The Auto Show

So Johnson was dying to go the Auto show this year and was just going to take Chi with him, but somehow convinced me to go too, which i'm glad he did bc it ended up being a lot of fun. The best part was watching Chi's eyes light up as he discovered the one and only "Bumblebee". He was a little hesitant at first to sit in him, but then I think he realized that he wasn't going to transform.



This kid was attracted to all the fast and expensive cars. A little too early for that kind of taste. One day buddy!
Another fast and expensive car.
And another...
For some reason he felt he was the only one that deserved to get close to the stingray!
Car taste must be something else Chi has aquired from his daddy! Lucky me.
Boston was just as bad, actually she really loved any car. I think she threw about a dozen tantrums bc we wanted to move on or she couldn't get in a certain car. When she was in them she crawled all over the place and I finally had to take her shoes off bc it was driving me crazy to see her stepping on nice leather of $80K cars...yikes!



There we go something economical, reliable and cheap to maintain. My kind of car.

Actually I lied, deep down inside my heart truly desires a cadillac escalade and this one was "fuel effecient"...right! Although my love for this vehicle was a little tainted when Tamu told me that every time she sees one of these she can't help but think it's a drug dealers car. I guess it doesn't help that they keep adding more and more chrome to the exterior.

Crazy Chang-ers!

This is what I have to live with these days....a bunch of big mouths! I finally put the Halloween makeup away so that Johnson couldn't play in it anymore. And this is my little girl biting off more than she can chew. Yep, she made herself a pancake sandwich, which she must get from her dad.
And this boy is just crazy all the time. I can barely take a picture at all these days without his mouth hanging wide open.

The start of the end

This is the start of the end of the year. Halloween is always a good indication that the year is almost over. I just wish there was some way to slow down the holidays.
I first have to say that my pictures suck. They suck bc my kids will NOT hold still to take a picture anymore. Plus getting them to keep their costumes on was almost near impossible.
Halloween is not one of my favorites, but the kids make it more exciting for me. Especially Boston. She was shockingly very into trick or treating. I shouldn't have been that shocked bc it's a pretty well known fact that the girl loves food and loves chocolate. So it didn't take her long to figure out how to hold her pumpkin high and say please and thank you to anyone holding a treat. I thought that after the first hour of walking she would be tired and want me to hold her candy for her, but she would not let go and insisted on stopping at every door. Chi of course was pretty mellow all night, very curious about all the costumes. His crazy grandma who dressed up as a scary witch let her scream out at every innocent child that passed by, which didn't help the poor kid. It made Chi a little hestitant about the whole night. On thursday Malachi's preschool had a costume party. This is my iron man and little lamb that refused to keep her adorable ears on.

Iron man and Optimus Prime came head to head at the party.

Iron man for the 2nd year in a row. It's going to be a sad day when this costume doesn't fit anymore.

We went up to Poulsbo to trick or treat with grandma and papa and I let Chi pack one of his bags on his own, which included his costume. He carried that backpack around for an hour before we left the house, but somehow it managed to not make it in the car. So my mom ran out to find a costume...pirates was all that was left in his size. He did not like it at all.

She was a little better about keeping her ears on for me on Halloween. The distraction of candy might have something to do with it.

Yep chocolate and more chocolate.

We hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween and look forward to hearing from and seeing our friends and family over the next few months.

1st day of school

Today was my babies first day of school...yahoo! Everyone keeps asking me if i'm doing ok and I am doing just fine. Malachi has been looking forward to this day for quite some time. I think his only disapointment is that he isn't riding a bus to school and won't be for a few years. Malachi and I have always had healthy seperations and I think he trusts that mommy would never leave him with somebody crazy. Plus it's nice to have some 1 on 1 time with Boston before #3 gets here... for those of you haven't heard yet we're about 10 weeks along...yahoo! I guess I haven't been on here for a while, i'm trying to come up with what else is new. We made a trip out to Cali last month and if I can get Uncle Rick to send me pics I took on his camera (hint hint) I'll blog about that later. Other than that we're all doing well. Getting this kids to hold still, look at the camera and smile right was near impossible today. He's turned into quite the ham. Boston of course had to be in every pic.The only thing that really worried me was that Boston was going to want to stay at school with them. To my amazement she was ready to go when the time came. I think it helped that the toys weren't out.

They are in for a long road together. This is the 1st of many years to come. I hope they're this cute together in 5 years.

"Magic carpets, I know these." Hopefully he'll learn to put his butt on them and listen.

Malachi and his first teacher, Mrs. Samples. His other teacher is Mrs. Hoberg, I don't know where she was otherwise I would gotten a pic with both.

I'm so grateful these teachers are safety oriented. At the end of the day all the kids come out and sit on this log. The parents are lined up in their cars and Mrs. Samples walks each child to their car one at a time. It takes a bit of time, but it's nice and safe.

4th of July

Independence day was real chill this year. We went to my parents house for some good ole fun the the sun. Below you'll find some entertaining pictures, but none that include any sparklers or fireworks because apparently the kids are deathly afraid of them. Of course it didn't really help that the very first firework lit by my brother Levi exploded right in front of us instead of shooting up the air like it was supposed to. Shards of the explosion actually hit us and I have to admit was a bit nervouse after that too. Malachi was done with being outside at all after that. So the kids stayed inside and watched Happy Feet while we enjoyed the light show on my parents front lawn. My little princess enjoying a rib bone.

My prince charming getting into the slip n slide with Malachi. I was suprised he actually got wet.

Malachi is doing much better with water now that he's had swimming lessons. Last year he wouldn't even get near the slip n slide.

The water was a bit chilly coming right of the hose. Sorry honey!

She's so cute. That's all I can say about this picture.

The ultimate water gun, Chi was Heaven getting us all wet.

This outfit was much cuter on the rack. She wore it well though!

Retirement

So apparentley your only supposed to put like 300 miles on one pair of running shoes. In the back of mind I guess I knew that, but for some reason I think I've put about 1,000 miles on these good ole' addidas that i've ran in now for the past 5 years (could be longer my memories not so good). So I am officially putting these babies to rest, which I feel pretty good about since i've trained for and accomplished my goal of running a 1/2 marathon.
My friend Keith and I ran the Seattle Rock n Roll 1/2 marathon last month and it was much better than I thought it would be. The thought of running 13 miles made me a little nervous, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. I survived, which is always a good sign, had a great time and wasn't even that sore the next day. A full marathon is still not appealing to me, but I'll for sure be a participant in a 1/2 again. It was really nice having the fam there to cheer me on. They were on the street about 1 1/2 miles before the finish line, which was a nice boost for the finish.

Keith and I rushing to the start line for no reason. The race started at 7 a.m. and we were all assigned to corrals. Keith was in corral 7 amd I was in 37, the very last corral. I managed to work my way up to corral 32. It was driving me nuts to have to wait so long and even then I was still an hour behind Keith's start time.

Can you see me? Nope because my corral was all the way in the back and around the corner. There were 25,000 participants.

getting old

I went out with the ladies a few nights ago and had a great time. We went to The Melting Pot for happy hour (great deal BTW-only way i'll ever go back there), I had a whole 2 glasses of sprite and of course some cheese & chocolate fondue. It was great fun, but man I had no idea I was at the stage of falling asleep with my glasses on my face and my mouth hanging wide open. Thanks for taking the picture honey!

Brotherly Love

Today Malachi and I had a conversation that went something like this:
"Mommy can you open this drawer?"
"What for Malachi?"
"I need a spoon."
"Why do you need a spoon Chi?"
"Boston needs a spank."
"Why does Boston need a spank?"
"She spilled the soda outside."
"ummm...since when do we get spanks for spilling and Malachi doesn't spank Boston, only mommy's and daddy's get to spank."
"You go spank Boston mommy for spilling the soda!"
"No baby i'm not spanking Boston for spilling the soda."
"Please"
"No Malachi"
"Okay"
Check out what he picked to spank his sister with...who is this kid?

Track & feild

Track season started last week and Malachi was soooo excited, until it was his turn to run. He did a little better than last year. There was no crying and he held my hand as he ran down his lane as opposed to between my legs like last year. He says he wants to do it again this week so we'll see how it goes. Admiring a little high jump.

"Runners take your mark"

"Get set!"

"Go!" "Come on Chi run to mommy!" I had to run down with Boston on my back to get him and run with him so he could finish the race. Of course everyone in the stadium cheered.

WA...really!

I was talking to Regina today and she informed me that it's been raining non-stop in DC. I can't believe that we have somebody beat with good weather. This is very rare for WA state. We've actually already hit the 80's and even tip toed into the 90's last week....amazing cause it's only June. We deserve it though after the winter we had.
My kids have been keeping me out doors everyday, i'm not complaining because my tan is coming back (yep white in the winter and brown in the summer...best of both worlds!). It also makes for good running weather. I'm still staying determined. The 1/2 marathon is in 16 days and I'm doing a little teaser this weekend (12k) to see how this old body does.
The kids have been managing the heat ok, they're pretty comfy in their birthday suits as you can see, but as for Johnson the complaining has begun ("he no can like it") and has threatened once or twice to buy a AC unit....go ahead man I dare ya! My little helper. This $9 vaccum was the best purchase ever. The kids love getting it out when i'm vaccuming to help and the best part is it really sucks! haha

Nothing like a little ghetto fun. I pretty much refuse to get a kiddie pool until we get our fence up, but I don't really think this bucket looked any better. The important thing is is that she loved it. Notice that our grass is dead already. This is after 1 weekend of heat. I really miss having a sprinkler system.

Popsicles, popsicles, popsicles. I swear these kids would live off of them right now.

Man I didn't realize how rough Boston looked right then or else I wouldn't of taken the picture, but I guess her roughness is how she managed to take over her brothers bike.

These 3 three year olds (Malachi, Scarlett & Titus) are running our street. Seriously, it seems like the 3 of them have all the older kids wrapped around their little fingers.