the past month

we love to go to the beach and shea loves to steal grandma's chair like she own's the place.
i thought this was funny as we were coming out of church, if you look closely you can see the "mormon grafitti" on the sidewalk. haha.
one of my very best friends just came down to visit us and this is shea going in to plant a kiss on her son jackson. this is the only picture ive got of the visit though since april took all the pics....hint hint april.
chad came home from delaware for the weekend and we all went bowling. it was tons of fun especially for the boys. they pretty much just like the shoes

cade could barely hold the ball and when he threw it, it slammed on the ground so hard i thought they were going to kick us out.
shea likes to hold her own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, much to my dismay. she thought my reaction was hilarious.

this makes me happy!!! i can finally paint someones fingernails, but only when she's drinking a bottle and not paying attention.


sorry this pic is sideways but this was me and my friend mary at the ragnar relay race. it was the coolest thing ive done! its 200 miles with a team of 12 people and you run three legs of the race over a 24hour period. so fun and we even felt cool with our fake ragnar tatoo's


i was a little excited to run since this was my last leg of the race until we were done!!! at the end everybody ran through the finish with me since i was the last runner to the finish.

here's all 12 of us ready for some sleep and a shower!!!!

5 months of stuff!

ok so i finally updated the blog since recieving many death threats from family and friends, our computer crashed so we were without it for a couple months and then i just plain slacked off. so we had tons of pics but i chose a few to show kinda what we've been doing here.
The boys love to play soccer so this is what you see at our house after chad gets off work in the front yard, even shea likes to get in on the action.

Cade started soccer league this year. he's a huge fan! you can see though from the knocked over cones that the skills are in need of a little development. he also ate crap a few times since he literally goes 110% all the time.


The boys are also into star wars and so chad made them some ghetto costumes for them to become jedi's with.
This is the jacuzzi in the backyard that i thought was broken but chad got it working and cleaned it all out and we've been chilling in it at night ever since. love it!
braden started t-ball again and has improved in his running skills a lot.... he has gone from the speed of a snail to the speed of a sloth so we're excited about that.

cade's t-ball experience.
This was a super fun trip to the monterey bay aquarium. we won tickets from a radio station and so went and had a blast, got some great food from the warf and then went to a hotel to chill in the pool and sit by the fire.


Easter! the boys are all into "how to train your dragon" stuff so the easter bunny came through.

Braden lost his first tooth. the tooth fairy did not fall asleep and forget the money so we were happy about that because it was close.
We also had shea turn one and get her ears pierced and have been playing tennis and working on the backyard, and ive been doing girls camp and young woman stuff so its been fun and busy. Chad also will be leaving on monday for a job in Delaware and i will follow him the end of may. we are super excited for a fun new adventure and we'll be back sometime in october-nov.

Santa Barbara Half-Marathon

So i just got done doing the santa barbara half marathon and it was awsome! It was rough though, i'm not gonna lie. It was beautiful but hilly all along the beach. It was fun to have chad's brother tyler, his wife stefanie, and my mom's friend cindy there to run with. Also, my mom was our number one fan and cheerleader and made us these hats and boas. I loved having chad and the boys there to root me on, they had palm palms and it pumped me up!! thanks guys!

Happy Halloween

Braden was iron man, cade was spiderman, and shea was a kitten.

Shea was super curious and wanted the pumpkin, but she got a piece and licked it, and after that she didn't want anything to do with it.
chad's creation. pretty cool!

random

shea thinks she is so cool standing up on the fireplace. She squeals a high pitched scream of pure joy, its hilarious. Braden is the best big brother, shea is in love with him. He wants to try and take care of her all the time and does a great job.

Nike Women's Marathon

This last weekend I went to San Francisco with my friend and her friend to hang out and then cheer them on while they ran the nike women's marathon. It was sooo freaking fun! It was amazing though, there were 20,000 runners all in union square, the energy was contageous.

Chad's Birthday

These are a couple of the presents chad just got for his birthday. I thought it was funny because the Fart book that Jake and Bronwyn got him is hilarious, it actually makes the sounds for each page. the boys play with it constantly. He also got some rubber gloves since he stole tons of them from the hospital when i had Shea. He uses them for everything.