The Beach…A Day Late

Better late than never, right? The beach was all I wanted it to be and more. Landon and Elaina enjoyed it very much, it was defiantly peaceful with minimal sibling squabbling. I actually got to just sit and watch them mostly enjoying themselves playing and discovering. We left recharged, but also longing for more days with this kind of lasting peace. Certainly the best way to spend the first day of this new year. I am ready for this clean slate ahead of us, it almost feels as if I have a blank book ahead and am hoping to fill it with lots and lots of lasting memories.

More photos of our day on my flickr

Anddd It’s Gone

Wow, 2009 is gone, and the holidays few by super fast. I was way too busy keeping Elaina from ripping off paper from every present to get any pictures this year. I did get the above ‘offical’ Christmas shot in front of the tree before we began our celebrating. We have four separate houses to visit, plus our own celebration at home so you can only imagine how busy we were. The kids were overly spoiled, but grandparents know just how to do that. Our New Year’s Eve seems to be uneventful, but I think after all the craziness of the holidays it is a nice welcomed quiet.

Tomorrow’s goal is a nice full day at the bay, no chores, no stress, no errands, no tv, just pure relaxing in the closest peaceful place I can find, with my most inspiring teachers. I hope to share a few glances of our day here tomorrow night. As it is not only my New Year’s resolution to lose some left over baby weight, ahem, but also to blog at least five times a week. We’ll see how it goes, I think I just need to fit it into my nightly routine. I sure do love coming back here to see the year that just passed, almost like my own (very public) memory book.

Wishing you and yours the most peaceful, wonderful, blessed, happy New Year!

(Playing Santa on Christmas Eve with my wonderful husband! I am very blessed)

Differences

Alone Time

A nice little surprise brought back from the park. Daddy took the littles on a trip to the park this weekend for a while. My birthday/Christmas sewing is beginning to pile up on me. And daddy was gracious to give me some alone time. (Insert super big thank you to my wonderful husband here) I thought about cleaning the floors, or doing dishes (I like to pretend that I actually do dishes, insert another thank you here) but instead I began quilting a baby quilt for Elaina that I have been working on for a while, like two whole years, goodness! It is almost done so I’ll share after I get the binding on, hopefully that will not take another two years. I was wishing this could make it under the tree this year so she could use it before she moves into a big girl bed. Time is flying even faster now, every day it seems she is growing out of babyhood.

A boy and a camera

Here is our weekend from a soon-to-be four year old boy’s perspective. Who has discovered a love for his mama’s point and shoot. Who asks many times a day if we can play ‘camera’. Who photos I fall in love with. Who’s photos remind his mama that he is still a little boy, and to look more carefully from his view of the world. To slow down and live now.

The Last Hot Day

This was from our last beach trip with the sun, as the weather as significantly turned into fall here. I can see us still visiting, only with our jackets too. It has been raining, finally! Horary for fall and the beach.

Weekend Riding

The Alphabet Wall

This weekend, the children and I hung the Eeboo alphabet wall cards that I have had for over a year! Talk about procrastination, yikes! I am pretty okay with the way it came out, the lines are not spaced evenly, and the cards a heavy so it sags a tad. Hey, at least they are up right? right? (repeat to self) It was easy to have the children help as they loved looking at the cards when I was placing the line on the wall, and they helped with hanging them up.

I used twill tape and thumb tacks for the line and regular clothes pins to hang the cards. After we were finished, Landon said a few sweet words about it that made it all worth it. All in all I call this a successful project.

Family Fun

At Knott’s Berry Farm! We all had a blast! This was a closed park night we go to every year for our work. This was the first year we brought the kids; they were so well behaved and had so much fun. Looks like Disneyland should be fun to conquer soon…

::24::

Really, 24… I think it is a little underestimated myself. The day was great, when I got home from work I was surprised with this cute banner. And man do I have a wonderful husband. Who treated me to dinner with my three most favorite people. We shared a sunday after dinner and when we went home I was surprised again with a cake! (come on, what’s a birthday without a little sugar?) It really was a wonderful day… and my loves, they treated me with a sleepless night, with three hours of sleep, here I am at work… but seriously, where does the time go? It might be a little cliché, but time defiantly passes way faster the older you get. I cannot believe Summer is almost over!