Happy Birthday Morgan and Kate!

These two little ladies have birthdays in June:

Morgan is 16 years old today, and will probably posess a driver's license before the day is over.

Kate will be 11 in a few short weeks.

Where has the time gone? It sounds like such a cliche', but seriously. I'm confused.

It seems like just yesterday that I was stressed (dang those how-to-be-a-new-Mom-magazines!) that Morgan was sleeping through the night as a newborn and I tried to wake her up to eat.

Wasn't it seconds ago that Morgan prayed at every opportunity for a new baby sister?

It seems like the blink of an eye ago when we drove our newborn little Peanut Kate into town on the 4th of July, just missing the fireworks display.

I love you, ladies. And--just for me--slow down!

Dolores River Festival 5k

Worthy, My Mom and I ran the Dolores River Festival 5k on Saturday.

The cows in town were jealous and wanted to run their own race down main.

We've been training using the "couch to 5k" running program, and we're not quite finished with the training. So we were all pretty proud to run most of the race. Worthy was a show-off and ran ahead with a time of 31:29. Mom and I came in strong and proud at 36:32.

Getting Our Geek On

We're to the point of counting down the days now for Comic-Con.

For those of you who aren't aware, I married a comic book nerd. I love my comic book nerd, and for Christmas I got him tickets to the (much-coveted-by-other-comic-book-nerds) comic convention, Comic-Con.

This is a really big deal--so much so that San Diego becomes transformed for a week every July to a strange alternate reality crawling with superheroes and celebrities and fans giddy with comic joy. So much so that tickets for this year's July event sold out in early fall and in order to get a hotel reservation during that week you had to sell your soul, which we did so we're all set.

Needless to say, we're excited. But not THIS excited:

My husband is SOOOO not getting me to sport a Wonder Woman costume with the underwear on the outside of my tights. However, we thought we'd get into the spirit and we've been shopping for tee shirts.

Here's a quick sampling of some of the shirts we have been thinking about donning:

Geek IS sexy.

The cake IS a lie.

I love Dr. Horrible Better than Captain Hammer, but I heart this shirt.

Two little Glovers made the paper this week!!!!!

Spider Girl, Spider Girl

Riley

Kate

We ventured to The Merritt Hotel for the weekend. My kids (and, let's face it, myself) are pretty sure The Merritt Hotel is the greatest place on the planet.

Good people there, anyway.

And the location can't be beat, since it is within a short drive to here (heaven) and here, where the kids had a blast swimming and (literally)climbing the walls.

I might be just a little bit biased, but I think this little man was the best looking cub scout at tonight's Blue and Gold Banquet.

The Littlest Worthy is excited to follow in the footsteps of his Dad and Grandpa as he experiences the world of scouts.

I Love . . .

This Man:

These Flowers:


This Space:
(when it is finished and carpeted a week from Monday)


And, in no particular order:

sunshine, carbs, sandals, electric blankets, and good books.

Happy Valentines Day!!!!!!!!!!!