Christmas

Sherrye and I took the babies to the mall to see Santa. Meadow and Sebastian were both so enamored with the bungee jumpers that they didn't see Santa until they walked right up on him.

Meadow immediately dismissed him as 'not the real Santa' the second she saw him. Apparently another Santa  came to visit their school. I told Santa her concerns and he worked her through it.

After their visit with Santa, we let them play on the bungee jumpers! Pretty awesome. Meadow flipped until she was dizzy. Sebastian turned into Spider Man.

                       

 Miller was understandably amazed.

...And he went home to have a good bounce.



Been a while

So, it's been a while since I have posted to our family blog. I'm going to give it another shot!

James and I had our newest precious baby on July 19th. His name is Miller and he is amazing. Obviously. Our other two have grown so much. Just looking at the pics from my old posts has shocked me. I can't believe how much they have grown.

Below is a letter that Miller sent to his two grandmothers and his Aunt Stacy. I will also post some updates on Meadow and Seb Man below. Please start following the blog again to keep up with our family. I'm going to try super hard to keep this going!

Miller's Letter

Dear Family,



 I thought you might like to know what my day was like yesterday. You're not going to believe this. Some SERIOUS stuff was going down.

First, I started off with some delicious breakfast, a bowl of Mixed Fruit Rice Cereal. Mmmmmm. Mom is such a perfectionist though. Bite, wipe. Bite, wipe. I had to take care of this myself.

That was pretty eventful, so I needed some chill time.

 
If you guys ever want me to show you how to do this next move, just give me a call… Oh yeah, that’s two things at once.

Then, I needed a little exercise. I doubt you have noticed, but my thighs are getting a little out of control. See above.

What’s awesome is that I finally figured out how to make this sucker move! Crap! Are you sure this thing will hold???

Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.

I just realized exercise is totally overrated!

For some reason I don't remember much after that...

With tons of baby love,

Miller



I'm going to be working on a page with pictures for the babies. I hope to have it up today. We'll see.

I promise I will post a......... post that you guys will give a rats ass about soon. It's just been crazy round here...

We had a very nice wedding shower thrown by the folks at Ashley’s work on Friday. They went all out with beautiful and thoughtful decorations, delicious homemade food and awesome gifts. My mom and Ashley’s mom were both able to attend, as well as Noah, the baby of two of Ashley’s coworkers. It was by far the finest of the few wedding showers that I have attended – a full rainbow even appeared while we were eating! Despite my severe appreciation, I was about one unicorn away from needing an emergency session of football, can beer and head butting to get my head right ;)

Saturday was filled with cooking, cleaning and studying while Ashley took the babies to Perryville to see her Aunt Michael’s new house. They got back around 8:00 that evening and we put the babies in bed for some grownup time! We stayed up really late watching Comedy Central and playing Speed, which I won 12 to 4. That’s the cool thing about my baby – even if I absolutely, positively crush her in a card game she’ll still chill with me all night. Love ya p!



Baby Story of the Day:


The little turkeys clogged the bathroom sink on Saturday. I was mopping the floors in the kitchen and dining room, so I had them locked in the back part of the apartment with a baby-gate. I heard an ominous combination of splishing, splashing and giggling coming from the bathroom and, upon further inspection, found them “cleaning” the bathroom door with toilet paper and water from the sink. They were having quite a fine time and the sink was completely full of standing water. Since I didn’t feel inclined to take a picture of the freshly cleaned door or the reservoir in the sink, I’ve included one of Meadow destroying my brother Michael ‘s face with a laser gun.



Song in my head: Lucky, by Britney Spears…ugh. I have no idea how this song got in my head; I just want it OUT! I seriously considered not sharing this one ;)

P's Birthday

Hey everyone! James' B-Day was last week and we celebrated it Thursday night as well as over the weekend.

Thursday night we had dinner at Sherrye's. It was delish! Then she watched the babies for us so that we could go to the Rev Room with some of our friends. We had a great time, but had to work the next morning.

Here are a few pics...


Katie, Me, Whitney, Jenny my BFF, Whitney's sis, Katie...



Josh, Me, James. Good Times!



Then this weekend we got to go to a Crawfish Boil with some new friends, Melanie and Seth. It was so much fun! Afterwards we went to Sticky Fingerz and watched a great band with Josh and Jason.

It was pretty much a great B-Day weekend!!

Hello everybody!

Baby Story of the Day:

I have a cute picture of the babies in our bed this morning, so this will be a great opportunity to share our daily wake-up routine. Every morning I wake the babies by bringing them from their bed to our bed, letting them lay under the covers with the light on for a while. I require a smooth wake-up process in the morning, so I try and make theirs as smooth as possible as well.

It’s funny how they both have such different transitions from asleep to awake. Sebastian wakes up quickly: in the amount of time that it takes me to move him to my bed he has usually requested his juice and race car 3 or 4 times. After downing a sippy cup, he’s wide awake and ready to start messing with his sister. Meadow on the other hand usually isn’t awake until I get her in my bed and start talking to her. Since I have the light on, she generally requires 5 – 10 minutes of full-body submersion under the covers to start interacting with the living world. A usual conversation in the morning is,
Me: “Alright Meadow, it’s time to start getting dressed.”
Squirming lump under the covers: “Five more minutes!”

CrossFit Ramblings of the Day:

I actually skipped the gym yesterday and went to Home Depot to get the materials needed to make gymnastics rings. They are used in CrossFit to do a variety of exercises, but they can be horribly expensive and you have to order them online. So last night I made some myself. Here’s the quick version of how: I filled the 2 ft sections of PVC with sand, capped the ends with duct tape and baked them for 9 minutes at 350°. Once they were cooked, they were soft enough to bend in a circle and place inside a pot to cool and harden. Then I strung 3/8” rope through the center to complete the circle and used lashing straps to hang them. It was surprisingly easy to do and pretty cheap at roughly $25.

Today's workout, Eva, was horrible. I was only able to finish 3 of 5 rounds in roughly 41 minutes. Check it out at the blog that my workout buddies keep. http://infidelcrossfit.blogspot.com/2009/02/set-aside-some-time.html

Political thought of the day:

I won't even touch on Obama’s speech becuase, to me, it didn't sound any different from what he's been saying for a while - the economy's bad but America can overcome, etc. But Governor Jindal actually impressed me last night, which made me start to ponder. It would be really interesting if he runs for president in 4 years like people are speculating. Imagine an election without a white person running. Imagine the political climate towards Democrats in Washington if this enormous Stimulus Package doesn’t work. Imagine the possible straining of relations with nuclear-armed Pakistan, or at least with individual Pakistani’s, if we had a conservative, Indian-American president. Well these are all just thoughts, but regardless, I was impressed with him last night. And I’m a pretty liberal person who Baracked the Vote by the way!

Song in my head: Riders on the Storm, The Doors.

Wedding Stuff...

I feel like we have accomplished a good amount of things in the past couple of weeks!

I picked up my dress last Friday! It was perfect! My amazing alterations lady, Margaret, only had to take up a bit at the bottom. But, she is amazing and is very reasonable. Have you ever heard of a wedding dress being altered for $65?! I think not!

Sherrye (P's mom) and I finished putting together the invitations. This wasn't that simple of a task. There were cards and foam spacers and dots and Velcro all over the place. But, it's done!!! Go check your mailbox!!

I FINALLY finished registering everywhere. I tell ya, that is work! Unfortunately I only seem to have been able to do this late in the evenings and I must be honest, my feet comfort level in my dress shoes might have influenced my decisions a bit.

Tonight I am supposed to be getting all the data for my programs typed up, but I bathed my children, impulsively cut Seb's hair while sitting on the bathroom toilet and crawled in bed to blog a bit. It can wait until tomorrow!

So, I'm very excited!!! I'm getting my Bridal photos taken this weekend at Marlsgate!! This is where the wedding will be held. I have my first hairdo practice session Saturday and hope hope hope my photographer will be free from his job at the paper to take pics afterwards. Otherwise we will wait until Sunday and my hair will look... oh gah! What is it going to look like??? Maybe something like this...

Valentine's Day...

We had a great Valentine's Day. Meadow and I spent some girl time together and got our nails did. Meadow thought she was the poop and decided to kick back and catch up on Brangelina.





James and Seb went to Paul Morell and got Seb fitted for his tux. Sebastian wasn't quite sure what was going on. But he had his car, Lightning McQueen, so all was well.



It looks like Lightning got measured a bit there, too... Hmmm he might be attending the wedding.

James and I put the kids to bed and cooked us a beautiful Salmon and potatoes dinner!