank GOD. Everything was in it and we are all back to normal. That was a little stressful, not gonna lie. Well, BUSY week. As I i said before, work is the name of the game. I have had endless meetings and am updating my resume. I am applying for a marketing manager position at Aon Corp and working with a recruiter starting Monday so that should really get things underway. Just exploring my options. Just don't know if I am ready to take the 'Sean Risk' w/o knowing what else is out there.

I am getting a massive facial at the spa called bliss. My friend gave me a gift certificate for a favor I did for her so I am hoping to come out on top! I am going out tonight with Lindz and Carrie. I have been saving all my cooking magazines and they are really piling up so I am going through them all and tearing out the ones I like and making a scap book. Fun art project. Saturday, I am putting the gloves on and cleaning the you-know-what out of my place.

I have been trying to get dad to blog. You should get on him, too. Love to all.

Happy New Year

First off, uploading the new blogger was a huge pain in the ass but I made it. 100 bucks mom can't figure it out. Well, 3 weeks equals NYC, Pennsylvania, Napa, Vail and Boulder. Quite the rounds. All good fun. The wedding was a blast. I had a cold so we laid kinda low in NYC. Everyone's pictures were so cute. I have been undigging emails all morning. My resolution is to get my work stuff sorted out and to start something new and exciting soon. Lyd, knit me something. My belt is kick ass, great job! The stupid airline lost my bag. Been gone 2 days and i am freaking out. Everyone cross their fingers. If you have not seen this: http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=d88f97e6c19f1dba06cc4d0G06122700 click on it ASAP. I almost peed my pants. Baker looks like he is ten. I almosted died when I saw your album. Still a-buzz about your news magoo. 3 weeks till Atlanta.