September

Lots of changes around here:

Jane:
1. New nickname: snaggletooth. This is due to her rather interesting new tooth: it appears to be her upper right eye tooth. She only has the other two bottom ones (they are perfectly normal looking). Don't get me wrong, she is as cute as ever... No. She is actually cuter with her little snaggletooth.>

2. Crawling. Just started this on August 11th. I was a bad mother attending a board meeting for work. I was ssooooo disappointed to read Blaine's text stating "guess who can crawl?". Devastated would be more accurate.


3. Pulling herself up onto things. The dishwasher, the couch, the coffee table, and my legs are the most popular choices for her to pull up on. She first would pull herself up, look around excitedly, then grow bored and want to get down.... but couldn't figure it out. it was hilarious. Now she has figured it out & quickly alternates between the couch and the coffee table with a cute little thud on her butt in between.



Blaine:
1. Hunting. Is this a change? No. just the hunting season changes. Monday it was doves. Yes, the bird of peace. Shot down. By Blaine. 10 of them. They taste like chicken. Teeny tiny mini chickens.
2. Work. This is also not a change. Except his responsibilities are changing and increasing. He becomes the full-fledged Salinas branch manager at the end of the year, and is learning lots of new things.

3. Working on the Rhino (his atv golf cart-ish thing).  New lights, new racks, new exhaust, new muffler.... and this was SUCH a bargain (dry cough inserted here).

Me:

1. Researching a retail business opportunity.  Maternity, nursing, baby gear.  Sound great?  Let me know, we may need investors :)

2. Work.  Coaching swim team, roping jello, and trying to expand the Recreation District.  It rules.

3. Vegas.  This is actually an extension of number 1: researching at the ABC kids trade show next week in vegas: GO BLACK 13!!!

4. Trying to be the best mom ever.  This is difficult people. My little girl is growing up right before my eyes.

5. Training for the Big Sur HALF marathon in November.  Holy crap that is soon!  We have done an average of 10-12 miles per week, and completed our second 8 miler this past sunday!  BIG accomplishment!

p.s. guess who can crawl...

here you go

Sunday Yvonne?

Couldn't leave off without noting how freakin cute my little girl is...

Posing for a morning photo shoot

July 10, 2008

Dressed in pink camo to help her dad get his new toy: Yamaha Rhino

July 12, 2008

Lovin' hanging out with her big brother, Sky

July 14, 2008

Oh, yeah... I rule!

More acurately: WE rule.

Yes, that's right.

Studly Yvonne and Super Stacey completed the Los Gatos Jungle Run 10k while all you lazy butts were sleeping in past 4:15 (our Soledad wake up time) on Sunday morning.

Yvonne is Studly Yvonne because this was no thang for her amazingness.  She has completed a FULL MARATHON before.  Yes, you read that correctly: a full 26.2 mile torturingly long time of running her little heart out.

Me, on the other hand, am aptly named Super Stacey due to the super human strength it took for me to complete the 6.2 painstaking miles up and down the hills in Los Gatos.  It was my first time.  

Although I am Super, I was disappointed with my time.  I wanted to complete the race in 1 hour.  My chip time was about 1 hour, 2 1/2 minutes.  Oh well, next time.

And there will be a next time.  

We are training for the 1/2 marathon this fall: she is doing the Nike women's half-marathon in SF in October, and I am doing the Big Sur 1/2 marathon in November.  

You can, too.  Trust me, if I can do it, anyone can.

Good Luck!

just some July fun...

Fourth of July: watching fireworks

Blaine: fighting the rapids in Yosemite

The cutest kid in the word: posing with her cousins.

July 7, 2008

We have had an eventful July: 

July 5-8 we stayed in Wawona (Yosemite) with Blaine's family.  We mostly ate and swam in the "rapids" with all the kids.  Blaine's sister Amanda & I ran 3 miles that were HARD and totally hilly.  Blaine was able to relax, and Jane had super fun times with her cousins.

July 11th Blaine bought his dream toy: a Yamaha Rhino (it is  like a quad mixed with a golf cart in CAMO).  We went out today to joy ride it around my dad's house.

July 14th: JURY DUTY!! Oh, yes.  That's right.  Every two years I get called up, and for the first time ever I actually have to go to the court house.  And, it is a day that I am supposed to have Jane and work from home.  Bummer.  Hopefully it is exciting.

July 20th: driving to Bass Lake, towing the new (to us) Rhino: it is going to be............

AWESOME BEYOND WORDS!!!

peace.

SW