Little shoppers

Okay...I know I'm the momma and auntie but seriously, how cute are they? Emmie loves her cousin, Monson...I'm pretty much in love with him too. So.stinkin'.cute!

One if these days I'll get my blogging rear into gear. I have Thanksgiving and another race to blog about...hopefully before Christmas. But no promises. :)

Drummer boy

This boy makes me smile. A little bit into this he taps his sticks together...he's "counting off". Ha! Love it!

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I {heart} my bike!

Isn't she a beauty?

Disneyland - October

In October we took a (VERY) last minute trip to Disneyland.  I honestly knew about it 24 hours before we left.  Crazy fun.  I love watching my kids (and nephews) enjoy the magic.  It gets more and more fun as they get older.

 

Thumbs up for the White Rabbits house!

There she goes! do you see her on the left all blurry? She's saying, "look at me mom!"

trying to turn the tea cups - she's so strong!

Sisters

Eating Churros! (Do you see Emmie's hand? She's freaking out thinking Daddy is really going to eat them all and not give her one!) ha!

Happiest place on earth? 

More Tea Cups. Monson is thinking, "yah, it's go time"

Trying to get a nice picture with two worn out kids...next time we will do this first thing

Awesome.

The Adults put the kids and grandparents to bed and snuck back out for one last bit of fun. 

so.much.fun.

Disneyland, it was grand.  Until next time.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Here's to a day filled with family and friends! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Love and Blessings to all,

Love, 

The Coleman's

The Half and so on.

I did it! Yeah! I have always wanted to do one of these and I'm so glad that I did.  It was a blast! Running is a funny sport.  I never considered my self a competitive person...and outwardly I don't think I appear competitive - but it's those on going conversations that go on in my head (does that happen to anyone else?) Now in reality would I run a person off the road and into a canal who is trying to pass me? Never.   But do I think about it...heck yes I do. There were two ladies who I had passed and just kept trying to re-pass me (is that a word? re-pass?) gah! anyways - I left one in the dust as a porto-john and the other was like a gazelle in the last mile. She deserved to beat me. She knows how to stride out...I do not.  But I did learn a few valuable lessons along the way.

1. NEVER wear gray running shorts for a race.  Ummm...even if the lady didn't pee her pants it sure looked like it by mile 3.  Poor woman. Everytime I passed...and re-passed her I kept thinking about Billy Madison "You're not cool unless you pee your pants".  Who wants to be the pee-pee lady? Rule of thumb: always wear black.

2. Carbo-loading works.  It's amazing.

3. Gu is better when sucked down and not left to linger in the mouth

All in all it was a great race.  All of my training totally paid off.  By the end of the race I felt like I could still go more which I think is pretty awesome.  These are my stats:

13.1 miles - 2hours5minutes - 9.3 avg. pace - 203rd place (out of 380)

This race totally made me believe that I could do a full marathon.  So January 28th it is.  I'm going to run the Desert Classic in Surprise AND my runny buddy is going to do it too! yeah! Running for 4 + hours is so much more appealing when you have someone to talk to.

Okay. Now here are the pictures. enjoy!

 

Me before the race - awesome morning hair, right?

 

My family with me at the finish

 

This one is for my mom. I did it!

This race was very kid friendly.  They had a lot of blow up jumpy things and face painting.  Emmie got a cupcake. precious.

Prime was all about the free popcorn and Jamba Juice.  Emmie liked it too. They think races are cool. 

p.s. so since you are sitting here and reading about running, you want to hear about my latest injury scare?

okay...so the marathon is in January right? Right.  Our goal is to run in under 4 hours.  That means that we need to pick up our pace.  How do we do that? Cross train, right? Right.  So I go and get my bike (which I haven't ridden in 5+ years) from my parent's garage.  The tires need some work so until then I thought I could just ride my buddies bike.  Well my buddy is way taller than me and maybe I should have thought about that before mounting the bike and riding away...well within the first mile I have a little accident. I don't even know how to explain what happened but the just is that I needed to stop fast, couldn't touch the ground and the bike hit me hard on my rear end...ouch. Anyways I precede to ride for 8 more miles (because I'm stupid) and come home with a VERY sore bum bum. 

So that whole day I'm sore. Then the Next day (which is today) I wake up and am crying I'm in so much pain.  I'm able to roll myself out of bed and have to wobble fast to the bathroom so I can throw up because the pain is so bad.  Needless to say I think my tailbone is broken. So I go and get x-rays. Nope. Just a bruise.  BRUISE?? WHAT?? That is one heck of a bruise.  The aftermath of childbirth didn't even hurt this bad.  So apparently that area is pretty wicked when bruised...beware. 

BUT the awesome news about all of this is that it is not broken.  I should be back to normal in a week or so. yeah!

Thanks for reading if you are still sitting there.  I'm going to go get some ice now.

Tomorrow

It's finally here. Tomorrow is the Shun the Sun 1/2 marathon! 

Let's do this.

Chillin' out max and relaxin' all cool

I have finally downloaded all the "recent" (meaning...the past 2 months or so) of pictures off my phone and found these treasures.  We are so busy all the time it seems but still are able to catch are breath now and again.  Here are some pictures of our maxin' and relaxin' times.

Emmie went through a phase a few months ago where she would wake up super early and instead of waking us up she would empty our pantry and build things.  One day I woke up to find her jamming out on her "drum set".  Her daddy was so proud!

This little boy LOVES books.  Which is so fun and so opposite of Emmie at his age.  I love watching Matt read to our children.

This is how Emmie enjoyed General Conference a few months ago...she made sure we all stayed awake!

Prime enjoying his book

Emmie enjoying her movie and juice

One night I asked Emmie to get her pj's on then left her to do it.  I walked back into the room and found a clothes trail. Ha!

p.s. I'm playing catch up with a lot of pictures so be expecting some nice hearty posts! yeah!

Halloween

Before I get too far into all of my catch up posts I need to share Halloween!  Emmie went as Princess Tiana from the Frog Princess movie and Prime was supposed to be a dragon but refused to wear the wings and tale...I'll probably get a picture around Christmas time when he decides he likes it...oh well. So instead of a costume he wore his pj's...so he could be the Sand Man? humm....maybe not...

Okay so, Emmie would not hold still for any pictures so you get what you get...sorry. 

Emmie's costume has a background story that is pretty funny.  A few month ago we were talking about choosing a costume and how we were all going to dress up like someone in Harry Potter since my sister was going to throw a Potter themed party...we all chose our person and guess who Emmie chose? Ha! MALFOY! awesome.  We were all pretty pumped.  wouldn't she have made a great Malfoy? We could have slicked her hair back so good! ha!

Well...the week before Halloween we were talking with some people and I asked Emmie to tell them what she was going to be for Halloween and she thought about it and thought about it and finally I prompted her.  This was our conversation:

Me: "Tell them who you are going to be for Halloween, you know, from Harry Potter"
Emmie: "Uh...."
Me: "Remember his name? Malfoy, right?"
Emmie: "No...you are such a silly goose.  Malfoy is a BOY and I am a GIRL and girls are princesses.  I'm going to be Princess Tiana 'cause she wears a green dress"

That was news to me! It's all good though.  Turns out whipping up a last minute princess costume isn't too bad...Elastic thread is awesome in a pinch!

My Fish

Emmie has been taking swim lessons for almost 2 years and is practically a fish now...okay not really but she has made HUGE strides! 2 years ago she would cry throughout the ENTIRE lesson and now only when she's in one of her "I don't want to do this" moods.  Emmie now is a master back floater...a task that neither I or Matt can do.  She loves to dive for rings and loves making cannon balls.  The girl has no fear...(which scares me to death).  Emmie loves swim and I love that she loves it. Here are some pictures to prove it : ) enjoy!

Animal sounds

Enjoy!

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Take a guess

Yanni or Serious Black? Humm...

Sleepy Prime

Short nap + nursery= sleepy Prime.

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Emmie had a birthday!

Yesterday she turned 4! She's such a happy little thing. We love her so much! Happy birthday to our precious snickerdoodle girl!

My Green Smoothie Boy

The kid has no problem getting his fruit and veggies in everyday.

P.s. FYI green smoothie girl, Robyn Openshaw is coming to Mesa, November 5. Her class is Free! All you have to do is go on her website and sign up! I'm psyched! greensmoothie.com

Miracles do happen.

Emmie ate broccoli...and she liked it.

Emmie's first Primary Program

This is pretty much how she felt about the whole thing. Until it was over....

Then she felt pretty good...ah well. There's always next year!



The program was awesome! All my primary kids learned all the words to the songs. They didn't even need visual aids. They rocked it.

Guru needed

I went to a gardening class a week or so ago. I was so excited to go so I could finally learn how to do this and do it right. It's something I so desperately want to be good at but my many failed attempts have left me a bit pessimistic.

Unfortunately, instead of leaving this class with a renewed vigor to give it another go I left a bit overwhelmed.

I think I've come to the realization that gardening is a bit like those stupid strategy games that I hate (sorry Catan lovers). The rules are completely confusing until you just dive in and do it and go through a lot of trial and error along the way.

This leaves me in a bit of a hard spot. On one hand I would really love to do the whole gardening thing. BUT I seriously do not want to put up the upfront cost of it all without the assurance of getting some results. Not that I want a big huge over the top garden....I just want one or two boxes full of salad fixings and salsa ingredients.

So this is what brings me to the guru part. I know someone is out there who would be willing to hold my hand through this whole process. PLEASE, I need someone!

I want this....



And this (some day)....



And this....



And even this....I want it all! I just don't know where to start.

P.s. I'm totally serious...please someone help me!

Love these two!

Aren't they the cutest? Love them!

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Nuts for Doughnuts

A few weeks ago my sister, Ceri, and I took the kids out for doughnuts.  Nothing quite like a Saturday morning treat. yummy!

16 pictures for 21 days

The challenge has been over since Monday and I never got my last 2 pictures in.  I did it - I actually did those days twice in hopes of getting my pictures but things came up and I forgot. Oh well, the extra pictures wouldn't have fit in the collage. 

I really appreciated this challenge and kind of miss it all ready.  This was something I could totally do and it was fun looking at other people's outfits and getting some new ideas.  Sometimes I get so frustrated with my closet and feel that I have nothing to wear or just don't want to wear what I have.  It was good to have a little boost and motivation to look at my stuff with new eyes.  Yeah! Hope you had fun looking at my daily outfits. I promise I wont put pictures of my clothes up any more...or at least until the next challenge.

Starting fall early....

I couldn't fight the craving! September is here and I NEED pumpkin. I started too late last night to enjoy it (I prefer my pie nice and cold) so I had some for breakfast. A nice way to start the day. Then I walked outside and it was already 95 out. boo. It's coming though....I can feel it...cool air is on it's way.

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Items of {P}intrest

I love Pintrest. And this is what has come of my hours of Pintrest research. Because that's what it is right?

My class and I made this together on Friday for our upcoming Open House. They are so proud of themselves.



These are two projects... The inside is sopapilla cheesecake! Do yourself a favor and make it. The second is the carrying case. It's been on my to do list for forever and finally today I did it. And it was so quick that I didn't just make one, I made two...because that's how I roll.

So if your hesitant to jump on the Pintrest bandwagon because you consider it a "waist of time" look at all the good that has come from it! Happy Pintresting!

Day 19 - hair wear and my love for the pixie

I love love LOVE these little hair clips that my s-in-law, Carrie, made and gave to me. They are so fun and add that pop of color that's perfect.

So it's been 2 week since I pixied my hair and I think I need to take this opportunity to express how much I love it. Here is why:

~Even weeks after the cut I get all giddy when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror.

~It takes all of 2 minutes to do.

~ I like feeling trendy.

~I feel like I look like a mom....but a cool one.

~I love how comfortable it is. Does that make sense? Not just how cool and easy but how I feel like it's me?! It fits. You know?

~I love that my husbands mouth dropped when he saw me with the cut for the first time...he pretty much loves it ... Which makes me really happy.

There are more but I'll end there

Yeah for fun hair! And yeah for not getting my feelings hurt when someone thinks other wise. I love it too much to care!