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Happy Mother's Day in Santa Barbara!

Steven’s parents left today after a nice visit with us in Glendale. They attended a concert I performed last weekend with the Rio Hondo Symphony, playing principal on Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Steven and his mom went to Descanso Gardens to look at the new blooms, and the doggies enjoyed having each other to play with. This past weekend we took Mom up to Santa Barbara and Solvang to look at the cuteness and do some wine tasting at local vineyards. It was a lovely weekend and I hope she had a great mother’s day trip.

Here are some pictures of the past two weeks – thanks for a great visit!

Apollo and Fresco sleeping on opposite sides of the couch after a long day of playing.

Mom and Dad S at Rideau Vineyards

Victoria and the puppies hanging out on the beautiful porch at Rideau

Dad and Steven tasting wines at Rideau

You can barely see Dad S waving from the top of the Santa Barbara Courthouse

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Ella and Apollo looking at the birds outside

Steven and I took a quick weekend trip to Palm Springs with Apollo to spend some time together before Steven left for a business conference in Las Vegas for the week. Continue Reading »

We were very grateful to be invited over for Easter dinner by the Jamisons, a family from church. My contribution was a lemon layer cake with lemon curd in between the layers. Continue Reading »

View of downtown Glendale and downtown Los Angeles behind it from the Verdugo mountains

Tired but happy while hiking!

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Steven before - long haired and haggard

Steven after - clean shaven and perky in his official Olympics jacket!

I performed in a concert on Saturday, February 28 that Steven and our friend Stephanie attended. It was with the San Fernando Valley Symphony, and I was playing principal on a great program. The highlight for me was playing all the famous oboe solos in Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony “Eroica” that I have been practicing for auditions for years. Also, we both performed in a concert on Friday, March 5 that was a presentation in Southern California of the program we performed in the International Haydn Festival in Vienna, Austria over the summer. I played principal oboe this time instead of english horn, and had fun looking back at Steven in the choir.

To celebrate the end of the Olympics we spent a couple of hours at Descanso Gardens to see the amazing Camellias blooming. It was a lovely way to relax and spend some time together.

Collage of the beautiful camellias at Descanso Gardens

We were happy to also celebrate the end of another long bout of rain, including another day of hail.

Heavy rain and hail in February - the yard in the upper left is completely flooded!

Tonight we experimented and created Strawberry pizza with a balsamic glaze for dinner – delicious.

Strawberry pizza - dedicated to Jessi!

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While Steven has been at work I have been sewing. In addition to a bunch of repairs, hems, etc. I made a cover for my sewing machine using my own pattern:

Before: the odd curves and angles made measuring for the cover a challenge.

After: pretty cover!

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Watching the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics

Valentine’s Day is never a huge deal to us, and good thing too. I spent all day playing bells with our church bell choir, and Steven spent all weekend at work. However, I made a nice dinner last night and dessert to celebrate with Steven.

Valentine's Day Treats

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Close up of Tiffany style lamp

Steven has been working very hard on preparing for the Olympics at work – less than two weeks! Be sure to check out his hard work at NBColympics.com.

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We went to Universal Studios Hollywood on Saturday with Heather and Dave to activate our 2010 Annual Pass. It was the first day Steven was back in LA, and the first day of the week it was clear after all the rain.

Apollo was happy to have Steven home, but was especially sad that Jessi left after her visit.

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