I'm Still Here!!!

Brenda's husband sent this shot to me from bowling. these are my friends i spend time with at the pool in the summer he call us the Rat Pack. we always go to our kids birthdays and even though our kids are different ages by a year or and also we all go to separate schools i think (Michele and I are the McBride moms) we and our kids are still really good friends. they are a FUN bunch.



Me and My Jakie!


Just "LIVING LIFE" (see post from a couple months back, or maybe it was Candy's post about my comment to her when she said she hasn't posted forever..)
Now that we are back on schedule I almost secretly wish for more winter white so we can stay home and play in the snow and forget everything else.

One thing i did notice is our poor grass. and some of my poor plants. I am really hoping they spring back but it doesn't look too good from some of them. two of the palm trees by the front of my house died. (one was snapped in half the other just died. my friends butterfly bush died too. my vines look pretty sick and some of the grass is dead. it will be allot of spring cleanup when the time comes. i will have to plant some new things as well.

So now Jake started Tae Kwon Do(it's his 3rd week) he needs to go to the starter class(Tue/Thur or a while until he gets the basics down so now i am driving the kids to practice Mon-Thur. it's not too bad but i try to get dinner done early so we are not rushing around. Once Jake gets most of the basics down maybe in a month or so then he can go Mon-wed like Tanner. Tanner is moving up to the later class because he needs to spar practice with adults for training, it would help him prepare more for Tournaments, so Mon-wed i don't get home until 8:30pm.

We decided to only stick within our state tournaments until he is a black belt and then if he still wants to we will get into it more. I still am not one to push them into too competitive mode he tends to push himself at times so that's more than enough, i see so much burn out with the kids especially this age in any sports they do. He did ask me to take him running 3 days a week so we go to the track and do no more than 3 miles Tue/ Thur/ sat. well now Jakie wants to go so i take him Mon-wed and he goes no more than 2 miles one day he was like " you promised mom" i was so tired but i do want to discourage him either (it's better than playing video games I reckon")so i went. if this routine of there's keeps going maybe I'll lose that extra 10 from XMAS that wants to hang on for dear life.(wish i could stay away from my freezer"LOL)

Anyway we are having very beautiful weather here in Oregon. It is cold but SUNNY!!! we enjoyed our weekend we had Youth Group Friday, Sat. we had a b-day party(Bowling) , a bonfire in our Culdasac, Dinner and a movie with my girlfriends Sunday. Bride Wars was very funny. love Kate Hudson. And basically hanging out outside enjoying our weather. The house can wait to be cleaned. I went on a great run today. hope this weather lasts for a while. It's been such a nice winter here. well just a quick update i think it's time to go and enjoy the outside for a while