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The perks of Andrew’s job

So Andrew has been working A LOT.

With paying clients and everything….

But recently he got a couple fun little *extras* from a client that he shared with me….

First: A cake.

Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting …. YUM! You don’t want to know how much I ate in 2 days (knowing I was [...]

Scotland: Stirling Monday night

After visiting Stirling Castle and the nearby cemetery … by this time it was far too late to go on to Edinburgh so we headed home.

This time Kevin drove the car with GPS and Mom and Dad rode with Andrew and me.

Now, I’m pretty good at reading maps. Without the GPS to [...]

Alaska: our waitress Galina

I’m pretty bummed I didn’t end up getting a photo of our cruise dinner waitress, Galina from Bulgaria…. She was all kinds of awesome.

Our first night on the cruise (Sunday) our waitress was this intense Thai girl named something like Trixie. I don’t remember. She seemed to be rushing us and not really [...]

Sunday night dinner party

…. although, can you really call it a dinner party when we have to eat in shifts because the grill won’t hold all 9 steaks and we only have 5 dining room chairs…. ?

…. and if Andrew and I have to quickly do dishes after dinner so we have enough clean forks for [...]

dinner with the DiBiases

For the first time since we moved back to California, our friend Angela finally has a place of her own….

So fun!

She and Devo are renting a room in a 3 bedroom house not too far from us …. and had us over for dinner on a Sunday night in August in their [...]

our very low-key Valentine’s Day

Just a quick Saturday note to tell you about our Valentine’s Day last weekend.

Woke up.

Read. Vegged. Intenet/email.

I think we had leftovers for lunch.

BBC Yellowstone Documentary.

more reading.

Trip to Trader Joe’s (decision: Andrew and I should not go grocery shopping together)

When we get home, Andrew puts on “romantic” music [...]