To Grandmothers House we go

Over the river and through the woods to Grandmothers house we go. Its not a just a song to us. It is the directions we follow to get to my parents house. My parents after 34 years of marriage have finally built their house out in the country. It is in the Mountianis state of West Virginia. I still laugh at their mountains, hills. After myself living in such mountains as the Cascades and my parents living in Colorado and Montana West Virginia seems to be such a joke. But this is where they chose and it is closer to me and the children so for that I am thankful.

The entire house building process has been a long one. This winter has not helped. The heavy snowfall we have revived on the East Coast has made getting to their new house impassable. Progress in building has been delayed and moving at the pace of a snail. But spring is around the corner and soon they will move into their little house in the country.

Happy?

An oxymoron

9 months old

Soft, kissable, sweet, the best baby in the world. How much do I love this little boy. I could not begin to say. I love Smiley. I love to play with him and mostly kiss him all over, gobble him up. I don't mind changing his diapers when it reveals his fat tummy. Every time I put my lips to it and blow he giggles and smiles so large. He has been a blessing brought in to our lives.





He is now 9 months old. Wow. He now has two little teeth and still a bald head. But a fuzzy bald fun to rub and pet almost like a puppy. He reminds me a lot of a little puppy. The other day as I came home he quickly crawled to mama with a tiny baby shoe in his mouth, precious. He is crawling around my legs right now and when you catch his big beautiful brown eye he will flash you his famous smile.

He is so cute so darling. I am so in love. He still only says dadadada , I am working on that. He now can pull himself up to a stand. He can walk along things. He looks so baffled when his oldest brother grabs him and carries him around the house. He gets in to everything and everything goes in his mouth.

He is love. He is sunshine. He is light. He is wonderful. He is heaven sent. He is Smiley and he is 9 months old.

A day it did not snow

Towards the end of a long snowy winter we all have cabin fever. The boys have been asking to go out and play for sometime no but the snow was too deep. Even the days after the snow melted down a few feet it was just too cold. However this week it warmed up a bit and it did not snow. Any accumulating snow. The boys were able to go outside.



We ran, jumped, played on the swing set, shoveled snow, it was so good to be outside.



But then those words came "Uh Mom, Mommy, its cold outside. We are going back in. But you can still play outside it you want to."

Bakugan scares baby

I was in the front of the house yesterday and I heard my baby screaming. It was a sharp high pitched scream one of uncomfort or dislike. It was short and as quick as he screamed it stopped by then seconds later he would do it again. I thought his brothers were doing something to their baby to aggravate him. I could not understand why their father would not steep in and stop it as he was in the room with all three.

The screaming kept up and I had enough. I ran into the room to take care of Brendan yelling Jay "why won't you help him!" I was silenced and shocked to see Jay was the one making baby scream and baby and he was just fine. The four of them were playing Bakugan. Or should I say the three of them were scaring Brendan with Bakugan.

What a silly baby. He was briefly upset every time the charter was dropped and spun on the floor. He had the greatest haunted fun house look to his precious self. There was no need for me to worry. But every need for me to grab the camera.

floor exercising

Today, is the first of March. The first...a new beginning. What's your new beginning? What do you want to start over or try new? I am going to try to make this month a healthy month. I am going to try to shed a few pounds and get back into something I love this month. I had a goal to run a marathon 26.2 miles by the time I was thirty. That did not happen. This month I turn 31, I never ran the marathon but I did not close the book on that dream in fact it is still at the fore front of my mind. I love to run. I love to walk and hike but I love to run. The human body was designed for it. Running strengthens you and frees your mind. It increases gray matter in the brain which can improve memory and learning, and potentially slow down the deterioration of mental ability. I like the way it makes your body feel when it is took care of and used to it potential. I have been running at the Y. I get on the elliptical machines and just go. Sadly my time has gone dramatically up since I have stopped. I need to get back into shape. I want to get bathing suite ready for a cruise with my love and I want to fulfill my goal of running a marathon. This time I will not put time limits on when it has to be by. I just want to do it for me.

I have started back at the gym and working out at home in order to get back in to shape for running. My boys are so excited. When they see they ask Mom can we do the exercise video? I am thankful I have such motivators in my life.

We tried today to exercise. Tried because I first kept saying later, not now. I did not want to do it. I did cave in and we tried.

I put in the dvd and all the sudden I had 3 little ones trying to work those abs.




Three little ones who believed the only floor room in the house was directly under me.




Three little ones who not only are my cheer leaders, exercise partners, but actually the main reason I have to work out. To work off 9 months of wonderful times, developing love.

A Valentines Day Post

Today a day celebrating love, relationships and the utmost thanks and respect that you have for them but most importantly the people in who they are attached to. The grandiose of love is intoxicating. When you meet and are with someone who not only that you love but are IN LOVE with the world is right. A great love story is wonderful to watch and read but I am living one and it is making my head baffled with a childlike giddiness every day to realize it. I am head over heals in love. I feel deep and hard. I was reading this passage the other day and it made me think even more about love...

It's like gravity moves when you see her. Suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore, she does. And nothing matters more than her, and you would do anything for her, be anything for her. Become whatever she needs a protector, a lover, or a friend. He will be her perfect match like he was designed for her alone.

Stephanie Meyer, Eclipse

How sweet to dream that a love like that is out there. How time transcending it is to find someone who feels that way about you. To find your soul mate is an quest everyone is on. I have found him but that means in no way am I at the end of the quest but the beginning of an incredible journey. I am in love and feel so good. I smile from the inside out and I hope he knows it is because of him. Happy Valentines day to you.