What a Wonderful World

..at least that was the title to one of the songs that the pond water danced to last night! its ok. ill start over. :)
Adeh, a fellow bible college attendee, invited us up once again to Glendale for a great night of fellowship and of course..food. Adeh grew up in Iran and introduced us to authentic Persian food last night. It was actually delicious. I sadly didn't get any pictures of our meal, but it took multiple waters to bring out our dinner, and they even had to clear off our table mulitple times so that all our food would fit.
After our filling dinner, we walked around the Americana for a few hours, had my first Pinkberry(..still like Yogurtland the best), grabbed ourselves some coffee, and sat near the water fountain/pond and watched the show. About every 15 minutes, the water "dances to the music". its amazing. and very entertaining. Its starting to feel like Christmas!

This is Adeh see the water dancing?

Why is it called Halloween?

Last night Josh and I had a wonderful time with everyone over at Al and Nina's place. (i feel there will be many parties at that HOUSE now.wahoo!) Nevaeh enjoyed being Marty the Zebra, while Charlotte reluctantly was Melman the Giraffe. I am excited to say that Nevaeh is finally taking a liking to Josh and starting to warm up with him. She has always been very shy around him, but last night she was holding his hand and dragging him all over the place. :)

Picture time!

Yesterday I had a blast with the Abdullas..as always. We went down to Laguna Beach and actually took some family photos! All bias aside, I think they turned out pretty well. Here are a few of my favorites.

Pomagranite Ice Cream and Caramel Apples

yes, it was actually pomagranite frozen yogurt, but 'ice cream' has a sweeter ring to it. I spent a lovely afternoon with Nina and her girlies, finding matching outfits for the girls, and enjoying some yummy yogurt after a very filling meal from Hawaiin Express.

Josh got his braces off yesterday too!! As a special treat, we went to down town Disney and bought Caramel Apples...they were simply delightful. I got an "apple pie caramel apple" (with WHITE chocolate) and josh got a "chocolate caramel apple" (title is self explanatory). what a lovely day. Look at those pearly whites! Trying to get some caramel out of his freshly-braceless teeth.haha

O yeah..and you can now refer to me as a brunette :)

Double Dating It Up!!

Josh and I went on our first double date with Will and Bree Sunday night! We had a lot of fun with them walking around Balboa Island.

I found this coin operated horse that I wanted to ride! (My mom NEVER let us ride those things outside of the grocery stores. so i guess im making up for what i missed as a child. ha!) anyways..Josh put a coin in when i wasnt expecting it, and i had a blast riding this thing. hahaha. i got off and sat on the bench next to everyone else, just in time for this woman to walk by with her boyfreind (drunk) and she started telling me that she likes to get on that coin operated horse when we is alone, drunk walking her dog. this lady was hilaroius. she went off on her story of how her dog always barks at the horse and she thinks its the funniest thing, and kept repeating how she only does it when shes drunk. haha o man..

Sera Bella Photography

too bad i had to have the worst tan line on the day that we decided to take pictures. Sera took some sweet pictures of my inkage the other day. as always we had plenty of fun. and no. no nakedness..definitly wearing a tube top. :)

The New Place

Don't be fooled by their solemn expressions..the girls LOVE their new HOUSE! Char is constantly staggering from one end of the house to the other and I think that Nevaeh is really loving her new backyard. Nina's parents came to visit this weekend and we enjoyed an extremely delicous steak dinner that her dad BBQ'd. O. and straight from Nevaeh's mouth, and i quote, "Rachel (which comes out more like RaSHHel), your butt is too big". endquote. HA! for some reason she decides that after realizing i was sitting in a different chair than everyone else. Nina so nicely interpretted it to mean that my butt was so big I had to sit in a special chair. haha, o man. at least it made for great dinner conversation.

That's Nina's mom. holding a bubble cazoo...not a cigar. one of my favorite pictures of the evening