Anniversary Weekend Recap

We kicked off our Anniversary weekend by joining friends at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. For those of you who are not familiar with it, the Magic Castle is a private club & hotel that has been around for more than a half century. It has a restaurant, several bars and various private rooms with entertainment. Other than dinner taking too long, which limited our time to catch the entertainment, we had a great time. The performances we did see were fantastic. I would definitely go back if the opportunity presented itself.

Saturday was our actual anniversary (6th year of marriage). After grabbing coffee at the Venice Grind, I played with the kids while Bobby ran errands. When Cael went down for his nap, Caoilin and I tackled her June Community Service Project. (June was so busy, especially with guests, we had to do 2 in July). This month's project was cleaning up our local Library. The Library happened to be having a book sale that day and one of the volunteers invited Caoilin to pick out a book to thank her for cleaning up the Library. As you can see from the photo below, we picked up a lot of trash & recycling.

Bobby and I had dinner plans to celebrate that night, so we couldn't take Caoilin to the Circus at the Staples Center. However, our friend Heather was taking her 2 kids and offered to take Caoilin with her as well as keep her for a sleepover. So, I took the kids over to her place in the mid-afternoon for a play date. Caoilin stayed and Cael and I headed home in time to get him fed and to bed.

Below are some pictures of Caoilin. Their seats were on the floor! It was almost as if they were in part of the show. They had a fabulous time and it was worth every penny!

Rocco, Sasha's little brother, was our sitter for the evening. Cael was asleep by the time he got there, so it was a pretty easy task. Bobby and I headed off to the Jonathan Club for a nice dinner and bottle of wine. The weather was great for dining al fresco. I was pooped when we got home and wisely headed straight to bed.

Sunday was busy out of the gates. Cael (my built in alarm clock) slept in and I had to race to get the kids to swim class. I first had to drive to the Valley to pick up Caoilin before heading to swim school. After we got home, Bobby took Caoilin and her cousin Drew to LACC to hit some balls at the driving range and putting green. They were treated with milk shakes before heading home. Then we packed up the kids and headed to the beach for a couple of hours. Cael keeps us moving. He is all over the place now that he is walking. I can't count how many times he climbed up the play structure and went down one of the various slides, only to ask for "more"! Needless to say, the kids passed out for their later than usual nap. They both slept 2 1/2 hours! Once they roused, we packed them up once again and headed off to Pitfire Pizza for our Sunday dinner ritual. Due to their late nap, they didn't get to bed until 9, which is really late for Cael. But they slept great and woke up at their normal times this morning. I, however, feel like I've been hit by a Mac truck! I can't stop yawning today, despite what I would expect was a night's sleep.

4 more days and counting until we are back at it again. We have another busy weekend ahead of us complete with dinners, the beach, guests and family time.

Hope you all are having as great of a summer as we are!!

XOXO