To our wonderful friends who babysat last night. 🙂 We feel so lucky and blessed to have such genuine friends…

We’re going out on a double date and our overnight guests from NY are babysitting our kids tonight. It sounds really bad that we’re leaving our own guests with our kids… I guess that’s kind of friends we are! Haha, but you still love us anyway, right?

Now we get photobombed by kids every time we try to take a picture!

Shane tried to hide in the trunk and we almost took him with us! Can you imagine! Too funny.

We had an intimate dinner

with our awesome foodie friends. What a wonderful time catching up with you guys! Thank you for the privilege.

When we got to the rooftop parking lot, the sunset skyline was so beautiful I couldn’t resist the photo op.

Stud.

We have a very special guests staying with us and we’re so thrilled to have them for the weekend!

Chloe’s been talking about selling lemonade in our street today…but I didn’t think she’ll have a good turn out…so I suggested we wrap up our lemon poppyseed muffins instead and share them with our neighbors. One of our neighbors kids babysit our kids and Chloe and Shane absolutely LOVE them. 🙂

Kids wrote each of their names and decorated the boxes.

Delivery ready to go.

On our way back we cut some flowers from our garden.

Today Chloe’s becoming a brownie!

Saying the Girl Scout promise together. SO cute.

The girls crossed the bridge and they got their brownie uniforms

and the parents pinned their first badge.

Followed by the cookies and cupcakes to celebrate!

What a fun and meaningful experience. I’m so excited for you, my cutie!

I am just so happy and thankful every time I see our garden. I owe it to our previous owners who created this beauty. There’s always something new blooming each time I look out the window.
I HAD to stop on my way to work and take some pictures this morning.

I love coming home and driving up on our driveway seeing these exquisite peonies and irises.

We have so many peonies and they are my favorite flower!

Shane picked one out for his teacher. Sweet.

lavender…

We had a wonderful dinner with the Wei’s at Pig & Khao .

Everything was so delicious!

Happy birthday beautiful!

We spent this gorgeous afternoon walking down waterfront hudson river greenway.

Shane and Chloe are best buds. I really love seeing them so close.

Although… I feel like Chloe sometimes takes out her frustrations on Shane which for the most part he just takes it. When Chloe gets in trouble for being mean to Shane, he would just say “that’s okay Chloe” even before she begins to apologize. 

Shane: Mommy, do I have the least amount of anger in the family? 

Me: Hahaha. Yes you do. 

It’s true. I think we all have anger issues except for him. LOL.

Shane, giving a flower to Chloe. 🙂

And for me. 🙂 🙂

We went for Korean Chinese  for lunch.

Jellyfish salad.

Our town is having a carnival and our kids’ been talking about it all week. Chloe knew the exact operation hours and which classmates are going on what days.  So cute.:)

Chloe’s so happy she found her friends!

I hosted a ladies brunch for my friends this morning.

Bloody mary cocktail

Smoked salmon with herb butter

Strawberry tomato jam crostini with feta cheese and mint

& prosciutto and cucumber crostini with arugula mustard

Grilled asparagus with prosciutto topped with poached eggs

Baked french toast

Monte cristo strata

My breakfast plate

And we also celebrated Amy’s birthday. Happy birthday!