Prima Ballerina

KJ has been asking(begging)for the last year to do dance. This year I finally made the effort to sign her up and get her all the right equipment...ballet and tap shoes, leotard, and tights. KJ goes to dance once a week for an hour where she does ballet, tap and tumbling. She enjoys it a lot and is always practicing at home. Her class goes for a year and they have two recitals, one at Christmas and one at the end of the class in June. I'm looking forward to seeing how she progresses. The only tough thing is that I have to be there with RJ and Anton for an hour. RJ really wants to dance with her sister. We will have to see, you have to be three, so maybe a possible birthday present for RJ :)









This is her favorite thing to do lately.


What a beautiful young lady!!

41st Annual Journal Jog

Anton and I finally made it. It was a long journey to get ready for the Journal Jog. I started training about two months in advance,but about 3 weeks into training I developed tendinitis in both knees (ouch) very painful to the point that I could hardly walk. After doing some research I decided that it was best not to run or exercise at all until the pain went away. It took about two weeks for them to feel good enough that I could hop on the elliptical machine for a week before the race. Definitely not the same as running. The day of the race came and I felt pretty good. About 2 miles into the 4.9 mile course Anton started crying and didn't show signs of letting up, now that my concentration was totally thrown off I decided to stop at an aid station and get some water. Anton had managed to work his way out of one of the straps and half of his buckle was unbuckled. I'm really glad I stopped because I think I would have ran him over if he would have fallen out :( Yikes! Anyways to make a long story short, I decided to cut out about a mile and a half of the course to head back to the finish line so I could get Anton out of the stroller. He continued to SCREAM so I was having a rough time decided how to fix the situation. I finally realized that his cute Nike running shoes that I had purchased for him specifically for race day might be bothering him. I pulled them off, along with his socks and literally about 30sec. later he was as happy as a clam and didn't cry the rest of the way. I wish I would have thought of it sooner, but we still had a good run. I managed to run about 3 miles of the 4.9 miles. Upon reflection of the race I was happy that at least I got some good exercise and pumped myself up for my next running adventure.



This is Anton and I at the start of the race. Zoom in on those troublesome little shoes.

I'm attempting to run with the "boys", that didn't last very long.

This was after I took a nice little short cut. I was just happy to be that much closer to the finish line.

Don't Laugh

We were so excited when we saw that our first green bean was ready to be "harvested". Greg planted the green beans so they are his to pick. I had to go buy a few extra beans at the store so we could cook the little guy up. We have gotten about a dozen or so now and the girls are also excited to pick stuff out of their garden. Our tomatoes have done great this year and we have had enough to eat with every dinner for the past month. Hopefully next year we can plant earlier and water a little more to get bigger plants. That is one nice thing about having a garden is that you learn something new each year and hope the next year will bring even better results.









My cute little parsley patch. I also planted cilantro that is growing quite nicely, I almost have enough to put on top of a batch of yummy enchiladas :) I love cilantro!

2 toothed grin

As you can see from the pictures, Anton has two teeth. KJ was great at making him smile and laugh so I could get some pictures of his teeth. He has his bottom tooth, that you can see very well and one top tooth. AS of today I can see two more coming on the bottom and three more coming on the top.

Mama's Big Boy

Time really flies- Anton is Nine Months Old already!! Everything went great at his check-up, he is still in the 50% across the board. I was excited to see that he is our first kid to be over 20lbs. before reaching One. Stats: 20lbs 8oz, 28in. He has started army crawling and can crawl on all fours for two lengths. He loves to say Mama Mama and MOM. He has also decided that he is done with baby "slime" food. When I try to feed him baby food he will swat at the spoon and get quite upset. My favorite thing at this point is when he smiles at me and I can see his solo bottom tooth poking out. His favorite toys currently and unfortunately are the wires to the TV and anything he can bang against the wall and get it to make noise. I love Anton's bright smile and his adventurous spirit.

Chuga-Chuga Choo-Choo

We just finished a thrilling ride on the train- top speed 2mph. Although I did enjoy the fact that Anton was a little scared so he held on extra tight to my arms. Cute pictures of us!


Love the fact that RJ's glasses are on upside down :) Silly girl.


I just think this picture is hilarious. KJ is smiling as if she is looking at the camera, but she is not. RJ with her glasses again, and apparently Anton thinks RJ looks silly with her glasses on upside down as well.

Daddy's "BIG" Helper

I decided that all of our doorknobs inside the house needed to match. One of those small things that I see everyday that has been driving me crazy. Greg enlisted the help of KJ and she was happy to oblige. She did an amazing job and I enjoyed listening to Greg teach her all about tools and how to use them correctly.


Just look at the concentration on that face