California-cation

Just in case you were wondering, YES, Stella is enjoying herself thoroughly on our family vacation.

Mother's Week

A few weeks ago our dear family friend Jen was visiting from the beautiful Newport, CA and offered us to stay in her beautiful Newport, CA condo the week after mother's day while she was out of town.
Let me tell you how long it took us to think about that one...
-2 seconds.

So here I am blogging to you from said beautiful Newport condo with my two sleeping babies in the other room and that darling Mr. M by my side. (he's actually out making me a sprite and lime right now in the kitchen - love him!)
Oh, and did I mention Itty?  She's here too. 

Here she is not interrupting my reading in the slightest while she uses my book for a pillow as she's fast asleep.

 So let me tell you how fun Stella is to drive with in the car... about -2%.  The child cannot hang in a car for more than 5 minutes.  We came fully equipped with all the snacks and electronic devices her little heart could desire, but did that keep her content for more than 23 seconds at a time?  NO.
Oddly enough, we stopped to stretch our legs (and pick me up a coffee, pleeeeease!) and she was happy as a clam as soon as her seat was unbuckled... weird how that happens! (I must admit that she's made a slight improvement from last year's shinanigans, though)

What she lacks in patience, she makes up for in cute-ness.

Harlo on the other hand is a very happy traveler.  My born jet-setter!  I'm not joking you when I tell you this girl is an ocean-addict!
She was so excited this morning as we were finishing up packing our bags (last minute? no...) she could not keep from hugging me ever few minutes and saying "I'M SO EXCITED!" She was in her car seat (and buckled) about 30 minutes before anyone else was getting in the car.  By the time we pulled into town she was nearly bursting with anticipation.  This was her as we were headed to walk up the pier (before even stopping by the condo because we really couldn't even wait another minute!)

The lovely sunset made the hours of Stella's demands quite worth it!

We watched a lovely sunset and headed back to our place which is fabulous!  Harlo walked into the building and said "wow, this is a nice place." and when we walked into Jen's condo she looked around and said "this is amazing!" although she's confused because on every other vacation we've been on we've been staying with friends or family and now we're here alone she keeps asking me if we live here.  Haha, unfortunately, no....

Tomorrow we get to see our beloved Auntie and Willow!

Miller's Dance Studio

This week as we've continued to be busy not being busy, we have added another element of non-busy-ness that is taking up much of our time. We have opened a new dance studio right in our home.

We thought, you know, who needs a living room? Big couches take up much of the space that could be used for dancing.. it's a crying shame. So for this week only, the Miller Dance Studio is open for business.

We now have a lot more room for putting on beautiful gowns (over our messy-from-lunch shirts... no big)

And dancing around in our new studio.

And with all this dancing time, I seem to have lost the time to shower or get ready for the day and I find myself still in my sweats well into the afternoon, which is unfortunate.. and rather fortunate at the same time.

And if you're wondering if I let my children out of the house with stains on their shirts, and messy faces, wearing whatever they've concocted... No, I don't.
And if you're wondering if I let my children change their clothes 9,203 times a day and let them be messy at meals and dance around to Rihanna radio on pandora in what used to be my living room... Yes, I do.