Happy Monday!
We had a very fun week, mostly filled up with sukkot-related activities, but a few other things. Last monday we had dinner with our friends Wittney and Cody at the California Pizza Kitchen at the Beverly Center-- Wittney's birthday is a day before Jem's so we had a double-birthday celebration. Wittney and Cody were off to Napa to celebrate her birthday in the wine country. Very fun.
Tuesday night Jem and I had our final childbirth preparation class at our hospital. Our graduation was watching a video of a bunch of different births -- all from the late 70s, early 80s. Despite the crazy hair and mid-western accents, we learned a lot and got a little teary at each one. Though our waterworks were nothing compared to our friend Taffy, who wept at each birth. One very fun thing happened during our class -- one of the husbands came in about 15 minutes late to tell us that they had just had their baby an hour and a half earlier. What is so crazy about that is that they were only due 2 weeks before us... wow, i guess it really could happen at any time. crazy!
Wednesday after work, I stopped by to see Jen and baby Sasha, and then headed home to get ready for chag. We were out Wednesday night at our neighbors Harold and Brenda Walt's house -- the Walts used to own our house (2 owners before us). They lived in it for about 20 years, so it was lots of fun to hear all the stories about the house. We had a great time with them -- got a tour of their amazing house which they built about 6 years ago. Brenda is a caterer (a kosher one), so of course the meal was delicious.
Thursday after services we went home to prepare for the meals we were hosting -- we had people over Thursday night and Friday night to celebrate Jem's 31st birthday. We had a very fun dairy meal on Thursday night -- the highlight of which was the dessert -- cookie cake and s'mores over our fire pit. Our friends Sara and Larry, Taffy and Claude and BJ and Elaine joined us for that meal. Friday night we did the more traditional shabbos meal -- gefilte fish, matzo ball soup, chicken, etc. but of course had to have another bday cookie cake -- with our friends Adi and Larry, Jeff and Reyna, Lauren and Jeffrey (along with Lauren's mom who was visiting from Toronto and gave us a really cool baby blanket that she had knit), and our friend Daniel (unfortunately his wife Ellie wasn't feeling well, so she didn't make it). At both meals, Milo insisted on stealing the napkins off of everyone's laps. He probably got about 15 over the course of the two nights. For shabbos lunch, we headed up to Ellie and Daniels for our book club lunch. We stopped by to visit Kim and Dan on the way, which was a nice treat, since we don't always motivate to walk up there on shabbos since they live about 1.5 miles away from us. Despite the title of book club lunch, we didn't discuss our book at all, since almost none of us actually read it -- despite attempts to do so. I got to about page 110, Daniel to about 200... only Rebecca actually read and liked it. We've decided to go for a classic next time and hopefully all of us will actually read it. After lunch, we headed back over to Kim and Dans and hung out there for a bit, before walking home.
Also of note -- my cousin Mark and his wife Alessia had their baby Carolina Bell Proctor on Thursday. She was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and everyone is doing really well. Marky finally sent photos out last night and she's gorgeous. They are settling in to life as parents very well.
After shabbos ended, my mom and Larry came by to pick us up and take us out to dinner to celebrate Jem's bday (which we celebrated on my sister Becca's 24th birthday). We went to a restaurant in Santa Monica called Wilshire, which was lots of fun.
Yesterday, we had Milo's obedience class, then had brunch in our sukkah with our friends Erit and Roberto, and then ran some errands (such as buying Jem a new golf bag and some additional golf clubs to go with his new R-7s) and then had our tour at the hospital. Its good that we now know where we are supposed to go and what we are supposed to do when I actually go into labor. Then last night Ali came over for dinner in the sukkah.
Sukkot is definitely one of my favorite holidays. Its nice to just sit outside in our sukkah hanging out with friends.
So, a great weekend. I can't believe chag starts again Wednesday night. Finally next week we'll have a normal week!
Have a great week!
Lisa and Jem
We had a very fun week, mostly filled up with sukkot-related activities, but a few other things. Last monday we had dinner with our friends Wittney and Cody at the California Pizza Kitchen at the Beverly Center-- Wittney's birthday is a day before Jem's so we had a double-birthday celebration. Wittney and Cody were off to Napa to celebrate her birthday in the wine country. Very fun.
Tuesday night Jem and I had our final childbirth preparation class at our hospital. Our graduation was watching a video of a bunch of different births -- all from the late 70s, early 80s. Despite the crazy hair and mid-western accents, we learned a lot and got a little teary at each one. Though our waterworks were nothing compared to our friend Taffy, who wept at each birth. One very fun thing happened during our class -- one of the husbands came in about 15 minutes late to tell us that they had just had their baby an hour and a half earlier. What is so crazy about that is that they were only due 2 weeks before us... wow, i guess it really could happen at any time. crazy!
Wednesday after work, I stopped by to see Jen and baby Sasha, and then headed home to get ready for chag. We were out Wednesday night at our neighbors Harold and Brenda Walt's house -- the Walts used to own our house (2 owners before us). They lived in it for about 20 years, so it was lots of fun to hear all the stories about the house. We had a great time with them -- got a tour of their amazing house which they built about 6 years ago. Brenda is a caterer (a kosher one), so of course the meal was delicious.
Thursday after services we went home to prepare for the meals we were hosting -- we had people over Thursday night and Friday night to celebrate Jem's 31st birthday. We had a very fun dairy meal on Thursday night -- the highlight of which was the dessert -- cookie cake and s'mores over our fire pit. Our friends Sara and Larry, Taffy and Claude and BJ and Elaine joined us for that meal. Friday night we did the more traditional shabbos meal -- gefilte fish, matzo ball soup, chicken, etc. but of course had to have another bday cookie cake -- with our friends Adi and Larry, Jeff and Reyna, Lauren and Jeffrey (along with Lauren's mom who was visiting from Toronto and gave us a really cool baby blanket that she had knit), and our friend Daniel (unfortunately his wife Ellie wasn't feeling well, so she didn't make it). At both meals, Milo insisted on stealing the napkins off of everyone's laps. He probably got about 15 over the course of the two nights. For shabbos lunch, we headed up to Ellie and Daniels for our book club lunch. We stopped by to visit Kim and Dan on the way, which was a nice treat, since we don't always motivate to walk up there on shabbos since they live about 1.5 miles away from us. Despite the title of book club lunch, we didn't discuss our book at all, since almost none of us actually read it -- despite attempts to do so. I got to about page 110, Daniel to about 200... only Rebecca actually read and liked it. We've decided to go for a classic next time and hopefully all of us will actually read it. After lunch, we headed back over to Kim and Dans and hung out there for a bit, before walking home.
Also of note -- my cousin Mark and his wife Alessia had their baby Carolina Bell Proctor on Thursday. She was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and everyone is doing really well. Marky finally sent photos out last night and she's gorgeous. They are settling in to life as parents very well.
After shabbos ended, my mom and Larry came by to pick us up and take us out to dinner to celebrate Jem's bday (which we celebrated on my sister Becca's 24th birthday). We went to a restaurant in Santa Monica called Wilshire, which was lots of fun.
Yesterday, we had Milo's obedience class, then had brunch in our sukkah with our friends Erit and Roberto, and then ran some errands (such as buying Jem a new golf bag and some additional golf clubs to go with his new R-7s) and then had our tour at the hospital. Its good that we now know where we are supposed to go and what we are supposed to do when I actually go into labor. Then last night Ali came over for dinner in the sukkah.
Sukkot is definitely one of my favorite holidays. Its nice to just sit outside in our sukkah hanging out with friends.
So, a great weekend. I can't believe chag starts again Wednesday night. Finally next week we'll have a normal week!
Have a great week!
Lisa and Jem
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