BREEZY FIELDS

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Jane and Xochitl, love those smiles! Jane didn't want me to take this picture without her make-up. Danna Eady and her friend, Julie, took the girls to the dance and did "smokey eyes" and treated the girls to dinner before the dance. What a great YW we have! It just doesn't seem that long ago....

Could you have a more beautiful view? A little bit of Paradise. Jane models our beauteous locale. Sawyer stepped off a step and over his head and then walked down the little gradual grade to over his head all in one day (a vigilant mommy rescued him both times) and it made him very leery the rest of the trip. Our little Ellyn was swimming (yes, really swimming with occasional help from the bottom of the pool) all over the place. We had to be sure we were completely ready to leave for the pool before we put on Ellie's swimsuit because once we did it was "Go" time. I mean it, "Go, go, go, go," repeated over and over with growing frustration. Our girl was so awesome on this trip. Our little Sadie mermaid. The girl was made for water. Kenn and Barb- THANK YOU!!!!! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Last December Kenn offered to let us use their time share this year for Mike's fall break. All those months ago it seemed a long way off. Suddenly it is here and gone. But...we had a wonderful time in beautiful San Diego. Our week of Heaven. The entire purpose of this vacation was to have A VACATION. While we love going to Washington for every single break we get we come home exhausted. Trying to fit fun activities in with both of our families leaves us running a million miles an hour. Also, our kids are off with their cousins and we don't get that quality time with them that we crave. This trip was perfect. We stayed at the Lawrence Welk Resort (I felt that maybe we should have been at least 50 before arrival but it all worked out). We spent our days alternating between activities in San Diego and just lounging around our condo and the pool. We ate sooo much; yummy treats, awesome Mexican food, sugar cereal (you know how I feel about sugar cereal). We packed lunches for our da...

Ellyn woke up at 1:00am last night. Mike and I had just gone to bed. The girl and her parents stayed up ALL night. She fell asleep at 5:30 and woke up on her own at 6:30. I sent her to school with the warning to her aide that she might fall asleep, but then again, maybe not. We've done this before. She never slept the whole day and was full of energy on our walk this afternoon (Mike, Sawyer, and I took a nice long after lunch nap. Mike's not as long, he had class). Ellyn was loud and happy enough to wake the entire family at one point or another during the night so we all walked around like zombies today. Not our Ellie Boo, she was as happy as a sweet little cutie in braids could be. Some day mysteries will be revealed. I can't wait until I understand the puzzle that is our Ellyn.

You know, when the DMV is closed the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Friday of the the month and your car registration is due the 12th, a Sunday. They won't care, it will be considered late. Even if you were in the parking lot on the the 2nd Friday of the month. Let's just say that while the day has not been a total loss and I am in a reasonably good mood, the day followed the above said pattern. I mean I am home from the YW sleepover until after Ellyn goes to sleep because Mike has a huge assignment due by 8 am tomorrow morning, his computer crashed all afternoon, and Ellie managed to dump a box of Cream of Wheat in the hour I was gone. Enough said. P.S. the babysitter for this afternoon called in sick, Jane forgot socks for cross country and ran four miles and now her feet are covered in popped blisters, Sadie's fairy home in the girls' secret hideout at school was utterly destroyed by a bunch of mean boys, and Sawyer could not fall asleep during nap time and spent an hour bei...

... a thrilling place I never knew. Sing it with me. Is it terrible that I have spent the last two afternoons positively reveling in aloneness? Ellyn started going to school full day yesterday. Now I love the girl dearly and miss her quite a bit as well. But... now instead of my entire morning being a mad scramble- wake up early, run, come home, make lunches and get kids dressed, out the door 1,2,3 different buses, clean up, get showered and dressed, run errands, pay bills, make phone calls, play with Sawyer, lunch, and down for a nap by 11:45 so I am sure we have stories read and he's asleep before Ellyn gets home... Now, I have the entire day. I go to gym co-op after the kids leave for school. No more insane 4:30 wake up times (for now, I'm sure when I start training for something that will be back). I can run errands all morning and still straighten, relaxed lunch with Sawyer, down for his nap, and then AHHHH! That is not a scream, it is a deep sigh. Yesterday I wa...

Last weekend Dave and I ran Hood to Coast. It was AWESOME!!! I had so much fun, I kind of wish I could run a relay every month. Adina had to work and there was a girl and a guy spot available on a family team from Dave's ward. So... Dave called me in May and asked if I would be interested. Um... YES! I have wanted to run HTC for nigh on 10 or more years now. However, until the last couple of years I have felt incapable. Meags, Dave, Adina, and Paige, have been on a team together the past few years but HTC is based on a lottery and they didn't make it in this year. Meags ran on another team and we spent the day and night texting each other with times, encouragement, and locations. Mike, Ellynn, and Beth, texted me along the way as well. I felt very loved. Which brings me to my van- I loved them, they were so welcoming and fun and Dave was the best brother/support I could have asked for. He always saw me off, cheered me along the way, and was there with a cold water bo...

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