Dad, this is for you. I lost my tooth. I wanted you to be here for it, so I made a video of me pulling it out. Love you and miss you. Hurry back home. Love, Bayley Kate

One last post I swear. I just had to write about the race that Glenn and I did on Saturday. It was the first trail race we have ever done and it was so much fun. The scenery was breath taking. It was at China Camp which is in Marin right by the bay. We ran through forests with streams and little wooden bridges, passed some redwoods, and had several views of the bay (which I almost missed because I was focusing so hard at the ground). It has been raining for the past few weeks but the weather was clear and warm for the race. We did have to dodge quite a few mud puddles but it just added to the experience. Since it was a trail run they wouldn't allow earphones so I was kind of worried I wouldn't be able to make it the 20K without music to give me a boost, but surprisingly I really didn't miss it. Glenn took it easy since we have another race we are doing the end of March and he was kind of worried about his knee. But he still did really good for taking it easy. I wasn't sure how I would do on a trail, I wasn't even sure during the first half of the race where I would even be at. But there was a place right around the 9th mile where you had to loop around and back on to the trail to take you back to the start so I was able to see who was in front of me. It was perfect timing because I was loosing my momentum until I counted the woman passing me and only counted 5. There was a pretty big group of woman a little ways behind me. I didn't want them to pass me, so I pushed as hard as I could and held my place, finishing 6th. I was so excited considering I really didn't know how I would do. I would post pictures of us but we forgot the camera, so the pictures here are from the race website.

So I know I just did a post about Noah, but I had to share this picture. This is definitely blackmail material for further down the road! I swear I put him to bed fully clothed with a diaper on. This is how we found in the morning...

I'm pretty sure Noah was sent to our family as the comic relief. He is by far the silliest one in the family. He never misses an opportunity to make someone laugh. He is our little clown. Don't call him that though, he has an unreal fear of clowns...but do you blame him they are pretty creepy. There was this man that walked by him the other day with longer curly hair and Noah just held on tight to me shaking and crying clown, clown. He definately makes our lives interesting. We are pretty lucky to have this crazy kid in our family. So, here's to Noah...

Glenn and I went out for the night, but before we left we put all the kids to bed. We left thinking that they were all asleep. When we got home we found this note on my pillow. You never know what you're going to get with Bayley. I can only imagine the drama.

Roger and Jackie invited us out to the Sweetheart Ball (a charity dinner) last night. It was a formal event, so I had to scramble to find something to wear (and that was hard considering my entire wardrobe consists of plain simple dresses that are far from formal). I eventually found one that would work and we were off. The theme was Casino Royale 007, they even had a Sean Connery impersonator there, it was pretty funny. It was a lot of fun. Since we now live in the heart of the wine country, every where you turned there was a wine bottle or someone auctioning off fine wine. I guess it is a big deal here. Wine is to Northern CA as beer and brats are to Wisconsin. You can never escape it. I have to say, I was actually happy and somewhat flattered when the servers kept asking me if I would like a glass. I figured that meant they thought I was actually 21!!! But seriously, it really was a lot of fun. We enjoyed a nice dinner. After dinner they had a live band that was actually pretty good. We sat around for a while until I finally lured Glenn out onto the dance floor. He actually busted moves I didn't even know he had (lol). Considering this is only the second time we have danced since we have been married I thought he did pretty well. He actually looked really cute out there trying to bust a move.


We won the raffle. Check out our new car, an Aston Martin DB9!!! Now Glenn makes me call him Bond, James Bond. I guess that's okay because that makes me a Bond girl!

I wanted to post this awhile ago but just didn't get to it until now. Glenn came home the other day from picking Bayley up from school and handed me this note. It said that Bayley had received a blow to the head and had to be treated at the nurses office. As Bayley stood there with a large bandage on her cheek I continued to read a hand written description of what had happened. It simply said, "Walked into wall." I tried so hard not to laugh. Then my phone rang. It was her teacher calling to explain what had happened. She could barely get the information out with out busting up. Apparently Bayley was busy looking at her friend as she ran back to class after recess and smacked head on into the wall. Of course the wall was one of those textured plaster walls. She said she was picking pieces of the wall off of her cheek the whole afternoon. My first thought was she is definitely my daughter. Let's face it, there is a reason why the only athletic thing I do is run. I love sports, but I was not blessed with coordination, and apparently I have passed that wonderful trait on to Bayley. So I'm sorry Bayley. Hopefully that is as bad as it gets.