I'm Baaack

Gazing at the Richmond skyline

Here we are at the end of the summer already...and I have to say I'm ready for it.  Mainly, I'm ready for the end of the summer weather!  It has been so hot here the past few weeks...and by hot I mean in the 80s which is hot for us.  Poor me, I know!  Chloë and I went to Richmond, VA for a week earlier this month for the wedding of one of my best friends.  Well, the wedding was up near D.C. where I went to college but we flew in and out of Richmond so we could see my parents and friends there while we were in town.  Who plans a wedding in Virginia in August??!!  That would be Vanessa- one of my college room mates and best friends :)  Actually, the weather wasn't bad at all.  Definitely was survivable and it was actually HOTTER here in San Diego when we got off the plane after the trip (to my dismay).  Too bad for me that soCal stays pretty warm through October while the rest of the country eases into the cooler weather of my favorite season: Fall.   Ahh, the crisp air and changes of leaves.  I love that.  I definitely miss that out here--but when I'm outside swimming in February under the palm trees I don't miss a thing...  It's a give and take, I guess.  For now we'll be staying here.   

Oh, and  I just had my 10 year anniversary of when I moved out to San Diego this summer.  I can't believe I've been living out here 10 years.  When I moved out I had plans to stay a few months visiting Myke and then travel on to New Zealand for awhile.  I was pretty set in those plans, with NO intentions of staying longer.  I actually took a nanny job for that reason, thinking it would be a pretty easy position to just drop when I was ready to leave...not a "serious" job  (I was WRONG there about the "easy to leave" part--you get attached when you have a job like that--the kids ended up in my wedding a few years later and I still talk to them regularly--the little girl who turned 1 when I was her nanny is now turning 11 next month!).  Well, anyways, here I am 10 years later with a dog, 3 kids and a minivan.  I would HAVE NEVER BELIEVED it if I had been told that would happen.  To be honest, if someone told the 22-year-old me that future life that was in store for her she would have run for the hills!  (mainly at the idea of a minivan!).  

Okay, well, I just wanted to put SOMETHING on my blog since I have completely neglected it for most of the summer.  We have been super-busy this summer and on top of that I was super-sick for about 6 weeks of it- I think the word is pretty much out by now: I'm pregnant!  It was a BIG SURPRISE for us but we are very excited about it (with a side of freaking out involved).  I'm finally not sick as a dog anymore and life is feeling "normal" again.  We found out on Father's Day.  Happy Father's Day to Myke!  haha