Where am I???

The other day Brad said that he was looking at out blog and noticed that there weren't any pictures of me on it. And the problem is????

So i looked at our pictures on the computer and realized that we don't really have many pictures of me - it looks like i am the picture taker in the family... Anyway, i did find some of Nathan and I messing around with our webcam. So Brad here you go... :)

Where does this stuff come from???

So Brad, Nathan and I were just sitting around the table talking about pi of all things. Yes pi and crazy enough Matt was not in the vicinity. How could this happen??? Anyway, Rosie, our dog, was over in the corner on her bed and she started chewing at her back. I yelled "Rose stop that - don't be gross!" She stopped and laid there like a lady and all of the sudden Nathan says "Yeah it's like your making out with yourself!" Brad and I looked at each other with looks of - what the heck! Then started laughing. To say it surprised me would be an understatement. I seriously never thought i'd hear my 8 year old use a sentence with the phrase "making out" in it. How does he know what making out is? What else does he know?? Would i really want to know the answer to that last question??? NO!

Anyway, Nathan was Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Daniel Crockett or Davy Boone - you choose - for Halloween. He was so cute. He loved his costume and i think has still put his coon skin cap on at least once a day since. I made his entire costume - except for the hat and the belt. I must be getting crafty in my old age. I didn't get a picture of him on Halloween - figures - but i did get some at the Trunk or Treat at church.




just a few pics from Halloween 2006

(yikes look at our awful old floors!!!)

Nathan was a handsome knight...


aka Prince of Margaux

60 minutes

So tonight we were laying around watching TV and while surfing our saved shows Nathan saw that we had the show "60 Minutes" recorded. He said "60 minutes??? Why don't they just call it an hour???" hahaha we laughed...i more than Brad...shocker... :)

Raingutter Regatta

Last night at Cub Scouts they had the annual Raingutter Regatta.

Nathan's ship was "Sea Dogs"


Oh no falling behind...


But of course since he is my son he was able to come up with enough hot air to blow his boat to Victory!


Way to go Nathan! He ended the evening in 3rd place with a lovely "bronze" certificate to add to the collection.

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You have been warned...

When Nathan was a toddler i was tickling him and while looking up in his mouth saw something strange. I swore that one of his molars had a huge hole in the middle of it. I couldn't see it though so i took him to our dentist, who is also my friend (thank goodness). Sure enough his top right molar had a HUGE void in the middle of the tooth. If you looked at it from the side you couldn't tell anything was different from any other tooth but if you looked straight up into the tooth there was a big cave. She checked it and it was all ok - as in no nerve exposed etc. She proceeded to fill it in so that things wouldn't get caught in said hole.

Well, the other day Nathan started complaining that his tooth hurt. I took him to the dentist and part of his filling had come out. While drilling and trying to fix the filling we all found out in a very loud way that the tooth was worse then it looked. Poor Nathan screamed like you wouldn't believe. She stopped and took X-rays only to discover that the tooth was not going to make it. It needed to be pulled! YIKES!

Lucky for me Brad was on his way home from work. He detoured over to the dentist and was able to sit at Nathan's side while the dentist pulled his tooth out. Brad is such a good dad. He sat there and let Nathan squeeze his hands almost off and told him he was doing a great job the entire time. I on the other hand sat at his feet, laid across his legs and balled my eyes out. He screamed so loud it was a good thing he was the last appointment. I have never heard him scream and cry so loud - it was so sad. I told him that if there would have been any other kids in the waiting room they would have run out the door faster than light speed.

Here are a few shots of the tooth - roots and all...


Holy cow - no wonder he screamed so loud...


Once the tooth was out he felt so much better. I certainly wasn't going to make him go home and do his homework so i did what any good mother would do and let him stay home from school the next day and we went to Disneyland. No joke. We had fun but took it easy - no roller coasters!

He took the tooth to school for show and tell and i'm sure grossed out a girl or two. HA! The tooth fairy came to visit and rewarded him handsomely and even let him keep the tooth as a souvenir. What a lucky kid...

Fall Ball

Nathan loves playing baseball. This fall he has been playing on the Storm. He plays with his best friend Clayton. Sometimes they get in trouble because they goof off - ha! Yesterday they were at practice and the coach told them all to take a knee. Which of course means to kneal down and listen. Well Nathan and Clayton proceeded to grab each others knees and tried to "take" Clayton/Nathan's knees. Needless to say when practice was over coach made them run to the fence and back. When they came back laughing and smiling Coach asked if they had fun and they said yes! Wrong answer...take another run to the fence. After the 2nd trip to the fence they got smart and when asked if the run was fun they both answered NO! live and learn.



Here Nathan shows us his signature squinty eye line up before he pitches.


He can pitch pretty good. Brad has been working with him. He can throw the ball pretty hard - especially when he's mad. :)


Getting a little "pep talk" from Coach Mark.

the sabbath on the road

While driving up the 5 fwy and approaching the San Diego Temple Nathan quickly blurted out "can we go see it?" Were we really going to say no? Could we? Of course not. So we stopped by to walk around the grounds and feel the peace and tranquility that temple grounds have to offer. Since it was Sunday it was nice and quiet. There were a few other people walking around taking pictures but we pretty much had to place to ourselves.



We walked around to the grassy side of the temple and were admiring all of the beauty when we realized that Nathan got away from us and ran out onto the big grassy field. We yelled (had to yell as the freeway was feet away) and told him to come back up with us. It looked like he was going to obey but took a little detour under the area we were standing on and ran to an adjacent grass area right next to the temple. See below.


He seemed to be loving the fact that he had this "heaven" all to himself. I looked at him, he looked up at me and it was as though i could read his mind. I quickly shouted "don't you dare roll down that hill!"


you can only imagine what happened next... Yep you guessed it - he rolled down the Temple lawn! Yelling, laughing and enjoying every second of it.


We finally got him to come back up with us and we decided it was time to leave. I was just glad that the temple was closed and that he didn't make it into the background of any wedding pictures. How nice would that have been to see a little monkey rolling down the hill in the background of your wedding portraits.

I've heard of and participated in the "reverent swim" is there such a thing as the "reverent roll"?

boys will be boys

Brad loves to skate. He hasn't gone for a while but not to long ago he was going to skate parks like they were going out of style. Nathan is learning and this was the perfect place to get the boards out and have some fun.

Not quite sure what this trick is called? Maybe 1973?


Nathan's really starting to get the feel for this...






Like father...


Like son...


Maybe we need a little more work before he takes over the skate industry. Oh well, anyway fun times were had by all!

Mission Bay Triathlon

Last month Brad completed his 2nd Triathlon. We had fun spending the weekend down in San Diego. Here are a few pics from the Triathlon...

Nathan eating the breakfast of champions... a smores pop tart.... at least he got 3 of the 4 major food groups... marshmellow, fudge and graham crackers... :) Rachel you are not alone. It looks as though i have also fallen out of the "Mother of the year" race... (see Matt and Rachel link)



Brad and Nathan before the fantastic orange swim cap and the race.


Swim down, bike and run to go...



Just the run left...


Finish Line....


You did awesome Brad... You Rule!

Oh the joy's of gardening....

Today i went to M&M nursery and bought some beautiful flowers to plant in our front yard.

Exhibit "A"





While i was minding my business and working away beautifying our yard i came across an intruder.....
Exhibit "B"


I swear he is looking right at me. How many eyes do these guys have anyway? SICK!


SO after i freaked out because i realized that i had been standing centimeters away from this thing i decided to go over and rake the leaves out of the dirt and start planting the flowers i bought. While i was picking up the pile of leaves i came across Exhibit "C"...

Exhibit "C"


As of this moment the front yard has flowers (unplanted), a rake, other various gardening tools, my gloves and a pile of leaves waiting patiently for Brad to come home and "be the man".

Sorry for that last picture mom.

p.s. i did go out and spray a can of bug killer on this thing before i ran in screaming...

Rancho Santa Margarita - 5K

Brad and Stephanie are awesome. enough said....

Before...


Stephanie's game face...


Brad's game face...


The end.... What no hug?

What's been happening at our house?

Good question....

Here are some things that have happened in the past few months.

We had a pool party with all of the cousins. So much fun. Daniel taught Audrey how to pool surf and flipped more than just burgers.



We FINALLY decided to get started on our flooring. Thanks Dad and Mom.... Here is a picture mid installation. We are smart enough to know that we needed to pay someone to install. I have been lazy and have not yet taken a pic of the floors since they have been completed. I keep saying that i will once the walls are painted and the floor boards are installed. Look for this picture sometime in the next millennium...



Summer was ending so we went to Palm Desert for a weekend and had loads of fun. While at the pool Brad pointed out Dr. Rey from Dr. 90210 and his wife with their kids. Dr. Rey even said "hi" to me - either he was being nice or trying to break the ice and talk to me about all of the procedures i need done.... Hmm you decide.....

Here are Brad and Nathan at the awesome pool at the resort.





Can't go to Palm Springs and just drive past the Dinosaurs - must go and see them up close - notice how close we actually got. While inside the head/mouth of the T-Rex we discussed the fact that there was NO WAY PeeWee Herman got a full couch up in that thing to lounge around and watch a movie (or whatever it was they did in that movie)





Nathan started 3rd grade... Seriously no way! How did he get so old because i certainly haven't aged!

Here he is on the first day of school.

blog peeper no more....

Since Leanne called me a "blog peeper" yesterday i decided that maybe i should actually get on this blog thing and figure it all out. I love looking at everyone else to see what's up and maybe someone will find humor in looking into our life. so here goes....