Meet Our LA Friends.....

Benner, Roxanne and Aaron

Our friendship with Roxanne and Aaron seemed almost providential. We met them on our second full day in LA at Mosaic church in Pasadena. We were staying with Sarah and Steve at the time. We had heard about Mosaic and wanted to check it out. When we did, two very friendly people greeted us at the welcome table: Roxanne and Aaron. We had a nice conversation, and went home. But a few hours later, we were at Trader Joe's and ran into them again! (At the time, Aaron had a very massive beard so we remembered him.) Roxanne and Aaron were so down to earth, authentic and super nice. It was only natural that we became friends. Roxanne and Aaron were there for Rhi's birthday hike, but perhaps most importantly, they introduced us to our favorite LA taco spot: Hugo's.

Roxanne is a Women's Program Coordinator at a non profit on the west side dedicated to using art to help end domestic violence. From their website: "Through creative expression, battered women and children gain a sense of renewal and power." Aaron is a photographer. He just gave us his new business cards and they are a smaller, irregular shape and feature various photos that he has taken. Very hip business cards. You should hire him! They are both California natives and met at UC Santa Cruz at a concert. We enjoy engaging in political discourse with them and always end up laughing when we're with them which makes for a good time.

This past weekend we met up on Sunday afternoon for bocce ball at the park. We also did a little tree climbin' and and enjoyed some old school fun of the playground.

Coincidentally, we spotted another celeb to add to our list: Farrah Fawcett.

Good spot job Roxanne! We then walked around Studio City, had some pinkberry (which is soo west coast) and debated the proper way to fix nachos which we enjoyed as we witnessed the Phillies victory. WOO HOO!

Becca and Ryan Robins

As many of you know, Benner and I are obsessed with naming things. It seems that we are coming up with new nicknames for each other every day, and we spend hours talking about potential dog and baby names. King Beepers is tops for our future bulldog, and the baby names are a secret. (Except we've spilled to many of you already.) We somewhat consider ourselves experts in the field of nameology. You wonder how Becca and Ryan fit in to this? Well, this past Saturday night as we had the Robins over for dinner, they shared their future dog name: Baskin. Baskin Robins. That is awesome. Mike and Rhianwen first met Becca at small group at Ecclesia. The two hit it off right away and we later met her husband Ryan. Ryan is an actor (has a lead in an upcoming production called the White Rose-- he plays a nazi bad guy) and Becca is a chaplain at a homeless shelter for women and children called Hope Gardens. They are from Colorado and have been here for about a year.

For our next get together, we plan to hit a batting cage/put put golf place (if you're in LA and work in the industry you have to be good at softball) and we also want to try fly fishing together. I don't remember how that came up but we know there are many adventures in store.

Thanks for being our friends guys, we like you a lot!