Those little email updates

Those little weekly Nike updates have been coming to remind me how many weeks until the half marathon.... Luckily my partner in crime invited me for a halfway point run... We are now signed up to run in the Human Race on August 31st 2008. The website is calling it the first global 10k with multiple cities and millions of runners... Exciting I think!

Happy Anniversary Honey!

Officially it is our anniversary tomorrow, but since T is in Europe it is already our 8th wedding anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!! Our first one ever apart.... And so a few moments from the last few years together... To my best friend, my workout buddy (ok not so much since K has been here), my adventure traveler (even when you really haven't wanted to), my best friend, teammate and partner for everything. Thank you so much for eight wonderful years. Can't wait for all the adventures we have ahead!)

Horsie love...

Daddy we miss you! Safe travels

I am helping you save money

"I am helping you save money this weekend as you won't be spending money on gas with all the homework" Yes, that is what my summer school teacher said... The same one who when I mentioned that three hours of homework a night after a nightly two hour class is quite a lot with work and a daughter responded your daughter will look up to you. You are setting a good example for her. 8 classes left.

No more dollies at school

We came home with a new contract... no more dollies or toys from home allowed at school as they were creating issues with the kids that did and didn't bring their dollies.

So the other night as we were delaying I mean talking before bedtime K brought up the fact we couldn't bring all our babies to school.. We went in to the standard baby conversation... I want a baby sister, when I was really little I was in your stomach? how did I get there? was I really little?

At some point in the conversation K came up with the solution... I will put my dolly in my tummy. G won't see my dolly because it will be in my tummy.... (You can imagine the laughter.)

Today K asked to bring her dolly stroller to school. Technically it is not her dolly.... unfortunately Mommy said no and we settled on taking our baby of the morning into the car where Mommy would spend the rest of the day with the baby at work. We are often assigned babies to take to the gym, to work, to school... you name it Mommy and Daddy have a dolly with us.

"Mommy, I know how I am a superstar"

K spent part of the weekend with Gma S as T and I had a couple dinners with friends... one in Los Gatos with our friends S&R... and one in the city with our friends C&M. Both dinners were really nice and I had another fantastic meal at Town Hall. Consistently great food. We also went to a little place called Cosmopolitan for drinks... and you guessed it a million cosmos and beer on tap (doesn't get any better for the four of us)... I tried the yummy raspberry one. We also met up with my cousin who was in town from the East Coast and finally returned to the market again. Two weeks back to back after being gone for weeks... Most likely our last visit for a while as Daddy is leaving on Saturday and we are all meeting in NYC in a few weeks.

British Open

This morning T and K went down to watch the open.... Here is what I heard as I tried to get the last few moments of sleep...

T: Come on let's go watch the open
K: Ok
T: Let's go
K: How about we watch Dora instead
T: No way, we are watching the open

As Daddy was leaving he turned off the tv...
K: Why did you turn off the tv?
T I am going to work
K: But I am still watching the Open

Now Mommy is left to watch the Open (very excited)
K: Look there is Sergio
M: I like Sergio
K: Where is Tiger
M: He has an owwie on his knee
K: I do too, look at my owwie (covered with a dora bandaid)
M: Yes, I see
K: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, good shot, oh he didn't make it in the hole, but it was a good shot
M: Umm yes
K: he made it in yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
M: We know who your Daddy is...

Just Mommy and Daddy again

After a day in Half Moon Bay, Stanford another day in Burlingame our guests have gone home. K asked this morning if they would ever come back... because when they did she would share her kettle corn with them... So now it is back to the three of us at least for a week or so before Daddy heads off to Europe for work and we get girl time all the time for two weeks! Should be fun. We also couldn't end the weekend without one more dolly so now we are the proud new owners of another Anna from this very cute shop, Baby Couture in Burlingame... I am thinking we can shop for K there everyday, I am not sure our budget allows it... Anyway now we are putting the house back together and just enjoying being three.

Blue baby came home

Blue baby stayed on at the hotel spa in Colorado and apparently decided to extend his stay while the rest of the family went home.... we didn't realize this until we came home and his sister pink baby was looking for him. Luckily the Ritz staff found the baby and helped get him back on an airplane to us... He rang our doorbell on 4th of July morning and we found him in a box in K's wagon.... Here is the reunion... (K decided he spent most of his time away from us eating roasted marshmallows, hiking mountains and going swimming)

4th of July parade

Family pics

Fun

K loved the 4th of July parade this year especially having the little leg power necessary to ride a tricycle all the way through the neighborhood with S... We had a really fun 4th of July dinner with friends and family. Everyone got to try K's pizza which she helped Daddy make... Unfortunately we ended up missing fireworks entirely as we all got caught up chatting away with dessert and yummy wine...

Saturday was a super girly day.... All the girls headed to the outlets, downtown Carmel and our traditional spa day at Pebble Beach. We finished our night with drinks at The Lodge so our guests could soak in the 17 mile drive views before ending the girly day at Passion Fish, in Pacific Grove.

On Sunday we all went over to Santa Cruz for breakfast, some time on the beach, downtown adventuring and a stop in LG for K's favorite water fountains. Amazing that we don't have enough time to do all the things that are here. K is loving having all our guests and will be bummed when it returns to just the mommy and daddy show.