Where the **bleep** we've been...

Even though I haven't blogged in forever, I have been living.

Here are some things I've done:

Today was Jane's first day of school. Spanish Immersion Preschool at Lincoln School. She was super excited, as you can tell by her face in this photo...

I ran the Salinas Valley Half Marathon. It was brutal. Hills. Ouch. Yvonne stuck with me even though she could've gone faster for sure. Our time of 2:17 was slower than the last time, but I AM still alive, so I'll be grateful for that!

We spent a week at Bass Lake. ELEVEN kids, one house, lots of mayhem.

Clark is seriously crawling. So proud/so scared.

Amy & Brad & family stayed with us for a couple nights. We went to the beach in Monterey on one of the rarest of rares: an amazingly beautiful & hot day!

We got all gussy'ed up in blingy/fringy trick rider costumes (Jane & Clark) for the Kiddie Kapers parade. I painted the 101 sign. Another rare beautiful day!

Jane got cuter, taller, and more sassy.

Clark got chubbier, cuter, and more sweet.

We laughed, we cried, we loved each other!

And we went Berry Picking in Watsonville.

Whew. I'm almost done with my 12 on the 12th pages, too.

Watch out world! Thank you for naps and preschool!!!

Missed ya,

Stace

watch out world....

Clark is crawling!!!!



now you know why I'm not blogging,
Stacey

June: 12 on the 12th!!

Boo-ya!

That's for all of you who have lost the bet that I would keep this up. I'll give you the hiccup in March - when I was oh, 2 months late completing the page.

But I have been taking the pictures!!

I'm so excited (especially now that I've done a half of a year already) to print these out! I have not printed a digital page before, so who knows how cheeseball it will turn out. But, it could be great!!

Much love, and enjoy the rest of your day!

Life is in the details,

Stace

the lifestyles of the...

rich and famous?

Do the rich & famous stay in their PJs all day, too?

.... chew on watermelon rinds?

.... give their baby boys hand-me-down pink pacifiers?

.... allow their children to run around naked as a jaybird?

.... um, more PJ all day photographs...

But, the rich & famous might just miss out on these little gems of spending time with their kids. That is a dog. Jane drew a dog. Oh, I'm sorry, "IT is a PUPPY". Yup. She's a genius.

Feel free to tell me how adorable my children are.

Thanks,

Mama Stace

12 on the 12th!!!

Yes, I am a little backlogged on producing these pages, but I HAVE been taking the pictures!

Without further ado....

March 12, 2011

May 12, 2011

Monumental enough to blog. finally.

That's right.

Super monumental.

I used my 100th coffee filter today!

You see, early last year I finally bought a coffee maker. You may remember reading about my excitement here? The excitement was short-lived, however. Short-lived excitement for coffee because I quickly found out I was pregnant! What?! NO more caffeine?!?

Say it ain't so!

Alas, I slowly tapered and quit the sauce.

*sigh*

I am still not completely up to par (aka "full-strength"). I still take it half-caf.

So, thank you coffee. Thank you for your silent support. Your encouragement to get up and get going. The flavor you add to my creamer.

I appreciate you, coffee. Thanks for coming back to me.

Muah,

Stacey

12 on the 12th!!!

Hello there!

I'm baaack!!

I took all my pictures myself yesterday for the 12 on the 12th. In case you are just tuning in... the 12 on the 12th is an idea I saw somewhere (Probably on Cathy Zeilske's blog). It is taking pictures of your random life all day on the twelfth of each month. Then, you take 12 of those pictures and make a scrapbook page about them! This way, you have a little glimpse of your daily life to hand down through the ages.

I think that with my 20+ scrapbooks, my grandkids will have a little more of a glimpse ;)

And, furthermore, I really do have a page half done for March. I'm a-waiting on a couple pictures from an event the morning of the 12th that someone else took pictures of. It was cool and I don't want to miss out on them.

So without further ado...

Pretty cute, huh?

So, I have some other big news, too....

Our store is moving!!

9M is moving to a bigger (and hopefully better) location in OldTown Salinas! Our new address will be 242 South Main St. Marie & I got the keys last friday night, and are making our refurbishing/moving plans. More details to come!

So, although I cannot "talk" outloud (darn laryngitis)... I can scrapbook about my day and make you read it!

Much love,

Stacey