Christmas Fun

We got spoiled rotten this Christmas! And had a lot of fun doing it, too!


Getting ready to act out the nativity

New Christmas PJ's

E with some of her loot

B setting up his many Playmobil and Lego sets

Pre-Christmas Fun

We had lots of fun getting ready for Christmas!!

Dinnyland

This post doesn't need much info. We are Disney freaks. So here we are at "Dinnyland".

Blake in the middle of a sneeze. He is the sneezing king!

The Skeleton and The Bumblebee

I hope everyone had a happy Halloween! We sure did, even with the cold and the rain!

Pumpkin Fun

I love to carve pumpkins!! I did most of them, with a little bit of the kids help. M came home from a softball game at the end and helped too.


Here they are all lined up

M helping out

B with his pumpkin

E poking the lid of the pumpkin. This kept her entertained for a good 20 minutes!

E's Halloween Program

E absolutely loves to sing! She wakes up in the morning singing. She knew all the songs that were in the Primary Program, even the ones that as a sunbeam she shouldn't know. So she was so excited to do her Halloween Program for preschool.

Here she is singing her heart out to the pumpkin song.

E and B with "Frank". It was a life size statue.

Here she is singing the creeping cat song.

Toothless

After lots of whining and worry, B's front tooth finally fell out! He forgot what it felt like after loosing his first two I guess. I LOVE when kids loose their front teeth. He looks so dang adorable!

RAGNAR Baby!

So I finally ran in my first ever race! It was sooo much fun! I ran 13 miles and the team ran a total of 195 miles. My last leg was killer! I wanted to quit but I didn't. It's funny though how after a couple of days it felt like I had a baby. All of the excitement and preparation is over. It's kind of a let down in a way. Ragnar Del Sol here I come!


Team photo

Help Wanted car number 2

Me and M. He is just getting ready to run his last leg.

Me before starting my first leg. I'm trying to get psyched.

E's First Day of Preschool

Hooray for E! She started Preschool this year and is so excited about it!

Here she is outside her teacher's house. Look at how huge that bag looks.

E at home getting ready to leave

E in her classroom with her friend M.

Running on Fumes

So...I have NEVER been a runner. To me running was tortuous. I couldn't think of an excercize I would dislike doing more. But, now I would consider myself a runner. Not a good runner by any means, but a runner none the less. I shockingly look forward to my runs. Well, not those runs :P

The reason I decided to start running in the first place was for lots of reasons. I wanted to get in shape, not really to loose weight but that would always be nice. I wanted to challenge myself. I haven't worked out in the last 20 months because I always thought I would be pregnant. But the real reason I decided to start running is because M really wanted me to do the Vegas Ragnar with him.

So I started training really slow. I did 15 minutes a day three days a week. And that was hard! There is something about picking up my legs that just kills me. Literally! I got shin splints so bad I could hardly walk for days after running. I wondered if I had stress fractures it was so painful. I was temped to quit, but I kept going and I'm sooo glad I did.

This morning I ran 4.65 miles in 59 minutes. It's not fast, but I did it! I ran for an hour! That's the farthest I have ever gone and I didn't think even in my wildest dreams that I could do it. But I did. And I did it.

I started out my training being so self consious. I wondered what everyone thought as they drove past me. But I saw a sign once that has become my motto "If you see my butt jiggle, it's just me waving goodbye."

Well, I hope that motivates someone to try something challenging. It's worth it to not give up. And that is coming from someone who has always been a "quitter". Good luck!

B's First Day of School

B started first grade this year!! All day school for the rest of his life!

B's silly face

B and E getting ready to walk to the bus.

He looks ready to go!

E's 4th Birthday

Holy Cow! My baby is 4!

Before opening presents.

Me and E with her princess cake I made.

E wanted some clothes that matched her "bitty baby". It's hard to tell, but her clothes do match the baby in her arms.

San Diego Trip

For Christmas M's parents gave every family a trip to San Diego during the year. We went right before E's birthday and had so much fun. My kids are at such great ages. It kinda makes me wonder why I want another baby :)

The kids at Sea World.

At the Coronado Beach. The water was FREEZING!

"World Famous" San Diego zoo.

At a Padre's game. We had awesome seats. I think the kids most enjoyed watching the Friar dance and eating treats.

Family Reunion

We went to our family reunion at Yuba Lake this year. Unfortunately we were only able to go for a day but it was still fun to take the wave runners out and see family we hadn't seen for a while.

Cousin K posing for a picture.

I just had to include this one!

E with her Daddy and a full mouth of candy.

E's Princess Camp

E did a "Princess Camp" at the place she takes dance. They learned a cute Sleeping Beauty dance and performed it to the families.

E and her cute cousin A.

Sewing Stuff

Here's my latest projects. I made all of them without a pattern, which always makes me feel proud of myself.

I got the idea from a shabby apple dress.

For E on her birthday.

Start Spreading the News...

Hahaha. No, I am not pregnant. Just singing that Frank Sinatra Song "New York". M and I just got back from NYC. Here are the pictures:

A T-Rex skeleton at the Natural History Museum. There were soooo many dinosaur bones. B would have been in heaven!

Teddy Roosevelt statue outside the museum entrance. We told B he was the same guy from "Night at the Museum". He thought that was pretty cool.

Me sitting on a park bench in the middle of Amsterdam Ave. eating an H and H bagel. Mmmm. My mouth is watering just thinking of it!

We went to Coney Island for our first time. We've been to NY a few times but had never made it down there. It was pretty fun! We ate at the Original Nathan's Hotdogs. It was the best hotdog I have ever had!

Me at the beach on Coney Island. Maybe we could take the kids with us some day. But for now it's fun to go with just M and me.