A Fun Day with Daddy!

While I worked, Chuck had a fun day with the kids. Including a trip to Uncle Russ's house, skipped naps and ice cream at Mels! Plus, Chuck had lots of fun with his camera and his adorable kids. Here's is just a little taste of the cuteness...

In other news...our sweet and wonderful Gordie could very well be potty trained, it has been 5 days with no accidents. He got a "real" Buzz Lightyear doll as his reward! He is one happy little boy! And we are 2 happy parents and one proud big sister too! Oh and notice his undies. He insists on wearing them with "buzz lightyear in the front" which of course is backwards...which just cracks us up, especially when his cute tush hangs out the back!

Flying kites!

We had a beautiful weekend! We enjoyed the 80 degree weather at the beach on Saturday and flying kites on Sunday (before the game) And although I really could care less about professional football, it sure was nice having the TV on all afternoon, parking my tush on the sofa and relaxing, while the kids watched some, made funny comments about the commercials (like Adelee wanting to turn our car into a robot--the Transformers 3 Movie Trailer), and ran around playing.

Here are a few cute pictures of the kids flying kites. I have to find my camera charger so I can upload more pictures...so hopefully I'll have a few more soon.

The sun was VERY bright and the kites were right up there with the sun, so Gordie had to borrow Auntie Jen's sunglasses to keep his eyes on his kite!

A little something

Oh my goodness, Chuck gets a new camera and I don't get any pictures!

Well we have had a wonderful few months! Adelee, Gordie and Martha spent 3 weeks in Michigan playing with Nana and Papa, and the Bonnemas! (but I forgot my camera...my parents have tons of great pics though!)

When we got back we had a wonderful visit from Gramma Kaiton. We relaxed, had a wonderful Kaiton Christmas Party, AND Santa stopped by the party to give a couple of early gifts and to wish us a Merry Christmas...that was Awesome!!!

Then, it was Christmas...Chuck, was home this whole holiday season and it was so wonderful to be together in our home this year! I am so thankful for such a loving and wonderful Husband and 2 beautiful children!!

We got to attend a New Years Eve party in Venice too...at 6:00pm!! The picture of Gordie must have been taken when I was in the other room...although I must admit it is pretty cute!

I wish you all peace in 2011!!

xoxo

Happy Halloween!

A few more photos

Here are a few more photos I took from Laura. (Tom's sister, who also lives here in LA, and was with us this weekend with her daughter Amelia and hubby Ben)


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notice Marcia Cross at Mr. Bones, who jumped right into our photo :)

We just dropped off the Bonnema Family at the airport, and we miss them already! I think Adelee put it best when she said (about 100 times) "Why do they have to go to their house, I don't want them to go to their house!!"

I'm sure Anna will fill her blog with a nice narrative of the trip, I'm going to keep it simple (in hopes of getting some photos up before my dad leaves work for the day). She will also have pictures of Thursday (when I forgot my camera, and we did Santa Monica Pier) and Sunday (when Chuck used his fancy camera and we did Kidspace, Pasadena)

So we had a wonderful time!! Here are photos of Friday...Hike to the Hollywood Sign, Hollywood Blvd, Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch (Where we saw Marcia Cross, from Desprate Housewives), next we split up and the Bonnemas kept going and I took the kids home for a nap, finally we met back up at Universal City Walk for dinner.

Saturday was Disneyland!!!!!

LOTS OF HAPPINESS AND LOVE!!!

13.1!!! I did it again!

So January of 2009 I made a New Years Resolution to Run a 1/2 marathon. The year came and went with maybe a couple of 2 mile runs. So a couple of months ago when my sister Anna told me she was training for her first 1/2 marathon and wanted me to train along side her...2000 miles apart I was all for it! So we did it!

It just so happened that the marathons were on the same day! TODAY! A beautiful, perfect, cool day in both Grand Rapids, MI and in Long Beach, CA. We both kicked butt too! I ran a lot faster than I thought I could and felt great the whole time...really I did!!! (right now, laying in bed...yeah, not feeling so good...my legs feel like rocks!!)

Chuck, Adelee and Gordie came along to support and cheer me on! They had a blast playing with each other in and around the events, looking at the boats, the Queen Mary Historical Ship, the beach, the ocean, bridges, fountains...and watching LOTS AND LOTS OF RUNNERS!!! At the end Adelee told me "Mom, I'm proud of you" Melt my heart!!


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