New Year, New Changes... I hope!

Happy New Year 2009! We woke up in California today to a warm sunny day with birds chirping and kids outside playing... it was great! My husband decided to mow and thatch the lawn and give it a fresh new start to the year. I spent my day cleaning blinds, windows, floors and room out to make space for a classroom set up in our home. That's all.

I am very excited to start my son's new year off with having at home doing independent studies. My husband and I spent our last two weeks of his vacation time researching, purchasing and planning our son's High School curriculum. Now to implementation phase!

January and February will be Lilly's last months at Pre-school, she would like to focus more on Dance Classes and trade places with her sister Violet at home. We are cool with that. So Violet will take Lilly's place at pre-school in March. Lilly want's to take Hip-hop, tap and ballet classes.

Violet is learning to put her words into sentences now and is proud of herself each time she does it. We are too! Being the youngest, she has learned to make sure the others know she is there and that she can't be pushed around. She really loves her sister and looks up to her. We have some adorable pictures of her hugging Lilly every chance she gets.

Chris has been enjoying his time off and being the Principal of our new home school. But, secretly I think he desires to get back on the road and to work again, just to get a break from the kraziness of our family life.

I continue to focus on being as good of a stay-at-home mom as I can, while trying to earn a little extra money creating websites and internet marketing tools for my clients. My work with the local community pantry has also taken some new turns for the coming year, as they need more of my help these days and I really get a satisfaction out of giving my time to them.

My other hope for the new year is to figure out what to do with the house we are in, sell it, rent it.... I don't know, but this is the year for us to just get of here and move on with our goals, hopes and dreams!

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"Roading"....

"Let's Go Roading!" is what my girls exclaim to my husband each Saturday morning. I love it! because it gives them a great bonding time together with their Dad and I get a little break from my week long routine. Usually Chris takes the just Lilly and Joe out for a trip through the desert or to the local lake for some Jeep climbing and off-roading (hence the the given nickname "roading" by Lilly) excursion. Last weekend after many weekends of displayed interest (insistent actually), Violet was finally added to the Jeep Crew! She LOVES it! Both girls get so giddy and excited when Chris says, "Who want's to get in the Jeep?"

Now that High School has started again, Joseph's homework load has picked up quite a bit. Now Joe has decided he would rather take advantage of the peace and quiet of the girls being gone to get his work done, so it's just Daddy and his girls for now. Last weekend they went to Lake Skinner in search of the perfect place to drink their juice boxes. Chris said they were so excited to find that perfect spot that over looked the Lake and eagerly got out to enjoy those drinks. They sat next to each other feet tapping and sipping down their little boxes of juice, as cute as can be. Of course, he said that lasted about five minutes when our little Violet (she is our "Messy Marvin") decided to squeeze her box, get herself wet with juice and pick up a handful of dirt all at the same time. Ha, ha, ha, ha! Welcome to my world hunny!

This weekend, Mom got to go on the adventure in the Jeep, because it involved "shopping". I rarely miss an opportunity to put my husband's credit cards to good use. So I tagged along to some off-roading fair in town. It was fun to see the girls very attached to their Dad and excited about all the other Jeeps and Mules that they saw. They were even looking under the cars (excuse me, Jeeps) at the struts and wheels and things. I took a few pictures, so that you can see how cute they all were. It was a really nice day, and I thoroughly enjoyed observing my girls interactions with their Daddy.

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Hope you all had a good weekend too!

Lilly's 'matoes

Lilly has been trying most of the summer to grow her own tomatoes (she calls them 'matoes'). It has taken a while to finally pick the fruits of her labors, because the snugs (slugs) kept getting her tomatoes.

Lilly was so excited about picking her tomatoes and being able to help cut them up for the family salad tonight. While my blog post on this is short, I will let her little face tell you a thousand words in pictures. Click Here