Pictures

Swimming with Dad

Kisses for Dad

Sitting in my hole.

Ice cream smile

This is one tree and only half of it.

Dad wouldn't let Noah in the pond but he kept trying.

Needle Point in Iao Valley

Jelly Fish

A turtle cam to say hi, he's only3 months old

Mom and Noah looking at Turtles

Running in and out of the water

Running from Dad on the beach

Eating Shaved Ice(nothing like a snow cone...no chucks of ice) it's like powder snow.

It's finally October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

October started off just as great as ever. On October first not only were we in Maui but I was 30wks pregnant which mean 10 wks to go!!!!!!! And this is the first full month of Fall too can I say awesome!!!! I am loving it.

So it's sad we are back in California and Tom is back to work...and will most likely work the weekend...ugh. There's no nice clear beach and relaxing time here.... I so want to go back to Maui right now, we could have a Hawaiian baby common. Our trip was awesome and just what we needed...time away from everything. No set plans, no schedule...just nothing. We would wake up have breakfast and head to the beach, than based on how Noah was doing it was nap time or a drive after lunch. We did do two small things in Maui, we took Noah to the Maui's Ocean Aquarium which I love and than drove to Lahaina to eat at Cheese Burger Paradise which sort of was a disappointment to be truthful. I am sure the burgers were good but nothing really out of the ordinary and my chicken sandwich burger was okay but they didn't have a Keiki menu(that children in Hawaiian) which was really weird I had to say since it like a family restaurant. Anyhow we had fun walking through the town and Noah got to chase the birds and have a bit of ice cream too.

Not a lot to tell since most of our time was on the beach digging holes for Noah to climb into and sit which was is favorite thing to do, and was hard on us b/c he didn't want to wait for the hole to be dug. We would scoop one shovel of sand out and he would already be trying to sit in it, it was pretty funny b/c we would have to dig around him and under him, than distract him with a sandcastle which he would have to leave the little or big hole and smash it down and than return to the hole. Noah also loved the water and the waves, he got slashed many many times in the face with the waves. AS well surprisingly right on the beach Tom spotted a sea turtle in the water really close in and ran into the water and fallow it. Me and Noah just saw the shadow of it b/c we didn't realize what tom was doing, we even missed it's head coming up for air.

Well I think that is it fro our trip, I'll try and get some photo's up but right now I got to run and get some stuff down around the house and try to adjust to the 3 hour time difference. I really hate fly east and adjusting to the time, loosing time is so hard. I can fly west and be find but east just kills all of us.

In Two

.....days we will be in Maui and I just can't wait. I am very much looking forward to being able to relax and rest as a family, it's just so important to us to do it and I am glad we are keeping it up. As well it's officially Fall. Which is my favorite season and more important it's also almost October and September(the month I like the least) is over!!!!!! I am trying to organized our trip and get everything ready so that I am not running around the last mintue like crazy, which is what normally happens.

Noah is feeling a lot better from his booboo I must say and am happy to report. He's just so really active than most his age actually and we really do think that he thinks he is two. Well I know some of you have asked what happen and well Noah was running around the house like normal and went running in to his room for his shoes which I must report after he came out with one I told him to go and get is other shoe which is what he went to do when he just ran to fast and trip over his foot and hit his head on the corner of the bed frame. I was just so relieved he didn't hit his eye. However, as any parent knows any facail wounds bleed like crazy even if they are small. So this is accident number two( first one he bit through his tounge) and hopefully the last for a long time. However I have a feeling that Noah is going to have many booboos growing up. I can see all the sport injury nows, I love that he is so active but some days I wish he would slow down.


Well by the time I get back from our vacation I will be just over 30wks and it's hitting me pretty hard lately. I don't know how I can get any more tired but I am and keeping up with Noah takes most of my energy.

Writings

It's been so long since I have sat and been in the right mind frame where things just flow to me. I can't explain it. I use to write for me all the time, I never showed anyone any of my writing till I wrote one for Tom over 10 yrs ago. It is framed and on our wall, expressing my love I have for him. I have to say nothing has changed and things I wrote has come true and are stronger than ever.

Well here are two that came to me today, I don't know what you call them, they aren't quite poems but just little writing I guess.

Truth

It's quiet now, one of the best times of the day
I sit and think and clear my head if there is time today
I find myself dreaming of things to be
But loving how things are today

Many people dream of the greener grass
While I am pretty happy with what we have
Sure I may want this or that
But would I trade with what I have
I certainly would not

Our family is strong
And Love keeps growing
The honeymoon stage is never really gone
The kisses, the hugs, the precious little touches
Not everyone see them but we have them

There are tears and arguments but there is always love
Agree to disagree that is fine
But never go to bed without showing your love.
Because in the end Love is what holds us strongly together.

Our Love

My Angel you are
I watch you sleep
curled up so tight
Away in your dreams

You are cuter than ever
and I just want to cuddle
And hold my sweet baby
As tightly as ever

One day you'll grow up
And leave us behind
But I will Remember
That sweet baby of my.

-Selena

Finally....

....I am done all the stitching of Noah stocking!!!! Now I just have to turn it into a really Christmas stocking, I little bit of cording, a material for the inside and than the back and it will be done. Not sure when I will get to all that but he will have a stocking. Now to start #2's stocking, however I know it won't be finished in time but hopefully next yr it will be. Anyhow it's late and I need sleep.

Noah two teeth finally poke a little bit through so we still have some painful times ahead. He finally got is first pair of sneaker since he is running more and more but not big clunky ones just some light weight ones, don't want to slow the boy down haha.

Had our doctors appointment but I wrote about it on the other site, so you can check that out if you want, but things went well. Getting even more tired lately but that is expected during the last 3 months. Still haven't picked any names out and well when we have a name people you'll find out when the baby is here and no sooner, but no we don't have a name. Two weeks behind but I almost have all the stitching done for Noah's Christmas Stocking. Next step is to cut the fabric and so the inside sleeve and than the cording and back on it. Lots to do....

Getting more and more excited for our vacation, it's been over a year since our last family vacation. So it's well needed!!!! Weekend was good fast but good, can't really remember anything to report about it so I guess that says how exciting it was.

Little man woke up early so my time is over.

What....

goes through other peoples minds really does surprise me sometimes, especial when they feel free to let you know. I really try not to let what others think bug me and I am pretty good at it now...though once I wasn't. I am so happy that I am better at it though, I have to say because if not I think over the last few days I would be in a bigger downer than some days I already let myself get. Yes folks I am not always happy and I feel down and when pregnant I can get a little more down than normal. I will always desire to get pregnant even though lets be truthful I do not enjoy it but I love having babies and so I will give up my body for these precious little bundle of joys that I love so much and will probably be crushed when we have our last one(but I will not miss the pregnancy part).

Anyhow lets get back to other people. Why do people feel they have the right to comment on pregnant women I really want to know!!! I bunch of us were talking at my baby boot camp class(exercise class for the parents), about what people say to us.

1. Tell us what we should eat(thankfully I never go this)
2. How big you are
3. You look tired(another meaning you look like poo)
4. How much weight we should gain
5. Than talking behind your back about how they can't believe how big you are
6. My favorite is wow they are going to be close together(if you are having the children close together), you'll have your hands full.


Well this week to my face I got, 1.wow you are really looking wide, 2.your face is really getting round and you still have 3 months to go and my all time favorite that I got this morning at the REI store"when are you do?....wow you are really big...are you sure you're not having twins...you got a long way to go still....." Wow is all I could think and laugh on my way out.

When this stuff happens I laugh and just think people are a riot. I wonder to myself if they..... don't think I notice myself getting bigger, that I don't look in the mirror and see that my belly is sticking way out, that I don't feel tired and I am not well aware that I look like poo but I do try not to look like poo but I don't get the famous pregnancy glow. I can't help how my body looks(how and the size of it goes when you are growing another human being in side you). I work out 3 times a week, I think I eat pretty good(I don't snack but I do have 1/2 cup frozen yogurt almost everyday). I don't get craving, I don't do the I am eating for two bit or eat whatever I want because I am pregnant. I know the junk you eat when pregnant is normally the weight that doesn't come off easy after the baby comes. Oh and being tired well some get more tired than other when pregnant and than add a very active 15 month old in the mix, on top of normal day things that need to be done, one does get tired and yes look like poo. People just truly don't understand until they are there in the exact same position where there are no breaks, no coffee breaks, no sitting down for lunch even for 10 min, and no leaving work(no different atmosphere) or it's been yrs since they were pregnant and for get what's it's like(got to like older people that block out things). But on the other sides you do run into a few people that say you look good or just a simple nice complement. Anyhow I get many good laughs at people I do have to say.

As well I love the advice and the comparison of working and stay at home parent from people that are single or from couples without children but let me tell you"they have no idea what you are talking about"(you can read all the books, take the course but until you are a parent and have the responsibility 24 hours a day, they really have no clue). However, to me there is one thing I could imagine that would be even harder, and that would be a single parent or a working parent(when the spouse doesn't help out) and have to come home and try to do everything, but truly I wouldn't know if it is or not but I would think it would be harder.

Okay so that is enough of me just babbling away how crazy people are towards pregnant women. Well we almost did it, we almost had a date night this Friday, which I was looking forward to since we haven't had an evening or a moment out together just the two of us in 14 months. Our last one was July 2007 to see the Harry Potter movie, but anyhow Tom has some work stuff that came out so it got canceled. I have a feeling our next time alone together will be when all the kids are moved out, which mean 18yrs after we have our last child, maybe it will happen when we both go into a retirement home haha, hopefully not but who knows.

Anyhow sorry for sp, grammer, long run on sentence I am too tired to proof it more and even than I know I miss things.

It's booked

....yup we are taking a small vacation to get me out of this house, and tom away from work. These are the times I love. I place I don't have to clean or cook and someone will do it for me!!!! We bit the bullet and book a trip to Maui again. It won't be a long stay b/c well we need the vacation for when the baby comes but something is better than nothing. Did I mention I won't have to clean!!!!! It won't be like the last vacation we went on, where we are now three and not just the two of us but it will be great all the same. We'll get up have breakfast and head to the beach(which will be different too because both of us can't go in the water at the same time but that is alright) and than back to the hotel for nap time and more relaxing time and time at the gym for a work out!!! We might try and do a snorkeling trip and just take turn going into the water, since that was truly a lot of fun, and we both loved it. Anyhow I am excited anytime that we have a family vacation of just relaxing, is the best....no plans, no times you have to be here or there, we just wake up and decide what to do and if we have plans we only every plan two activities for a trip, that way it's not rushed and exhausting.

Well we didn't do much again this weekend, went for a walk and Noah's having a hard time lately with his teeth and has a bit of a rash but hopefully that will clear up here soon, his little bum is so red and hurts a lot(only happens when teeth are coming in). Well that is if for now I got to get some cleaning done now that the temp in the apartment is more bearable then it has been, and then onto making some fish chowder for dinner. I can't wait for my vacation, finally a little bit of a break for me, before I have to come back and cook up a storm and freeze things so that we have some food in the freezer for when the baby comes. That way Tom and I can just take out a frozen Lasagna and pop it in the stove, makes things a lot easier for sure. Three more months to go and I can't wait, I am truly loving this December, no traveling and no being pregnant, just a quiet(some what), relaxing winter, but I'll still miss you snow(not traveling in it though, just the prettiness of it and it's cold chill that makes you get hot chocolate curl up in front of an open fire place(I'll have one in my house one day) with your family!!!

Double Digits!!!!

Yup that is right so happy but still have a ways to go. We have 99days left of this pregnancy, woo hoo. Some how it looks so much better then 100 or more days. I don't want this little one coming too early but I do want the time to fly by fast and would love to go before my due date. This little one is just as active as Noah was in utero so I have a feeling I am going to have two very active children. I don't mind that much and look forward to putting them in sports if they want to, I think between tom and I though they will probably love to be active in sports.

Looks like our Fall weather left and hello summer all week...ugh, 95+ all week. I have to say we have had a pretty cool summer for most parts but they weeks of heat waves are killing me. I like summer but don't love it. I am a spring and fall person always have been. I looking forward to watching our leaves change... yes folks our tree change color and die too, as well in spring I love watching the blossom bloom on the trees too. But this heat we are getting now is just not what I want at all. I have to say that being pregnant in the summer especially sucks, I think next time if we can I am going to avoid being pregnant in the summer but for us that really easier said than done....but I can dream.

It's getting closer and closer for us to finally get our green cards which will be nice to not have to deal with these visa issues. We would like to have them by December but I think it will be more into the New Year when we get them. Not much else is new here with us our long weekend was quite and we didn't do anything but that is alright, we are trying to save time for christmas and it's just nice to relax. It's hard to believe that August is over I am not sure where it went but I am hoping that September just goes as fast. I love October when its really truly Fall and everything is crisp and fresh, after October I long for December b/c December 1st is when I am allowed to decorate for Christmas and if we aren't getting a really tree than folk yes my tree will be up that first weekend!!!! I wish Noah was old enough to get excited for Christmas, I love watching children excitment it brings me right back to when I was a kid!!!

Shopping Therapy

It's the long weekend and we have no plans and I am sure Tom will work some of it which is normal for us. Today we drove out to Gilory Outlets stores I have been wanting to go out there for a while since we having been out there since Grampie Flynn was here back in march. We got up and out the door early for us before 10:30am and got there around 11am something. I was disappointed at first b/c the Gap didn't have a maternity section like they did when I was pregnant with Noah. However I found some clothes that fit me now(a little tight in the belly but what do you expect when you are 25 1/2wks pregnant). I also bit the bullet and bought pants that I love and hopefully I got the right size I could zip them up still but they were a little tight in the tummy and upper thighs so I am hope they will fit better after the baby comes, the next size up wasn't tight at all but my waist won't be this size after December so that is why I went a size down. Here is hoping anyhow. Tom got a lot of nice stuff too and it was even better that not only was it an outlet store but labour day sales too!!!!! I am not much of a shopper and very rarely find stuff I like or fit well but today was a success. When you have clothes that fit nicely they really make you feel so much better. Especially when you been feeling low for a bit and down, so for once my shopping therapy was a success, even if none of the clothes were maternity haha.

Well we are slowly getting back to normal, I knew that first day with the 3 hour nap was too good to be true but we are getting there. There is no screaming in the car anymore and eating a bit better however we have 5 teeth coming in and appear to be coming in one after another so our gums are swollen, so eating won't be much fun here in a bit. I finally got almost a wholes night sleep(no Noah hasn't been waking us), I just don't sleep well when pregnant(nope the baby doesn't wake me up kicking either), I am up to pee or just up at least 4-5times a night...so frustrating. Well that's it for now. Hope everyone having a nice long weekend!!!

A litte too silent...

Today had an empty feeling for us. The buzz of others and their presence were gone today which always leaves our house lonely. We had a great week with Uncle Dan and Aunt Genevieve and we miss them. We had a busy week and our schedule was upside down but it was well worth it. Noah love having them here and always wanted to hold Uncle Dan's hand or watch him play guitar hero etc. Noah did way better than we thought he would with not having his normal naps and routine, he's such a routine child. We did have our screaming fest and trouble falling asleep in the travel bed but over all he did great. We didn't get to do everything and somethings were cut short b/c of a tired little man but I think over all they had a good trip or we hope they did. Can't wait to have them down again in the future.

Well we are trying to get back to our routine here and we are getting there little by little. Noah took is 3 1/2 hour nap which was wonderful and I got a little house work done with a rest in there too. Noah still looks for is aunt and uncle and probably will for a few days. The heat wave is on it's way here...ugh I knew it was too good to be true to have the cooler weather here, hopefully it won't stay too long. Tomorrow we get back into exercising and than loads of laundry and normal everyday stuff, and hopefully Noah will take his nap again and be fully settle.

News on #2...We had our doctors appointment today and it went well and things look good. So we are happy with that news our next appointment is September 15th so hopefully things will continue to look good.

Dreaming

I have to say it's nice to have dreams andl I mean the dreams you hold out for in the future. A lot of my are ones that I want to come but just not at this moment.

I dream of....

1. A house one day that we will live in and it will be ours(or the banks) where we'll stay forever(not ready for this b/c well I am not ready to settle down in one spot, a house is a big commitment in my books).. I have completely found the plans for my dream house though.

2. Trips!!!! I want to see the world, I love discovering new things, different cultures(I hope this happens sooner than later, I don't want to wait till we are older b/c well you never know what will happen in the future)

3. The days when both of us don't have to work and the kids are gone(we'll miss them yes, but we also like being just the two of us, hopefully we'll remember what that will be like, because we sure don't know it now).

4. The day when our family is finished...this will probably be one of first to get checked off my dream list haha.

5. Live somewhere new and exciting...a new country sounds good to us...really hope this one happens just for a few yrs.

Those are probably my top five of dreams, I have little ones here and there, but I would say those are my top in really No giving order.

This weekend here was a bust, we didn't do anything at all and Noah and I were cranky...Tom couldn't make up his mind what to do...ugh. I dislike these weekends just b/c I look so forward to them. Most of the time we don't do anything and that is fine, but we really didn't even get out of the house for a walk etc. Hopefully next weekend well be better, no plans just hoping for a better atmosphere in the house.

Noah quite the firecracker and most of the time makes me smile, at night some days I just feel like crawling into his crib and cuddling with him. I so miss him being a new born, however we developed new type of cuddles, Noah will walk over to his books and pick one out and bring it to me to read to him, he loves loves books, which I am very thankful for.

I am really getting excited for Christmas, I think I would have the house decorated now if tom let me. I am hoping we can sneak in a really tree for this Christmas. We'll miss our families but I have to say we love not traveling at Christmas time. It's just so nice to stay in our home and not have to go anywhere!!! When the kids are older it will be like that too, No traveling at Christmas but people are more than welcome to come see or stay with us.

I am really hoping we go on a mini vacation here in September. I dislike September for a few reason, so if we go away that month it well make it a more happier month. I am still dreaming of going home in October for my friends wedding but I strongly doubt I'll be going when I'll be like 32wks prego, my parents want to see me but don't want me to make that long flight and we'll have to get traveler insurance if I do go just in case. But we'll see how things pan out. I'll be really disappointed that I won't see it. Maybe someone could take a web cam to the wedding and I can watch it live!!!!

I think that is it for now, not much really going on, just me day dreaming most of the time and wondering when #2 will grace us and hopefully we'll have a name picked out too. The name game is not going well this time. Last time it was so easy we just knew and this time there is just nothing we like or stands out. There are names I like but not when they get shorten or I just don't like them enough. I can tell you all that if we pick a name though that can be shorten that we will not be using the shorten version of the name. I don't care once they are in school and if their friends shorten it, if that is what they want but not family. I really don't understand why parents name their children a name and than don't call them that name, it just doesn't make since to me at all. So if for example we let say have a boy and name it Richard where did Dick come from?????? why call him Dick when you named him Richard. If I wanted to call my child Dick than I would name him Dick not Richard and I am not a fan of the 'Y' thing either. So please don't think we are mean in saying to you all but don't do this to our children. The name we give our children are the name we want them to be called. And No Richard is not a name we are considering. Okay Noah is down for his nap for sure now so it's time to clean.

Beach Day

We finally got to the beach and it wasn't fog in!!! Noah loved it all the sand and the cold water. It was a nice day for us.

The Blahs

are so catchy lately and it sucks. Nothings wrong but nothing seem right either. Lots of little things I guess and me getting stir crazy. I need a change or a vacation something different. I lost half of my floss to finish Noah stocking and I went to the store to get more but some how the pattern is not using the right code for the floss so i couldn't get any which mean if I don't find it I have to start a whole other stocking and 7 months of work is wasted. I drop a huge bottle on my toe this morning that made me puke b/c of the pain, it's not broken thankfully but i couldn't really walk on it for a few hours. As well missing my friend that use to live here in the complex(who moved to Winnipeg) that you could just call last minute to go for a walk or even once in a blue moon we would go to the movies(only did it 3 times but still). I just can't wait for the weekend to have Tom home even if we don't do anything it just seems better to have him home here with us. Well it's lunch time and I need to get something to eat. Have a great weekend everyone.

Half way point

It's about time, only 20 more weeks to go!!!!! Five weeks till my next appointment ugh so far away. We not much really to report on here since last time. The tall ships are coming to San Fran this weekend so we might go in. I am really trying to work on Noah stocking with any spare moment I can take. I would like to have it done by the end of this month but I have to be realistic so it will hopefully be done by the end of August. Noah and I went swimming a

Some of you will think I am crazy but I love waking up to foggy, cloudy morning. It's a little dark in our room and for some reason I don't like being waken up by sun shine in my face, I don't sleep well as it is and I never have been able to sleep in a bright room. I need night time darkness. As well the morning that are not bright out are so much more cooler and enjoyable rather than sweating in the high heat. I also like when the time goes back to I don't know why but I guess b/c in the summer I feel time gets away from me, I'll be sitting down thinking I have plenty of time left in my day when I look up and really is it's almost 8pm. But after a long winter I enjoy the more light but I also like the time falling back.

So this week was really busy for us. Tom's working hard and started softball, I got to all three workouts this week and clean the house, which included scurbing floors phewwww it done, completely exhausted but it had to be done. I also been trying to finish Noah Christmas stocking, and get another one finish before December comes. Look like tom's and my will have to wait. haha That all the craft I have time for these days and I long to do so many of my others that I use to do.

Well I am excited that finally next week I will be 20wks half way baby and about time. Starting to feel not so sick but not great either, some days are better than others. I am dying to go on a family vacation here and I hope we get to for a few days, my first pick would still be Europe but with the cost of flights etc it not going to happen, but we might try to go to San Deigo, or Hawaii since those price haven't gone up too too bad. I am still hoping to do a fast trip home in October for a weekend to go to friends wedding but we'll see, as long as things look okay the doctor, thinks it well be okay. So that will be a nice treat for me to leave Noah and Tom at home, and just have a free responsiblity weekend, while stressing my mom out that I might go into labour. Really fast trip though so I'll probably be exhausted, if I get to I'll most like take the red eye out thursday (which mean landing in the late afternoon friday in halifax) and fly back sunday eeke. I am crazy. But we'll see. Not getting my hopes up on that one.

Besides that not much else is new with us. We got a busy weekend here so monday I will probably be falling all over my feet. Well Noah fighting his nap and I got some stuff around the house to do. So I'll try to update you all if something exciting happens haha. I guess that won't happen till Dec than ;). Oh no pictures lately b/c our computer won't take them off the camera. I think it time to get a new computer, once I get it working I'll try to put some up.

Video's

Thought you would all like these...why is my house not quiet anymore( hasn't been for many many months) and it took only an afternoon and there is not much crawling anymore, last night he took ten steps, today at the park he went wild, sadly I didn't have a camera or video camera with me but we go a short clip tonight before bed so he's pretty tired and not steady, but he's been walking all afternoon and night!!

Best Show ...

we have ever seen. We went to the July 4th symphony fireworks show here in town at the amphitheater and it was awesome. If you went to the box office a few weeks before, they were giving free tickets out to city residents. We were planning to go anyhow but free tickets are really a nice bonus. They also had a kids event too with little fair games and a kids concert, which I thought was great, maybe we'll take Noah to that when he's older. Anyhow we got there a bit early and found a spot on the grass section and waited for the 8 o'clock show to start. We loved the San Fransisco symphony, I miss going to stuff like that. We have gone to a few things since living here and we use to go to stuff like that in Ottawa all the time, but nothing in well over a year now, so it was so great to get out and go to something like that. Then after an hour or so, some time after 9pm the fireworks started and they were done to the music as well, which was truly amazing and to our surprise, the fireworks went on for three pieces(songs). Coming from small towns you aren't use to good fireworks or even long shows so we were in awe, Halifax, Ottawa and even San Francisco(we went there two yrs ago for July 4th) firework's are nothing compared to what we saw last night. I really want to go every year to the july 4th firework's here in town as long as we live here.

Before the show

Half of the symphony

Noah and Dad watch the fireworks

Long weekend

Yay for long weekends, Tom gets tomorrow off b/c of all the work he has been doing the last couple of weeks and than Friday is 4th of July, 4 day weekend baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy if you can't tell. Not much planned for the weekend but that is completely fine, I get way too tired when we are on the go anyhow. So a lazy four days will be awesome, especial since Tom will be with us.
I didn't get to any of my workout this week which suck, Monday I was too exhausted from the busy weekend we had and than today i was tried from cleaning all day Tuesday and up early today with tom to clear out the rooms as much as possible b/c we were having our carpets cleaned. But it's all done now so it's great, and I rearranged the living again when bring back the furniture in form the patio, not sure I like it but well see if it stays. Now the new task is trying to get ride of more stuff we just don't use, I am tired of holding on stuff b/c we might use it. Lots of things have great potential but if you don't use it than I starting to see it as junk. I have now realized that I want the minimal of things. When we had our living/dinning room cleared out this morning it was just the bookcases and couch, chair and tv, I completely loved the feeling and the looked. I like nicknack's but lets face it, they clutter up the place especially when you have a small place. When we move and I hope to have a bigger kitchen I want nothing on the counter tops at all, and I mean nothing, bare completely bare. I have been doing well at getting rid of stuff and have be taking stuff to goodwill drop offs.... I hope to do more this weekend and next week. It feels great having less.

Sunday we went to the digital moose Canada Day BBQ for Canadians in the Bay Area, It was great we stayed way to long, I was nearly dead when we got home and Noah didn't have a nap at all and he was still going and I was dying. If only I had half his energy, I might feel young again.

Well it's late and I am exhausted so I should head to bed. I dream of December when I can lay in my bed and feel comfy again. I find it's the quality of sleep rather the quantity of sleep that makes me feel good and well the quality of sleep I just don't have, when pregnant.

Oh Noah is taking more and more steps by himself...so I see a running boy here soon, like he doesn't get around fast enough... His doctor said he had the energy of 3 children and that in dec I'll have 4 children haha it feel like that someday....the most funny thing was that Noah wasn't nearly as active as he normally was b/c it was near nap time, haha I wonder what she would have though if she saw him his full swing Noah energy.

Life...

with us is pretty normal, no complaints. Noah had his 1 year appointment and it went well. He is 18lbs 1 oz and 29 inches long. He pretty much growing like his mom at that age I think. Yes hard to believe but I was a small skinny kid during those first few yrs of life. His two top teeth are ever so slowly coming in and driving me nuts. You can see them and feel them but they just won't break the skin. We got him a new car seat but I still have it facing backwards for now, will probably leave it that way since we feel it safer that way even though they say 1yr or 20lbs you can turn it around, no rushing things we think. We are in a heat wave the last few days this week and I am so ready for cooler weather, over 100F is just too hot. As you see I am talking about weather and we all know when the weather talk comes out there really isn't a lot to say or report on. Just the waiting game going on here and looking forward to Christmas time. Well hope everyone having a cooler weekend outside and in their homes than we are. bye for now.

Happy Birthday to my big boy!!!!

Not sure how it happen, it seem like it happen just over night that my little boy was born and all of a sudden is 1 now. We remember this day so well last yr, it's crazy because it truely feels like it happen yesterday. I was complaining of this pregnancy never ending and how miserable I was. So we went out for the day and bought the clip and go stroller and went to a small grocery store that we have never been to and last to the Pete's coffee shop right beside it. We got home and didn't even get groceries put away when my water broke at 4:15pm. Laughing and talking we went to the hospital to have Noah born at 9:24pm, almost by 5 nurses. I truly Love that day, everything about it was great and couldn't have asked for a better experience. Best of all we got our little boy.

Noah and Dad before blowing out the candle

first bit of cake where he put his face right in.

One of the many times of the face into the cake for a bit

Pretty well done and finish with eating it with a fork.

Hi folks I really haven't written in a while so I thought it probably time to get on here for a little note. I am pretty tired lately and Noah seem to be giving up his one and only nap, so that makes me even more tired. So that is one reason I haven't been on here that much, plus the computer just makes my headaches even worst( I pretty much have one everyday all day).

Hard to believe Noah will be 1 on Monday, not sure where the year went. But I have fully enjoyed the year with Noah and couldn't dream life with out him. I have said it to many times by now and I really don't understand how this yr with Noah went so fast but 9 months to bring a child into the world takes forever!!!! More news on Noah he's taking steps on his own but not many but I see it processing in his head and it's not going to be long before he's running wild. His talking is getting closer to real words he can say Go when we read one of this favorite books ' Go Dog Go' and cold, a few others but I just can't think as my head is starting to hurt more as I type.

Other than that we got very terrible news today that Tom's cousin Jenn lost one of her twins today. Jessica Elizabeth was one month old, she tried her hardest to stay and even though she had many people loving her and praying for her and her sister Alyssa, she passed away this morning. I don't understand why pure and innocent children go through so much in life that most of us will never have to face. It just doesn't seem right or fair to me at all. Jessica will be with all of us in our hearts. Rest now little angle rest, we all love you and will always remember you!!!

Best Friends

Crazy driver

Well this was taken one night before bed time. I thought I got a better one but I guess I was tired and didn't hit the record button. He pretty good and loves speed, I just wish he had a long hallway for him so he can really go. We took him to a store last weekend and let him push a small wagon and he went the whole length of the aisle full tilt. Anyhow here is a short clip and doesn't really show you how well he can do but it's all I got.

Picture and a bit of a rant.

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Here's a picture of Noah and his friends that my friend just sent me. Noah is the smallest but is the oldest of the three,and the boy on his right is the youngest by a month. Anyhow they all get along great and learn new skills from each other. Friday play dates are always fun to see what they are up too.

Well Noah is wanting to walk everywhere now holding on to your fingers( and will take steps by himself if he is in between things that are close to each other), which is making it harder and harder to get things done around here, with many other things making it hard to get things done. I will be happy when he's walking completely by himself and I am feeling better.

Beside that not much else is going on there. I am trying to reduce that amount of plastic we have in our house b/c it bothers me a lot, and hopefully we'll be plastic free one day. I recycle what I can but there is so much that they don't take and well it doesn't break down, so there for it horrible for the environment. We stopped buying plastic toys for Noah and will eventually replace the ones we have with wood and metal(like the old tonka trucks), plus those kind of toys last longer than the cheap plastic ones. For his birthday coming up we got him a really well made wooden drum, which took a little bit of looking but if you know your stores they aren't hard to find. Well that is my rant for today I kept it short but I could go on and on about how mad I get with ppl that don't recycle and don't try to keep the world healthy for our children etc. to me they are just lazy. Here is an article that just shows how bad it is Plastic Ocean. That is just in the ocean what about our landfills. Some days I view the human race as a parasite killing it's host(the world). Sad thought really but so true.

11 Months old

OKay so our boy is 11 months old and only has one month left till the BIG #1. Sort of sad how fast the time went. We love watching him grow but also would love for him to stay our little boy. Here is what our very busy boy is all about these days, Well show you his muscle shots. He did well because we were actually getting him to show you his muscle poses.

And of course here are the smiles for the ladies, that he flashes when they speak to him.

Getting teeth......

are not much fun Noah wants us all to know. On mother's day we noticed one of Noah's teeth coming through and I have to say that there is no guessing anymore that he is teething. We were up most of the night crying and pretty much all morning too. It makes one really sad boy that is for sure. I know for sure one has broken the surface but he won't let me in to see if there is more or just one. I just hope that these teeth all come in at once and not one by one. We need our very happy boy back. Really going to miss that gummy smile that I love soo much. Not to much else is going one here with us, just the normal every day routine for us, ttill next time .

Project is under way!!!

We are are happy and excited to say that we are under construction for a family of four plus a cat in early December. That is right folks, Number 2 is under construction and we couldn't be happier. Construction will end hopefully on Dec 12th 2008 if not sooner, and praying not any longer. If Noah sibling is anything like him, s/he won't do that too mom!!! I will post a pregnancy link on the side and up date things there for the most part.

Yosemite National Park

We have been wanting to go to Yosemite since we moved here but it just hasn't happened. Last year we planned to go but between tom's work and me being pregnant and huge it just didn't work out. So after seeing some pictures from Steph's blog of their Easter Weekend trip there, I told tom we had to go before the end of May. The reason I wanted to go before the end of May is because that is the best times to see the Waterfalls at the park, when the ice caps are melting. You really need to do more than just a weekend there we found. We'll have to go back and do all the stuff that we didn't get to do this time. We did however do one good hike on the mist trail that goes to the Vernal falls which was like up and up, a short distance but pretty step, that some people did make it up, and that trail was only moderate. As well an easy one to see the lower and upper falls. Here are some pictures of our weekend hope you enjoy!!!

Vernal fall

The half dome

Upper and Lower falls

Noah now 10 months and a day

Too much wasted time.

Well I been finding I am on this computer way too much lately. Things seem to busy here and things need to get done. I don't like the feeling of wasting time and I don't like planning to do things and than before I know it the day is over and not much got done b/c I wasted time. It's like sleeping in too, I can't stand sleeping in b/c if I do, my day is pretty much half over and I have missed out on being out doors in the sun etc. The tv is also like that, but I been good with that one, I just don't bother turn it on during the day. These things just suck the life out of me, instead I could be outside playing with Noah , getting the chores done fast and whatever else that needs to be done, like the pile of sew I need to do, that just seem to be growing. I'll try and get on now and then to post a picture of Noah and a quick update if there ever is one. But for most part friends and family it might be quite here. I didn't want to leave you all hanging and wondering where we are or what's up but let face it, we really just do the same thing everyday... try to tidy up the place, diapers, make meals, go to exercise classes, go to the park, and tom goes to work..... every day is pretty much the same.

bye for now.

Welcome Hayden Flynn

We want to Congratulate Trevor and Sarah on the birth of their second son. Hayden David Flynn who was born today 8lbs 5oz, 21.5 inches!!! Not sure when we'll get to meet this little guy, I have a feeling he will be walking and running around when we do :(.

Our trip

we are back from our trip to Florida and we had a pretty good time. It went by fast but than I am also glad to be back home too. Noah's pretty fussy today and it was expected, he travels well but it seem to also take a toll on him. I am hoping by the weekend that he gets back into his routine.

Here are a few pictures taken at south beach in Miami and at our friends pool. Noah loved the water so much that he actually would start to cry when we would take him out of it. He's going to be a little fish, that is for sure.