Where were you?

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since 9/11. I was 18, a freshman in college at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. I'll never forget that day. I was up early exercising and had no idea it had even happened. My roommate stopped on her way to ROTC and said something bad had happened, but she wasn't sure of how bad/details yet. I finished working out but when I walked back to the West Wing of the Furama Hotel (yep, I lived in a hotel rented out by LMU), everyone was up and out in the halls. From that moment on, it was scary. Being in LA, especially only about 2 miles from the airport, was crazy. Roads were closed, blocked by huge military vehicles. A freshman who lived a few floors up in the hotel lost her family in one of the planes, they were on their way to LA to visit. I'll never forget that. I'm sitting here watching a 9/11 special...it's still unbelievable to me that this really happened.

On a much lighter note, we had a great weekend! On Friday I went to Alderbrook with my sister, Sophie and my a friend of Kim's who has two little girls. Liam had a great time splashing around in the wading pool. Got home just in time to have dinner then this mama was off to see The Help. It was so good, I loved it! My sister, mom and even my grandma went. I've never been to a movie with my grandma, it was so fun. After the movie we had to go to the Sweet Spot. Love it, love it, love it! It's so exciting Longview finally has a frozen yogurt place. And one that serves YoCream. The BEST! Saturday we got up early and headed to Edgewood for Grandpa Sanderson's 85th birthday party. It was a joint party for him and Grandma Poppy's sister, who also turned 85. It was a great party, the entire family (well, almost everyone) showed up and we got to meet so many of their friends. You would never guess that any of them are that age. It's amazing, I can only hope that I have their spunk when I'm that age!

Today we crashed my parents neighborhood BBQ. We've been going since the first one eight years ago, so I guess we can't really consider it as crashing it! It was fun as usual but SO hot. Poor Liam was sweating. He was miserable, cranky...and then the baby pool came out. It cooled him off and he was pretty happy from then on. Oh, discovered yesterday that his top right tooth has broke through. Such a painful process!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!