update to the update

Well, I just got back from my first prenatal visit and found out I'm only 7 1/2 weeks. That stinks! ugh. Now I actually have longer than I thought to endure my sickness! It's a rough life, but the coolest was that I got to see the baby in the ultrasound today! More like I got to see the little heart beat in the middle of a little mass. It was so precious. It really makes me appreciate that I'm the one that gets to carry the baby. So, that's that!

Time for an update

I agree, it's time for an update. Here it is: I'm pregnant and really sick and don't feel well enough to rummage through pictures and make another post. Good news: I'm 9 weeks along, should only have about 7 more sick weeks to go, if it lasts as long as my other pregnancies. This is my third, for those who don't know. Other good news: We've taken pictures of our apartment, and I will post them soon. When I'm having a good moment. Thanks for being patient!

The Cliff Walk at Newport Beach

As you can see, this is a beautiful place. And yes, we carried the stroller over those rocks. No one mentioned there would be a 100 yard section of the walk that was only rocks . . . big rocks! Yikes. We realized, about 70 feet into carring the stroller, with the boys in it, that we could take the boys out and push the stoller by itsself. You might ask, "well, why didn't you do that in the first place?" The answer is: those rocks were huge, with big spaces in between, and slippery. We were afraid to let the boys walk. Brian decided to be the macho man and carry the boys while I pushed the stroller. :) What a man...

Beach at Newport

Yorks Wild Kingdom Zoo and Amusement Park

Brace Yourselves . . . this one is a long slide

Our First Lobster--Yum!

No one told me about all that green stuff . . . sick. But, after Brian de-shelled it for us and handed us the peices--wiped clean--it was quite tasty! Thanks Brian :)

York Beach

Our new location

Hey all! We totally live in the same complex. We were just subleasing for the summer :) So, we moved 1 stairwell over, and it's actually a much nicer, newer-romodeled apartment. We love having closet space (now that we aren't living with someone else's belongings). Anyway, hope that clears up everything! :)

Posting pictures soon!

Stay posted . . . I'm too tired tonight, we just finished moving yesterday, we settled today and had 3 couples and their kids over for dinner tonight! (They helped out with the move) Whew, it's been a great week with lots of great memories, I'm sad to go back to real life, but shortly I'll post pictures, I promise. It might take a few days, seeing as my computer memory is totally full and we had to save pictures on Brian's laptop. So, as soon as I can, I'll post! :)

Friday Night, Soccor Night

There are so many great things about the LFM program, one of which is the camaraderie gained between classmates by playing sports with each other. There are so many different sports, bbqs and get-togethers outside of class, it's hard to choose how many we can be involved in without jeopardizing our family relationship!

Brian chose Soccer.

Every Friday night after finishing group work, lots of the LFMr's joined together for a fun, not-too-competetive game!

Often the boys would join in and all the players would let them make goals, kick the ball around and such. They were super fun and cool about it!

And this particular game I captured a great picture of Brian playing his soccer BEST. So Fun and I'm glad to have these memories!

So, in my meager attempts to keep the kids out of the Big Boy game, we practice with their balls on the side.

Wa Woo!!! Nice kick B!

Revere Beach

I know, I know . . . 3 slide shows in a row! There are just so many pictures I want you all to see! :) Enjoy!

I didn't realize this was in black and white, darn. Anyway, this is what remains of the sand sculptures!

Our Westgate Complex Park

Scooter Fun!

National Night out at the Zoo

As quoted by Wikipedia:

National Night Out is a community-police partnership held the first Tuesday of every August since 1984 sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch in the U.S. and Canada. It aims to increase awareness about police programs in communities, such as drug prevention, town watch, and other anti-crime efforts. Initially communities held lights-on vigils. Now, many communities hold block parties, festivals and other events to help bring neighbors together.

So, Boston was holding this night at the Franklin Zoo. At first I was reluctant to go, b/c Brian wasn't able to, and I had to take the kids by myself, and drive and try to follow directions in this twisted city with no help. Alas, I buckled up and and decided to power on. This event was to last from 5-8 pm. I left at 5:30--directions said it was a few miles away, taking no more than 16 minutes with traffic. Well, not far, I can handle this! Needless to say, I took several wrong turns and ended up on the other side of Boston and got totally lost. And hour and a half later we arrived.

Fliers said there would be free food and entertainment. We arrived just in time for them to close the lines. Darnit, Lance was REALLY hungry. I asked about all the vendors--CLOSED. Hmmm. Nowhere to stop on the way home, this was bound to be a long night!

I kept trying to distract him, but with the pungent odor of cheese in the air how could he forget?

Good grief!

I guess that's what an 800 pound block of cheese smells like!

On to the animals . . . If you squint you can see the Zebra and Giraffe in the background.

Do you see the Lion on top of that rock?

Lance was really intrigued by the elephant remains. He made up his own story and told me to tell him it was true! Gotta love those kids' imaginations! :D

Because everything was closed, and Lance really couldn't get his mind off of food, we decided to head out.

That is until he saw this . . .

Playground, Food . . . Playground, Food . . . I guess he wasn't hungry enough to leave this behind!

This is Spencer peering up at one of the many giants there. Those big kids trampled the babies! It was total chaos here, with big mamas yelling and all!

Seeing as dinner wasn't available, we hit up an ice cream truck on the way out! Spiderman to the rescue! (Didn't last long though, darnit!)

Playdough Day

Because preschool is so expensive around here, and I'm too late to register (apparently there's a year waiting list . . . ) I've decided to do different activities each day. Most of the time we play outside, because the weather is nice and we want to utilize the time we have before winter hits. I really like the idea of having certain activities on certain days. For example: Monday playdough day, Tuesday painting day, Wednesday library day, Thursday Water Park day, etc. You get the idea. So, here are some of our pictures of playdough day. We made our own dough, but the colors didn't last long! (It's a big heap of brown now!) HAHA

This is Lance's car. We weren't allowed to touch it; it was only to look at. :)

This is Spencer's Farm--The animals talk to each other! :)

PHOTOSHOP!

So, I just looked on the Internet for photoshop. I thought I would try my hand at editing and make some fun creations with the average pictures I take. I'm totally an amateur, no pro here. Apparently photoshop is not for me! I had no idea it was going to be $650-1,000 just for the program! I was reading about it, it looks really complicated too! That's totally pro material, not for me . . .

Anyway, I'm still looking for a program if anyone has any suggestions. Something for an average Joe, way less pricey than photoshop, but still performs well, considering . . . .

Any suggestions?!

Artesani Water Park

We love all the parks around here. I didn't believe, before I moved here, that the Boston area catered so much to children. Everywhere we go there are incredible parks. I'll have to post pictures of our favorite park sometime later, we didn't have a camera at the time we were there. But, this is our most recent Saturday adventure. The great thing is, all of these parks are FREE! The kids had a blast.

When we first arrived, everyone was out of the pool. We were told they were doing a "pool check." Well, Lance was waiting very patiently.

Once they opened the pool, Lance jumped right in and started holding his breath!

And this is Lance telling me to move back so he could swim to me. H held his breath under water and swam to me! I was really excited, b/c we haven't taught him how to do that. He's just teaching himself.

Spencer's still wary of the water.

Nothing like competing for dad's attention.

It was a fun saturday!