Monday - April 5th , 2010

Man oh man, I cannot say enough about this past Monday! It was incredible. We had such a great day. My good friend Mary Rath gets a big shout out for making our day amazing. Not many pictures were taken but we had such good times. After we woke up and got ready for the day, we dropped off Miles at Mary's house. She is so amazing to take him for the day with her own two boys! What a great friend! Anyway, we dropped him off and pealed out of the driveway... on our own for the first time in a while. We headed out to Hillcrest to enjoy lunch at a local Thai Restaurant. We sat and talked and enjoyed our meal leisurely. It was pure bliss, heaven on earth, eating like it was meant to be. I don't remember a meal that lasted more than 15 minutes since Miles was born, quite frankly, I don't remember much of anything anymore.

After lunch we headed for the movies, another distant memory. Movies at the theatre? What's a theatre? Just kidding, it's not that serious, but close. It started to poor down rain while we were in line so Mike waited while I took refuge in doors. I aint gettin this hair wet. We saw a movie, not a good one, but a movie non the less and then walked around the mall a bit.

After that we picked up Miles. We were gone a total of 4 and a half hours. Bless Mary's heart. The beautiful thing was that when we got home Miles went down for a nap and slept for 3 hours! It was wonderful! Mike and I just vegged and hung out. Miles woke up and was so sweet for the rest of the night. We all just hung out together. Mike and I, and for that matter, Miles all felt well rested and very relaxed. We ended our night listening to music and Mike and Miles wrestled. (There new thing they do together. Miles thinks its hilarious when Mike gives him the sleeper hold. :))

It was one of the best Monday's thus far. Mike and I are now trying to come up with a plan for someone to take Miles every Monday. :) Oh but we love him...

Monday - March 29th, 2010

We can not say enough about how thankful we are to live so close to Josh, Kari and Stella. It has been the hugest blessing. Every month we try to make it up to see them in Pasadena or they try to make a trip down to see us. Only 2 and a half hours between us, depending on the traffic, gets us to see family more than we ever have before. We LOVE it! It is so fun to live life together in this way. So this month was our turn and we headed up to Pasadena. With traffic being heavier than normal it took us a good 3 and a half hours to get there.
Gotta love traffic to LA.

The great thing about being with them is that we can totally be ourselves and just hang out. No agenda, no gotta be here or there at this time, just rest and relaxation. We arrived on Sunday early evening. We hung out, Josh and Kar went out and had a quick dinner date and came back in time to put Stella to bed. By 8:30 the kiddos are in bed and the rest of the night we party! What?! No... but we do sit around the built in booth in the kitchen snacking and drinking, talking and laughing. Oh, so much laughing. We SO enjoy are time around the table. We hang out until we are all to tired that we yearn for our beds. We are all in bed by 11:00. Feels good.

After a great breakfast prepared by Kari of egg casserole and hard boiled eggs we take the kids to the always loved park just down the street. We all play until we have had enough fun and head back to their place.

Miles loves giving kisses!

Sweet Stella Bella.

Miles representing.
After we head back to their place we decide that this would be a good time to leave so that Miles could sleep on the way home. We head home, traffic being better, thus the trip home taking the only accustomed two and a half hours. We stop at Dairy Queen and Krispy Kreme to enjoy a pre dinner snack and then we are home.

Later in the evening we decided to go for a late dinner to the great Pat and Oscars. We love that place. They give you enough food for days.
It was a great end to a beautiful "Sunday - Monday."

Monday - March 22nd, 2010

A glorious day for the beach. Cannot believe we are at the beach in our swimming suits in March! Oh San Diego, how we have learned to love you. All that to say, it would be Miles' first time at the beach ever. So after lathering on the sunscreen and putting on his swimming trunks and shirt we headed out to Ocean Beach. Good ole Ocean Beach.

Miles looking so stinkin cute in his new swimwear. He enjoyed getting his feet wet. So fun!

He loved the sand, apparently a lot because he was pooping sand for days. Whoops.
Sand don't hurt, right?

It was so good to be out in the sun, reviving our vitamin D levels. I love the sun.

We then met up with our good friends Nate and Shyle. We walked around the main strip in OB and talked and walked and so forth and so on.

We ended up getting ice cream to quench our need for sweet.

After parting ways from OB and Nate and Shyle we went home to all enjoy a much needed nap. We then proceeded to a near by restaurant located a block from our place called "Johnny's R", how ironic. (different spelling)

The food and service were great. Miles always draws attention to himself with being so freakin cute. He is loved by all.

After a long and eventful day we ended it by enjoying a few episodes of "Freaks and Geeks" and called it a night. Oh sun, we are so thankful for your rays.

Monday - March 15th, 2010

We started our day off hopeful. Ready for whatever quest the day might bring. It was a beautiful 68 degrees out and it was only 10:00 in the morning. The day looked very promising. As we looked at our list of adventures ready to cross another one off the page we decided on Julian, a town about an hour and some away best known for there famous pies. This would be a good day trip and the weather could not be more perfect! After a bit of goofing around we got ourselves ready for the day.

We decided that this is what Miles will look like once he gets his hair in. Too funny.

Our first stop was at In-N-Out. We just went through the drive through so we could continue on our way.

We made our way up the mountains to Julian and soon realized that are once hopeful day of sunshine and pies was looking more like gloom and lost hope. The clouds soon took over the sky and our hearts. What the? Anyway...

By the time we got to Julian it was pouring down rain. Great. We figured we had come this far we had to enjoy it. So we ventured out into the storm.

We stopped by my favorite candy store to pick up a few sweet treats for the road.

Then off to enjoy a root beer, apple cider and a hot fudge brownie sundae. Miles was good only if we held him, which was fun. Good thing he screamed a lot, it always makes the time so pleasant. After feeling totally defeated and bummed we decided to head back to the car to figure out what was next.

After accessing the options we decided to head home. What a fun day. We felt totally depressed. The weather stunk, Miles was a grouch and we were tired. What started out as 68 degree weather was now a dreary 40 degrees.

On the way home, I drove because Mike was to depressed to drive. As Miles slept in the back and Mike went in and out of sleep I thought about the days of past, when we could do whatever the freak we wanted to for as long as we wanted to and whenever we wanted to. I continued the drive home enjoying my bubble gum cigarette and also was reminded of how blessed I am. As I looked over at Mike sleeping and heard Miles snoring in the back I realized that I wouldn't want it any other way. Life is good no matter what.

Monday - March 8th, 2010

So... not gonna lie and make up some crazy adventure that we took. We didn't. Not one picture, not one adventure, we did nothing. Sometimes you just need to do nothing.

Monday - March 1st, 2010

Wow. I know, I know. The goal is to have these done before the next Monday, I'm slacking. All that to say this Monday was another bit of an odd Monday, not a whole lot going on. Mike went to a conference for most of the afternoon which left Miles and I to fend for ourselves. So, after we dropped Mike off we headed out to run some errands, went to Target and then to a baby boutique called "Baby Go Round". Although Miles is only 8 1/2 months old, he is now wearing 12-18 month clothing. Therefore we are running out of supply. Unfortunately, the store was full of girls clothes and one wall had boys clothes. Such is life. Then he was ready for a nap. Again, such is life. Whether I say that Miles does not run my life, that I run his... some times it feels the opposite. Not a bad thing, just a switch in thinking.

After his nap and mine, that's right, we enjoyed our time together.

We played and read together. His favorite book being "Moo, baa, la la la", thanks Auntie Julie. He thinks it's hilarious and laughs every time the pigs come up.

We then enjoyed an afternoon snack together. It was so good to be with him.
He is just so darn sweet.

Woo Hoo! Mike got home around 5:30 and we decided to venture out to the great Fashion Valley mall. Not a huge adventure, but all the more enjoyable. Sometimes we love to just get out and walk at the mall. We enjoyed the oh so pleasant Panda Express and a cinnamon sugar pretzel from Wetzel's Pretzels.

We headed back to the car when Miles had had enough. Miles went to bed shortly after we got home and Mike and I watched the 6th episode of "Freaks and Geeks" and went to bed. To be honest, each day is an adventure being married to Mike and having Miles whether we go some where exciting or just to the mall. Life is good.