Too Young to be Expecting!

Both girls had school off on Friday so we went up to Bellevue to visit my sister Lindsay who is very pregnant. Due any day now. We were able to spend the afternoon helping hang curtains, clean, and fold clothes in order to get the nursery ready. Emma vaccuumed the room and Leora gathered all the baby's toys together. After the hard work the girls found a bag of balloons in the nursery. Lindsay let them have the entire bag and this is what they ended up doing with some of them:




The girls are sooooo excited for their Aunt Lindsay to have a baby! Emma is already talking about babysitting her. Lindsay has already broken the news that Emma will have to wait until she's older.

A Day in San Diego

On one of my days of while in Long Beach, CA for Jetblue training I drove down to visit my sister in law Deeanna and her family. I hadn't seen them in over a year, and was born in San Diego, so decided to take a trip. The drive down was very memorable. It brought back so many childhood memories just driving along I-5 toward San Diego. I really need to take Eddie and my girls there next summer.

I spent most of my time playing board games and card games with Toby and Zoey, had Marlie pretend read to me her library books, and watch Elijah "Not" doing his homework. This is Elijah not listening to his mother:



And here is Marlie showing me her princess dress:



Thanks to the Manning for letting chill with them for the day!

Leora in Preschool!

Leora has finally begun preschool. She was so excited, and is still excited everyday she gets to go to "school". She is so eager to grow up "like Emma". Notice she finally has enough hair for pigtails! Hurray! Here are some pictures of her at preschool.

Eddie's Birthday!

Here are some pictures from Eddie's birthday yesterday. Emma wanted to make him a football cake. He's 32 now!

First Day of 2nd Grade!

Emma started 2nd grade today. Her teachers name is Ms. Brittain. Here are some pictures:

Too Hilarious Not to Post!

Eddie sent this to me in an email and I couldn't stop laughing after I read it. This was written by a man obviously, but it is too funny not to post.

Girls -- Please have a sense of humor!

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE:

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, 'I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me.'

I said, 'WHAT??!! What was that?!'

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear..

'You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.'

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, 'Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?'

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, 'Lets get a pair for each outfit.'

We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you... She was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, 'That's fine, honey.' She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, 'I think this is all Dear, let's go to the cashier.'

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, 'No honey, I don't feel like it.'

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, 'WHAT?'

I then said, 'Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.'

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, 'Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?'

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.....but at least that woman knows I'm smarter than her.

Do blondes have more fun?

So anyone who really knows me knows that I get bored with my hair often, so I change it. I finally took the plunge and went blonde. I've never done blonde before because it is higher maintenance than other colors, plus I guess I didn't think it would look good. I've been doing highlights for a few months and really liked them, so decided to take the plunge. I actually really like it. It did take a few days to recognize myself in the mirror. These pictures are courtesy of Leora, my little photographer.