Brrrrr

I am finally feel a bit more caught up on life, so I planned some extra fun for the weekend. Well, don't ask Nathan if it was fun, he hates the beach. But if you ask M or J, it's all goodness. We went to Stinson Beach on a balmy 62 degree day and baked in the sun... or brought layers of warm clothes and blankets and screamed every time the icy cold water washed over our feet. J couldn't get enough of that freezing water. He'd even fall in the waves on purpose, crazy child.

We went with our friends Kristyn and Trent


and Kim and Nick.

Turns out Nathan is an expert muli-story sand castle builder.




M wasn't so sure about the cold water, but loved the sand...which she saved on various places of her body for days to come.

J's feet are getting so big.






A bunch of awesome jelly fish started washing in with the tide.


That's J's hand so he can remember how big they were.


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I'm Back!

I haven't made a post for a million years! I've been crazy bad morning sick (did you know I'm 13 weeks pregnant?) so the camera hasn't been coming out of the bag all that much, then in the middle of all the feeling horrible my computer tried to up and die on me. Nathan, my knight in dorky glasses, has temporarily revived it for me, but it may be at the end of its busy life.

For a while there I was sick all the time and couldn't even keep my house halfway clean or get to the grocery store. And my kids loved the chance to run amuck and take full advantage of Mommy lying around on the couch. But life is finally feeling normal again. I'm so excited to be getting things done, like shopping for real food and playing games with the kids.

I went to my baby check up appointment today, listened to the heart beat, and found out that my thyroid is high (probably caused by baby hormones) which makes you extra morning sick. So I was glad to find out I'm not just a total wuss who can't handle something women have been going through for forever. So things are going good in that department and in four weeks we get to see if it's a boy or a girl!

Which brings me to the point of this post...exactly one month ago today the entire Hanberg clan was in town, including their new grandbaby. And what to do when your whole big family is in the same house and Jennifer is there for dinner with her camera bag? ...why take pictures of course. So it's taken forever and a day to get them done and I'm feeling horribly bad about that (I told them it would take a while to get through them while I was sick, but I didn't think it would be a whole month), but here are some of my favorites.





I love what all the smoke in the air was doing to the sun.




I think Johnathan took his "real" smile a bit too far : )


I love this one!


Then we tried to get some of the "grands" of the family, but that baby was just all tuckered out and fussy and you could see the sympathy in grandma's face.






And some of my favorites are of the kids just playing in the yard after we were done.




Now I took these way back when the fires were first burning and the air was super duper smokey. As we were leaving the sun was setting and the sky was crazy orange and colorful. Pretty.

Girlie girl

For the first time in the entire history of M, I put pony tails in her hair and they stayed!!! First off, she was a baldee for the first year and a half of her life, so really it's only been long enough to pull up for a few months now. And second, apparently there are uber cool latex rubber bands that you can wrap around a million times and make them so tight there's no way in heck her little fingers could pull them out. And no one told me about them! I'm so happy with this fabulous discovery my friend Kris filled me in on. So she was all dressed for church with her hair up in her new due, so I suggested pictures to her knowing full well she would run and hide, but to my surprise, she agreed! I grabbed the camera and snapped a dozen pics so fast I didn't realize she was good and overexposed. Thank goodness for RAW. Saved the pics of my little girl with her first pony tails!




Then J took a turn.




He's been using hair gel and wanted to show it off.


Then M had to take a little more camera time.


And show off her hair.

We all know kids get too old waaayyyy to fast. Which brings me to the point that J has completed his first year of preschool. It flew by and he had the best time. I am so happy we sent him to the school we did because he has started out loving school. Everyone knows bad teachers can make you hate school, and his teachers was the total opposite of that. Yea! So on the last day of school the kids walked to the park down the street and the parents met them there. They got a yummy lunch of hot dogs, watermelon...



...and Cheetos! Hence the orange fingers.


His cousin T...


who he loves. Check out those adorable orange smiles.


This is the traditional angry face he gives me every time I take his picture. He's not mad though, it's fun!


And this is the wonderfully fabulous Mrs. Greene.


We stayed after so J, M and T could play together a bit and there were these fabulously puffy clouds that we don't see a ton of here. So I had to take a picture. I wish I had a really wide angle lens on me so it would have been all distorted and bowed in the middle. Ok, ok, ok so I did a wee little bit of that in Photoshop just to see what it would look like. Oh well. It was still a pretty sky.

me me me meeeeee

I was playing a game with M where she sat in my lap and and I scrolled through the blog and asked her who people were. Of course she knows all her family, but we're working on enunciating names, like she calls J Tedo. Then J came and joined along because sibling rivalry runs strong around here, but point being he is an observant kid and noticed there are no pictures of Mom on there. Then he insisted I take some pictures of myself so they could find me too. I'm way to lazy to set up the tripod and find a clean corner of my house with the right light, but I was having a pretty good hair day, so I sat on the treadmill against a blank wall that happened to have a nice window to one side, stretched out my arms as far as I could and snapped these.





Then M took some of her own self portraits.

Really she was whining and wanted me to hold her, but it totally looks like she's trying to take her own picture don't you think?

Heat Wave

It has been a really nice, cool spring and I love this kind of weather. But we have had one heat wave, and when that heat wave came we discovered our a/c was broken! Aaahh! So the a/c repair guy couldn't come on that first day (lots of other people must have discovered their broken a/c on the same day), but he came by the next evening for the 17th appointment of his day. And you know when it's really hot all day long and then starts to just cool off a tad little bit in the shade outside, but your house is still cookin' hot so you go outside in search of even the smallest respite from the heat?! Well that's when I took these pics.

Trains are popular at our house. Although that is a dump truck...


M taking a break after running up and down the sidewalk. How do kids still have the desire to run in the burning heat?




J taking it easy. That's a lie actually. He was running all over the place too.






And a little texture for fun.




Our a/c was fixed shortly after all this running amuck, and we went inside, closed up, and turned it on all night long.