Hi mom. It's me.

That's exactly what I heard with I woke up this morning.  Siena crawled in to bed next to me and said "hi mom, it's me"  That was probably the cutest wake up I have ever had.  :-)

Gymnastics

With the London Olympics on, little miss Siena has fallen in LOVE with gymnastics.  What is stuck to the wall behind this cute sleeping girl is a picture she requested my mom cut out of the newspaper.  It's a photo of a local girl and Auburn gymnastics on the balance beam.  She asked my mom to cut it out and put it on the wall in her bedroom.  Siena is obsessed.  :-)  It's adorable.

Kids

I love them to death but I swear they do this on purpose.

Pinterest - Father's Day

For Father's Day I wanted something for the kids to do that was simple and didn't require a ton of effort on my part since it is peek wedding season.  I saw this little book idea on Pinterest and thought it was perfect!  I printed up two sets of 4x6 from my favorite photo printer and then helped the kids out with it!

http://pinterest.com/pin/15692298672118600/

http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2012/05/free-download-book-for-dad.html


Here is Siena's book.  Please excuse my handwriting.  They both kept bumping in to me. The grammer may not be the best either.  I wrote it just as they told me too.

Here is Cole's' book.

Mike and Cole sinking in water

Pinterest - eggs

Pinterest.  It's a love/hate relationship for me.  I LOVE the idea, concept, basically everything about it.  I HATE that I can't spend as much time on it as I would like.  HAHA.  ok that's really not a bad thing, right?  So we all spend our days on there pinning, wishing, but never really doing any of it.  So I figured I might as well try some of these things and I will blog when I do!

So the first pin I will blog about is nothing spectacular.  It's more of a "does it really work, or not"

Hard boiled eggs - add baking soda to water and the shell peels off with no problems.

http://pinterest.com/pin/82612974385115712/

This worked!  The kids are obsessed with hard boiled eggs.  I am not so much enjoying the time it takes with the shell breaking apart.  Now the kids can peel the eggs on their own!  Awesome!

Fishing

Both kids have recently become obsessed with fishing after spending last week at a fishing derby in Meadow Vista with Mike while I was in Phoenix.

Yesterday while I was eating dinner at my wedding I got this sweet little photo texted to me from Mike.  Shortly after this, Siena slipped causing Cole to fall in the water.

Last day of preschool for Cole

Today was Cole's official last day of pre school at Kinder Ready Kids.   The poor guy was sick yesterday and spent the day coughing and sleeping so I wasn't sure if he was going to make it to school today.  But sure enough this morning he woke up and  and I asked him how he felt and he popped up out of bed all bright eyed and bushy tailed exclaiming that it was the last day of school before he graduated and he had to be at school today!

He kills me!

ER for me

I arrived home from Phoenix yesterday morning and even though I was tired, I thought the day had gone really well.  I felt pretty good considering I had been traveling over a 36 hour period.  But at 2 am today I woke up to the room spinning and totally nauseated.  I had never experienced something like that before.  I was able to crawl to the bathroom and I dry heaved for close to an hour (or so it felt like).  At 6am I was awake again and still spinning.  I had Mike take me to the ER because I assumed I was dehydrated.  They gave me 2 liters of IV fluids and medication for nausea and the vertigo.  I hope that I never have to experience vertigo again.  That was awful.  I slept most of Monday which felt wonderful.  Hopefully I will be back on track soon.

Phoenix

I flew out to Phoenix on Friday to photograph the wedding of one of my ACRO partners from back in the day!  Trizza and I hopped on Southwest and made our way to the Southwest.  :-)

We got to stay at the JW Marriott Resort which was stunning.  I would go back there again in a heartbeat!

The wedding venue was at a little place (haha) called Boojum Tree.  Amazing venue!!

My very expensive gin and tonic

The lazy river

The amazing wedding cake

updating the blog

I am sure a bunch of random out of dates posts will be coming up in your google reader or you may just see a new post come up.  I'm trying to play catch up with the blog so it's gonna be a lot of random for a while.  By random I mean over the last year in and a half.  Yup!  It's gonna be fun, not!!!!!