* lovely day *

I know we are a week into spring already, but it didn't feel like spring until today. It is lovely outside. I wore a cute sleeveless black dress to work with my fantastic red flats. I think I am the whitest I have ever been, but its spring and I will show my pale legs in celebration! I took my lunch break out on the patio, it was so warm and you can't beat the view at my job!

The Patio at Los Altos Golf & Country Club.

* the dress *

I found it a few weeks ago... at a little bridal shop in Concord near where my mom works. It was the first dress the saleswoman showed me. It was the second dress I actually tried on. It was definitely "the one". It will arrive in June.

That gives me just about 10 weeks to get serious about my diet and exercise. So with the goal (that little white dress) in plain sight I have begun some early morning routines. I walk 2 mornings a week on West Cliff as the sun rises and 3 mornings a week on the treadmill. And I have started my slim in 6 daily regimen, that's right "6 weeks to a slimmer me". Yes, I did get suckered into one of those infomercials and I purchased a set of beach body workout DVDs... I'm not embarrassed, I just hope I look like the girl on the cover after 6 weeks. I also figured if I post this for the world to see it might help to keep me accountable.

* they were little once *

My "little" brother Kelan & my "little" sister Audrey.

These two kiddos are my youngest brother & sister. They were born while I was in high school. Audrey arrived when I was 16 and Kelan was born my senior year. They were and still are so cute! It was such a blessing to have little siblings around at that time of my life, it gave the rest of us someone to care for and think about other than ourselves (you know how selfish we can be in those teenage angst years).

Well I'm home right now with these two, we are celebrating my mom's 52nd birthday. Let me tell you how NOT SO LITTLE they are now. Kelan will be 13 next month he is as tall as I am and still growing. He likes to wrestle me to the ground as a way of saying "hello, I've missed you, I love you". Audrey is 14 and a freshman in high school. She has surpassed me in height. She is a stylish gal with so many wonderful ideas about the world that are all her own. She will be a bridesmaid in my wedding... There is no "junior bridesmaid" about her.

I love them dearly!

* To those whom I have recently called *

Ok... I admit it, I'm a butt dialer, a purse dialer, and a pocket dialer! Call it what you will, I do it often. And I am embarrassed. But nothing makes me laugh as hard as this commercial. Makes me want a flip phone next.