Big Events but not pictures

So unfortunately this post will not have any pictures but I thought I would document some of our recent happenings.

I just got back from visiting my sister and her husband.  They just adopted a beautiful baby boy born Thursday May, 14th.  His name is Gage Robinson Brady and he is a cutie.  It is fun to see my sister as a Mom!  Congrats to Katie and Rick!   Being around a newborn made me excited for our new baby girl to come and also made me realize that I need to live up the time that I have left because soon it will be all about feeding, pooping, and sleeping!

While I was away Mike took the boys to the Father/Son campout at the beach.  They say they had a great time although there are not pictures to document it.  I am a little bitter because I left the camera so that Mike would take pictures, I went to look at the pictures today and there were none.  So not only do I have no camping pics but I have no pics of my new nephew or the proud new parents.  Oh well, I 'll get over it!

The funniest thing was when I got home there was a note on the counter from Hailey.  I did take a picture but it is too hard to read so I will just have to write what it said.

Dear Dad and Mom,

In my home lunch I am getting sick of P.B. and J.

P/S. Please go over this list of things I would like on my sandwich

1. turkey

2. ham

3. amirican cheese

The girl is too funny, and yes she did have a ham and cheese sandwich in her lunch today.  She had never said anything so I just figured she was fine with it.  I am happy to know that she will assert herself when needed.

Almost 30 weeks + half marathon= Great Race!

I have to admit that I was a little nervous about how this race was going to go.  I went into it with the attitude of enjoying every minute, and I did.  I did not worry about my time at all and planned on walking if I needed to.  To my amazement I did not walk at all, and I felt great the whole time.  I feel blessed that I have been able to keep running during my pregnancy.  It is a great stress relief for me and I know that it is weird to many but I enjoy it.  Now don't think that I enjoy every minute of it all the time, but there is nothing like finishing a run or having a great race.  

Mike and the kids came and cheered me on and it was fun to see them at different points along the race.  The kids always have fun coming to races probably because they get lots of post race treats.  Today there were some good ones!  Jamba juice, mini cinnabons, soup and rolls.  They were in heaven in face, Jackson ate a little too much and had a stomach ache.

The weather was beautiful, sunny and warm, but not too warm. 

My time only 14 minutes slower than my personal best, not too shabby for almost 30 weeks pregnant.  Now I am going to go lie on the coach and veg.

I don't like posting pictures of my pregnant self but at the request of a sis-in-law I will post one.  I am already wishing that I was not posting this picture!

New Kitchen

It is finally done!  Yeah!!  No grout lines!!!  I have an oven again after almost 3 weeks.  You know what that means I will be baking something yummy.  Well I better save that until after my half marathon tomorrow.  I don't think that brownies are good prerace food.  I will have to post about the race later.  I have never done a race pregnant before.  Wish me luck.  

Here are some before and after pictures.

Before:

New house, well just paint!

This post mostly for my Mom and sister who want to see the new house color.  I always hate picking out colors because it is hard to visualize how it will turn out.  Luckily I love it!  Much better than before.  Of course I had to keep the red door.

Easter and Seattle

I would like to say that we got a family Easter picture but just the kids is good enough right?  No one likes to take pictures when they are pregnant do they?

We had a fun little easter egg hunt at the pirate park, it was perfect because the sun was not out so we had the whole park to ourselves.

My sister and her husband came to visit for the weekend.  Friday we did some baby shopping for both her and I and then Saturday we headed up to Seattle to go to a Mariners game.  Despite the traffic we managed to make it to the game and have a good time.  I hate traffic!

We took a walk from our hotel to Pike Street Market.  The kids thought it was fun to watch them throw the fish!  We actually got flowers this time, they are so cheap and beautiful!!

  The kids also got fun balloons!

We had a fun weekend but it was not long enough.  The kids miss their Aunt Katie and Uncle Rick.  Hailey cried for a while on the way home because she did not want them to leave.  Wish we lived closer to them!

Pregnancy?!!**

So I will admit that I do not love being pregnant, and this time it just seems to be dragging on.  3 1/2 months to go and it seems like it is never going to get here.  I think maybe I have just forgotten how long it really is!!  I am hoping for the sun to come and stay, being outside and warm always makes the days fly by!  So heres to wishing summer would get here soon!  I know a lot of you can feel my pain!

Spring Break 2009

It appears that I am continuing to slack on my blogging, oh well how many people actually read this anyway, right?

So for spring break this year we went to sunny California, it was a dream. I have decided that as I get older I need the warm sunshine more and more.

We left at 5am on Saturday, it is a 16 hour drive from Portland to Disneyland and we decided that neither the kids or Mike and I could handle it all in one day. The kids actually do pretty well on long drives, I on the other hand do not enjoy being in the car for long periods of time especially when I am pregnant. Mike bought a Nintendo DS and kept it a secret until we needed it on the drive. Jackson was beyond delighted at this as Mike had bought him the Legos Star Wars game.

Saturday we drove 11 hours arriving in Tracy, California around 3:30pm, plenty of time left to enjoy the rest of the day. After some swimming(actually hot tubbing because the pool was freezing) for the kids, and a run for me we were off in search of some dinner. The kids decided that they wanted Burger King, really? Needless to say Mike and I did not partake and decided to get something elsewhere and take it back to the hotel. Burger King was an adventure as Noah decided that he needed to poop, mind you that he is still refusing to go in the potty. So Noah and I headed off to the bathroom which would be a 1/2 hour experience of me trying to coax, bribe, do anything that would get him to poop. Amazingly, no one came into the bathroom that whole time, I am sure they would have been very entertained if they had. After getting food and ice cream for the kids we got back to the hotel with arms very full and proceeded to try and get into our room. Our keys were not working so Mike went to the desk got them rekeyed and came back, still not working. Again to the desk, this time he came back with rekeyed cards and a worker. Keys did not work and the master key card did not work. Meanwhile the ice cream is melting the kids are lying on the floor and I am starving. You all know that it is not good for anyone when a pregnant woman is hungry. As the worker walked by me he mumbled a really nice word to himself and at that point I was wondering if we were ever going to get into our room. So I decided that the kids should probably eat their half melted ice cream and as Jackson kept spilling his on the floor I was wondering what I had done. the guy comes back with some tool and proceeds to remove the door lock and was able to get the door open, but we were not going to be able to stay in that room. MArvelous!!! Now we have to move all of our stuff ,which was already unpacked, all the way down the hall. I was not happy and being hungry did not help. So finally an hour later we were settled in our new room. Of course we thought that they would comp the room, they didn't. I let Mike handle it but we all know that he is not mean enough. They will be getting a letter from me soon.

Sunday started out much how Saturday ended. We got up got ready for church, packed and left the hotel in plenty of time to make it to the first meeting. Mike had programmed the GPS for the nearest church with a 9am meeting. We drove and ended up in the middle of nowhere! After calling our friends to help us out we did indeed make it, although a little late. The 5 hour drive on Sunday felt like 12 hours! Jackson was whining pretty much the whole time. We made it though! Before meeting up with my parents at our hotel we went to visit friends from college. It had been about 8 years since I had seen Jillyn and Curt and it was fun to visit with them. Jillyn is a super woman, she made an awesome dinner and did I mention that she had just had her 6th baby that previous Tuesday! We had a great time visiting and catching up.

Now onto Disney!!

MONDAY- We got up early and were in line when they opened the gates! We went all day and the kids did awesome!!! We did everything that we had planned and got back to the hotel around 7:30pm after picking up some dinner.

The teacups, as you can see not my cup of tea!

Just after getting into the park on day1

Jackson got chosen for Jedi Training!! I was jumping up and down so the master jedi would hopefully pick him, it worked luckily! He got to fight Vader! Jack with his certificate

Tuesday-California Adventure

Lucky for us California adventure does not open until 10am so we got a little rest before round 2. This day was so sunny and warm, I was in heaven!

Jackson really enjoying his ice cream bar!

Wednesday-All our favorites and anything we missed

So we got there after a great parking fiasco! We got our fastpasses for Indiana Jones so that we could ride it later, or so we thought! When we went to ride it we got on the ride and then it broke down , this was so frustrating especially for Jack who was ready to drive the Jeep. Oh well! We tooka break and went back to the hotel for dinner and then went back to the park for the fireworks! By this time I think that we were all exhausted but we went anyway knowing it was our last hurrah! WE did not get back to the hotel until about 11:15pm. Luckily we planned on sleeping in and not checking out until the last minute.

Thursday we just recuperated, we had to move hotels and we did a little shopping in downtown Disney. The kids finally got to swim in the pool and they loved it. I loved sitting in the sun by the pool and reading a magazine while chatting with my Mom.

Friday was a sad day as we started our trek home. It is never very fun to drive home from vacation especially whe you have to get through LA traffic! We drove to Redding, CA which was really pretty town.

Saturday brought more driving and it was sad to say goodbye to the sun! As we approached Eugene, OR the rain started. I turned to Mike and told him that we need to move.

It was a very funfilled and exhausting trip! I don't think that we could do Disney every year but maybe every 2 or so. I think maybe next year we will venture as a family to Hawaii!

Thanks to Alex and Ellen, Mike and I get a little R&R this weekend as they are taking our kids while we go see Wicked and stay downtown. I will have to post about that later, I am very excited I have been wanting to see it for a long time!