01.08.11 Later that day at the playground...

After the half-marathon we went back to our hotel. Rick & Kristi were just pulling into the hotel as we were. It was so good to see them again so soon! Rick, Kristi, Isaiah & Matthias headed to the expo to pick up Rick's packet for the marathon, and Edgar and I took the rest of the kids to the playground (cuz no one would take a nap...which made for a delightful Eli at Olive Garden that night...) Enjoy some pictures of the kiddos at play.
I could just eat him up. He's SO cute!!

These two play so well together. Periodically throughout the weekend, you'd catch them hugging one another. So cute!

:)

Adriana is such a pretty little girl, and such a little tomboy. LOVE IT!

Adriana was so cute to watch as she played with this. She has such an imagination. She was just talking away in her own little play world.

The kids were nice and sandy after we were done, but they had fun :)

01.08.11-Disney Half-Marathon

On Friday, January 7 we loaded up the car and headed for Orlando. We had decided we were going to go watch Ryan, Jenny & Rick run the Disney half & full marathon. We got to our hotel that evening, and as we were pulling in, I looked at the reservation, and realized I had reserved the room for the wrong weekend. Ugh. Edgar went in, though, and everything worked out. We actually got some money back-yay! We got to our room and quickly put the kids to bed, for what we thought would be a good night's sleep. WRONG. Leah cried...HARD for an hour. She's NEVER done that. Never. I was really hoping there was no one in the room next to us. Eli, of course, would not go to sleep with Leah crying, so we were up for a while. I think the kids finally got to sleep around 10:30...and then were up at 7:00 am. We wanted to leave our room by 7:30-which we miraculously came close to doing. We headed to the finish line to see Ryan and Jennifer complete their half-marathon. Eli wanted to show all the athletes his abs...apparently he was warm...
Leah discovered her fingers. It was a very profitable time for her...

Eli got some much needed 'daddy time'. SO glad Edgar is feeling better!

Leah got out of the stroller and into the Bjorn. Lovely self-portrait...

And then came Ryan!

Followed by Jennifer!

They both did amazing. They said that the race was PACKED-they were dodging people for most of the race, and still had fantastic times.

Way to go Ryan & Jennifer!

78.6

So proud of my brothers & my sister in law! Ryan & Jennifer ran the Disney half-marathon on Saturday (13.1 miles)
And Ryan & Rick ran the full marathon on Sunday (26.2 miles)...for a combined distance of 78.6 miles :) That's farther than the distance we drove to see them run :)
Way to go guys! So proud of all of you!
(more pictures to follow of the weekend!)

Pretty girl

What do ya do with such a pretty girl?
Put her in super cute clothes...

...and don't forget the tights.

Three Kings Day

Happy Three Kings Day! Today is the day we celebrate the three Wise Men coming to see Jesus. So, we prepared last night... We went outside and picked some grass.
Ya know...so the camels had something to eat when they got here (Hope they don't mind our brown grass...)

While we were sleeping, the three Wise Men came. The camels ate the grass, and left Eli a gift.

Eli got up (too early) this morning and found his gift.

A Veggie Tales movie. And now we're watching it :)

Happy Three Kings Day!

Snoopy & Pickles...

Today was a kitchen day for me. I felt like I was cooking all day. I made a chicken casserole and started some chicken noodle soup...involving some made from scratch noodles. THAT'S what took so long, but it makes the soup taste OH so much better :) I also swept and mopped all the floors. That seems to take forever too...On days like this the kiddos take a few play breaks to watch some TV :) Since we left all of our favorite DVD's in Michigan they watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving today. Eli LOVES Snoopy.
Eli's a little focused on the show ;)

...and so is Leah...

Oh...and Eli likes pickles.

a lot

seriously. He loves 'em.

Eli didn't take a nap today, so he was in bed early. Leah is still trying to go to sleep. I'm tired. Edgar is tired. We should go to bed. But we probably won't.

Videos of Leah

My brilliant husband discovered why my videos weren't loading...we're having internet issues, which he temporarily fixed. Anyway, I'm having more luck loading the videos this morning. I know you've all been waiting on the edge of your seat to see these... Enjoy these videos of my little girl. I was able to load 4 of the 5, so I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead. They are all pretty short (30 sec. or less) but if you don't have time to watch them all...watch the last one. That's the one that makes me laugh the most...

Here is Leah enjoying her jump-y seat thing:

Here is Leah showin' off her moves:

This is Leah's new favorite sound...she enjoys hearing herself apparently :)

And my favorite :) I had her on my legs (Like when you play 'superman' with your kids)

Yes...that spit-up landed on me. Aren't you glad you watched?