{Re}united!!

{Friday} May 28, 2010

Today the girls had a day off of school, so our plan was to go to the mall or Pretend City . . . something away from home . . . but, as my luck would have it, that didn't work out. Right after I got Charlise (literally only a couple of minutes) I heard Hannah gasp and say "OH NO!!" My first thought, Charlise threw up . . . no, I walked around the corner to see her standing in a puddle of bright blue paint. Lovely. She unscrewed the cap and dumped it on her clothes & feet . . . and then walked out of the room and down the hall leaving a beautiful BLUE trail behind her. Needless to say, I spent the entire morning scrubbing carpet in hopes that when we move out someday we will see some of our deposit. It's still a horrible mess . . . one that I'll have to scrub the death out of tomorrow. Crossing my fingers that all of this elbow grease will pay off . . . sigh. I can't be mad . . . it's my own dumb fault for putting paint where a toddler can reach it . . . doh. Anyway . . . our night tonight totally made up for the rest of my bum day . . .

For some weird reason I haven't seen my cousins, Tonill, Melissa, & Angie in 23 years!!! Something happened after my parents got divorced and we completely stopped seeing them . . . SO sad. Tonight we were able to have dinner with Melissa and her family . . . they're here visiting Disneyland {and about every other amusement park in So Cal}. It was SO so so great to see her again. We had SO much fun. It's her daughter, Lexi's, 12th birthday, so we met them at their hotel, rode in a limo over to an Italian resteraunt and partied it up for a couple of hours . . . caught up a bit and laughed . . . a lot! Lexi & the girls hit it off and they had a great time getting to know each other. {They even all tried oysters together . . . and they all loved them! Wha?! Reha said it tasted just like shrimp . . . I'll just take her word for it . . .} I'm so grateful that we are back in touch . . . really sad that it took my Grandma Vee and Charish passing away to bring our family back together, but I'm glad that something good has come from our horrible year. Here are some pictures from our fun night . . .

Melissa & I at dinner. What an awesome woman . . . I had such a fun time!!

Hannah & Lexi . . .

. . . and Reha & Lexi.

Didn't take long for us to catch up and let loose.

The girls in the limo coming back from dinner. Lexi is wearing one of Charish's scarves. They met at my grandma's funeral and hit it off. Charish told me about how much she loved getting to know her and how excited she was to see her again {which would have been about now}. Unfortunately they didn't get the chance. When I was thinking about what to get her for her birthday I thought it would be really great to give her something of Charish's for her to keep. She loves it and I know she'll take good care of it.

On the way home we could see the Disneyland fireworks out the limo window . . . the girls "ooo"ed and "aaawww"ed the whole way back.

Can't wait to see them again. Thanks for the fun night Melissa! xoxoxo