Merry Christmas

Lately...

Here we are attempting to take last minute candid shots to add to our Christmas card. We hoped to get a good one in before the light was gone. When the light was gone we got many a candid... but no printables.

Did you take the handmade pledge? Here are our Christmas birds that we are giving as gifts. This is Thomas taking them to his playgroup buddies.

Lily likes to climb our Christmas tree.

Ella loves boas. She also loves to design clothing and is prepping herself for Project Runway. She has been cutting up fabric for shirts and dresses mainly. Here we are in our holiday dresses. (I look almost as nice as the curtains.)

Tomorrow we are heading to Utah and I can't wait to see this...

!#$@ triathlon man is here! #%*!

Here I am writing about Wade again, but man, I am just so proud! He'll probably feel embarrassed that I am posting these pics but, hey, his transformation from a soft, pudge daddy to daddy of iron and steel should not be taken lightly. He achieved his weight loss goal, losing 90 lbs and is now a life member at weight watchers (which means he goes for free as long as he maintains his weight) Let's just say all the old ladies in his support group are spittin bullets they are so jealous. Here he is shedding his suit that he wore to last year's Christmas party. World... meet TRIATHLON MAN!

To see more pics from our day at the Tinsel Triathlon see my flickr here.

big thanks!

Yesterday was the Neighborhood Nursery Holiday sale to help raise money for the school. One of the things I love most about a co-operative school is just that. We offer up our blood, sweat, toil and tears working together for the good of our kids and the school. Okay, maybe we don't suffer that much with the blood and all that jazz, but we do work hard. We get to know each other through our work and each parent has different talents and abilities that they throw on the table. In the end each event we host is always special. sigh, sigh, weep weep. Thank you NNS!



I wanted to send a big thank you out to my mom, who lives in Utah, she stepped in at the last minute to help me finish sewing skirts. My goal was to make ten little girl skirts to sell. I figured out quickly that I didn't have the time to reach my goal so I employeed my lovely mother, the excellent seamstress that she is, to help finish the job. We each made 5 skirts. I love and appreciate what you made mom. A little touch of Carolyn Hillam always goes a long way.



Also, Last but not least, a big thank you to my dear friend Susan from persimmon and pink for sending her beautifully handcrafted blastoid cats and gorillas to sell at the show. We were worried they weren't going to make it through the post but they arrived safely and in all their glory the day before the show! Phew! See her Etsy shop here. She is one talented mamacita and I wish I could have her closer to me so I could enjoy her company and pick her brain.

chinatown N' friends

I am behind on my blogging and I still have to write about Thanksgiving but instead I'll post images from our day in Chinatown with Eric. Eric came for a night and a day. I love Eric and I love to feed Eric because he loves food and I know he will eat whatever I put in front of him and he will enjoy it (except fruit of course). So the night he arrived we gorged ourselves on leftover Thanksgiving dinner from the microwave. After dinner we went to the M83 show at the Fonda. It was a great show with great emo-fashion inspirations, but mainly I was impressed with the rooftop bar, the couch, and my company.

One of Ella's favorite places is Chinatown. She says she loves it because "she loves China just like mommy" and also there are "alot of cute little plastic things there." On this trip she wanted some new silk shoes and a Totoro fleece blanket. We found the shoes but not the blanket. We ate fleshy pork balls and bao zi at Phoenix bakery and I let the kids drink fruit punch loaded with red 40 and high fructose corn syrup. Nice mommy. Fei to the fei to the fei cheng hao!