i'll eat you up, i love you so!

happy halloween from our little wild thing!

 

los angeles, i'm yours

we spent the last week of our US trip in LA with family and friends... the traffic was just as horrendous as we remembered it, and the sunshine just as sweet. hit a bunch of old haunts, caught up with a bunch of good people. lb cried as the plane took off for oz. such a sap, that one.

 chez les cousins - kk shows me the magic of dancing fingers (M was transfixed!)

 

ucla

yrl library, ucla

my book is on this aisle

here's what M thought of my book

sweetest second cousins!

manhattan beach

 when your old friends meet your new baby... 

 ...and some of them have babies of their own...

 with grins like this! it just melts your heart.

 baby's first beach

 papa's first pair of birdwell breaches

 beach family portrait

groups selfies with babies... you take what you can get.

santa monica, our old pad

the adamson house, just a few days before our 9th anniversary

sydney-canberra: the last leg, with baby on her last legs

lunch date with his mini-me

sunday funday

we've just come off a big week at work (i was technically back on the job from oct 5 to oct 23 to run a conference), and needed a relaxing day at the pub...

wimberley retreat

a few days on the river in central texas... really the only way to survive the august heat!

 

 

 the main house - we could have stayed here for weeks!

 she may look like her papa but she's got her mama's attitude

 hammock + trees

 

the river, post flood

 the boys show us how to make a splash...

...and j&j show us how to chill

 the texas trifecta: kolaches, tex-mex and bbq in one glorious day

we had a grand ol' time!

took the train to cow town

you can't spend two weeks in dallas without a side trip to fort fun! we spent two nights this time... i think next time we might need three.

 baby's first train ride

 she had a ball

 meeting her new best friends

 three of my most favorite gals ever!

 and with one of us in the way back, we can even travel in ONE CAR! (thanks, alan)

 at the amon carter museum of american art

story time

group selfies, more or less successful

 the peden four is now a party of six

headed back to big d