I'm really going to miss her

I came out of my bathroom on Saturday morning to find this scene. Love my perfect boy. 

So this week I took my kids to Costco after we picked Carson up from school. Its getting close to 5 by the time we leave and so Costco is packed and my kids are getting tired, hungry, etc. Well I buy two smoothies after we finish shopping and tell the kids I am going to take some from each and make one for Brooke. Carson gives me his but Camilla clutches onto hers and hides under the table. She is not going to share any of her smoothie. Finally I tell her that she won't get a straw until she shares. At this point she is tantruming so I scoop her up put the smoothie in my cart and head out with my kids, one screaming and everyone starring at me. I get us to the van, get food put away and throw Camilla in the van. Someone is waiting for my parking spot so I pull over to side of the parking lot for a time out. I put Camilla in the grass and tell her she has to calm down. She is loosing it. I finally throw out, "fine is you can't calm down then you are just going to stay here at Costco." I shut my door while she is loosing it. Then from the back seat just as cool as can be I hear Carson say,"I'm really going to miss her." I nearly died laughing, brought Camilla back in the car and made our way home. What a night! These are the nights I especially miss having a husband who comes home at night. 

I not help him

The other night Brook was asleep and the big kids were watching a show before bed. I was laying down in my room and I heard the show say, "who wants to help me find the missing blue mermaid?" Carson immediately yelled out:" Yes, I do!" Then Camilla yelled out:'Not me." Then I heard her turn to Carson and say, "I'm not going to help him." 

This girl! 

Look what she decided to do

Little miss B finally decided to start walking. It was a perfect moment. We were all hanging out in the hotel room talking and eating and she just walked over to Aaron. It was so fun we all clapped and screamed and made a big deal over it. All the sudden my girl looks so big! 

Missions Half Marathon

So who has the most amazing husband in the world? Me! Aaron decided in January that he wanted to run a half marathon. I was planning to run one at the end of February so he said he would train hard and run it with me. And train he did. He worked hard and put in long miles. He trained on weekends and on the road and a lot of miles on the treadmill. I was so proud of him. Then race week approached. I got the flu and felt awful, the weather was horrible - cold, wet, icy, windy. The forecast for the race was freezing cold, rain and wind. The trifecta of awful. I told him the day before the race that if he wanted to back out I would understand and find him a new race. But he was determined and said he wanted to do it. So we drove to San Antonio in the rain, Aaron's parents were the best and came with us and kept the kids, and we got up early, put on lots of layers and we were ready to go. Here we are waiting for the race to start. The guy behind us was very cold. 

We said good bye at the starting line so we could run our own races and I was so confident in Aaron that he would do awesome. Here are some shots from the race. 

The course was nice and in nice weather be a lot of fun to run. 

I felt great in this race, strong all the way to the finish. 

Here is Aaron bringing it home! 

I was so proud of him for finishing. He was totally worn out at the end and had given it his all. He did amazing and in that weather too! It was so much fun to run a race with Aaron, I may be slightly addicted. 

It was too cold for kids to be at the finish line, too cold for awards to be handed out but I did get first in my age group and a lovely hat to show for it. :) 

FLU

Unfortunately I came down with the flu this weekend. It was nasty, I felt awful and it was no fun. The tender mercy... it was a weekend and Aaron was home to take care of the kids. Oh my goodness what would I have done if he was out of town?? I literally spent the whole day in bed on Saturday. Aaron saved the day by taking the kids to the park, juggling coaching basketball, getting in a long run, taking the big kids on their date they had earned, going to the grocery store, and going to a party on Saturday night for a friend of ours who just became a citizen. Phew, that wore me out just typing it. He did it all, without a single complaint and beautifully. Then today he took the big kids to church and helped me do some meal prep for the week. He really is the best dad in the whole world, I believe that with all my heart. 

Friday night trip to the park. I heard a rumor that Camilla did the monkey bars all by herself, I don't know about all this. 

Date with Dad, the kids were looking forward to this all week. He took them to Chick Fila for ice cream and then to Hobby Lobby to pick out a craft to do with them. They came home afterwards and each made their craft. Carson painted some trucks and cars and Camilla got those beads that you put in and then bake. They both turned out adorable.... I need to get pictures of them. 

They were both so proud of their work and I was very proud of them for working so hard to fill up their sticker charts. Dad always delivers big time on their dates and so they work very hard to get them filled. 

Chinese Parade

The Kindergartners at Carson's school had a little parade on Friday for the Chinese New Year. Carson was so excited and his class was the first dragon. All we could make out was his feet but we sure loved cheering for him and watching all the kids make their way through his little school. Most of the classes came out and cheered for them.  

It was cold and windy but me and the girls followed that parade around the whole campus and got a video. I even stuck my head under the dragon to make sure we got that smile we love more than anything in it. 

When your husband travels

When you have a husband who travels for work you take pictures of everything so he won't feel like he's missing everything all the time. We have of course gotten very good at this as Aaron is gone almost every week. So here is our week of highlights that I sent to Aaron.

Carson has a loose tooth. His bottom two teeth are starting to wiggle. 

Our little, non walking, non climbing, non doing anything herself really climbed the ladder up to the top of the bunk bed.

She was very proud of her little self.

Carson is reading to Camilla at night. Their favorite book this week was The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. Oh man we read that book a lot of times. 

We had a little party at our house for my friend, Jamie's birthday. Camilla helped me get the decorations and she was soooo excited for everyone to come over.

Camilla is in a new phase and it is wearing this dress and her church shoes EVERYWHERE.

We color pictures and and send pictures to Daddy.

We went on the world's longest walk. Serious I just had to document it because it took so long. 

We spend a lot of our time doing this with daddy.

A very fun after school trip to the park. The kids love this park. Afterwards we picked up Chick Fil-a on the way home and my kids thought they had died and gone to heaven. Carson wewnt on and on and ON about it being the best day, best dinner ever. 

Our week in a nutshell. :)