Coronado Beach, CA

Coronado Beach, CA

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

4th Family Day!!


Four years ago today, Chris, J, and I became a family of three.

The ride in the van from the adoption agency to our hotel:

The following day on the plane, ready for takeoff!
 

Daddy helping J get to sleep at home.

 Chris' first Father's Day

Later in the summer:
Guess we know how early J caught the flying bug!!

Happy Family Day to us!!!!

And Happy Family Day to good friends that we met while over in Korea, Annie and Mike, and your J as well.  We got our boys on the same day and flew back home on the same plane.  What a ride we've been on!  Congratulations!
(this picture was taken 4 years and a couple of days ago)


Monday, May 19, 2014

Chopping Wood


I forgot the best video from the trip!!!
(and it shows some of the camper as well)


No worries, I told him that chopping wood is definitely NOT a game, but how can you not smile and laugh at this video?!?!

First Camping Trip of the Year and Graduation!

Knock, knock.
Hello-o-o??
Anyone there?
Yep, I'm back!

So sorry to not have posted anything in 2 1/2 months.  I have been getting used to a new job, working at the same place, and am now a Monday-to-Friday-er with a (very) flexible 8-5 schedule for the first time in over 10 years.  Which means J is also going to daycare five days a week.  (I think he's transitioned better than I have, but that's not surprising, as he's always been pretty laid back and goes with the flow.)  At work, my to-do list is perpetual, which is new for me as well; I'm used to finishing all my charting on patients and then going home with everything completed.  It's been hard for me to leave things unfinished each afternoon, but I'm learning.

And speaking of learning, we have a graduate on our hands!!  J graduated from pre-K last week and his school had a ceremony for all the kids with diploma, awards, and cake included.  I swear Chris had tears in his eyes when they started playing "Pomp and Circumstance" for the children to walk in to (although he keeps denying it!).  Mom of the Year moment: remembered the camera (yay!)...forgot to charge the battery (boo!).  Argh!  So I got a total of 5 pictures before it completely died on me and most of those were blurry.  J's award was that they think he's going to be a Future Airplane Mechanic or Pilot.  And if you've been around him for any length of time in the last oh, 7-8 months, you know that they are dead-on with that guess!  Here's the best picture of the bunch:


We also went camping a couple of weekends ago to put our new camper on our land.  It will stay there permanently and it's going to be so nice to just drive up there, unlock the door, and push a button to slide out both the awning and the one slide-out we have!  We definitely have room for visitors, so if anyone wants to set up a time, let me know.  :)  I made a video tour of the camper, but it's way too long to upload to here...and I didn't even take a lone picture of the camper.  Sorry!  I'll get one next time.

It was a tad bit cold at the beginning of May when we were there, so we were all bundled up.

picking up kindling for the fire

this is B's idea of "kindling"!!

don't know how many more years he'll be able to do these splits

Daddy and J walking back to the campsite; they've both been waiting years to do this together!!

Chilling by the fire

Our last morning there, this is what we woke up to!  But it had all melted by 8:30.

putting together a model airplane

LOVE!

My boy

Took him forever to get to sleep in the hotel on the way home and this is how he ended up when he finally gave it up to Mr. Sandman!  He looks so long in this picture!

I'll try to be better about posting.  I've got tons of pictures to put up from the last couple of months!

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Ice Skating


Look what we did yesterday...





Action shot so it's a little blurry:


We all had soooo much fun and J did awesome!
He even told us after a while that he didn't want the ice walker anymore and kept saying, "I can do it. I can do it!"  He's definitely getting more and more independent and wants to do things by himself.



What a blast!

Friday, February 07, 2014

Our Snow Day Fun


Oh, what a wonderful day it was!

What J and I did during the most recent snow day in our area:

He helped me shovel and then took a rest by making his own snow seat in the pile we had made.




He did some snow painting.  I'm glad I took out both colors and not just the red because it really looked like blood and might be a little concerning to the neighbors if they had just seen splotches of red all over the front yard!


My accomplishment!
It took me 1 1/2 hours to unearth (or should that be un-snow?!) the entire drive from the 6+ inches that had fallen...this time.


One of our snow dogs.  Don't know what she was after, but boy, that face was probably freezing!!


We came in and had some hot apple cider and then made some suncatchers.
I haven't seen these since I was a kid!  I did the butterflies and J was so excited to do the clownfish which, according to him, is "just like Daddy saw in Belize!"
He can't wait to "catch the sun" with these.



And here's someone who did not want to get his picture taken again by his camera-happy mama.  But he was more than happy to go with Daddy to DQ to get some ice cream for having such a productive day!



Friday, January 31, 2014

Happy Lunar New Year!!!



Welcome the year of the Horse!






Going out to celebrate with friends tonight with some yummy Korean food!!!


Wednesday, January 29, 2014