Oh What Did You Do in the Summertime?

I am in denial about the end of summer this year.

It was a jam-packed season and we enjoyed so many awesome activities.

We cheered on Alison and Sarah during swim meets and

rejoiced during Lauren's first ever organized class which was swim lessons!

We reunited with cousins and had a wonderful time!

We watched Alison perform as The Cat in the Hat and

Sarah perform as a Who Mom

in Seussical the Musical.

We celebrated Lauren's 4th birthday!

Happy Easter!

I promised my mother-in-law that I would post a picture of the girls yesterday! There is nothing more motivating than a promise to get me back in the blogging world. Easter was fairly uneventful. We had a family dinner Saturday night and so after we took John to the shuttle on Sunday afternoon we ended up having ramen for our "Easter" dinner! The girls were thrilled and I didn't mind not having a kitchen to clean up!

My girls are beautiful! If I do say so myself. Not just on the outside, but the inside too. What a blessing to have such good girls.

Back to School!

Just in case anyone thought we had fallen off the planet...we did, but now we are back! It's been an incredibly overwhelming 6 months. Someday I will catch up on what we have been through, but for right now it's about the future. School starts tomorrow and the girls are really excited about 3rd and 5th grade! I am excited about PTA...so much to do, but it's going to be great fun.

Lauren is thrilled about following me around. No school for her just yet, but I may change my mind as we go through this next year. Happy to be back in the blogging world. You may have not missed me, but I missed you!

BACK TO SCHOOL!!! HERE WE GO!!!

Wicked!

John and I just spent a fantastic weekend in San Francisco. All I asked for for Christmas were tickets to see Wicked and wouldn't you know... the closest place it was playing was in a familiar city. It was an incredible show and we had such a wonderful time. Highlights of the weekend were eating awesome Japanese food, staying in the beautiful Omni Hotel, visiting with two of my favorite and oldest friends from San Leandro, Ghiradeli Square for the best hot fudge sundae around, the show and dinner with John and Susan, and a catch up with one of my college roommates that I hadn't seen in 12 years! I don't mean to make my kids feel bad, but the other great part was just being with John! Life is a little easier when you aren't worried about three other little people's needs.

Happy Halloween

Thing 1 and Thing 2 had fun dressing up this year! We loved having cousins down to play with. Spent the day at the school carnival and the evening loading up the bags with candy! Can't wait to turn some of the candy into the dentist for some cash! Now...onto Thanksgiving!

Witches' Tea

Had a lot of fun with some friends at a gathering of witches.

Rock Climbing

John and the girls have enjoyed a few days out among the rocks with some good friends. It is a great time of year to be outdoors and appreciating the beauty that surrounds us.