Family photos 2009 edition.

My sweet friend Heidi took these pics. She suggested a few locations, LACMA included. Is this not the perfect location? I am in luvre with the pillars and with Heidi! Thank you thank you! Check out the sidebar for more new pics.

3 kids in a tub!

So this is what we've been doing this week!! My little brother and his wife got to go on a much needed 7 day cruise and we got the Tagg-ster! :-) He's just a few months younger than Clare so it's been fun. But challenging at the same time - three is much harder than two! Don't they look happy? We love you Tagg. We'll miss you next week.

Worst mommy ever.

The other day I took Shea out to run some errands with me. Only in LA (ok, maybe not only, but especially in LA) does it take over 3 hours to go to 2 stores with a round trip of 9 miles. Agh. And I'd forgotten to take Shea to the bathroom before we left. So our last stop was Tommy's. (oh, Tommy's - delicious!) I got the parking spot right next to the glass of the restaurant and Shea wanted to stay in the car so I let him and would turn around and wave at him from 2 feet away as I stood in line waiting to order. He would wave back and smile and blow me a kiss. So I ordered and then went to talk to him while I waited for the food and when I opened the car door he was sobbing. He apparently really had to go to the bathroom and had had an accident, strapped in his seat in the locked car and unable to tell me! I felt so horrible!!!!! When we got home I told Chris what had happened and how terrible I felt. In the tub, Shea told Chris the story too - only he added the fact that his mommy, "used to be the nicest mommy in the world, but now she's the worst!"
Touche!

35 ??? !!!

Seriously? Is this possible? I can't believe I'm 35. I never imagined myself this old. Ugh!! I've been bugged about this birthday, until today that is. I got the most gorgeous flowers from Chris. The card said, "Happy Birthday, I love you. These are just the first of 35 gifts that will come over the course of the next few days. 35 doesn't sound so bad now does it?" Nope! I do think that 35 gifts might just get me through this birthday. :-) Can't wait to get my $70 gift card at Disneyland tomorrow, open some more cute, thoughtful gifts and then go to PF with my fam. Happy 35th to me! :-)

Rough Day

Her day started with what was apparently too many ounces of milk, as she lost them all over both of us a few minutes after breakfast.
Then she fell down when we were picking Shea up from preschool and got two majorly skinned knees, and then she got two shots to top it off.
Poor baby!! :-(
She was pretty proud of her 4 band-aids though and showed them off to everyone we saw today. I adore this little muffin, even on her roughest days.

The Peanuts Gang!!

Love, love, love this year's costumes. Thanks to daddy, as always, for the idea. Most adults could figure us out, but the kids kept asking me who I was. Apparently 'It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' hasn't aired yet this year. :-)
The cutest Snoopy and Woodstock you ever did see, no?
I'll try to get some better photos of the kids' costumes this weekend. I love how they turned out, from the sides especially, you can really tell who they are. I liked how big and cartoonish my Lucy dress turned out and I love Chris' because I didn't have to do anything except draw on his forehead!! (Clare was kind of bothered by it though and Shea couldn't wait to wipey it off at the end of the night.) Overall, they were worth all the work and stress and we can't wait to wear them again this weekend. :-)
Happy Halloween!!!

Getting ready for Halloween

One of my favorite holidays. I love it!!! It's so fun to come up with costumes, make them and dress up and then of course, eat candy (lots of it.) What's not to love???!!!
So far we've made all our costumes (photos to come tomorrow!!) made fondant covered bat and jack-0-lantern cream cheese cupcakes, had a neighborhood party, painted pumpkins, had a ward party and dressed in our cute Halloween outfits numerous times. And we still have a whole week to go!!!
Yippee.

How many times????

Today Chris was messing around with Shea, you know that torturous daddy mix of wrestling, squishing, ticklingness?! Shea had fun for a while and then said, "Let me go dad! I want to go play." To which Chris replied, "What, the sky's gray?"
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: You had a bad day?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: Your birthday's in May?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: Mom's in the way?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: I don't know if Kim has a sleigh.
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: You like fish filets?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
And on and on and on....
I really think Chris did about 30 rhymes. Every single time, Shea said, No, I want to go play.
Finally Chris (totally out of rhymes) let him up and Shea gave him this completely exasperated look and said, "Geez, DAD! I want to go play. How many times do I have to say it??!!"
We tried to explain that he was being messed with, but he totally didn't get it and just really thinks his dad is hard of hearing. :-)

So delicious...

There's nothing more delicious than lying in your bed on a Sunday afternoon just burrowing in for a good long nap after a really, really hard week!!! And then to hear the daddy reading stories to the kiddies in the next room. Ah!! Heaven!!

Team Puck??

Puck was so nasty in the first few episodes - but I totally forgot that I hated him when he sang "Sweet Caroline" last night. Oh my gosh. He's really quite the little hotty and he (if it was really him singing???) sounded awesome. LOVED IT!!!!!!!!