well that sucked.

Our past week was pretty much awful.  We had to come home from vacation, I have a busted up toe, a sick kid, and a husband who landed in the hospital for half the week.  Ugh, so our house is all a bit mentally and physically drained.  Even the kids, its surprising how much they can pick up on when you don't really tell them any details.  So I'm happy tomorrow is a Monday (I won't be saying that for long seeing as my summer is almost over) because its a fresh start to hopefully a much better week.  And because I don't want to go into details about any of our suckiness I'll leave you with a few more pictures from vacation from my moms camera.

Sun and Sand

We soaked up a bunch of both last week at the shore.  Luke finally warmed up to the idea that the beach is fun on Thursday...with only 3 days of vacation left...but then he loved it!  We splashed in the water, made things in the sand, and watched a lot of boats and planes.  Lauren stayed off the beach but got a lot of snuggle time with Moms.  Packing for a vacation with an infant and a toddler requires a lot of work, and we remembered everything for them but Zach forgot his camera and I forgot my camera charger.  So I only have a few pictures for now, the rest are on my moms camera.  Thank goodness she had what she needed and extra batteries! 

My guys on the boards.

One of my favorites, Luke watching the ocean.

Clifford!

"Hey Ernie!  Let's ride."

Ice cream and smoothies, mmm!

The girls on the boards.

Driving his boat through the sand.

Man Down

This is what happens when you ask a 2 year old to pack a few cars for the beach...

It was so heavy he fell over! :)

3 Months

Lauren is 3 months old today!

A little bit about our little lady...

In 3-6 month clothes.
Is more alert and interactive.  She tries so hard to mimic your faces or sounds.
Loves to coo and "talk" to us.
Absolutely loves ceiling fans - watches them with a huge smile on her face.
Gets up once to eat at night and still eats every 2-3 hours during the day.
Cat naps during the day and sleeps two long stretches at night.
Moved into her crib this past weekend (Mommy is sad but adjusting).
Not a huge fan of the car.
Grabs a hold of whatever she can, doing really great at grabbing on the toys on her bouncer.
Still hates tummy time but loves to lay on her back and look around.
Is getting the most adorable chunky rolls on her legs.

Fastest 3 months ever!

If You Give a Toddler a Cookie...

...some icing, and a container of sprinkles, he'll dump the entire container of sprinkles on the cookie and make this awesome birthday cookie for daddy!

The kid loves to work in the kitchen baking, decorating, and of course eating - which is really just licking the icing off everything.

Happy Birthday Zach, we love you!

C25K

This Just In: baby weight doesn't just fall off after the baby is born.  Breastfeeding only does so much.

Okay, so that's not a newsflash at all but I'm struggling lately...both with eating and exercising.  I don't know what happened, I was doing so well for a while.  I need to try something different.  I hate working out, always have and I'm afraid I always will.  If I have more accountability though I might be more motivated to get moving.  So Saturday I started a Couch to 5K program.  Basically in 9 weeks its suppose to get you in shape to run a 5K.

Real Breaking News: I am NOT a runner.  I can walk all day and night but ask me to run and its sad.

So this is challenging to say the least but maybe thats what I need.  It breaks it into 9 weeks, 3 'runs' a week.  Week 1 is a 5 minute warm up walk, then alternating walking for 90 seconds then running for 60 seconds for about 20 minutes, then a 5 minute cool down.  On the screen it didn't seem so bad, in real life it was flippin' difficult.

Saturday I completed Week 1 Day 1.  A total of 1.3 miles in 18 minutes 30 seconds averaging a 14 minutes 11 seconds per mile.  Not too shabby I suppose.  The stats don't include the warm up or cool down.

Tonight I completed Week 1 Day 2.  I went 1.32 miles in the same amount of time averaging 14:02 per mile.  So its about the same.

I have an app on my phone that tracks all my stats, tells me throughout my run when to walk/run/cool down.  They also give you stats for each section of your run as you go which helps motivate me throughout. Another thing I love about my 'run' is a little bit of time to myself.  In a way that makes it almost relaxing...okay my last running section I feel like I'm going to die but there are a lot of relaxing parts too.

If When I finish my 9 weeks maybe I will actually try a 5K....anyone out there want to join me?

Um Wow.

Luke went to camp Tuesday and didn't use the potty once!  The kid was out of the house and seemed to forget everything!  Ugh, so frustrating.  We got home last night, put him back in just his big boy underpants and he used the potty again. What the heck kiddo?

Last night when bedtime rolled around I got Luke all set with the essentials and went to say my nite nite and give kisses when we realized the last pacifier in the house was missing.  I was happy, its about time to get rid of it anyway.  He sleeps perfectly fine at school with no paci so why do we still have to use it at home?  There was lots of whining but he eventually fell asleep.  Only problem, he was up several times last night. Boo.  Today he found it....cold turkey method...fail.

A falcon attacked crashed into our house last night.  The loudest bang came from the roof area, I ran out expecting to see a tree down or something broken at least.  The backyard was normal, I turned around and saw the back end of a bird on the point of the roof and one leg sticking straight up.  Feathers were floating down the roof and onto the ground.  I thought for sure the thing was dead, Zach thought he just knocked himself out.  Zach was right, about 10 minutes later it gathered its sense again and flew into the trees.  I'm impressed that it wasn't dead based on the craziness of the bang.

We are raising the worlds next Ants in the Pants champion here.  Watch out fellow toddlers and adults alike, this kids got game!

And last but not least, my sun shade bathing beauty.