Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun: Hello March, Wasn't it just December?

Where do I begin? Oh, yeah, we've been, um, busy. Doing what may you ask? Well, I get up at 5:45 to be out the door by 7. Ross gets up with the kids at 7, gets them to school, then does stuff around or goes fishing until he has to leave for work at 1:30. I get off at 4:30, pick up the kids, do dinner, do bath, and get them to bed by 8. Then it's either off for a run (don't worry- the neighbor comes over to house sit!) or get laundry, cleaning, etc. done around the house. Usually it's a combination of the two. Then it's off to bed by 10:30, right around the time Ross is getting home from work. Wash, rinse, repeat. Yep, busy.

Oh yeah, and then there's this little 1/2 marathon thing I trained for and completed on Ross' b'day. Yay me :)

We've had a few tragedies in our lives lately and I fear more to come. Thankfully, the kids are sublimely oblivious to all of these and keep plugging away merrily. They started a new school in January and we all love it! Since Bank of America purchased my company - Merrill Lynch - we get to use their on-site daycare. Unfortunately it's not on MY site, but it's not too far away. It's awesome and cheaper than where we were. So far, it's a win/win situation.

The kids' vocabulary is just sky-rocketing. Eva told me the other day "no thank you, Mommy, I'm fine" and Reid is our little performer. There's not a song or dance the boy won't attempt. We are in the middle of potty training with Eva right now. She's doing really well and we're taking it slow. This has lead to Eva discovering how much she loves being in her 'natural' state, shall we say. The other night we had a dinner party at our house with a few friends. Eva proceeded to streak much to everyone's amusement. This has become a weekly, if not daily occurrence now.

We've had a lot of birthday parties to attend lately, which have been super fun. Here's a few pictures from our latest at Build-a-Bear for our neighbor Abby's 3rd birthday. For those who want to know, Eva picked out a pink bear (shocker), a karate outfit (she's creative), and named it 'Pinky.' Reid picked out a blue bear (shocker), a biker outfit (huh?), and named it 'Bob.' They crack me up.

Grammy and Pops came to visit us back in January as well. We had great weather and a great time. Here are a few of our pictures and one of the 4 of us at the zoo.