Month: April 2014

James LOVES his neighbor girlfriend, Buffy. She is a Mastiff. They love playing together and yesterday when I told James it was time to head inside he started giving Buffy kisses! It was very sweet. Do

I forgot to post a photo of James on his birthday last weekend. James turned 4 on April 13th. Here he is with his birthday hat:

I can't believe it - Birkenstocks are back in style. Several window displays in Georgetown feature mannequins wearing white Birkenstocks. Here is one at Urban Outfitters on M Street: Some say that

I LOVE Jennifer Garner. She is so cute! And 13 Going on 30 is one of my favorite Jennifer Garner movies. I wonder how long it took her to practice acting like a 13 year old without laughing and being

I've been wanting to visit Washington, DC at peak bloom for the cherry blossoms for years. I even had a recurring alert in my calendar to tell me to look into going every year. But the end of March

April arrived and I took an afternoon off to walk around the mall area of Washington, DC. I saw a lot of blooms about to go nuts and I can't wait to go back again this week and see how they are looking. Buds

Chris went to a developer conference and came home with these funny glasses from Big Nerd Ranch. I told him to think about what his next big idea was while wearing them and I would take his picture. What

I have always been a huge fan of pantsuits. I used to wear them to weddings all the time (black ones of course). But now the jumpsuit trend is coming back and I love it! I think a white jumpsuit would

I was in Orlando for a wedding and I thought I missed the peak Tabebuia season. I used to call them (and still sometimes do) Trumpet Trees but they are not actually trumpet trees. They are Tabebuia trees.

We arrived back in DC from New Orleans to news of another snow day. Here we were mid-March and getting more snow! A few bulbs in our neighborhood popping up through the last snow of the season: Then

We were in Birmingham and New Orleans a few weeks ago and I loved seeing all of the flowering trees in bloom. It wasn't quite Spring yet in DC and I was ready to see some color! Chris made me realize