and we're off... Almost!

We're getting ready for a week in sunny California!! Quite the to do list to get ready...

~Get Miles and James haircuts (way overdue)

~Buy a couple new DVD's for plane

~Buy headphones so everyone on plane doesn't have to listen to whatever they're watching!

~DO LAUNDRY

~Pack the family

~Pack the boys' backpacks with fun plane activities

~Buy snacks for plane

~Get pedicure

~Shave! Wax(first time!)

~Pay bills BEFORE trip

~Get caught up (enough) on work (blah!) this really is impossible

~Bring Carver to the kennel

~Give house/cat sitter keys

~I'm sure there's tons of stuff I'm missing!!

Fun things we'll be doing!!

Visiting the Magic Kingdom!

Spending plenty of time relaxing here!

Visiting the Aquarium of the Pacific!

Check out the La Brea Tar Pits...

...and of course a visit to the L.A. Garment District!

So excited!!!!

3 stitches at 3AM

Miles was having bad dreams about monsters last night, and after waking up screaming 3 times, he fell out of bed and hit his nightstand... ...so at 3 AM we went to the emergency room for 3 stitches.

He was a very tough boy, no tears at the hospital. They used EMLA cream for 20 minutes and didn't even have to use lidocaine! He was great, except as we were walking out of the ER, he tripped and almost fell. The nurses laughed and said, "see you soon!"

Family Photos

We were way overdue for family photos! The last ones were 1 1/2 years ago and James was just learning to pull himself up. You can see that has changed!

This is one of my favorites because it is the most honest. I usually hate photos of myself and never post them, but I love these! Thank you Ana!
I little boy is getting so big! And thankfully is quite a mama's boy.

That dandelion ended up in Ben's nose... hee hee!

So our photographer is the wonderful Ana Ankeny. She has her own little man now and he hogs her camera now! But I can't blame her, he's pretty darn cute!

Yea, I was being choked here!

I can hardly believe 7 years ago Ben and I were married, and now we have two sweet noisy little boys (oops, I mean BIG boys).

Miles REALLY liked those dandelions!

Trying to convince James to stand by us for photos.

Okay maybe they're both mama's boys. It's a fabulous thing!

Me...

Us...

I am so blessed!