12 Reasons

Graham and I just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary today!  So, here is my 12 reasons why Graham's still rockin.

1. The other night, I was laying around and just starving but didn't want to fix myself anything to eat.  Without being asked, Graham went to the kitchen and whipped me up the most fantastic, top chef quality pasta for me.

2. There is no one who can make the kids laugh and giggle harder and louder.

3. Still brings me flowers without an occasion.

4. Makes me laugh every time he dances.

5. He still cares about what I think (from politics to what he's wearing).

6. Will do anything for me and the kids.

7. Works hard so I can be a good mother at home.

8. I appreciate that he's passionate about whatever he's obsessed with, at that moment.

9. Still thinks I'm hot! (at least he says so)

10. I know he wants to make me happy.

11. He's still goofy and not afraid to laugh at himself.

12. He still makes me laugh until my sides hurt and I want to pee my pants!

First Day of Preschool!

Ready for school!!!

Atti has been soooo excited for preschool.  He has been patiently waiting for the last month to start.  Here he is showing off his cool Spider Man lunch box.

Painting his astronaut.

He shoots, he scores!

Poor Atticus, we have not bought him a bike yet so every time he tried to pedal this bike, he kept peddling backwards.

Looking for "bad guys"

This is Teacher Laurie.  She was Emerson's preschool teacher too.  We love her so much.  I am so happy Atticus is in her class.

Snack Time.  When Emerson found out that Atti was going in to preschool and he was in Teacher Laurie's class, she has been telling Atticus all about preschool.  The one thing she told him was, "Atti, when you're in preschool, you get to eat donuts!"  She was in Teacher Laurie's class for 2 years and they had Krispie Kreme donuts once!  So, for about a month now every time he told people he was going to school, he would say, "I go to school and eat donuts!"  He didn't get donuts today.

First Day of School!

Welcome back to school!

Emerson has been very excited to start 2nd grade.  She is in Maestra Brandy's class and her English teacher is Ms. Ruben.  A couple of her really good friends are in her class so that makes it even more fun for her.

Eme and Maestra Brandy

Emerson has a new school this year.  Because she goes to a Charter school, the school didn't have a permanent place so the school shared a campus with another elementary school.  This year she has her own building.  They closed down an elementary school really close to where she was going before so Eme's school took over the building.  They went from 14 portable classrooms to an entire school site.  It's huge Eme loves it!

Last Days of Summer!

We had to go to the beach one more time before Emerson started school.

Atticus loves the seals at La Jolla Coves.

The waves were so huge.  We had to be careful with Atticus.  He could have easily been crushed by them.

We had a lovely picnic lunch at La Jolla Cove.

It really was a perfect day.  We didn't really do anything other than just hangout.  The weather was perfect and the kids had fun looking at sea life at the coves.  I am sure we will go to the beach a couple more times before the summer weather officially leaves us.

Confessions of a 7 year old girl!

Yesterday, Emerson was asking Graham why a person would kill oneself.  She had heard from someone that a girl had killed herself so, she was curious to know why someone would do something like this.  Graham responded by saying that sometimes not everyone recognizes that they are a child of God and they are of worth.  He continued with a few other pertinent comments.  Emerson sat there and took it in and then replied:  "Daddy, I feel bad for a lot of people."  Graham asked why?  Now, you would think this is when she is going to say something profound, something that only a child with their pure heart and full of love would recognize in others.  NOPE...she responded by saying, "Because most people aren't as good looking as me!"  Yup, ladies and gentlemen, that is what my darling little girl said after having a discussion about suicide.  This should not come as a surprise to all of you who know Emerson well but still I wasn't quite expecting that.  I can only blame her high opinion of herself as my doing.  Maybe it was when I would hold her up to the mirror everyday and say like I was talking to a puppy, "Who is the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world? It's you, Emerson!"  

Wicked!

I've seen this musical three times now and I haven't gotten sick of it yet.  It still brings me to tears when "Defying Gravity" is sung.  What would it be like to have that much talent?  I will never know.  

I know what you're thinking..."Hasn't she seen that play twice already?"  Yes, I have but I couldn't resist taking Emerson to see it since it's here in San Diego.  We also took our neighbor JLo with us too.  They both loved it.  Emerson loved Glinda, of coarse.  I caught her doing an imitation of her in front of the bathroom mirror during intermission.

We also took a couple of my Young Women.  They were dying to see the play.

I quickly took this picture before the show started.  I got yelled at immediately after for using my camera inside the theatre.

Aww!  So adorable.  She is getting to be such a tween!

Emerson really wanted her hair crimped for this show.  She planned out her "look" days before the show.

Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. As usual we tried to stay clear of the tourists and crowds. This year Kari and Hoon came down for the weekend. We miss them so much now that they live in LA. We went down to the Coronado golf coarse for a few hours and played some bocci ball and let the kids play in the sand pits. I had a lot of fun and it wasn't really that crowded. We might go down there next year and stay for fireworks.

My 4th of July creation.  I saw a picture of this dessert and I had to have it.  It's a giant chocolate chip cookie topped with cool whip and fresh berries.  

As tradition, we roasted some s'mores.

Kari and Hoon brought with them their adorable bulldog, Chloe. Putty had so much fun with her over the weekend. He was tuckered out. This really made us consider adopting another dog. Any suggestions on what kind of dog to adopt? We want a medium size dog like Putty.

Hoon and Kari. Kari is Grahams cousin. Everyone thinks that Hoon is the one related to me!