I’ve been tagged twice already (thank you, miss Krista, miss Dana), so let’s get this done and over with.

Seven things. About me. New to you.
1. Born in Chicago. Grew up in San Jose. I like living where it’s busy and I miss it.
2. To me, dinner is merely a means to dessert.
3. And since we’re on the topic of food, I like to make as if I eat all healthy and stuff to my mom-hippie home-birthing granola friends. But in reality, the perfect meal to me is: Fries. Burger. Chocolate shake. It’s like, the food pyramid of perfection.
4. I won the spelling bee in elementary school.
5. I swear in my thoughts. Bad habit I’m trying to break, but I’m working against some hot Filipino blood running through my veins here!
6. I was once a computer science major.
7. Camping scares me. Too dark. Too quiet. Ick.

And now, the part you’ve been dreading.
I tag you local, lucky gals: Aubrie, Kristen, Becky, Miyo, Kaleene, Monique, Susanna, and Stacie. It’s good day to be my friend, isn’t it?!

My child has yet to see snow. But in the meantime, toilet-paper lint will do okay.

Kai camps in his room Saturday night, because daddy is cool like that and sets up the camping tent. (Lantern, too.)

These pics have a very womb-like quality to them, don’t they?

The other day, I caught the boys messing with the toilet, Dax’s hand mere inches from having a splash-tastic time in the water. I imagine the conversation between the two to have gone something like,

Kai: “I’ll lift up the cover for you Dax, so you can stick your hand in!”

The teamwork is cute and very sweet, but gross. My boys keep me on my feet and I like to think it helps keep my mind sharp.

(Above image manipulated with Poladroid and Photoshop.)

Super-cute and way easy to make: pretzel sticks + melted chocolate + sprinkles.

I ate too many this morning. And all the delicious food the gals brought to today’s Friday picnic didn’t help any, either. But that’s okay — I’ll just eat steamed veggies for the rest of day. (Yeah right, as if that’s going to happen!)

Tonight, at Baskin Robbins, Ryan decided last minute to go with a scoop of peanut-butter chocolate ice cream, instead of the Reese’s he had initially ordered. “CANCEL!…CANCEL!” he called out to the girl who was scooping his ice cream at the other end of the room.

Cancel?! Is this how we navigate through life — in computer speak?

Oh, how I love my husband and his ways.

Raya from the PaperPony did a neat little post about downtown Ventura on SF Girl By Bay a couple of weeks ago.

Thinking of downtown makes me anxious to go on another date night with the huz.
See more Ventura here and here.

{Images by Raya via sfgirlbybay}

OH! To fall in love a dress that just isn’t modest enough. All I ask is for designers to use just a 1/2 yard more fabric. Right? Word.

From here on out, it’s birthdays galore! It’s funny how all the children in our group of friends were born within weeks of each other.

Today, we went to a princess party for Dylann. Miyo did a spec-tacular job.

And, get this;

Miyo sewed costumes for all the kids. That’s right. She hand-made little knight outfits and uber-girly tutus. Love it.

Thanks for the pics, Anna. :)

Update: We’re letterpressing these babies. Stay tuned.

(The way Kai asked to see these photos on the computer today.)