Fashion. Music. Family. Life.
A couple of weekends ago, my family travelled up to Palmdale to share a special day with my younger cousin, CJ. He married the love of his life, Jaime and they had a beautiful travel themed wedding. I’ll just let the photos speak for themselves. Hope you all had a great Father’s Day weekend!
(The title of this post are lyrics from the song Somebody by Depeche Mode.)
There have been quite a few celebrations in the month of March and beginning of April. I did actually intend to post about these seperately, but they just came up so quickly that the photos started to pile up. I finally grabbed sometime over the weekend to put together some collages of past weekend events. Here are the events pictured: 1. The opening of the new PlaySpace at Plaza Bonita Mall at the beginning of March; 2. My sister’s 40th birthday celebration at Chuck E. Cheese; 3. Our family’s annual Easter picnic; 4. My brother-in-law’s birthday get together at Famous Dave’s in Vista.
It’s so hard to believe that another year has come and gone, and our precious boy is now four years old today. With all the craziness right now in our lives and just starting my new job, we decided to keep it very low-key this year and celebrated this past weekend with my sister’s family at John’s Incredible Pizza Co. at Plaza Bonita Mall. We started the afternoon with food and cake, and ended it with daddy winning 500 tickets! Unfortunately, grandma couldn’t make it in from Las Vegas as was originally scheduled this weekend, so we’re going to celebrate again in March. I’m pretty sure Dominic won’t mind!
With our handsome little man!
My sister’s family with the celebrant. Check out the cool Spider-Man cake!
In the midst of lunching.
Singing to the birthday boy; check out Nana getting into it (on the far right)!
Princess poses!
Concentration is the key to winning.
Daddy won 500 tickets!
The weather has been so very spectacular these few weeks, and Easter last weekend was no exception. It’s feeling more and more like summer came early to San Diego. We celebrated Easter with a fun day at the park with extended family. Dominic and Mei-Lin hauled in overflowing baskets of eggs in the hunt this year. I didn’t participate myself, but my husband and sister won the water balloon toss, which ended up in a full-fledged water fight. It was quite refreshing on a hot day. Hope you had a great weekend!
My sister & My Hubby: Water balloon toss winners!
Grandkids with Nana (Dominic didn’t want to wear the purple bunny ears, but Mei-Lin didn’t seem to mind wearing the pink ones!)
I’m amazed at how artistic my son has become, coordinating colors when using his building blocks. Dominic can sit for at least an hour when he’s really concentrating on creating something, then will tear it all down again to build anew. At one point, he was building tower and said, “Mama, look it’s so tall!” He loves to listen to the music on my iPhone, so I played a song called “Empire State Human” by The Human League because of the lyrics “I want to be tall, tall, tall,” like his awesome tower. Who knew that he would take my iPhone just to keep playing the song each time he wanted to build something new? I’m glad my son loves my 80’s music.
Excited about his new bike from Daddy (he got a matching helmet, too!)
Here are a few images from Dominic’s birthday party last month. It was such a beautiful day at the park, which is unusual for February. Now that he’s three, he completely understands that this was his party, to celebrate all things about him. And when you’re that age, isn’t that all that matters? Hope you had a great weekend!
Playing with his new InnoTab from Grandma (he calls it his iPad). He takes it everywhere!
I love how close my son and niece are. Even though they bicker every now and again, they are quite the clever cousins! Whether they’re having a staring contest or just running around together at the playground in the local mall, Mei-Lin and Dominic adorable together. Hope you had a great weekend!
Dominic’s outfit – Lids hat; Harajuku Mini hoodie; H&M shirt; Guess jeans; Target shoes (unseen)
Mei-Lin’s outfit – Beautees shirt & skirt; Target tights & shoes (shoes unseen); Headband, gift from Nana
My son has tons of toys everywhere at home (and more have been added since Christmas). It’s a combination of my niece’s hand-me-down toys and brand new ones that they share, or that are distinctly their own. But no matter how many cool toys my son and niece have all around them, I find that it’s their imagination that drives the heart of their play (cardboard boxes make the best planes, trains, cars or boats). Hope you had a great weekend!
Dominic has been really good lately at sitting still and really listening to the stylist when getting his haircut. I guess part of it is because he can watch is favorite movies, “Cars” or “Cars 2”. But I think a lot of it was because this time, he got to sit in their new “ride”: a truck with flames painted on the side. I love it when my son gets a haircut because he looks so fresh and clean-cut, although he definitely looks older. My little boy isn’t looking so little anymore! It’s always nice to ring in the new year with a neat little trim, which is what I think I’ll be doing before heading out for some fun. Have a safe and happy new year weekend!
Dominic’s outfit: Old Navy hat; Roots jacket; Disney “Cars 2” t-shirt; H&M striped shirt (layered); Calvin Klein jeans (handed down from cousin Riley); Lighting McQueen shoes; new Finn McMissile car (gift from Mommy!)
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These are some completely random iPhone pictures from the last couple of weeks, no true rhyme or reason. If you follow me on Twitter (@any2ndnow) or Instagram (any2ndnow), you will recognize some of these images. In the end, does it really matter why, when you start the randomness with stunning photos of Alan Wilder and Gerard Butler? No, it doesn’t.
Happy Friday!
Oh. My. Goodness. (Courtesy of The Red Radio)
Originally posted for comparison with the photo above. But do I really need a reason? (Courtesy of Comic Vine Forum)
I have been reminiscing about when I met Alan Wider last year (hence the first photo). This was one of at least ten items he autographed for me. He said “Wow, this takes me way back…” Was it the fact that it was his first EP as Recoil or that it was actually on vinyl? Methinks both.
Aren’t these just pretty?
My companion while at jury duty (thanks Janice for loaning it to me). Read all 358 pages!
If only I had planned it right, I would have dressed like her for Halloween…
Dominic says, “Let it be…”
I love my little family *sigh*
Wore this in honor of my father on Veteran’s Day: it was one of his first uniform shirts.
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