It's May 1st, the birds are singing and it's not terribly hot out so I've been gardening while Joel is fishing with the boys. A ...

We decided to venture out on our first road trip when Caelen was three weeks old. We spent a night in Fresno with friends and then continued...

A year ago we were dragging four heaping luggage carts, a cat carrier and an 8 week old baby through customs at LAX. We marveled at the c...

I started a thing on twitter where I number my thoughts that I feel are related to reverse culture shock in our move from Singapore to LA. I...

First of all, we found a place to live! We looked high and low (mostly high though... have you seen west side real estate lately?) ...

I know you’re curious. How did three adults, a cat and an eight week old baby do on this 24 hour odyssey? Overall I’m going to s...

I left off at the end of Disneyland. The family, filled with churros, had just left for Canada up the PCH and Joel and I moved into a sui...

One of my best friends in the whole world moved to California this month and is staying with us for the Summer or until she gets settled. It...

A. Sometimes in Fairfax, sometimes in LA Spring, the season of weekly flights and filming hysteria is upon us. Joel, being the Pennington ...

After a full day of recovery from the wrap party we packed up Joel's apartment in Marina del Rey and crammed every last jar of peanut bu...

So here we are, four months and four days since Joel came down to LA "for a few weeks". (I think they like him.) He's worki...

LA Spring 2008 , a set on Flickr.

I've been home from my extended Christmas/January (hey why not) holidays for three weeks now. Joel is still working in LA with no clear ...

I flew down to LA for the weekend to celebrate an early Valentine's day with Joel. We had dinner together overlooking the water at a ...

My week in LA is drawing to a close. Joel and I will drive back home to Fairfax for the weekend and then he'll fly back to LA again.  My...

The Disney family staff party was last night in Disneyland. They closed off the park after 6pm to non Disney employees and from then til cl...

I set out alone today to explore the 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica. It's basically like Robson Street for you Vancouverites only ...

Joel worked today and I spent a tough day walking up and down Venice Beach. The beach is just a couple of blocks from the apartment compl...

We just finished the drive from Fairfax to LA today. It took about 11 hours though it was all beautiful. We stopped in Big Sur and Santa ...