miss lindsey anderson is delighted to announce

the arrival of

one fat, sweet, dark fuzzy haired

Anna Elise Smith

daughter of josiah and melissa smith

at

7:56 AM

Monday 4/20/09

weighing in at 7 lbs 11 oz

19 inches long

mother and daughter are doing well

grandma wendy and aunt lindsey can not be more thrilled

hooray!!

1. i know i know! i have a wedding to blog. i'm working on editing the photos and they weren't done last night so they have to wait until after work.

2. my phone is dead and i feel a strange sense of loss and freedom at the same time. it's like a phantom limb; i keep hearing it vibrate in my purse.

3. it's 104 degrees in Irvine today. YES. thats what i said, all you UT, ID, PA, NJ, MS, etc people. and i bought a greek salad, parked my butt in the sunshine on a blanket at the park and tanned my legs arms face, and anything else exposed to the rays. ha.

i woke up inexplicably at 6 am. (not an infrequent occurance on a saturday. i know, i know....sigh)
BUT i got to do laundry, play with the dog, paint my toenails, go for a bike ride, shower, wander around my mom's house looking for things of mine to take back to my home, and blog.
and i get to go kiss lil babies (and a not so little little boy) in an hour or so.

trip= not too shabby thus far. :)

just wait til i can post pictures of my bridesmaid dress... oh buddy.

1.this was playing on my roommate's computer.
i forgot how much i loved it.2. driving to vegas tomorrow with this person.
3. to support and see these two get hitched saturday.
4. and i get to hug this lady.5. and while i was looking for the above picture i remembered that i had the below picture of my mom in my sister's wedding dress. she's gonna kill me for posting it. SERIOUSLY tho it was so funny. :)

welp folks, if you wanna know what the most beautiful, funny, wonderful, silliest,truest friend, incredibly kind, loving, spiritual, best roommate ever looks like- look no further:

Sister Jamie Crane.

have fun in Taiwan for 18 months.

i'm going to miss you like crazy.

in fact i'm tearing up as i type this, wow. love you.

but i do just love him.

First order of business. Lent was over at 12:00 AM so NATURALLY we made chocolate chip cookies(my favorite) at 11:45 PM so I could eat my fix of chocolate as soon as I could!! And it was DELICIOUS. Warm crispy on outside, soft inside, melty sweet goodness right out of the oven with a glass of milk... heaven.

I have to say, this Lent was a test of my self control and I think I'm my own hero! No chocolate for 40 days was HARD bc it's in everything and everywhere, and VERY hard to avoid, but I DID IT!!!

And then I proceeded to eat some junk and candy given to me at church with chocolate and to be honest... I'm over it. It just doesn't taste that good!! And it kinda made me sick. I'm thrilled I can eat my fav cookie again, but I think the mini Kit Kat's and Oreos and definitely not going to be a staple dessert anymore. Give me apple pie anytime. :)

i've been to quite a few sporting events over the course of a lifetime- but saturday we went to my first NBA game!

hooray for free tickets to the...

they lost. but it was an okay game to watch :) the part where we came back from 14 down to be winning was pretty exciting... but then we lost.

nothin like a saturday basketball game in la...

free week at Core Yoga in HB.

i've never sweated so much, felt so good, and had such a great workout while feeling so relaxed.

recommendation level: 11

wake up: 6:45 and not tired- hooray!
get to work early- have office all to my lonesome.
get stuff done. be productive.
take mail down to box.

realize locked self out of office...

make laps up & down the stairs(why not burn calories while you wait?) waiting for our maintenance guy to come let me in. maintenance guy gets there. he does not have correct master.

talk about religion for 45 min waiting for OTHER guy to come with other keys.

get into office an hour and ten min later.
phone rings about 100 times. have a ton to do.
boss calls says i can go home at noon. WOOT!
finish up and finally leave @ 12:45.

get home. cook lunch. look at pics from europe.
take an hour nap.
go on hour walk.
relax and talk to my roommate.
clean room. do dishes. and it's not even 5 yet!

get all showered and cute with cute new FREE pants.
go on a REAL double date.

i love Good Friday.

and i didn't even eat any meat!! ;) wink.

Well the last couple weeks I have had NOTHING to complain about. I LOVE my life!! :) So naturally when everything is going just splendidly I always assume in a week or so something will happen to make it all come crashing down.

These two lovely dark haired beauties have been a constant source of crazy, silly, happy, fun, supportive, spiritual and patient love for the last 6 months and have truly made HB my home.

But all good things must come to an end and May 1st we are all moving and shuffling to other places.

I love you girls. Tons. Jeniface + Cocomo + HB = Home Sweet Home.

yesterday on my lunch i went to the store and purchased some produce & schtuff to keep at work for healthy snacks. apples. grapes. string cheese. pretzels.

today i pulled out the grapes. they are HUGE. and look SOOOOOOOO good.

"on the fat side" and JUICY. mmmm red grapes, how do we love thee??

so i eat one....

did you know there are 4 seeds in one seeded grape? they take about a minute each to eat. frown. :(

here you can find my friend and fellow traveler Aubrey's blog which gives details of her parts of the trip, but also has A TON of pictures which are awesome which i lacked the desire to post :)
where shall i go next spring.... here and here?

i live next to this:

and have soaked up rays and breathed in a lot of this:

i can desk-dance at work to this:



and i get to hang out with this: