travel town

miles and i watched zena today. my sister is helping our good friend rebecca move into her new house. how exciting. i went to her house on friday and helped paint. today it was chrisitna's turn to help.

we took the kids to travel town to see all the trains. it has been a long time since zena had been there. the last time we took her there i was pregnant with mason. they loved it. of course mason was going nuts over the trains. he is completely obsessed with trains lately. we had a picnic lunch and walked around. it is just crazy hot for january. what is the deal? all of a sudden it feels like summer.

my computer mommy

i haven't been blogging much lately. it seems there is a little boy that thinks my computer belongs to him. hmmmm. miles and i thought it was so cute when mason started using the computer to play online games. now, if i am on the computer during the day he says "no mommy, my computer." i find the only time i can sneak on to blog is when he is sleeping. he is getting quite good at using the computer. he can switch to his own account and find the web page with his favorite games. luckily he still loves to go outside and play in the dirt. he is too young to be a computer junkie. whew!

ice skating

miles and i took the kids ice skating in santa monica. yes! ice skating outside in the 80 degree weather. it was so fun. we went with jen, ray, christina, zena, and bodhi. of course bodhi and dahlia did not ice skate. mason and zena didn't ice skate either for that matter. we thought they would like to try it, but they both cried and mason said "no, it's too slippery." how did he know? miles and i had a great time, but decided that next time we will get a sitter and go without the kids. i didn't even fall once.

happy new year

well it is the first day of the year so i have to write something. we had a fun new years eve with the usual crowd at my house. jen, ray, bodhi, christina, zena, and roxy all came over. we cooked salmon with lentils and jen made a delicious chocolate cake. today we relaxed and i made veggie chili to kick off the new year. i am so happy to say hello to 2009.

i have lots of resolutions for the new year.

1. try at least one new recipe every week.

2. read to mason and dahlia every day.

3. work out on my wii fit at least 3 times a week.

4. clean out the office

5. make a budget and stick to it.

there are more.. i am going to add them when i remember.

home for christmas

this year was really special for miles and me because we hosted christmas for the first time. i loved it. i have always dreamed of spending christmas at home. i had these visions of waking up early and sneaking into the living room to see presents from santa. mason and dahlia are still too young to really get into the whole christmas thing. mason seemed really indifferent to the gifts. that is good. we try to not go overboard with the gift giving. mason and dahlia each get one gift from miles and me and then one gift from santa. of course my huge family buys them presents also so they end up with tons.

my parents and siblings along with miles mother joined us for the holiday. everyone came over at about eleven and we had brunch and opened gifts. this process took a really long time. i loved it though. i always want it to last longer. after presents we started cooking dinner. this was so much fun. i love to hang out in the kitchen drinking champagne while chatting and cooking. everything was so delicious. we served a really fancy dinner with turkey roulade and beef tenderloin along with asparagus and mashed potatoes. mmmm. the food was really yummy. miles did most of the cooking. thanks dear.

hosting christmas was a lot of work. if we host christmas again next year i think i will try to be more organized and get stuff done earlier. ha ha. i always say that.

setting up for christmas

christmas is almost here. yikes. oh my gosh. we are so behind this year. i really love christmas eve. there is so much excitement in the air. we had so much fun today. we baked cookies and brought them over to miles' cousins house. they had a little party that we attended. it was so fun to see them on christmas eve. we don't usually get to see his aunt and cousins for christmas. i really like miles family. they are so sweet and fun.

of course now i am way behind for setting up our house for christmas. i did get the tables set up and decorated. everything looks so pretty. now it is time to finish wrapping presents, and start cooking tomorrows dinner. i am so happy. christmas is here.

the finished card

we finally finished our christmas cards and put them in the mail today. man. they just took forever to finish. we started them a week ago. we are more behind this year than last year. oh well at least they are done. i hope some people get them before christmas. i think they turned out really cute.