The Entire Month of August!

So.... I have been collecting pictures for the last MONTH! A lot has gone in during that time! We had a great girls day at Disneyland to celebrate 3 July birthdays! It was a lot of fun! My mom and sister Lisa came to visit for the first couple weeks in August, and they gave us some passes to Legoland. We went the week after they left - I say "save your money"! NOT worth it!

ALSO... My little boy turned 1 year old... ALREADY! AND... OF COURSE... my little sister Laura came home from her mission!

Here are the pics.... they are in total random order...

Hannah took this picture of Laura, Lisa, Chase and me!

Cutey Patutey

Laura and me

Another Diaper cake I made for a baby shower

Chase's birthday cupcake

Trying to EAT to cupcake!

Mark enjoying his cupcake!

Chase on the swing sporting his MESSY cupcake face

Chase got some bongo drums from mommy and daddy!

The party

I LOVE my sweet little sister! OF COURSE she wore a birthday hat!

Big sister helped open Chase's gifts!

Me and Mel

Me posing under the sign at Bubba Gumps

A few of my friends

Mom, Dad and birthday boy

Chrissi posing in front of the Bubba sign! I took a pretty terrible picture!

Kami and Erika

The birthday bunch

Me being weird... What's new?

More Jewelry

Hanny Banany

3 Kids in a car! with cousin Abby...

Chase's birthday - AGAIN!

Legoland

New York made out of legos

Chase trying to walk

Last beach day

Chase playing in a beach tent

Chase playing at Legoland

I decided to ride the ONLY fun ride at legoland! It was CRAZY!

Chase standing all by himself!

We went to the beach yesterday with lots of friends. It was so much fun!

Chase completely passed out!

Hannah with her 2 BFFs collecting rocks!

Me and my favorite little girl!

We had a group birthday party for Christina, Melissa, Erika, and Lindsay:

The decorations Kami and I made for the b-day party... You can't really see in the picture, but we made bracelet's as party favors!

Here is all the jewelry Kami and I have started to make... We are hoping to start a small "business" ... we may start with an Etsy site. Look for B.F. Designz - hopefully coming soon!!!

10k

I have been sooooo busy lately that I have, of course, made blogging my LAST priority!

So, this is what we have been up to lately:

I ran a 10k on the Fourth of July. I came in 3rd place in my division with a time of 48:29, I was tenth over all the women, and 37th place men and women all age groups combined.

We went to Disneyland the night before July 4th. Hannah and Chase had great seats for the parade. Chase was so excited to see all the characters go by!

I made a diaper "cake" centerpiece for my friend Tiffany's baby shower. She wasn't able to attend the shower, however, because baby Drake came a little too soon! He was three weeks early!

Hannah's Recital and Misc.

Did I mention that Chrissi and Kami took me out to dinner and pinkberry, and then we went to Target, bought a scrabble game, and played it at Barnes and Noble until they closed? In addition to babysitting my children on the actual day of my birthday so that Mark and I could go out alone! And THEN they ALSO threw me a surprise PARTY??? I seriously have the GREATEST friends EVER!!

Hannah finally performed in her highly anticipated dance recital! I was just lucky that she made it on time! We were racing to get her there a half an hour as requested, but, of course, I had read the time wrong. I thought the recital began at 6:30, when really it was six! We arrived at 6:05, and I was freaking out as I rushed her into the auditorium! Luckily, her dance was not until almost the end, so we were in the clear! Imagine missing her first dance recital! She would not have been pleased.

She danced beautifully, however! Our little actress! She had the sweetest expression on her face as she gracefully performed what she remembered of the dance! She and one of the other older girls were really the only ones dancing - it was still really cute!

Chase is growing bigger day by day - one minute he's crawling, and the next he is pulling himself to standing on the furinture! Today he started climbing up the stairs - YIKES - I had better child proof the home a little better!

Check out my Slide Show!

Not Again!

I keep telling myself that I am going to keep updating my blog on a weekly basis, but here it is an entire month since my last posting - YET AGAIN!

A lot has happened this month... Let's see... It was the last month of preschool, and we stayed busy with some very fun field trips. Tanaka farms was one of our favorite. We got a tour of the farm and tried lots of fresh veggies, and then we were able to pick strawberries to eat! Hannah loved it. Unfortunatley, I didn't have my camera for several events, so there won't be any pics of this activity until I gather them from friends!

We went to Utah earlier this month because Mark opened the PacSun at Southtowne Mall, so we were lucky enough to spend Mother's Day with our Mothers, and also talk to little missionary sister Laura over the phone. It was a good time, and it is always great to see the family. Mom and Dad bought me some birthday gifts while we were out there... a new nail drill was among them! Thank You!!!

WE finished up the last few weeks of preschool after we came home, and then Christina organized the cutest preschool "graduation". VERY CUTE. My 28th birthday also happened this month. Mark took me out to dinner, gave me a cute skirt and top, and then he and I went to Disneyland without the kids and did all of the "adult" rides. VERY FUN!!!

June 1st was the San Diego marathon which I have been training for over the last few months. My time was 4:08, and that beat the time of 4:38 that I got for the Top Of Utah marathon in Logan 2006! I was aiming for 3:50, but I just couldn't run very fast after the first 15 miles... I should have paced better! Next time! (assuming Mark will ever allow me to run another!)

The BEST part of the month - the suprise 80's themed birthday party my friends threw for me last night! TOTALLY AWESOME! We played games and rock band and they all pitched in for a sewing machine (I have been really wanting one)!!! THANKS AGAIN GIRLS!!!!

Where's my camara when I need it?

I am becoming terrible at taking pictures! Really, I need to take them more often! There have been so many fun things happening lately, and I haven't hand a camara handy to capture the moment! Luckily my good friend Christina always has hers, so hopefully I will post some of those pics soon! This is what I have! Isn't Chase adorable? And - I LOVE it when Hannah smiles for the camara!