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What an exhausting but great weekend we had.
We kicked off Friday with dinner at our favorite local haunt, Pitfire Pizza. Chad & Cara (Bobby's sister and husband) joined us. After that we retreated to our place for way too much YouTube videos through Apple TV. At midnight, we realized that Cael would be up in 6 hours, so we hit the sack. To our surprise, he woke up at 4:40 am!! Talk about painful. I took the first shift, then Bobby, then I got up again to get everything ready for Caoilin's swim event. Pics above. I think you all saw my email about this already, but Caoilin swam 7 laps and has now (with some recent contributions that came in after the event) raised over $700!! That's $100 a lap. Kudos to her. After the event, we dropped her off at French Class, which is now 3 hours. She complained about having to leave class early and not staying to have lunch with the kids. Without a hesitation, Bobby and I agreed, that we will support her if she wants to spend more time learning. Works for us!
The kids both took a good afternoon nap, then we headed back to Pitfire again for dinner. This time we met up with Caoilin's best friend, Sadie, and her family. They live in Mar Vista too (fairly close to us) and are fun people. We lucked out because we really them a lot. Good choice Caoilin! I should have known better than to wear white jeans. Just as we were packing up, Cael, that little stinker, spilled melted chocolate ice cream all down the front of me. And we rode our bikes there to top it off! It took me 3 soaks/washes and finally resorting to putting straight bleach on the stain before I got it out. But I managed to salvage them, thank goodness.
We feel asleep rather early on Saturday night, and all woke pretty early as a result. Bobby and Caoilin went to 7:30 Mass while Cael and I took in a 4-mile walk followed by a visit to our neighbor's awesome swing! We go every Sunday. It's in a big tree so the chains are super long. He gets some major air. So cute. Bobby and Caoilin drove by on their way home from church, which was our cue to head back home. I made breakfast and then took Caoilin to swim class.
That afternoon we had a play date/lunch with our architects/friends (their son is at Caoilin's school) who also live in Mar Vista. We ate outdoors and enjoyed some gourmet sandwiches from our friends, Yvonne & Dean's, soon to open Sandwich Shop. I managed to get in 2 more miles of walking doing all the errands/prep for our play date. We will be serving them at Cael's birthday party since they are so yummie and convenient.
We had a play date dinner that night as well at our friends, Yvonne & Tyson. It was a nice time, except that Cael was on his last leg. We raced home to put the overly tired little monkey to bed. Caoilin followed soon thereafter, and I followed immediately thereafter (at 9 pm). I was sooo exhausted! I got a little over 8 hours of sleep, but was still tired the next day. I think I am finally back to normal again. Just in time for another work week followed by a slightly less busy weekend to come.
Love to you all!
Aubrey
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