My FIRST 5K!

So when Caleb was a few months old and I had all this time sitting around nursing all day, I had kind of had a revelation of my life...don't worry I won't go into details, but one thing I realized was that I never truly set goals for myself and accomplished them. I'd set goals and quit or never set goals cause I never thought I was good enough at anything to finish (single tear). But I began to realize that I can do anything as long as I give it to the Lord and honor Him through it! So I decided to set a small goal of running a 5k. Well as I began to train and get ready to sign up for a run I found out I was pregnant with Jack. Then after I had Jack I decided to wait till he slept through the night so that I had enough energy through out the day to train. Well it took him 7 months to sleep through the night and so I began running in June. Needless to say Sue Dudley and I ran the "Turning Point Kinectic Run" at the Ventura Harbor This morning, Even though I had only slept 4 hours and am still fighting a horrible cold. God is Good! I was able to finish and beat my own time. I had an absolute blast and am so grateful that Sue, John, my boys, and Scott were able to be there with me! I cannot wait to watch God help me accomplish my next goal...LOOK OUT 10K!

Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Baby Steps

 

 

 

 

We have a monkey costum for caleb,that a friend let us borrow, but he got a little freaked out by it when he first saw it. We are slowly easing him into it.

 

 

 

 

So today was Ojai Day and it was a lot of fun. We got to see animals, old friends and hippies!! It was really fun! We even got to go on a hay ride where a man with a guitar sang the praises of this wonderful town. We can't even wait till next year!

New Ride!

 

 

Today Jackson enjoyed his first ride in his new car seat! He loves it! He is officially a big boy now :(

One Year and 28 minutes ago!

Jackson's 1st Birthday!

He is a "Leg Man"

So some have you have heard and some of you have experienced first hand that Caleb is very much a "Leg Man". There have been several occasions where I have caught Caleb walking up to different women (all women that we know) and just running his hand up and down there legs (like A Christmas Story), well today was no exception. I picked Caleb and Jack up at our good friend Sara's house, and as we were talking she began to laugh. We both look down to see that Caleb has seated himself down by Sara's leg and was rubbing it gently. I apologized and told her he does it a lot. Caleb also thinks everything is "very nice" (ie: "oh mommy orange juice very nice")So as we were walking away Caleb told us, " Oh Sara's leg very nice"!! It was Perfect. We were cracking up!

Potty Chart.

 

 

 

 

So I decided we needed to put up a chart quickly to keep the excitment going. I knew we couldn't afford to take caleb to baskin robbins everytime he went to the bathroom so we thought stickers would do the trick! Again, we aren't really pushing the idea just yet...just encouraging it. Caleb has very strong opinions and he doesn't like to budge, plus I think there is still a little fear involved. So we'll just encourage, make it fun and hope for the best!

Pee Pee,Pee Pee, Pee Pee on the Potty!

 

 

 

 

Caleb got up from his nap this afternoon with a stinky diaper, I always remind him if he needs to go poo poo or pee pee to tall mommy and we can go on the potty! After I changed his diaper he asked "mommy Potty?" I asked him if he wanted to go pee pee on the potty and he said yes and ran to the bathroom. He sat down and I told him if he went we would go get ice cream! I went to go get him something to drink and when I came back he had PEE PEED!! YAY! We danced, we shook it, we went to Baskin Robbins! I thought the comment on the wall was too appropraite. Who knows when this will happen again but when it does we will party!

Pee Pee?

Caleb woke up this morning with a wet spot in the bed...his shirt was wet as well so we took the sheets off and through them in the washer. I decided to throw our sheets in too, since we were cleaning sheets. Caleb asked mommy why his sheets were off his bed, mommy replied "because Caleb pee peed in his bed." Later that day as Caleb and I are putting the sheets back on MOMMY'S bed...Caleb looks at mommy and says "Oh mommy pee peed?" How do you respond to that?

Dress Up Day!

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PAPA'S BDAY

"CAKE!"

So for those of you who don't know we live on the Ojai Valley Baptist Church Property where John's dad is the senior pastor. Every Wednesday night we come up to the church for dinner, fellowship with friends and the kids get to go out and play together. Last night Caleb and I were outside of the fellowship hall playing. The doors were closed but we could hear the faint sound of people singing "Happy Birthday". I always wait to hear Caleb's response to noises just to see what he'll say...this time was great...they begin to sing, he stops what he is doing, looks at me, GASPS and Says "CAKE!" as he goes running for the fellowship hall door. He was not going to miss out on someones B-Day Cake!

It's hot up here!

 

 

 

 

Yesterday was really hot in Ojai so we layed low all day, We pulled out blankets and laid around, wrestled, snuggled and tried to stay cool with otter pops. It was kinda nice!

Wednesday Morning Waffle Party!

 

 

 

 

YAY! Thanks to all my lovely friends for coming over for our Wednesday morning Waffle Party. I have had a hard time coming down to ventura all the time but I really want to see and hang out with friends and their little ones, so I had them up to our house this morning for some waffles. The kids got to play and eat and us moms got to catch up on life and search and search for Kailee's hearing aid...if you've seen it let us know! I am so grateful for their friendship and willingness to come up and hang out. We had lots of fun.

Girls Bible Study!

 

 

So I have had the privilege of being able to lead a High school girls Bible Study along side Kristen and Carol. I have had so much fun watching the girls learn and grow. We are doing a book study called "For Young Women Only" it's all about how God has created men and how we as sisters in Christ respond to the way they have been made. It's a book I desperately wish I had in High School. Things would have been a lot smoother! I hope and pray that they take this time to really become the kind of women God has created them to be....to respect, honor and understand the men (dads, brothers, friends) around them. Here are a few of my lovely girls!

Papa's New Hobby...they look like cats!

Jacksons First Words!

I little of what we did this summer...

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