Busy Bee's

I have gotten slightly busy lately, so sadly the blog is the first to suffer. :(

I started picking up a bunch of shifts again, so I have been at work the last few weekends. It has been a lot of fun for me, hanging out with my friends, "working", and getting to use my brain for 12 hours straight!!! ;)

Here's a picture of me hard at work last weekend!

Like the lovely orange seat belt? That is so our supervisors can tell we are wearing them when they drive by. Sneaky!

Okay - one more real quick - I brought K over to the neighbors the other morning so Adam could sleep in before he went to work - Kaylee climbed into Brett's lap to watch some Yo Gabba Gabba & this is what happened:


Mona took this pic on her phone. It was really cute. And she stayed there the entire episode. We really are lucky to have such great neighbors who care about K as much as they do.

Sorry that is all I have this week. I need to take all the pictures off my phone and post them here - I have some fun ones from the park this week, K eating a banana, and just general day to day stuff.

I am working again this weekend (2 days) but I will do my best to get some pics up!

Monterey

K and I took a drive to Monterey a few weeks ago with the neighbors. Brett was helping out with a Scuba class, so we went for the drive and scenery! It was a great day, and we had a blast!!

Kayakers in the bay

The beach - it was beautifulMe


K playing in the sand

Us playing in the water w/ the scuba divers in the water behind us


That water was cold!!

K & Brett checking out a big sea lion! He was not impressed with us at all.

Sorry I have been so bad at updating. I'm trying to be better at it!!!

K's first bike!

It's actually a tricycle, but she calls it her bike. The other day I was at the park with her when a little boy rode up on his bike. She went crazy over it, so I figured it was time for her to get her own.

I found a bike that was perfect for us. It has a push bar so I can push her, and it will grow with her for years.

We got video of her first time seeing it and riding it, but today we went for a ride/push and I got pictures.

Her feet barely reach the pedals, so she just puts them over the wheel in front. There is an option to keep the pedals from turning until she can do it herself, so they aren't hitting her while we go!!



What she looks like when riding it.


She wanted to push it.


Some ducks we found on our ride. She said "Hi ducks" and when we left she waved and said "bye ducks". So cute.


We had a great walk/ride/push this morning before it got too hot!

Jury Duty

I got a summons for Jury Duty last month for yesterday. Well I called Sunday night & was told I didn't need to show up on Monday, however last night when I called I was informed my presence was deemed necessary.

So this morning at 8:00 AM I showed up at the court house, signed in, watched a very cheesy video about the honor of serving on a jury, donned my Juror Badge, and now sit and wait to see if I am chosen.

Thank goodness for the free wifi they have here. And cell phone service. And the cafeteria.

Have I mentioned I'm pretty excited about the internet?

Happy Birthday Adam!

Today is Adam's 34th birthday! We kind of celebrated last night by going out to dinner at our fav Thai restaurant, then he came home & played video games with the neighbor. Not so much fun in my book, but hey - it's not my birthday.

We did presents this morning since I have school this afternoon/evening, and K will be in bed by the time I get home, so no big celebrations planned for tonight. Sorry Adam!

Here are some pics from last week. Saturday we went to Bodega with the neighbors, and Kaylee & Brett did some rock climbing.


Kaylee decided that sitting next to the water wasn't enough, and she kept saying "get in" so Brett let her touch it. She thought it was the greatest thing ever - we are in trouble - this one has no fear.


Easter Sunday we went to Adam's parents house and had lunch there. Kaylee & Jenna did an Easter Egg hunt, and K loved it!!


Since Adam's b-day was the same week, Darlene got a birthday cake for him so the family could celebrate together. Kaylee & Jenna discovered the joy of sticking fingers in cake frosting, and of course, we got pictures!




Kaylee also got some cake of her own, which she devoured.


On the way home - you can say she was a little tired.


Hope everyone had a good week!

Pictures are here!!!

Sorry for the delay - computer wasn't up and running as quickly as I hoped, but things seem to be working much better, so I'm going to upload some pictures. :)

These are her 18 month photos - can you believe she is 18 months already? It has gone by way too fast. I keep trying to hold onto her little moments because she is growing so darn fast. She was really, really grumpy when we were trying to get these shots, turns out she was really, really sick with her double EI's and the Respiratory infection. Poor thing.


She loves putting on shoes that are way to big for her and walking around. She was walking in her Mama's shoes this day...


We have the entire band set for RockBand, and K's favorite thing is playing the drums, so I was at school & Adam & Brett set her up with the drums. She loved it.


Okay - so I know it was only 5 pics, but it's all I have for tonight!! I will be back soon!

My poor MacBook...

My baby is broken. My MacBook has a boo boo and needs to be erased & my operating system re-installed. Luckily I can do it tomorrow morning. Sadly, I can not upload pictures anymore to the internet (one of the side effects of the boo boo) so I can't update with any pictures this week.

Hopefully if I get my computer up & running tomorrow I can post some - we have a bunch of great ones from our Flat Stanley trips, and K just being adorable!

She's an adventurous one that child. Payback perhaps for Adams & my childhood adventures that I am sure made our parents a little uneasy. She is a climber - she will climb on anything that is available. The coffee table, her toys, the kitchen table, the baby gates. You name it & she will climb it.

She's a little smart aleck also. If she does something wrong and I yell at her, she will go sit in her time out corner & smile. Yeah, real funny!! Fortunately she doesn't think it's that funny when I actually make her sit there for a minute & a half. She cries & cries, and when I finally let her get up I always get a big hug while she sobs "mama". It's sweet.

Anyway - I have to run - got to meet with my college advisor for a meeting of the minds!! Hope to update some pics tomorrow. Wish me luck!!!!

Slacker

Yes, I know, I am a slacker. I just realized it's been a few weeks since I updated the blog and I apologize for that. I have been a bit busy lately so now that I have a few minutes I thought I could update.

We had the sickies in the house lately. Adam came down with Shingles and we were hoping that K would get the Chicken Pox, but she didn't. Instead she came down with a double ear infection and an Upper Respiratory Infection. So she experienced her first antibiotics and an inhaler. Good times. She is now feeling better and back to her crazy normal self!

Adam's shingles have gone away, but he is still experiencing some of the pain/itching. Hopefully it passes soon.

I have started school, today is my second day, and in fact I am writing this update in between classes. So far so good, today is my first day of the second class so we will see how much studying I have to do this quarter.

I also made plans to go visit my friend Beka in PA in June, and bought the tickets today. I am excited about seeing her, not so excited about flying cross country on my own with K in my lap though. That should be interesting.

Anyway - I will be back soon to post pictures. I have had a Flat Stanley project here so I will put up some of the fun pictures I have from that when I get a chance. At least count on a weekly update on Thursdays between classes! Thank goodness for free WiFi at the college!!!

SF here we come!

Saturday K & I went to SF with Denise & Emily. We drove out there & did the tourist thing by going to Pier 39.


We started our day at Bubba Gumps for some lunch where the girls experienced blue Jello for the first time ever. Emily loved it, K didn't. ;)

We walked over to see the Sea Lions & K LOVED seeing them. They were fighting and playing and the entire time K was cracking up laughing!


We took the girls on the Carousel which I can already tell is going to be K's favorite activity at the mall from now on. :)


After walking around a bit more & just seeing the sights we realized how late it was & we had to hurry home! The girls were exhausted.


Even though it was cold and windy, it was a great day & we had a blast. Can't wait to go back again soon!

Not roof shingles...

Adam came down with Shingles this past week, poor guy is really uncomfortable as it is all over the right side of his face. :(

Luckily shingles isn't contagious to me, but Kaylee has now been exposed to chicken pox. We are okay with that and since we didn't get her vaccinated we were hoping she could get natural immunity anyway. Now we just have to wait and see if any bumps pop up.

While we are waiting for that, I thought I would share pics from last week. I am trying to catch up here! Hang in there please!

Last Sunday we went to breakfast with Denise and Emily. We went shopping for a bit afterward, and on our drive home the girls fell asleep. So we kept driving and ended up in St. Helena by the time they woke up. We played at a park for a little while before heading home again. It's always a good time with Denise & Emily!!!


More pictures to come!