Playin @ The Park

We love the park by our house. In case you can't tell I blog about it all the time. Well we have moved on from just playing on the swings. Hello baby toys. Mae loves to walk up the slide, not so sure with the slide down though.

In the tube. Sean was on top of the tube so we could get a pic with just Mae, acting like a big girl.
Swinging with Daddy!

Maes New Things

So I promised an update on all things Mae. So besides a few cute pics of my wee one, I'll also fill you in on her major developments.

On my b-day she turned 7 months old and began signing more. It was so cute, we had no idea what she wanted more of but she was signing it all day. It was the best b-day gift from her.

She also has her 2 bottom teeth now and I believe that she is working on 2 more in the bottom row. Cranky pants in our house. But the teeth are so cute. Except for when she bites me while feeding. I think that I've taken care of that problem its been a few days since I've been bit, so that's great.

Dancin, Dancin, Dancin she's a Dancing Machine..... So cute I promise to get a video up soon.

And shes a moving and a shaking, well really shes army crawling all over the place now. I super cleaned and de-cluttered the kitchen on Monday she that she can go where she wants. Her little army crawl is so cute I also promise a video of that soon.

Ok I think that's the latest and the greatest in the life of Mae for the moment.

Oh hello kissy face and flared nose.

Man I love her smile. If you look really close you can see 1 of her teeth.

Hanging With The Johnson Fam

I still have to blog about Michaels Graduation weekend and The L. Johnson Family Reunion. So Michaels Graduation FREEZING COLD AND RAINING! I think that the caps say it all. But it was so awesome to get to go and support the little bro. He was so happy to graduate. After graduation the fam drove out to this rad lodge in Tolgate. We got there at like 11 pm but it was so nice to wake up and just be there and have all day to hang and play.

Day one walk so COLD. We were all layered up, but it was so fun even though we didn't go very far.

Day two walk so WARM. If 55 is warm but with how dang cold it has been we were all roasting. The weather has really been bizarre this spring or winter or fall. or.... I don't know any more.
Mae and Jovie having their first fight over a toy (water bottle). It was pretty dang cute. I love seeing how much more they are interacting with each other.
On our walk the second day we ran into the KILLER cows. And turned around and went the other way. We had to protect our wee ones. Double click on this picture and check out the wholly mammoth bull. Like I said KILLER cow.
Misty and Sean staying far away from the KILLER cows. They had both had bad cow experiences so they were really staying far far away.
It was such a fun weekend. And I cant wait to go back to the Lodge with Friends and Family.

Crazy Water And Birthday Fun

The Spokane Falls have been going crazy time the past few weeks because of how fast it warmed up (even though you would never know that right now cause it snowed this morning). We of course had to go and check them out, and they are huge I'm not the best at pictures but I think that this one showed the crazy spray that was happening over the bridge. It was kinda like a amusement park water ride.

Mae was very concerned about the water.
We kept her buckled in tight in her stroller so that she wouldn't fall over the bridge and get swept away. I know that sounds morbid but it was what I thought at the time.
And after we walked around for a bit she relaxed, and was not so stressed out about the water. I just love how chilled out she is in her stroller. Her legs look so long.
I also turned 27 about 2 weeks ago and I must say I was not very excited about it. But Sean made it a very special day for me and the weather was so nice. Mae even took a nap and I got to lay out and read a book (you all know how much I love that). I really had no idea what Sean was going to do but I must say I hoped for the best, and boy did her deliver. I got flowers @ work the day before, Awesome gifts the morning of my birthday a moms picture brag book, and a couple of shirts. I'm not gonna lie I thought that was it for the day and I was so happy with that. But that night he had a surprise dinner for me with my girlies Mari and Malia. Also their kids were there to play with Mae. And Jason came to be Seans sous (spelled wrong) Chef, and eat the great food they made. Which was Chicken Fettichine Alfredo one of my favorite foods. I must also thank Malia for searching for my favorite pie which is Peach, but there was none to be found this time of year, although I really appreciate the effort and love that went into finding it. So even though I was not excited to turn 27 this year it was actually an awesome birthday.

Championships

I went out of order, championships for the Community Colleges happened before the Half and the Melting Pot. It was so much fun to go and support the team. Mae and I love to go to track meets and Mae has been going to practice with Sean during the season so she need to go and watch the kids run and show her support. The only down side was that the weather was CRAPPY! But I've run in plenty of those meets so I figured that we were going to stay and tuff it out through the weather, even though my hand was cramping from holding the umbrella for like 6 hours.

Oh poor Mae she was so tired, but she was nice and toasty all bundled up with me and the front pack. I must say she also kept me pretty warm also.

Please oh please let me out....
Staying as dry as we can. I did go out and buy the umbrella that morning because I didn't have one big enough.
Giving daddy hugs after both the boys and girls won Championships!!!

Mae Loves The Melting Pot

Same day that we ran the Half, Sean and I had dinner plans with Rick, Grace, and Jason for our birthdays. Just so you get an idea we have 5 birthdays to celebrate in 2 weeks time, so we combined them all into 1 awesome dinner and went to the Melting Pot. For those of you who don't know the Melting Pot is a Fondue restaurant. So Good!

The dinner that we got had 4 courses (I think). Cheese, Salad, Meat, and Dessert. YUM YUM YUM!!!! Needless to say we loved all of it. Especially the dessert. We were able to choose 2 chocolate fondues this is a picture of the Yin-Yang dessert.
And here is Mae way hyper on Binky dipped in Chocolate fondue.
Crazy baby. I think she loves chocolate don't you?
Awe Snap what a night!

CDA Half Marathon

OK so I have 2 weeks of blogging to catch up on. To begin on Memorial Day weekend Sean and I ran the CDA Half 13.1 miles. He really didn't want to run it at first but it was the second of my running goals post labor so he went along with me and ended up having a great time. The weather was perfect that Sunday morning (no rain) and the race started @ 7:30 am so we had to get up bright and early. We picked up Gma and Gpa Mac on the way out so they could watch Mae for us while we ran. Thanks guys. I knew that after running Bloomsday that I'm not in super running shape so I set a very attainable goal for myself to run 10 min. miles. I figured to play it safe and achieve my goals rather then set my hopes up high and dash them. The race got started and I ran the first few miles a little faster then I wanted to so I slowed it down a bit and hit 10 min miles the rest of the race and I hurt really bad in the end but I did it (in 2 hrs and 10 min), and Sean did it (he did run it in 1 hr and 27 min, and placed 21st over all). That's all that matters even though our knees hurt so bad for the next 2 days it was fun.

Mae and I after the race, I couldn't keep my eyes open cause the sweat was burning them so bad.

Oh the post race family. I made Sean run the last mile and a half with me which was awesome, because that was the worst part of the whole race. Mostly because you run past the finish line and then you have a mile and a half to go such a brain trip when you've run 11.5 miles.
Probably the best part of the whole thing are the oranges @ the end. I'm not the only one who loved them, Mae was super grubbin on the orange slices. Rick was holding her and getting all the orange slobber on his hand but he was a good sport.
Thanks everyone who was there to watch and support us Gma and Gpa Mac, Geoff and Danelle, Rick and Grace, Jayne and Conner (they were also there for Trevor, Jayne's hubby who placed 10th overall, way to go Trev), and Tami.

New Post

I promise a new post soon. When I start to post you will understand how crazy my life has been in the past few weeks. Hardly time to breathe. But Mae has been doing some rad things that you all have to wait until I post pics to find out what they are. So stay tuned.............

Calypso Cruisin!!!

So Sean and I decided that we wanted to get some bikes so that we can save money on gas this summer, and be able to do family bike rides to the park and all that wonderful cheesy family stuff. So we headed out to CD'A today to pick up our race packets for the CD'A Half tomorrow morning. Since we were out there we called Geoff and Danelle (Seans bro and his wife), they met up with us and went bike shopping. We had so much fun we went to 3 different bike shops and test rode so many bikes, all in the Cruiser style. The first shop had some cute ones but none of them had enough gears so we crossed them off the list. The second shop was RAD. It was this guy who custom builds bikes from his home. I almost bought one but put it on hold to think about it while we went to the last shop. I didn't feel bad about putting it on hold because Danelle said that if I didn't get it she would. So off to the third and final shop the Trek bike store. That is where we found the Calypso such a cool Cruiser, it has 7 gears (which most cruisers only had 3) for all the hills in our hood, handle bar brakes, a frame that fit both Sean and I, and they can hook up a Baby Seat to the back for Mae. So COOL!!!!!!!!!!! I got it in blue and Sean ordered in it all black. Danelle was excited that I ended up getting the Trek so then she could get the custom bike from the second shop. Yeah for new bikes and family rides.

Ladybug Butt

It was finally warm enough to put Mae in some of her summer stuff this last weekend. So I had to put her in her ladybug butt outfit. So cute!