Pepperdine Week

It's been 11 years since I graduated from Pepperdine, but this week I've seen many of my favorite alumni.

Julie and Joel were part of our journalism gang, with Jason and Stephanie and JT, and I haven't seen them since Jason and Steph's 2004 wedding. They were in town last week from Texas, and we managed to all get together for dinner.

Julie has two girls - Rachel and Emma - and both of them are three months older than my girls. Jason and Stephanie came with Morgan, who just turned 1, and our friend Armando came with his 20-month-old daughter. Talk about girls, girls, girls!

It was weird (and fun) to be together again, a decade later, all of us married-with-kids.

On Friday, I took my girls out to Pasadena to visit Melanie and David and their new addition, Heather Olivia!
Melanie and I were freshman-year roommates at Pepperdine.

No photos of the newborn, as she was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit due to an infection and photos through the glass aren't worth sharing.
They are home and happy now, and I look forward to visiting again and holding the baby!

We then kept going east, to JT's parents' house, to visit with her and Callie. They are here from England on their meet-the-California-family tour. We had a relaxing afternoon, with lunch at the house and then fancy ice cream in a cutesy part of Claremont.

And speaking of Callie, she and her lovely parents came to visit us Tuesday for dinner, and she took naps in our playpen like an angel - er, a princess.