Happy Birthday, Chloe!

Mia's good friend Chloe celebrated her first birthday party over the weekend.

What fun to dress up in my Valentine's outfit again (given that my "Love Bug" shirt fit perfectly into Chloe's ladybug birthday theme) and help Chloe celebrate the big 1!

Mia was absolutely the life of the party until she ran out of steam ... and then she just looked ready to go home. She LOVED walking around the party, eating sandwiches, watching Chloe open her gifts, and eating the yummy cupcakes.

I hope that this is just the first of many, many birthdays that these girls will celebrate together. We made serious attempts to take pictures of the girls together since we have a photo of Chloe's Mommy, Rachael, at MY 1st birthday party over 32 years ago!

Ladies Who Lunch

We had lunch with Rachael this week, who I have known ... well, forever....

If you wonder what I mean by that, here we are at my first birthday party (I'm center in white, Rachael is on the far left at only 7 weeks old!):


So, we got together with our kids to have lunch and catch up. Yes, our kids. Miss Chloe Lynn arrived on February 20th, just about 6 weeks after Mia.

Rachael and I grew up together - I spent the night at her house the night my brother was born, she joined my family on summer vacations to Lake Tahoe, and her Grammie took us on a wild train adventure through the redwoods of northern California in elementary school. She was just always part of my childhood... and now part of my adulthood also - she visited me in NYC and we attended each other's weddings and baby showers. I love that we still get together, after all these years and all of the different paths that we've followed in life. There's just something about a friend who has known you for SO long.

Lake Tahoe in the mid-80s - matching shirts and *cool* pocket shorts I have on!

I love that our girls are close in age, and that just maybe someday Mia will say the same things about Chloe that I can say about Rachael. Wouldn't that be fun?!



Oh, and by the way, I can assure you that our drinks of choice during our most recent lunch together were most definitely not Capri Suns (see top photo)!!!