well, we originally thought we'd be going out of town with team landers for labor day, but the plans ended up falling through, so we thought we'd take advantage of being at home for 3 days and having a "lazy" labor day weekend at home.
right.
SATURDAY we hung around the house while daddy worked on the bathroom remodel and the girls and I hung around the neighborhood and went for a walk and to the park and grilled out for dinner and franny came over for a surprise visit, and that was great fun for miss stella (and sammy too!)... (and mommy too, since I got to chat with sarah).
SUNDAY stella woke bright and early asking if it was "11:00 yet", since she knew that was the time scheduled to begin her playdate with elsa & julia - apparently they had the same idea, cuz they started calling to her about 8am, from their backyard! but alas, we wicked parents made them wait til 11am and then charlie "threw stella over the fence" and their dad (mike) caught her and she had a blast playing and having lunch with those girls for a few hours. meanwhile, sammy and I headed to the farmer's market and did our every weekend ritual - tasting the amazingly sweet peaches/nectarines/plums samples from kashiwashee farms (we drop a nice amount of $ there each week!) and having some corn tikki and ginger limeade for lunch... buying blueberries and tomatoes and watermelon, and all the other fresh products we need, while talking with the farmers and local vendors.
after that, i decided today would be a "no nap day", as she was too hopped up on her time with the girls and so we went over to sarah & elias & franny's house for dinner - truly delicious paella (so ambitious with the new pan, elias!) and the girls all did some "swimming" and enjoying each other for the whole night - they are too freakin cute together those girls (see pics above).
MONDAY morning after our family breakfast, stella & I headed to target and the grocery store for some errands and had a blast looking at all the toys in the toy aisle at target - stella selected a thomas the train station, and is quite psyched to bust it out. sammy was home taking a nap while dad was (yet again) working on the bathroom remodel.
then mom and the girls went to a nice park in oakland to meet our friends carrie & kelly who were hosting a big picnic - stella (and sam) had a great time playing with jack and ally (carrie & kelly's cutie kids) and also franny and other friends from school - i am pretty confident that at last count stella and jack had about 54 rides in the radio flyer red wagon - they kept finding sucker after sucker to pull them and give them rides! I also enjoyed seeing friends from soccer and other moms from the girls' school and just being outside on such a pretty day, in the park!
then we headed home to meet daddy and kathleen and andrew at the pool (on UC berkeley campus, by our house) for a nice early evening swim - it was a nice, refreshing time and the girls had a blast playing in the water!
after that, we headed home and cooked some awesome skirt steak with chimichurra sauce out on our porch and played puzzles, then it was bedtime for the girls and mom and dad has some peace before getting ready for the next day...
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