Deep thoughts from Bayley...

So here's my conversation with Bayley as I'm tucking her in tonight.

Me: I don't really see you playing with your barbie dolls very much. Are you not really into them anymore?

Bayley: Not really. It's so hard to find time when there's so many good books to read and so much to do outside with the beautiful weather.

She cracks me up. She was so serious when she said it. I love that girl!!

NOBODY'S PINCHING THEM TODAY!!

I figured the only way to get back into blogging is to make a post as if I never stopped and not worry about catching everyone up on everything I haven't posted in the past year or so ( mostly so I won't get overwhelmed). I was reading everyone's blog the other day and I was moved by the beauty of your everyday lives. And that's when it hit me. I think there is a part of me that doesn't really want to record this part of my life. I keep waiting for our struggles to pass and in the process i think I've created this bubble where I'm not letting anyone else in. I don't want to look back and have a huge whole in my life with no memories, especially for the kids. I'm not trying to be a downer, on the contrary I actually want to focus on the ordinary miracles that I experience a lot more that I take the chance to even recognize. So here goes...

We had fun with St. Patrick's day this morning. The leprechauns came to our house. They made plenty of messes and even turned our toilet water green. Bayley worked hard last night on a leprechaun trap. She was excited to see that this morning she had captured one, but it got away!! He had to squeeze through a small slit in the top and in the process his pants got stuck, so now Bayley has real life leprechaun pants.

I am BACK!

I've been MIA forEVER!

Blogging and this past year/summer has been busy.

(this photos from my BDay a couple years ago)

My happy little family at Sea Ranch.

This is an old photo that I love and came across it a few weeks ago when we moved into our new house in California.

Noah's and his buddy Max!
Even a summer away couldn't make this friendship stop:)

Me and my LOVER.

Life is so good right now.

October and November 2009

Salmon Creek

The Calm after the Storm

Glenn and Heather in Tahoe for our anniversary

Noah with Sampson...our dog for a month

Isaac on a bark slide in the Redwoods

Glenn and Bayley on her 7th birthday

Bayley and Isaac all dressed up for Halloween

Breakfast in bed for Bayley's birthday

One of our many hikes up in Annadel

Our trip to the apple farm

Bayley playing soccer

Us at Bolinas Beach

August and September 2009

Bayley with her missing teeth

At Armstrong Grove when my mom was visiting

Bayley right before her dance recital

Another trip to the redwoods with some friends... The Coopers and the Adams

It's been about time. I'm sure no one even checks my blog anymore since I haven't posted anything since last summer.

I was going to recap what has been going on since I last blogged but I decided to post some of our favorite pictures over the last 9 months instead and call it good. Hopefully I will be better from here on out with updating it regularly.

We have now been in California for a little over a year. I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. Sometimes it feels like forever since we left Wisconsin. Sometimes it all seems like a crazy dream and I'm waiting to wake up and get back to my normal life. In any event, life has continued on.

We got home the other night pretty late. No matter what Isaac always wants something to eat before bed. I'm sure it was just to stall but we gave in anyways. Glenn handed him a peach. Isaac was too tired to eat sitting up, so he went to the couch and laid down. The rest is what we caught on video.