Breakfeast!

Yesterday we met Story & Chris for breakfast at Marstons *the place we are going to after Olivia's christening*

The place is great, the food is yummy but they don't take reservations. We arrived before Story & Chris and we put our name down and it took about 20 minutes for our name to be called. They wouldn't seat us until our entire party was there so we had to wait 5 more minutes. The place was tiny, we barely fit Liv's stroller next to our table. I had plain old sausage and sunny-side up eggs and Antz had huge macademia nut pancakes. I spoke to the hostess and let her know we will have a party of 8 on the 17th but we still have to send someone over to put our name on the waiting list and have the entire party there when they call us. Hopefully it works out that when we finish, we can walk over from the church and be seated right away.
After breakfast we went to the Santa Anita mall to return the too-small bathing suit at Janie & Jack. I was pesmistic that I would find another cute bathing suit on sale in her size but we got lucky again. I also scored a peter pan collar onesie that we got her name embroidered on the front. We bought a bunch of outfits and some things from BabyGap for her to wear for her photo shoot. When we got home we did a mock fashion show to see how the clothes looked. Liv was definitely not in the mood for photos.

Her sailor hat doesn't quite fit but she is too adorable.

25 Before I'm 35 or 75!

Now that my dearest has hit 35

I've been thinking of how quickly I'm approaching my 35th and I need to get as much done as I possibly can. I need to get working on my Bucket list now, its been 8 months since I even thought about this list.

1...See our child graduate from University *optimisticly with honors from Oxford*
2...Go to Buñol, Spain for La Tomatina *tomato throwing festival*
3...See Bjork play live at Glastonbury in the UK and in Reykjavík, Iceland
4...take my kid to a presidential inauguration *hopefully Obama will be re-elected in 2012*
5...drive a car on the left side of traffic *in any of the left-sided countries UK, India, South Africa, Japan, Indonesia or Australia/New Zealand* *we plan to rent a car in London during the Olympics although traffic will be ridiculous*
6...Cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner for 8 guests
7...Learn to speak French *at least conversationally*
8...Read 12 Classic novels *Oliver Twist, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, The Glass Menegerie, The Great Gatsby, Atlas Shrugged, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, A Tale of Two Cities* italics are ones I have read. Hopefully Olivia will read these too.
9...learn to sew *Ask Antz Mom to teach me* and make this adorable dress for Liv
10...Volunteer at an Animal Shelter
11...Visit all 5 Disneyland Theme Parks *California, Florida, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong*
12...give birth naturally *drug-free* keeping my finger crossed on this one *sadly I succumbed to 3 epidurals but I did give birth*
13...attend the red carpet at a major awards show *Golden Globes or Academy Awards*
14...create a blog dedicated to my life travels
15...renew our wedding vows in Hawaii for our 10 year anniversary
16...purchase a hybrid environmentally-friendly car
17...purchase an airstream and road trip throughout North America
18...stay at 50 W hotels around the world *47 to go*
19...see Olivia compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington DC
20...renovate my house or our next house
21...have our nursery/home featured on Ohdeedoh blog *DONE!*
22...spend one year living abroad *London or Paris would be dreamy*
23...attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics *planning to go to London 2012*
24...visit the 7 Wonders of the World *Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal India, The Colosseum, Rome, Machu Picchu Peru, Great Pyramid Eygpt, Petra Jordan and Christ the Redeemer Brazil* I'll be happy if I get to at least 3 of these
25...spend Christmas at a Bed & Breakfast in Canada *Montreal ideally*

In retrospect, these are mostly my outlandish daydreams. I like to set my ambitions high so when incredible things do happen to me *Winning the Showcase Showdown on the Price is Right, marrying the man of my dreams, buying our house {with hardly any money}, giving birth to our lovely and exquisitely beautiful, daughter and sneaking into an after party at a Bjork concert* You kinda start waking up with the expectation of "what odd occurance will happen today?" I am pretty sure that purchasing/renovating my dream house in Atwater Village, our London Olympics vacation, volunteering at an animal shelter, and buying an Airstream will be crossed off in the next 2 years.

Olivia Lily is One Month old!

Our little ladybug is a month old today. We played with her playmat for the first time.

She doesn't seem too interested in playing with the toys. I tried to lay her down for a nap but she was fussy, I think the mat is too hot for her. While I was at the grocery store, Antz took her 4 weeks photo. Here are the top 3.

He still needs to add the tree to it. Our sweet lamb is growing so quickly.

I am such a lamo, forgive me!

I feel like I have neglected my blogging duties but the joy of motherhood leaves me little free time. We are currently at my Mom's house in Apple Valley. I am so happy we got out of town *even if it's still local* for a few days. Olivia loves it out here! We put her in her starfish float in the spa, she had so much fun.

Please ignore my lion's mane hair *another thing I have been neglecting*. She rested on top of the water and was so content. I slathered her with Baby Aveeno sunscreen. Olivia's cute bathing suit didn't fit at all *too small* so she was in the buff.

I am majorly bummed because this was such a great deal and super cute. I hope we find another one at Janie & Jack tomorrow. We enjoyed the 105 degrees and the weather out here has been warm, not unbearably hot as it usually is. My Mom set up her room for us and we brought her bassinet. I feel like all I have done out here is eat and watch TV. Well I don't know how July got here so fast but today our daughter is ONE MONTH OLD!! I can't believe Antz has to go back to work on Tuesday. I have so much to do in the next 2 days. We have to get our house looking lovely for Liv's photo shoot on Sunday. I am making cupcakes for Liv's birthday today when we get back home. We need to find a sundress for Olivia's photo shoot *and return her bathing suit* at Janie & Jack. I have to go grocery shopping and pick up envelopes for our christening invites. Speaking of christening. I spoke to Leslie about it yesterday and she wants to buy the favors and she found these INCREDIBLE cookies

I adore these cookies but sadly the seller is out of the country and doesn't deliver to California. BOO! Leslie is going to see if a local bakery can make them. I love the bibs with the monograms. I have to send out the invitations by tomorrow. I am not asking people to RSVP this time so que sera, sera *whatever will be will be*. So far I am only anticipating the grandmothers, the godparents and Antz sisters. We are going to breakfast at the restaurant *Marstons* tomorrow to check how busy they are since they don't take reservations. I have to go now, I have to load the truck and get back to town so I can start my list of things to do. We've been back home since 2:30, I went to the store and bought envelopes from Swains. Looking at our old christening invites we decided that they look a bit dark and medieval.

We love this design. Antz is printing them now.

Here's the awesome invites, I have to find some pretty stamps tomorrow.























My second attempt at vanilla bean cupcakes for Olivia's 4 week celebration

I think I'm improving yet I haven't gotten the icing down yet. I also made a cake but it's cooling. We don't have any Fourth of July plans yet although we were invited to a party at our friends Tom & Jess's house. Antz wants his Mommy to babysit for us but I can't bear leaving her alone yet. We might just hang in the backyard, make s'mores over the firepit and watch the fireworks at the Rose Bowl and Dodger Stadium.

I want to get hitched so bad!!

For the past year I have been lusting after this beauty!

Design Within Reach 16'7" Airstream travel

This month's issue of Sunset magazine is only adding to my misery with a cover of this lovely and a feature about renting Airstreams and camping at Big Sur *which is on my top 5 camp destinations*.

There are a few problems *besides the obvious, price $65,000 with all the bells and whistles* standing in the way of me and my dream to Airstream-land, I read the towing capacity and it seems that Antz Honda Element isn't heavy enough to tow it. Also, the DWR custom airstream appears to only be available in San Francisco but now that I think of it, it would be better to fly to SF and pick it up and drive it down the coast.