great week

What a great birthday and a great week all around. 1. Chris and I had a fabulous birthday dinner out at One Ocean. I didn't even know I had been missing the time out of the house with Chris. 2. My Sunday birthday was awesome. 3. My real birthday was great with sushi and thai and homemade ice cream. 4. I finally got new glasses and I love them (these are not birthday glasses - they just happened to arrive on my birthday).

29 was a no-big-deal birthday. Maybe 30 will be tramatizing, but I still feel young and hip at 29 - HA!

Here are my new glasses in action and a variety of Anne pics from my real bday. I love, love, love her dress. I fear she is going to grow out of it before it is really weather for it (and look at her farmer's tan!).

the gate

We came, we ran, we drank free beer, we were sore and tired, we said we would do better next year, we had a blast. Annie and Pops and then the whole crew (yes, with some very exciting out-of-towners):

on the move

She's not crawling yet, but the girl can get around! I love our wood floors, but I found myself halfway wanting soft, plush carpets on which Annie could learn to crawl and walk. Well, I don't know how walking on wood will go, but wood certainly lends itself to sliding. Annie can go anywhere she wants by rolling and pushing herself backwards. Not surprisingly, she ends up in corners and halfway under beds all the time:

little beach girl

I think that yesterday may have been The Best Day of Annie's Life. She got up early, went for a walk with me, had little bits of pancake for breakfast, took a nice, long nap, went to the plant nursery with Chris and me, and then went to the beach, where she played in the sand, played with a bucket of water, and swam in the pool. She had a blast and was absolutely zonked by the end of it.