A New Year...

Okay, so it is a new year, and I am going to TRY to make a new effort! For some reason this blog has not been one of my top priorities lately.  There has been so much that has happened over the past few months! 

We stayed here in California for Thanksgiving. It was great! Christina invited us to her home where she prepared virtually everything! All we did was eat! Hannah and Chase had a great time with all the kids!

All through November and December, I kept extremely busy making jewelry for several boutiques, and then filling orders afterwards! I am LOVING it! It is so fun to come up with new ideas and to be able to have such a wonderful creative outlet! We aren't really making money or anything at this point... but at least we are covering our costs!

I am training for another marathon - Huntington Beach - it is next week!  And then, my little sis Laura is coming out to run the LA marathon in May! Yay! 

Chase has started talking (a very little) he knows a few basic words "momma - ma -ma -" , "dadda -da -da-" , "Bobba - ba", "sissa" (sister), and of  course, "ball"!

Hannah has started reading and writing.  She is doing very well. She sounds things out , and when she writes, she spells how the words sound... of course, most of the spellings are incorrect, but the point is that she gets the sounds! So I am thrilled!

We, as a family, continue to love it here in SoCal! I am soooo happy with the move from Utah! It really has done wonders for all of us! I am so grateful to have such a wonderful husband! Mark has been so supportive.  He loves his job, and it makes me so happy to see how excited he gets about store design!

The next post is our collection of pics over the last little while!

Millions of pics!

WHO am I Kidding?????

BUT, SERIOUSLY! Who am I kidding? I don't REALLY have time to update this thing like I should... maybe every TWO months?????

Okay, so here are pictures of all we have been up to for the past TWO months! I cannot believe how busy life has been for me lately! This first picture is of us today at Disneyland... Then Halloween... Then me and SOME of my close friends in New York... Hannah's Birthday party at Chuckie Cheese... Some pictures at the beach...

Jewelry

Okay, okay!! I am ready to make a post! First of all, in my defense, the below pics are PARTIALLY to blame for my lack of posting lately! Just some of the jewelry Kami and I have made recently! We have been really excited about some custom orders and boutiques we have lined up for the holidays!

And more jewelry...

The Entire Month of August!

So.... I have been collecting pictures for the last MONTH! A lot has gone in during that time! We had a great girls day at Disneyland to celebrate 3 July birthdays! It was a lot of fun! My mom and sister Lisa came to visit for the first couple weeks in August, and they gave us some passes to Legoland. We went the week after they left - I say "save your money"! NOT worth it!

ALSO... My little boy turned 1 year old... ALREADY! AND... OF COURSE... my little sister Laura came home from her mission!

Here are the pics.... they are in total random order...

Hannah took this picture of Laura, Lisa, Chase and me!

Cutey Patutey

Laura and me

Another Diaper cake I made for a baby shower

Chase's birthday cupcake

Trying to EAT to cupcake!

Mark enjoying his cupcake!

Chase on the swing sporting his MESSY cupcake face

Chase got some bongo drums from mommy and daddy!

The party

I LOVE my sweet little sister! OF COURSE she wore a birthday hat!

Big sister helped open Chase's gifts!

Me and Mel

Me posing under the sign at Bubba Gumps

A few of my friends

Mom, Dad and birthday boy

Chrissi posing in front of the Bubba sign! I took a pretty terrible picture!

Kami and Erika

The birthday bunch

Me being weird... What's new?

More Jewelry

Hanny Banany

3 Kids in a car! with cousin Abby...

Chase's birthday - AGAIN!

Legoland

New York made out of legos

Chase trying to walk

Last beach day

Chase playing in a beach tent

Chase playing at Legoland

I decided to ride the ONLY fun ride at legoland! It was CRAZY!

Chase standing all by himself!

We went to the beach yesterday with lots of friends. It was so much fun!

Chase completely passed out!

Hannah with her 2 BFFs collecting rocks!

Me and my favorite little girl!

We had a group birthday party for Christina, Melissa, Erika, and Lindsay:

The decorations Kami and I made for the b-day party... You can't really see in the picture, but we made bracelet's as party favors!

Here is all the jewelry Kami and I have started to make... We are hoping to start a small "business" ... we may start with an Etsy site. Look for B.F. Designz - hopefully coming soon!!!

10k

I have been sooooo busy lately that I have, of course, made blogging my LAST priority!

So, this is what we have been up to lately:

I ran a 10k on the Fourth of July. I came in 3rd place in my division with a time of 48:29, I was tenth over all the women, and 37th place men and women all age groups combined.

We went to Disneyland the night before July 4th. Hannah and Chase had great seats for the parade. Chase was so excited to see all the characters go by!

I made a diaper "cake" centerpiece for my friend Tiffany's baby shower. She wasn't able to attend the shower, however, because baby Drake came a little too soon! He was three weeks early!