Lady date with my best gal

I had the best girls day with my favorite daughter, HeaBug.

After soccer this morning, we went to the Penelope Lane Boutique in Seal Beach where the little miss very carefully spent her $10. She came up on a little ring, Hello Kitty hair clip, Hello Kitty earrings, a sugar cookie and a new pink flower clip.

After the Boutique we went to PREP kitchen essentials for a Parents and Kids cooking class. It's the same place that I took the 6 week pro chef series this summer, love it!

We made Sweet Potato Gnocchi with butter sage sauce, spinach salad with a warm bacon dressing, and an apple tart.

She is a serious "taster". HeaBug likes trying everything at every stage.

Of all the things we made, her favorite was the spinach salad! She asked to come back tomorrow. Because she is bright and a little precocious, often times Adults are initially charmed... interested at least in holding conversations with her. I'm always riding that line between proud and nervous what she's going to say lol...

We wrapped up an awesome day by watching The Parent Trap on HBOgo. Weeks ago I had her watch the original with Haley Mills and she loved it! I saw the newer version with the adorable and pre cray cray Lindsay Lohan, she loved this one too.

I am so grateful we can spend amazing time with our kids. While us chicks were doing our thing, Mr B and JT ran errands and then took a bike ride to Seal Beach and back.

Love our Ohana.

-mrs. b

Starting Soccer

HeaBug is playing on the Bluebird this year! She wanted to try a new sport, soccer. She keeps reminding me that Gymnastics is her first sport. 

So far she is really enjoying herself! It's U5 Jamboree for AYSO 177. They play at the same park every Saturday. Everyone is under Kinder age. They are so cute out there! Her first Saturday she says that next she wants to play "Bolleyball". I said let's get through soccer first.

As they wrapped up their first scrimmage HeaBug says she's ready to play for real and win. Her coach gently says that there aren't really any winners. Hea, straight faced, says "there is always a winner"... Lol, yeah, that's our daughter.

Shannon's cute baby (and shower)

My sweet friend Shannon and her Husband just added this handsome bundle of radness to their family and now they are Three.

They are just the cutest and this shower was lots of fun! I was originally going to go alone and when HeaBug saw me dressed up to go, she asks if it's a grown up party. I told her there would be mostly ladies but it was for Baby Mason and his mom. She says, "I LOVE lady parties! Wait for me! I'll put on a dress!" 

She is just too fun! 

All of the LoVELy and DEElicious desserts (including white cake with lemon filling, frosted Texas sheet cake, chocolate covered pretzels and adorable elephant sugar cookies that said "thanks a ton") were done by my amazingly talented friend and cake ninja, Cakestina.

Welcome Home Sister Imbach

Welcoming home Sister Mara Anne Imbach! She has just returned from serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Frankfurt, Germany mission for the last 18 months!!

So excited to see her and have her home and so proud of her service while building her faith and testimony! Way to Return With Honor Mari Bug!!

Meet Oscar

Meet Oscar G. Booth. Newly adopted member of the BoothOhana.

#dadgavein

We love this new kitty boy.

1st Day of School 2013, Pre-K and 3rd Grade

JT and HeaBug started school! They are both excited and ready for the year ahead. HeaBug is in her last year of preschool and now attending 5 days a week! Big girl status.

Traditionally, Booth Kids can have ANYTHING in the world for breakfast on the first day of school. This girl wanted a donut with pink frosting and sprinkles AND a chocolate donut with sprinkles. Crazy hair got her wish!

JT wanted a tres leches cake from Cafe Rio. Mmm cake for breakfast!

So silly.

So serious.

Time sure is going by fast...

Wrapping up the Summer in a nutshell, here is August!

Took the kids up to Old Town Pasadena for Brothers Pies and Fries (an awesome walk up window pizza joint) and Cool Haus, a new storefront for an amazing Ice Cream truck that makes delicious ice cream Sammies with awesome flavors like rose petal, brown butter with candied bacon bits, balsamic fig and marscapone, pistachio truffle and dirty mint julep. They sandwich the ice cream between cookie flavors like course chocolate with sea salt, potato chip and butterscotch, gluten free coconut almond, and vegan chocolate truffle banana... Yeah it's ice cream and cookie heaven. We were pumped to attend the grand opening of the store. We got there just in time because the line wrapped around and outside like crazy by the time we left!

Months ago, my sweet friend NurseCeeJ and I created a video to submit in a contest for Big Lots Lots 2 Give. Our entry won a 2nd place prize of $5,000 for our school! During the online voting period, in store donations were accepted in $1 and $5 increments. That total was divided between all the schools in our market that participated in the contest. We got an extra $676! 

Big Lots hosted a little check presentation in store complete with cake and balloons! We were very grateful to receive the award and their donation!

Months ago, after the Color run, we ate at a fun pizza place at the Irvine Spectrum called Pieology. We liked it so much, Mr. B and I looked into buying a franchise! The model was similar to a place that we loved in Seattle called M.O.D. Pizza. To our surprise, there were already several locations in our general area that were in the works. We excitedly awaited the opening of Pieology in Lakewood. Walking by one afternoon we saw a sign that said Training and that they would be opening in a few days! At Mr. B's encouragement, I went in to see what training meant. I met and congratulated the new owners telling them of how we had been waiting for them to open. They gave me a free pizza! I walked out feeling pretty good when the training manager came out after us to invite us inside to create a "training meal". We could order any pizza off the menu and get a drink for free. We were given play money to pay with and then we sat inside enjoying our free pies!

We went to a dodger game with our buddy Ro.

I wrapped up my cooking classes. They were TONS of fun and I learned a lot!

HeaBug said goodbye to her sweet buddy Summer since she was leaving for kindergarten.

She loves her teachers Ms. Oriana and Ms. Marietta.

This is how HeaBug rolls to the dentist.

Made this yummy and easy nectarine raspberry tart with the last of my pie dough.

Started a Bootcamp at No Limits Fitness. It's five days a week of full body training, lots of switching up of workout styles and  this first Friday morning was spent flipping tractor tires and swinging sledgehammers. We were filthy and it was awesome. My arms hurt so much by the end if the week that I couldn't put my hair up in a ponytail. This will continue for the next 3 months!

We went to the River with our friends, the Mabrys. A fun weekend with the kiddos. We took our boat from Needles down to Havasu to see the London Bridge.

Coming back home we stopped off at the Bass Pro shop. Never a shortage of fun things to do and see. The kids even got to try archery.

We said our final goodbyes to Auntie Kay. Katherine Aldridge, Gramma GG's sister was laid to rest at the National Cemetary in Riverside.

We went to Disneyland with our family! We took Gramma GG who hadn't been in a long time!

We also got to hang out with GK, Auntie Amber and our niece and nephew, Naima and Elisha! What an awesome day!

Loved this day!

Booth kids regularly get their workout on lol

Went to a Dodger Game with our friends the Mabrys (love them!)

It's been a super full summer of family, friends, work, traveling, food and baseball! But that's just how we like to live. Work hard and be good people. It's a good mantra.