I am grateful

I am grateful

1. for my fun, caring, supportive good looking husband
2. to have healthy, beautiful and sweet children
3. to have such a loving family
4. for my mom who has always made the dinner table an important family moment
5. for the roof over our heads
6. my friends that push me to be better
7. the oppurtunity to be at home with my children
8. my dad and all his free medical advice for his paranoid daughter
9. for my sweet nieces and nephews
10. that facebook has put me back in touch with friends who made such a major impact during different phases of life
11. that my sister Megan has taught Regan to spell her and Ayla's name thru a fun song
12. and now Regan is learning the days of the week from another fun song from Aunt Megan
13. my caring, know we can count on them anytime in-laws
14. that my best friend has held that position for 23 years
15. for bloggers who share and teach their amazing talents
16. that Regan's best friends consist of her two cousins that are close in age and my bestie's  daughter that should just be considered another cousin
17. that my husbands believes in me even in all my craziness
18. every time Regan comes in the middle of the night to snuggle with me in bed
19. every time I get a solid night sleep with no kids in our bed
20. when Alya makes me feel like I am the only person in the world
21. for the laughs I get watching Chelsea Lately
22. that my daughters have four great grandmas and a great grandpa
23. the amazing friendship my daughters have developed
24. my in-laws houseboat that we have an open invitation to :)
25. time alone with my husband
26. time alone with Regan
27. time alone with Ayla
28. when my sister Marisa asks me to call after a drive of even just 30 min so she knows I made it home okay
29. the amazing group of mommy friends I have that keep me sane, keep me motivated and encourage each other everyday
30. when my brother comes by to play with his nieces
31. for my brother and sister in law who are so much fun to hang out with
32. for Piper who curls up at my feet ever night
33. for another year with friends and family!

Happy Birthday to Me! :)

Week 3

Here are my favorites from week 3 only one week left!

Week 2

Here are some of my favorites from this weeks class

"Mommy I broke my batella..."

This is what Regan told me as she sat on the couch with her legged raised up on pillows insisting that she needed an ice pack and to just rest and watch a movie.  Poor little girl right.  Not so much.  Just a dramatic little girl with some sympathy pains.

Last week David broke his petella and is currently in surgery at this very moment having the fragments removed or having the pieces all screwed back together.  They wouldn't really know until they got in there but I imagine someone should be out to tell me soon.  Anyway David broke his petella and he had to keep his legged raised with an ice pack and was watching movies to pass the time.  So when Regan fell on her knee playing outside she came running to me "mommy, mommy it hurts so bad I can't even stand on it!"  She started limping in a very dramatic fashion and then pulled up one knee to point to it and say "this is the only leg I can stand on." As she was standing on the leg she couldn't stand on. :)

So we propped her up next to daddy put her leg on a pillow, put cars on and gave her a little piece of chocolate to help with the pain.  It was cute.  Maybe it was bad parenting to play into her injury faking self, but I don't really care.  It was funny and cute and I love that she is so in love with her daddy that she wants to be just like him even when he is broken. :)

Learning something new

So I started taking an online class so that I could finally at least understand my camera and its 500 million functions.  I just finished week one and here is my favorite picture from my assignments.  It helps that Regan is Super Cute! :)

The Happiest Day of David's Life.

You may think I am going to write about our wedding day or the first day we met and how he knew he found the love of his life. :) Or the birth of Regan and Ayla and how amazing it was to hold our little babies and how life truely becomes at that very moment a miracle. But I am not.

David is not mushy. The only Valentine's day cards I get are funny ones. The only anniversary cards I get are funny ones. He tells me he loves me every morning before leaving for work but I don't think he will ever say the phrase love of my life. He loves his daughters too but he is not so amazed by the miracle that he wants more children. No he is happy with two and the toddler years have knocked life a little off the miracle chart.

Until the other day. Because toddlers can do things now. They are little people who can actually learn skills not just eat sleep and poop. And Regan learned one of David's favorite skills of all, snowboarding. Really I don't think I have ever, ever seen a bigger smile on his face. We took the kids up to Tahoe for a day in the snow. A friend of ours told us to go to Soda Springs because for $20 you can switch between tubes, skies and snowboards for the kids. It was perfect. We were there for hours and both girls loved it. We tried Regan out on skies first. Look at those tiny skies, are they not the cutest thing you have ever seen?

 

But she hated it. Well I shouldn't say hate but maybe I should.

So then we thought maybe she just needs to warm up a bit so we went on the tubes which was so much fun that I thought we would never get Regan off.

She also LOVED riding the magic carpet, this might of been her favorite activity of the day.

I thought the idea of skiing was over until next year but why not try one more time so I told her she could have hot chocolate with lunch if she tried skiing one more time. Amazingly she agreed. So after lunch we went back to try again but decided on trying the snowboard instead. As David took her up I found a spot at the bottom of the hill to play with Ayla. Thinking that this wouldn't really last long at all, and then I looked up and to my surprise David had let go and was running along side her!

I really don't know what I like best about these pictures Regan's tongue hanging out in a Michael Jordon pose while she concentrates or David smiling with total pride. Plus I love the hand pump action too he just couldn't control himself.

It was a perfect family day! :)

Maybe I do believe in time travel...

How I did I come to this conclusion? Well I am pretty sure I went back to 1983 for a couple of hours! Regan was invited to her first Roller skating party it was a blast and roller rinks DO NOT change. It was exactly the same as I remember walking into a rink when I was a kid. I do not live in the town I grew up in but the rink was almost identical to the one I remember, which I might add, the last time I went I broke my elbow. I really think I felt my arm twinge!

As you can see the skates have not been replaced. (Grossed me out a little, at least put new laces on!)

The music was the same I can't even remember the last time I heard Eye of the Tiger!

The smell was the same.

The carpet was the same.

They still had the same lamppost style lights along the carpeted wall. (Do you remember those? I didn't until I saw them!)

The only difference was the party room. That room seemed so big to me as a kid. But really there was only room for the kids and one or two adults. :) I guess really the room didn't change I just got bigger!

I was so proud of Regan! I thought for sure she was going to hate it. But she didn't she put those skates on and enjoyed every moment of the awesome time warp party! Although she didn't want me to take any pictures of her, notice the hand telling me to stop? And the best part is this little three year old who is trying her hardest to give up nap time came home and slept for almost four hours!