Monday, September 26, 2011

Trophy Wives Club






Amanda, Lucy, and I have deemed ourselves 'The Real Trophy Wives' because after having kids we work hard for our husbands! :) We have decided to dress in Trophy Wife garb for all our races and got quite the response at the Mad Mudder. This is a four mile run (around a Marshal Mountain which is a ski hill) with an obstacle course through the mud, however, there was hardly any mud so it was mostly just obstacle course! We had fun though, and it was a good excuse to get dirty!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Update on the girls

So many changes daily! I will try and post some videos shortly but I wanted to talk about changes with the girls first. Raleigh is riding a bigger bike and playing soccer. She started pre-K a few weeks ago and loves it! Yesterday she said, "Mom... I wish I could be a hero." I said, "Me too Raleigh. There are a lot of people I would save." She said, "Ya, but we can't save them because we are all just people." I said, "True dat, sister. So true."

Mark was cleaning the garage and Raleigh begged him to make her a red sword. My mom was upstairs watching the girls and Raleigh kept yelling down the stairs, "Dad is my sword done yet?" When I got home from the weekend we were outside playing with it and she said, "My daddy made me this red sword. Mom, when you were little did your daddy make you a sword?" I said, "No. No swords for me." Then she said, "Mom, when you were little was Grandma taller like you?" Raleigh has been understanding for some time the relationships with family and she is fascinated by it. She talks about Gracy being her sister like Uncle Shay is my brother, Grandma being my mom, and K-ma being Mark's mom etc. etc. So, I could tell she was trying to conceptualize short little grandma as a mother. I said, "No, grandma was little even when she was my mom."

Raleigh and Gracyn are always fighting for 'air time' in the car. They both talk at me at once and occasionally dialogue with each other. Which is VERY entertaining to hear Raleigh lecture Gracy on the 'goings-on' of life. Gracy will respond with a, "ohhhh Raaawwwllie, Ohhhh."

A few days ago Gracy peed in the toilet uninitiated by us. She has been pretending like she poops in the toilet so when she came to tell my mom and I she had peed in the toilet we didn't pay attention. Later, my mom walked in the bathroom and said, "Uh, I think Gracy really did pee in the toilet" as it was full of pee. We celebrated with M&Ms for everyone.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Vacation



"What a BLESSING!" I thought as we pulled up to our forest service cabin on Lake Como. I also thought many other things, i.e. We don't deserve this, I can't believe we get to spend a whole week here, etc. etc. We secured this desolate cabin (only one other on the entire lake so aside from day use we were literally the only people on the edge of the lake) back in February and who except God would have known that it would be the EXACT timing and resource we needed to completely unplug from the world and get plugged back into more eternal and important endeavors?K'ma sent Pez dispensers and Silly Putty with us for the girls to play with. I don't know who had more fun- the girls playing with them or me watching them thinking of my own childhood with Pez and Silly Putty?? Between that, a campfire with s'mores, sandcastles, and Raleigh and Mark sleeping in a tent I was overjoyed with living vicariously through my children and their week of 'firsts'.