Last night I stayed up watching the news, basically watching Montecito burn down. I had tears in my eyes...so sad for all those people. It was horrible. The news footage-showing house after house burn, not that it matters, but these houses are-were-so beautiful. I remember wandering through the canyons with Matt looking and dreaming of owning one of these houses. We even told each other if we were ever to win the lotto or come into a ton of money-this is where we would move. We found an empty lot and decided we would build from scratch and I had it all laid out in my head. Kitchen here, Master bedroom here-with this as the view.....just to imagine how many people were able to just that and actually build their dream house. Then to watch it be destroyed with no mercy as firefighters and news crews watched helplessly. There were about a hundred that are now just tiles and chimeys and burn rubbish. I could not imagine what these people must be going through.....so sad.

Katie and I had a fun day. We played, did a few errands and then had lunch at Jack-in-the-box with grandma and then went to the Americana at Brand with Matt. It was nice....we saw "the" tree that will be lit tomorrow-it is HUGE!

Here are a few pictures of this little girl who has stole my heart!

Here is my avacado tree. :0)