Sixteen Candles

I'm not sure how or when we came up with the crazy idea to
have a birthday party for Daisy, but I'm sure glad we did!

It was really just an excuse to have a party for all of our friends' kids, but I'm pretty sure the adults had just as much fun as the kids. Tony even had the kids race each other in teams through Daisy's Dogstacle Course - check out the video HERE.

Daisy got a new argyle birthday sweater for her special day and Avery hardly left her side the whole party!

Daisy needed a little help blowing out her candles from Natalia and Avery...we all enjoyed the ginormous cupcakes while Daisy celebrated with a Frosty Paw ice cream cup. Funny to think that Daisy and Gregory both turn 16 this year!

Click HERE for all the pictures.

Cousin Night

Super fun Saturday night with Cat and the Little Lima's... the first pic is after their fantastic show of the boys dancing like street rappers with the moves they learned from Scott and the girls were beautiful dancing princess brides...

..the second pic was from when we set the timer on the camera and then jumped onto the couch for the picture...

Favorite quotes from the night...

as they were trying to operate the cd player...

Alli: Hold on, we're having medical difficulties

Adam: I think you mean technical difficulties

Avery: Hey Catherine, you know how at Christmas you sang that "if-you-are-falling-i-will-catch-you" song? We HAVE that CD!

as they were doing stunts/flips on the giant bean bag...

Catherine/Carly: Yikes! Guys, be careful!

Alli: Oh don't worry, we never get hurt - I mean, we probably will SOME day, but we haven't yet!

as I was taking drink orders for dinner...

Carly: Austin, what would you like to drink?

Austin: CokeCarly: Hmmm, are you allowed to have Coke?

Austin: y-y-yes (but honestly shaking his head "no")

as he finished his grape popsicle and we both looked down at the small purple puddle below him...

Austin: I didn't do it

we both look up from the puddle to each other

Austin: I didn't MEAN to do it

as we were working on our monkey crafts and I finished doing Austin's...

Austin: And the winner of Next Iron Chef is....Austin!!! Hey, why are you guys still even working on yours - it's over, I won!

Alli (to Carly and Catherine): Hey, we saw pictures of you guys when YOU were little!

Ezra: And I saw a picture of YOUR dad with MY dad on his BACK!

Carly: So you saw a picture of my dad when he had all his hair?

Alli: Yeah, I thought he was wearing a WIG!

What a fun night...can't wait to do it again!

Happy 2010!

Joey and Stephanie came down from Montreal to celebrate New Years weekend with us in LA.
We had dinner and drinks at Katsuya in Holly- wood...

...and finished the night with a bottle of bubbly watching the ball drop at home...

All pics HERE

O Christmas Tree

The Lima Christmas Eve was at Mom and Dad's this year... Mom went all out on decorating and Dad even set up the trains for the little kids!

Mom got Daisy a snowman Christmas sweater and she got a lotta love from all the Little Limas! Daisy is our favorite Christmas present this year because we almost lost her two weeks ago (and when I say "we," I mean "I")...thank goodness we found her! Merry Christmas, everyone!

Wedding in a Winter Wonderland

Suzy and Matt's wedding was absolutely beautiful...she created the most amazing winter wonderland setting with shades of blue and silver and it turned out to be the most lovely Southern California winter day in Palos Verdes!

...she actually made her own dress and was more stunning and more enchanting than a Disney Princess!

Fun in the photo booth!

Congrat- ulations, Matt and Suzy!!!

Click HERE for all the pics.

Our First Christmas Card

Christmas Cards from Family and Friends

Hometown Run

Catherine, Nancy and I ran in the inaugural LA County Half Marathon at Fairplex and Pudding- stone on Sunday...

Billy, Nicole, Mom & Dad all came out to cheer us on at the finish line, which we each crossed at...

Catherine 1:59:25 - Nancy 2:03:37 - Carly 2:10:39

The only time I ever stopped running was to snap these pictures... can't believe all this beauty is right in our backyard!

With horrible weather in the week leading up to the race, were just relieved we didn't have to run in the rain - but it actually ended up being a BEAUTIFUL morning.

After the race, Billy treated us to a well deserved brunch at IHOP. And he says that, next year, he is going to cheer us on from his boat!

(Link to last year's 1/2 Marathon)