Weekend with friends/Mommy's trip to LA

One of the reasons I haven't posted in a while is that I was in Los Angeles for a conference most of last week. The conference kept us quite busy, but my colleagues and I still had a little time in the evenings to play tourist. Here are a couple pictures of our hotel, the Millenium Biltmore. It's a famous older hotel with great architecture that's been featured in many movies. I was excited to find out this hotel was where the "Slimer" scenes from Ghostbusters were filmed. I was not so excited to find out that the hotel is actually haunted (according to legend, at least).

Our hotel was right across from the U.S Bank Tower, one of the most recognizable buildings in the LA skyline. I actually didn't realize this building was there until the 2nd day since when you're right next to it you can't see the top :)

We went to Hollywood one night, and were disappointed that we couldn't see the handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater because the X Factor was filming there.

And of course we saw the stars. Here's one I took for the kids.

And one for me.

Okay, on to the other pictures. A couple weekends ago, the Johnstons and Ben and Carson Lamkin came to the lake house. Bella Lamkin also came along and got her usual exercise fetching and swimming. The kids had a great time throwing things for her.

Ben and Carson. Carson was not a big fan of the water and spent pretty much all his time in the sand. We'll get him in next year :)

Carson and Will on the boat. I think they were attempting to do a fist-bump.

Jack's getting pretty good at driving the boat. Daddy even lets him turn and steer a little!

Cute pic of Courtney and Will.

Thumbs-up from Courtney and Will on the tube!

Since DJ was there, we actually had someone else to drive the boat so Andy could get a chance to wakeboard.

I did a little kneeboarding. Thanks to Courtney for taking these and some of the other pictures!

Bella, Lou, and the boys having fun in the water.

Carson is so cute!

A couple good pictures of Carson and Ben.

The 3 Stooges