a week.

I've had a little bit of an exhausting week!  I don't know how that happened.  I mean, I feel good and full of energy today, but looking back I'm glad the week is over!  I accomplished quite a bit!  I worked out every day (and am starting to feel a difference in my energy level and appearance), I cleaned out and organized our pantry and refrigerator (it was bad...).  I took Shea to a few different play dates (we went to see his first movie in the theater - "Rio" at the $1 summer days for kids this week!  It was so fun and such a cute movie). And we went on a HUGE shopping trip.  I mean, I have never gone on such a big shopping trip - especially not with two kids.  We went to Winco, Costco, and Trader Joes and stocked up on a lot of things (hence the need to clean out my pantry!).  It is so good to have food again - especially healthy food.  We were waiting a little while to go shopping, so I was coming up with some weird dinners from what we had.

I even bought a bunch of a bulk snacks and divided them up into little baggies and labeled a snack drawer in the pantry. There are snacks for Shea and me when we have to run out the door to a play date or something that goes into lunch time, and stuff for Jer to throw in his lunch bag.  Making life easier, for sure!  I still need to chop up some vegetables and stuff and make one for the fridge - mainly for Shea, so he can grab himself a healthy snack when he asks for one.

Hailey is 5 1/2 weeks now!  She rolled over twice last night.  Not sure if that is early or not, but I have this crazy feeling she is going to be just as active or possibly more than Shea, because she is already trying so hard to get away when she is on her tummy!  I guess thats just how I make babies.  I keep trying to catch a smile on camera, but she I never get a smile when I'm trying to haha.  Oh well.  She is starting to smile and is a total cutie when she does.

Yesterday, I ventured out for a big trip by myself with the kids.  We took the ferry from Kingston over to Edmonds (this was so nice. I just put Hailey in a sling and she slept while Shea and I walked around the boat).  Then we drove down to visit my sister for a little bit.  The only disappointing thing was that Debbi (one of the main people I was coming out to visit) called and said her son was sick!  Of course!  So we ended up going to Newcastle Beach Park for a little bit with the lady my sister lives with and her kids.  Shea disappeared for 5 or so minutes and I thought I was going to break down!  He was there playing on the playground, and then he was gone!  We looked all around the park, and I finally found him on the other side.    Pretty sure he followed some kids over there, because that is what he tends to do!  Yikes.  I am so thankful nothing happened to him - its amazing what races through your head when your kid disappears.

After that, we went up to my brothers house and visited for a few hours.  I WAS going to take the ferry home ( and now I wish I had), but there was such a long wait and traffic looked worse going north, so I decided to just drive around, thinking it woudl take about as long.  Unfortunately, I did NOT beat the traffic like I thought I would and it took me 2 hours just to get past Tacoma.  We took a break in gig harbor so I could feed the baby and Shea could get out and walk around.  I was so tired when I got home.  We got the kids to bed, and then Jeremy and I drank some champagne and played carcasonne haha.

Today I am planning on relaxing, doing some yard word, and making a trial run of cupcakes for Jeremy's parent's anniversary party next week.  Its going to be so cute!  His mom bought dresses from Romy for all of the daughters/daughters-in-law and we are all the "bridesmaids".  The guys are all the "groomsmen" and the kids will be dressed nice too.  I'm pretty sure its all just a huge ploy to get all the family pictures she wants with everyone looking nice, but it will be fun.  She even bought a wedding dress.

Oh and this was one of my "brilliant" ideas to keep Shea busy one morning when he was driving me crazy demanding a lot of attention.  Paint diluted with water and paper outside.  He ended up tearing the paper and painting the rocks instead, and then I can't remember what he did now, but he ended up in time out and it didn't really buy me any time to do anything, but at least he had fun painting.

I was sad I didn't get to see either of you yesterday!  You guys are welcome to come visit any time too!  But I know you are so buys with your jobs.   I almost thought of calling you again, Angela, but by the time I was like "man, I should've stopped somewhere and waited out the traffic" I was already so far and didn't want to change plans on you again.  I kept thinking it was going to get better, haha.  I've obviously grown very spoiled with our lack of traffic over here.