Our Sweet 16

On Friday, Mr. Siegel and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary! Yay!

We grabbed our trusty sidekick The Ev, and headed down to Sherman Oaks for dinner at Mr. Cecil's Rib Joint. Mainly cuz it had an attractive kids' menu. And indeed, Ev selected the kids' giant beef rib, and ate the whole thing!

After dinner, we bopped across the street to Freakbeat Records. What an awesome store! Fantastic selection of stuff! Plus they give our friend Davie his own section. A sign of an excellent record store. ;-)

Oh -- and that Donny Most album pictured below? Bri got it. ;-)

The Getty Center

For Mr. Siegel's birthday, we decided to go to The Getty Center. We hadn't been there since shortly after it opened, and we'd NEVER taken The Boy!

I must say, the museum is much improved from when it first opened. (For starters, the tram was working this time, so we didn't have to walk down the hill on our way back to the parking garage. HA!) Not only is the collection more impressive now, but the facility and gardens are just breathtaking. The buildings, the exhibits, the grounds, the views, the cafes ... Everything was really wonderful!

Thank you, J. Paul Getty!

"ANOTHER birthday?! Whaaa...?!"

Well, you have not aged A DAY!!!

Hope you have a WONDERFUL day today, Honey. xoxoxo

PCC Flea Market

We went to the flea market today at Pasadena City College.

This has long been our favorite flea market; it just has great vendors, the prices are pretty fair (unlike at the Rose Bowl flea), and it's big without being unmanageable. Plus, they have a gnarly record section that Mr. Siegel *adores*.

We give The Boy his own spending money, and he always finds some cool tchotchke to purchase.

I myself got 3 skeins of yarn for $ .75 each, some butterfly earrings for a buck, and a red/white/blue rhinestone American flag ring for $2.50 (I'm gonna rock that bling on 4th of July)!

If you scroll down to the last photo here, you'll see Mr. Siegel eyeing what turned out to be his big purchase of the day...

Disney's California Adventure

Today, we went to California Adventure.

I dunno what to say about it, other than: "Good thing it was 'free'."

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UPDATE: 5/18:

SHEESH! Note to self: Do not blog when depressed. It wasn't THAT bad! Just kinda crowded and annoying for the last couple hours of our visit. Pardon my drama.

I think our puppeh might just be the cutest puppeh in the whole wide world.

All pix taken by Mr. Siegel and his rad digicam, the Canon EOS Rebel XTi.

My boys finally met Maddy!

...oh, and her Dad was there, too. BWAHHAHAAHAHAAH!

Mr. Siegel's B-day Dinner

Guess where we went???

We haven't been here since before The Boy was born! It was super-fun. And yum-o.

Chicks dig guys with skillz.

My guy builds compys. It's a pretty awesome skill. Nuthin' I like more than a man with a motherboard in one hand and a power supply in the other.

This new baby has a *sweet* quad-core processor! :: swoon ::