passed out

I've never seen Luca fallen asleep upright before - too cute!! and Marco was working too, talk about multi tasking!

summer harvest

this year i decided to plant some strawberries and Russian tomatoes (black tomato). i think we got total of 4 strawberries... and there are still 4 tomatoes on the stem right now. it was delicious!!! I'll probably do plant these again next year!

summer is officially over

i turned on our heater tonight :-( where was my summer? i think i only went to beach 2 or 3 times. i think we only had a few weeks of hot weather, but summer ended fast this year in Sept. it's getting cooler and colder every day. i think i'm ready for the fall :-)

here are some good summer 2009 recap! (breakfast out in our patio, summer bbq meal, fresh lemon mint tea from our patio).

Marco the plumber

over the summer so our dishwasher was not draining properly and it would back-up to our sink... and now i can't remember how Marco fixed it. it's good to have a plumber around :-)

Brunch at 505

We had our neighbors over for brunch and it was to test our some of our wedding gifts and to celebrate Chinese Moon Fest. I couldn't wait to use it :-) we made lots of yummy finger foods and i have to say my strawberry tart/cake was very good. The little cupcake was like a pound cake with red bean filling and it turned out really good.

Summer Tomato

so Marco tells me that women talks to their flowers/plants a lot more than men and apparently it grows better, according to NPR(?). Well, I don't really talk to my tomato plant, but I try to water it every day from a 4" high to a 24" tall tomato plant :-) I do have to say it must of been my silent prayers! these pictures were taken last month and you can see I only had ONE to-mato and today I have total of 3!!! so excited!!! It's still very green and I can't wait to harvest it!

here are some more updated pictures of our tomato ... 8/2009

and i think all the talking and water helped ;-) they were yummy!