Last Days of Summer

Summer is officially over, and I guess it's true because we've finally dipped below 80 degrees around here.  We celebrated the last days of summer by being outside most of the weekend.  Some of the highlights:

- Camille had her first AYSO soccer game.  The girls were all decked out in their black and red uniforms, which was very cute.  We met up with Camille's best friend, saw an old friend from mommy and me days, and a bunch of family came out to cheer her on. Camille's favorite part of soccer was posing for pictures before soccer actually started.

Side note: Are your children camera divas too?  Natalie still looks away just when I pick up the camera phone, but Camille gives me tons of poses like she's Tyra Banks.  Soccer itself was a little rough, since sometimes we have a hard time adjusting to new things, but I'm sure it will improve once we get used to it and obviously incorporate a little bribery like post-soccer ice cream.

- Date night!  We drove about 0.5 miles away for our night out, and "dinner and a movie" involved popcorn, Sprite, and terrible Crunch bites (do not ever get those!) for dinner, and seats with a two-seat gap in between us because the handicap area was the only spot left in the theater, and it was absolutely terrific.  We saw The Way Way Back starring Steve Carrell, Toni Collette and a bunch of other funny people.  We see about 4 movies a year in the theater, so we've upped the standard for what we'll see - it has to be 70 or more on Rotten Tomatoes, preferably with lots of action or special effects (otherwise we might as well watch it at home).  Nothing exactly fit the bill, but The Way Way Back got great reviews.  Really sweet movie, we highly recommend it.  Meanwhile, on our way out of the mall, we walked past the new Buffalo Wild Wings, and literally hundreds of people inside the restaurant and crowded up at the windows outside were glued to the tvs.  And all the 100 tvs were playing exactly the same thing.  It was super eerie.  I guess a fight was on and the rest of the world cared?  Didn't get the memo I guess.

- Zoo time.  We have a zoo pass, and since things had cooled off a little, we headed there via an In N Out lunch stop.  The LA Zoo is one of the best deals in LA for families.  We try to go a couple times a month, and the girls love the new reptile and insect house. They have little glass cubbies for each creature and you have to search to find the scorpion or whatnot, which is hugely fun.  Speaking of our love for picture-posing, the girls always pose at the metal snake near the exhibit and Sunday was no exception. 

Camille insisted on posing with a cupped hand against her face (?) and of course Natalie tried to copy

Hope you had a good weekend too!