Dear Celeste,

You know how sometimes you invite us up to your family's beeeeeeautiful cabin in Oakley, and you make us breakfasts consisting of deeeeelicious crepes, and strawberries, and bananas, and freshly whipped whipped cream, and (oh...dare I even say it?) piles of NUTELLA, and then you make us dinners consisting of amazing carne asada (sp?) tacos, and guacamole, and homemade salsa, and freshly cooked flour tortillas and oh man... a little slice of HEAVEN in between, and then, you know how after that, we roast marshmallows on an open fire and mash them in between fudge stripe cookies and then put the sugared up kiddos to bed and eat your special home-made vanilla/cinnamon ice cream complete with smashed up blonde oreos, and watch great movies and laugh our butts off, and then the next day, we randomly go out and you take beautiful pictures of my "new" family of four...

You know how sometimes we do that?

Yeah, well, I sort of really, really, really, really love it when we do that.
And I sort of (okay, well not "sort of" so much as "really a whole lot") think you are the bomb dot com and one of my favorite people on the planet of earth.

That is all.

xoxo,
Lola

the no doubt concert. in salt lake city.

was amazing.

and we didn't have cameras.

we didn't think we could bring them in.

then we found out that we could,

but that we couldn't leave the venue and come back in.

so we couldn't.

really couldn't.

so, no pics of beautiful gwen.

no amazing pics of their amazing set.

no pics of adrianne playing a drum in a tutu

or of the killer "james bond" themed video that played as they sang "xgirlfriend"

and, worst of all,

no pics of darling mr. kingston

(delightfully clad in sound-blocking headphones, comfy jammies, and a binki)

who came on stage and gave all of us the pleasure of singing

"happy birthday" to his cute little self

and then gave everyone an ever so gracious wave of appreciation,

and a beaming, genuine, "binki smile" to boot.

but don't worry.

when we got back to the car,

we totally made up for it.

some of my absolute favorites from the night:

can you even stand how pretty she is? and how cool is it that she can totally get down with making goofy, ugly, hilarious, faces at the camera? ugly is sooo the new pretty, don't you think?

i cannot stop laughing at this one!!! celeste looks like the killer girl from "the ring" and i look like her cross-eyed, hill-billy victim! too delicious. i think i'll frame this one and give it to kyle for christmas...you know, having a picture of your freakin' hot wife on your desk is all the rage.

rawrrr