Moving day

Back in August I mentioned changes on the horizon.  Well since it is all official now (well more than official…now its happened) I figured I would fill you in on what's up.

Over the summer my colleague decided it was time to move her family out of the state, so it was time for me to find a new office space.  I looked for months and nothing seemed to work out until another mom at preschool told me about the place she leased and I decided to check it out.  It was affordable and available with no long commitment so I jumped on it and over Christmas Brian and I moved all my stuff in.

Packing up the old office (over several days), I was amazed at the number of textbooks I have.

I would say this is about 1/3 of them….I think I need to clean house a little...

Paper work and organization have consumed many evenings at our house the last few weeks

What it looks like so far:

Still need to hand stuff and walls and get some more stuff moved in but all in all its getting there.  

There is now a desk in this corner and I have been working here for about 3 weeks now.  Thankfully my patients are willing to come no matter how it looks.

When and if there is ever a finished product I may try to post that as well.  We'll see. 

An Owen post:

Going through some old drafts that I never got around to posting.  I could probably add more to this but these pics are too stinkin' cute not to post so I'm just throwing them up with little or no additional effort!

Indoing with Auntie...

Park date with Katelyn

Pooped at baby boy at Ryder's house

Ice cream time

Holiday Season Extras

Friday before Christmas Scott and Parker got picked up by Mimi, Papa, and Aunt Charlotte for breakfast out then cookie baking at Mimi's.  Owen didn't get to go this year but he did get to enjoy the fruits of their labor:

And I'm pretty sure he is already excited to go help out next year.

What have we been doing since Christmas?  Toys.  SO.MANY.TOYS.

We also got the gift of a getting to pick out a new tent (we've really out grown ours!).  We stopped on our way up for dinner at Mimi and Papa's one night to browse and see what we wanted.  And there is no better place for hide and seek than REI:

That night we ended up hearing about the REI "garage sale" that was happening the next day.  So Brian headed back bright and early to get in line for the deals (thanks honey, your the best!).  Well he scored big time and came home with this beauty for over 60% off.

We are itching for our next camping trip to try this bad boy out...

These are pre Christmas but I had to include them:

Reading stories one evening with Mimi, Papa, and "Mimi's Sister".

We celebrated our friend Kason's first birthday where I got this adorable picture.  I wish I had pictures of the rest of the decor but I don't.  If this hand made penguin is any indication then you can get the idea.  A winter wonderland of cuteness.

Crafting….sometimes it comes with bribes to get things made for Christmas.  I'm not above that.

NYE walk in the neighborhood:

We had a mellow to the max NYE which included bed by 7:30 for the boys and 10 for the parents.  Party people.  I went to bed feeling thankful that we didn't end this year with wrist surgery and recovery like we did last year.  Brian went to the Rose Bowl game on the first and had a great time and we enjoyed the company of more family for a few days, but other than that we just took it easy…and it was awesome.

Tide pools

While Aunt C was still in town we decided a trip to the butterfly preserve and the tide pools was in order.

We were still a few week early to see many butterflies, but there were a few and we got to see a bunch "explode" out of a nest before we moved onto the tide pools which was pretty neat.

Above: Mimi, Owen + Papa (incase you didn't know which of my kids it was…harder and harder to tell these days)

Gorgeous views….

We only just made it to the beach when we decided it was time to stop for lunch (it was maybe 11:00)

But I would never turn down a beach picnic with my favorite fellas:

After lunch we walked the 1/4ish mile (? half mile?  not sure) down the beach to where the good tide pools are.  The big boys were drawn like bees to honey when they saw this pool to play in (half way to the tide pools by now)

Pretty sure they could have stayed all day

Made it to the tide pools:

Owen + Aunt C

Mimi showing anemones to Owen…100% in her element!!!!

All the boys touched one.  Scott described it as sticky and wasn't keen on doing it again, Owen seemed to like it a bit more.

The big boys saw a few sea creatures and then decided they just wanted to play in the waves and warm pools of water…I should have known.

The hike back

 Same hike back last year….

And the year before….