We made it through the month of March. Hooray!!!! Sorry for the lack of posts but it has been crazy busy. After Moab, I headed down with the kids to CA to hang out with my good friend, Megan, giving Troy a man weekend with his brothers, Shane and Brett, and nephew, Jackson. No pictures from the man weekend but we all know what it consisted of...pillow fights in their panties! :)
I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked. Most of the time it felt like I was just juggling between Brooke and Connor.
We did manage to go to the Santa Barbara Zoo, grub on some yummy pastrami sandwiches from here that was featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, attend a temple session with Megan, hang out with some extended family, and eat more good grub. And I managed to keep my sanity on flights to and from Denver with Connor on my lap.
Since we've been home we've been able to soak in all the nice 80 degree weather. That is until Monday when a cold front moved in and the temps dropped to below 40. Gotta love Denver. We got about 5 inches of snow yesterday and now it is gorgeous blue skies with the high hitting 60 today and 70 tomorrow.
My parents and pseudo-auntie Christina and Uncle Ho came out to visit over the weekend. They were able to experience the best of both worlds weather wise.
The kids love Squishy just as much...
As Squishy loves to be in the action of things. She was very interested in my mom washing veggies.
While my parents were in town we were able to hit up Cinzetti's, Superstar, Pho Saigon, and oh, The Garden of the Gods. The weather wasn't great but the rocks were still pretty cool to look at.
With all the craziness going on we also squeezed in a dentist visit for the family,
Tis the time again for the annual Moab Half Marathon. We're 3 years in since the inaugural trip and we're still going strong with double the ladies.
We took off Friday morning leaving our kids in the hands of our husbands and headed off for a relaxing and fun-filled girls' weekend.
Moab decided last year to begin starting later in the morning. We all thought it was a great idea. We were able to take our time getting ready in the morning and we were all out the door by 7:30. The weather was perfect...a little breezier than we would have liked but definitely a lot warmer than when I ran it 2 years ago.
Since I've been nursing some injuries from training from my half in February and a dumb injury from doing one too many calf raises, I decided it was in my best interest to drop down from the half to the 5 miler and I definitely do not regret that decision.
Final stats were:
Final time: 51:31:15.
Pace: 10:18
Overall: 246 out of 717
Age Rank: 13 out of 54
Gender Rank: 122 out of 474
Not too shabby considering I hadn't run since my half. I also compared my time from when I ran the 5 miler way back in 2003 when I was 20. My time then was 50:48 with a 10:10 pace. Once again, not too shabby considering I'm turning the big 3-0 this year. Good to know that I could keep up with my 20 year old self. :)
All the ladies did fantastic. We had 7 5-milers and 5 halfers and 1 photographer.
The rest of the weekend was spent eating way too much food and sweets, laughing so much that tears streamed down our faces, staying up way too late, and having pillow fights in our panties. It was fabulous. Thank you ladies for a great getaway...until next year!
Earlier in the week Troy and I took Brooke to see Beauty and the Beast. We didn't tell her until the night before. We didn't know that she was that excited to go until I had to get up to take some allergy medicine at 2:15 in the morning and saw her light on. She was getting ready to read a book in bed. I told her that she needed to go to sleep so that she wouldn't be tired for the show then turned off her light. Around 4:30 am I awoke to some squealing and sent Troy in to regulate. She was bright eyed and bushy tailed playing with her stuffed animals ready for the day. Once again we told her to go back to sleep...and she did...until I had to wake her up at 8:30 for playgroup. What a silly girl!!
She loved the show. Especially when Belle came out in her "yellow" dress. By the end of the show she was exhausted and didn't even make it out of the parking garage before she was fast asleep.
We've also been taking in all the March Madness. I'm happy to say that for a very brief moment I was tied for 1st place. We won't make mention what place I'm in now...
10 months already?! I can't believe that we're creeping up to a year already but let's not think about that.
Connor is such a happy, mellow, easy going kid. Even when he's teething. In the past month he's been working on 4 new teeth in addition to the 4 that he already has. He's also all boy. My goodness! He definitely keeps Troy and I on our toes. If he sees an open door to the bathroom or laundry room or gatefree stairs he will crawl as fast as he can to get to those places. He even has a monkey crawl where he "walks" on his hands and feet to get places faster. One day I'll catch it on video.
He has begun noticing the kitties. Lexie isn't much of a fan and I don't think Squishy is either but she doesn't run away. At one point, in the pic above, Connor even tried to take some bites out of Squishy.
Connor also loves loving on his future wife, Miss London. By the look of it, I don't think she minds.
We went to the zoo last week and Connor got to ride on the carousel mostly by himself. He LOVED it. He had a goofy grin on his face practically the whole time.
I just love seeing his little chubby hands.
Connor has been crawling all over the place and loves to push things across the floor. The other day I caught him pushing one of our kitchen chairs across the room. Those things weigh 25 lbs! He also just started standing for a few seconds on his own. Yikes! I don't think I'm ready for a walking boy.
Other things that have been going on...
We're having quite the spring teaser. March is usually the snowiest month of the year for us but we've only gotten trace amounts so far. Instead, we've been able to enjoy days in the 60s.
We hit up City Park with Robyn and her kids.
Brooke loves playing with Taylor and well, Connor just loves Miss London.
We also went to the zoo that day and got our obligatory pic in front of the penguin.
Just for comparison. She was 2 1/2 in the green shirt and just barely 2 in the one right above. Good to see she's growing. :)
Brooke also gave her first talk in Primary yesterday. She did a fabulous job despite the yelling/talking really loud into the microphone. Here's a little taste.
This is the time of year where we wish it was warmer so we could play outside, but then we would miss out on this kind of fun.
Connor's been working on a new face. You like?
Brooke likes having a mobile Connor to play with. So far they get along great.
Of course, Brooke loves her Mommy the most!
Tracie is really great about working with Brooke as she does workbooks, works on her numbers and her letters. As a result, Brooke is very good at writing her name. The impressionist self portrait is pretty good as well.
So we watched the news on Wednesday night and they promised a dusting of snow for the Denver area. No joke, for Castle Rock the forecast was 0.1 inches. Naturally we woke up to this on Thursday morning.
Brooke really enjoyed it.
So soft and fluffy.
Waiting for Connor to get bigger so the snow ball fights can start.
I can't believe it's already been 9 months. I feel like I just blogged about him turning 6 months. Crazy!! Here are his 9 month stats:
Weight: 18 lbs. 5 oz. (25%)
Height: 28" (25%)
Head: 17 3/4" (50%)
There are days when I feel like he's getting so big and then there are days where I feel like he's still my little baby. He's growing way too quickly! Here are some of the things he's been up to lately:
As of right now, he has 4 teeth (2 lower, 2 upper). As of right now, he's working on 4 more. Regardless of how uncomfortable he may be feeling, he can always flash a smile.
Now that he has all these teeth, he's learned that he can put them to good use.
He's been crawling around since 7 months and can get pretty much anywhere he wants to go. Along with that, he also wants to get into anything he can get into.
Trying to use his go-go gadget arms and his height to get the darts.
No luck. :(
Still loves his London.
Can't wait for these 2 to continue growing up together.
He's still an avid thumb sucker. Hopefully this phase will phase out sooner than later (but I won't hold my breath).
He is a fantastic sleeper and has been from the very beginning. He falls asleep very well on his own and barely makes a peep when he wakes up. Love it!
He is so easy going and easy to please. You can get him to smile and laugh at just about anything. I think he has the cutest little laugh.
He can say mama and mum mum. I'd like to think he knows which one is which. When I go to get him from a nap or in the morning sometimes he'll say "mama" and he definitely knows when it's time to eat and he sees his food.
Lastly, he's starting to take his first steps. For a while, he was showing no interest in cruising along furniture or even wanting to push his walker. All that changed last week. Now he's off and probably soon-to-be running. Yikes!!
