I've Been There....

Yes, I've been.... there. I'll tell you where in a minute. First you have to suffer through all the shctuff we have been up too lately! he he. Don't worry I'l be brief and let the pictures do the talking!

We had our family pictures taken a few weeks back. Brock and Tim had matching shirts, but Tim thought it was a good idea to give Brock a Hot Tamale candy right as we were stepping out the door. Ya it took all of 3 seconds before Brock had red droole all down he shirt.

This is about the only good family picture we got. After 3 hours of church and no nap, Brock was not in the mood.

This one is cute though!

We did get a ton of cute ones of me and Tim, which is nice as we never have pictures of us!
Brock's newest thing is trains. He just loves this train set from Ikea!
For memorial Day, we uh..."celebrated" by having a picnic in our living room. Not quit 4-wheeling in Mink Creek, but Tim had a final the next day and couldn't do anything more fun. Brock had a hoot though.
No better way to eat chips then with a fork!
Here is Brock in the morning, He loves to strip before he goes to sleep, the goof.
This weekend we took a last minute trip to the Olympic Peninsula. It was so much fun. I only wish we would have had more time to play. I really want to go back again. We'll see if I can talk Tim into before we leave!

Here we are at the Dungeness Sand Spit. The longest Natural Spit in the PNW. All of our friends just raved about it so we had to check it out. It was so foggy though, I couldn't see for more that a few hundred yards into the ocean. I kept expecting the Black Pearl to come out!
Brock loved the waves. He had fun walking the beach and throwing rocks with Tim.
On our hike back we spotted this deer, right off the trail. Brock is too interested with the deer to look at me!
Ok, sorry to all you hard core sand spit lovers, but Tim and I were a little bit let down. We went to Realto Beach in La Push (i think you may have heard of La Push) afterwards, and it was SO MUCH COOLER! We wish we would have hung out there all day. Here are some awesome pictures taken from the Beach.

{up the beach there is First Beach and the cliffs made famous by Twilight)

{here is Azkaban.... according to Tim}

Brock loves the waves. He liked to go to the edge and then let the Foam "chase" him. In fact we both got caught and got our shoes wet and full of sand. Oh well!
Big drift wood! The drift wood was amazing on the beach! I could have played all day!
Some one (not me!!!) had put this in the sand. I was tempted to cross it out and write Edward, but though better of it, after all, we were in wolf territory!

Tim climbed up a little hill. Can you see me and Brock down there?
And {drum roll please} I made Tim drive me into Forks. And it was..... disappointing? It is really just a dumpy little town with way to much Twilight pride. Seriously, there were posters everywhere. Even a few shops dedicated to Twilight memorabilia. I considered becoming "team Jacob" just because La Push is so beautiful and much cooler that Forks. But, I didn't ;) But here is the sign to prove it. I was going to get out of the car and stand by the sign. But, due to Tim's immense teasing, and my own embarrassment, I decided not to. BUT, I have still been there!

All in all our weekend was pretty fun. I really want to go back and just stay on the beach. The Olympic Peninsula is a BEAUTIFUL place, and if any of our WA friends haven't been there yet, GO! Skip the spit though and head straight for the beaches at La Push! :)

This one's for the Grandparents!

When it rains it Pours, and well, I do live in Seattle! Lots to catch up on. We have been a house of sicky's lately. It seems that Brock and I just switch off on when to be sick. He had a cough last week and now I have a cough, sore throat etc. No fun. Last weekend when we were both feeling ok we did sneak in a little hike. It was lots of fun, until I walked into Stinging Nettle. OUCH! If you have never felt stinging Nettle, it literally feels like something bites you! It really, really hurts! And my legs were stinging and tingly all night long. Not fun at all.

We took Brock to the Dr. the other day for a well baby check up. According to Tim, the nurse who was administering the shots was moving so fast the needles were flying all over the place (I wasn't there). Needless to say, she poked herself. They made Tim wait an extra 45 mins because they wanted to draw blood from Brock to make sure he didn't have HIV or something (seriously?). But, they finally sent him home. Well, later that week I get a call from the social worker at the medical center saying the nurse was freaking out and if we didn't go in, they would get a court ordered blood test. Ridiculous. So I had to take poor Brock in for a blood draw. :( He did rather well, but it still broke my heart.

Ok on to the pictures, Brock has turned into quite the little stripper as of late. He Loves to take his clothes off. Especially at night or during naps. This is what we find all the time~

Luckily he hasn't figured out how to wiggle out of his diaper yet. I do not want a "Poo-caso" on my hands!

This is just a cute picture!~

Ok and here are a bunch of recent scrapbook LO's~

Click here to be directed to my scrap blog if you want credits to these kits.

Here is Amy and Brian when they visited Seattle!
Brock and Owen are such great friends! We are going to miss them when they move

Here are a few of my sweet little Danika. I can't wait to see her and the rest of the Hamilton's. If I am not mistaken, they owe me about 100 hours of babysitting, so I am looking forward to that... { :D }

And here is little Brock. Awwww

Here are a few things Brock has been doing lately, he now loves trains. I bought him a little train set at Ikea and it is his new favorite thing. He loves his "Choo choo" as he calls them. He is talking up a storm. Some of our favorites include ~ "Go get it!" "Night night" "kisses" "jesus" "juice" "snack" and many others. He is always talking, I just can't understand him half the time! He has also became very affectionate. He was always a snuggler, but he now loves to give kisses. Grandparents be warned: Brock loves to give open mouth, wet, slobbery kisses. (Probably why I always get sick from him). I just can't turn him away though because he is always so proud of himself! Just a little warning!

Scrapbooking!

Alrighty~ Here is what I do during nap time. Special thanks to Abbey and Amy for letting me scrap some of their pictures!

Ok, have you had enough for one day? If you want to know where to get any of these kits (if any of you digital scrapbook, haha) just post a comment or email me and I will send you the info!

Isn't my family the cutest ever?

I Need a New Hobby..

As you may or may not know, I have done injured myself :( My foot is hurt in some way. Not sure what is wrong with is, however, I do know it is not a stress fracture. So, yay for that. But, I can't run and I am going crazy! I was up to 13 miles too! SO instead of running in the am, I have taken to... shopping. In fact, today I was the FIRST customer at Costco. I couldn't believe it when I pulled into an empty parking lot at 9:30. Apparently Costco doesn't open until 10. I felt like the biggest loser waiting in my car for a half hour for the store to open. I wasn't going to go home, it's like a 10 mile drive! And I wasn't going to go driving around down town Seattle either. So I sat. And waited. All the while wishing my stupid foot was better and I was out hitting the pavement. I will say though the parking lot was about 1/4 full by the time it opened!

Ok, I just had to get that off my chest. Get ready for picture over load.

Here is our little Easter morning celebration~ Brock had a ball finding eggs. Instead of putting them into his basket he just tossed them. When one broke open to revel candy, well that was the end of that. Instead, he just stuffed as much candy as possible into his mouth, as you will see.

We were lucky to have dinner with Lance and Natalie. We love going over there for dinner, Natalie is an amazing cook! It is so nice to have family close by!

Here is a picture of Brock taking care of Tim when he came home from school sick. How sweet.
Brock has been a sick little guy for the last 3 weeks. He has had pink eye numerous times, a respiratory infection, and now a cough. Here is a sad little picture of when his eyes looked the worse (another reason I am going crazy, I can't take Brock to the gym until he gets better, we have pretty much been on house arrest)
My friend Melissa is pretty handy with a camera. Look at all these cute pictures of Brock and Owen. They are such good little buddies and always play so well together.



Brock loves to look at airplanes.

Blogging~ Isn't is about.....Time?

Hello family and friends. Please forgive my blogging absence. I have been feeling sick alot lately, ya know nausea an vomiting in the mornings.....

Ok just kidding. I should have saved that one until April 1st! But really, the only excuse I have is simply that I am lazy. Ya. I know I stink! Anyway, here is what we have been up to.

This last week was Tim's Spring Break. We didn't do anything spectacular, just hung out together. It was really nice. Brock really does miss his daddy durning the week. It broke his little heart this morning when Tim had to leave. :( But he quickly got over it when I put cars in for him!
Brock is so happy in the mornings! I love that he is always excited to eat his bowl of oatmeal!
In case you didn't know, Brock doesn't wear bibs. He wears capes backwards. This is how I feel sometimes! Sometimes he just wont let me take them off. It's strange I know. And other times when I feel he should keep them on (ie meal time) he refuses to keep them on. What a little stinker.
And here is Brock in his Easter Suit. I know it's early, but I had to put him in it. How handsome is he? Seriously though! (Ok, Tim you don't look to bad yourself ;)
This little jacket even has shoulder pads. Too funny.
And here we have some of Brock's more devious play time activities. Making a mess. Here is exhibit A~ a full bag of animal crackers spilled over the floor. He does look guilty doesn't he?
Tim and I have really made it a priority to go on a adults only date night at least 2 times a month. It has been so rewarding in our relationship to remember that the little things are important too. I talked Tim into going for sushi. I love sushi, but Tim wasn't so sure. Well he actually loved it and we even took Amy and Brian when they came to visit. Yumo!
Look how cute we are! I made Tim dress up a bit. It is just fun to dress up sometimes! For all our Seattle friends, if you want amazing sushi that is very reasonable, go to Village Sushi. It is so goood! Mandi, sorry you cant (pregnant you know) but everybody else definitely should!
And lastly, Brock. I love this little guy. He is so funny sometimes. He is completely enamored with the disney movie cars. We have all things Cars too. Movie, books, cars, jammies. Well he pulled his Cars PJ's out one day and insisted I put them on (insisted really means screamed until I figured out what he wanted). Then he wouldn't let me take them off. I know it looks like he had been working out and bulking up, but really, he was wearing a sweater under there and wouldn't let me take it off. Jeesh. Gotta love him though!
And on to other news, Brock has started saying even more words. Some of his favorites are "dig, dig, dig" "up" "mine" "don't" "nite nite" "booty, booty, booty (thanks Tim)" and lots of other jargon that I can't quite understand yet. He is really good at saying things once (like a person's name) but will never say it again. I am continuing to train for the Pocatello Marathon. It is going well. My body is adjusting to running longer distances. The first time I ran 10 miles I was so tired, I could hardly walk the rest of the day. Last time I ran 10 miles and felt great all day. My legs were a little tired, but that was it. So that is good because 10 miles isn't even half of a marathon! My feet though... well I don't think there is any hope for them!

That is what we have been up to. Pretty boring really. I will try to be better at blogging in the future!