Help!

I need some creative minds to help me name this blog. Any suggestions not involoving my full name, social security number, or date of birth?

More exciting adventures with the ??? Family....

So we will see how many of my followers find my new blog minus our last name. Here is another update on our lives.... Mike's day's off just switched to tuesday/wednesday. Sad for me because now we don't get days off together and I have to teach primary by myself! I'm hoping the kids will have pity on me and be angels but I don't have much hope for that. But at least if there are no fires Ian & Eliza can stay home with him and only go to the babysitters 3 times a week.

Some of you had questions about my job.... I work at a new long term care and rehabilitation facility in town (which I wish to remain annoymous) where I am the Head of the Dietary Department as well as their Clinical Dietitian. So I am in charge of the kitchen, overseeing staff, purchasing food as well as doing clinical assessments on all the patients. It is fullfilling and it keeps me busy.

A few weeks ago we had a great visit from our old friends Brady & Annalisa. We had tons of fun and stayed up way too late.

This weekend since it was our last weekend with a day off together before Mike's schedule change we decided to go camping. We found a great area less than an hour from our house. Any locals have any guesses where we went???

The kids loved it.

We only had a bit of rain during the night but woke up to a sunny morning.

And what do you do with a little girl who dresses herself? And she won't dress up in cutesy girly things. I bribe her to get a skirt on most sundays. She loves dressing up in her brother's clothes. Here she is wearing Pirates of the Caribean Pajamas with a Jedi robe on top. This is a girl who has watched more Star Wars than any Princess movie. Partially because I'm kind of anti-Disney Princess. She still loves to play mom to her dolls and dresses the dolls in her cute clothes.

Thanks for following me over to this new blog. Everybody who reads this needs to comment so I can make sure who knows and doesn't know about the move!

a lonnnng time

It's been a long time since my last post. I haven't felt like posting lately because I feel like I don't fit in the blogging world. I'm not a stay-at-home mom anymore. In the past few months I've worked a million zillion hours but have recently cut down to 32 hours a week. Mike also started work a few weeks ago. We have a few faboulous babysitters to watch the kids. My mom also just came for a week to babysit the kids which we LOVED! On our days off we have been having lots of fun with the kids, rock climbing, swimming, riding bikes, going to the farmers market and library. And the most exciting news is that Ian just learned to ride a two-wheeler!

Life hasn't exactly turned out as we imagined but we are happy and healthy.

Good Night, Leonardo!

Ian was so excited to find a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle at D.I. yesterday. He's seen the cartoon about 4 or 5 times and he thinks they are pretty cool turtles. When we were getting him ready for bed last night he suddenly burst into tears because Leonardo didn't have pajamas to wear. Granted, it was late and he was exhausted but he was also sincerely upset at the fact that Leonardo didn't have jammies! I tried to convince him to put some stuffed animal clothes on the turtle but they just didn't fit right. So to stop the tears I found some turtle-like fabric and quickly fashioned some pajamas. Ian was a little unsure of them at first, but Mike convinced him that they were the type of jammies that ninjas wear. He finally cheered up and went to bed. With Leonardo of course.

Eliza got a new bike from the D.I. that she took to bed for her nap today. What's with sleeping with toys?