Blog moving.

I discovered that the Google account this blog is connected too has run out of space and I wont be able to add photos for any future blog entries. Even after clearing out Picasa and Google Drive I still have a hgn up somewhere so I am redesigning and moving the blog over to my other Google account. Since I dont like to send out mass emails I am just going to wait to hear from folks if they want the new blog address. Ciao!

A sad day for my little blog

Well, I logged into the blog to catch up on holiday stuff and found that wherever the photos have been going when I upload (Picasa?) are gone. So every photo I have posted since I first started blogging on here is now gone. It is going to take a really long time to get it all fixed again so ignore all the boxes with lines through them :) I will just keep going and hope that the photos I posted over the last fews week dont disappear as well...

The beginning of December stuff

Trying to squeeze in all the usual fun holiday stuff admidst the day to day crazy and before we fly out on our trip.

My mom and dad's birthdays are a week apart and so we thought this year, as a big thank you for all their help, we would send them to stay at Willows Lodge and take them out to the Herb Farm for their Thanksgiving feast. It was really a great night. My mom, who does not typically ever use a cell phone, decided it was alot of fun messing my my phone camera. Here are some of the results lol

This weekend we picked out our pointsettias at Molbak's pointsettia festival which is always very pretty.

 

 

 

Then for the first time, we went to see the santa dive at the Aquarium. Its on my list every year but I just never get over there. It was simple and cute  and it definitely looks like Santa is photo bombing you lol

 

 

 

 

It's going to be interesting times for awhile for me. My location of Massage Envy decided to go back to a minimum hour requirement that I couldnt meet (as well as some other changes I wasnt totally on board with) so I jumped ship and went independent. I've been massaging independently on the side for awhile but I wasnt really ready to do it full time. It means alot of running around like crazy all day doing kid stuff and then going to massage people until 11 at night after they get home from work. I'm still trying to figure out the balance of it all but I'm hoping it will ultimately mean doing alot less massage and making more money, which was what I was finding just doing the little bit I had been doing prior to all of this. At any rate, my fingers are crossed for a prosperous 2013!

November stuff

I continue to have a blast doing science with the K/1 class at school.



We headed up to Alderwood as usual for Santa pictures. Ali did great this year. She was a little apprehensive but when I told her Santa needed to know what was on her Christmas list or he wouldnt bring anything, that pretty much made up her mind for her :)

 

On the way out to the car we went through Nordstroms and a girl tackled us to make sure we knew that Yo Gabba Gabba was going to be there for pictures (and a great many sales endorsements as well lol) So we stuck around. Ali still hates people in costume so she wasnt thrilled but we are making progress since she allowed me to take her this close without issue.

Nathan got his first badge for cub scouts which he is proudly sporting on his uniform.

For Thanksgiving this year the classes at school did different presentations for the parents. Nathan's class had learned like 22 different power phrases (cant remember what they were called) such as initiative, self control, patience etc. They got to choose 3 and do a tri fold board to set out for their classroom display.

 

At the end of the month we decided to head over to Woodland Park zoo for their first time doing zoo lights. I've always heard of the Tacoma Zoo doing them but never wanted to drive all the way out there for it. I have no idea if this was similar or better or worse but it was a nice way to kick off the holidays. And it didnt rain! Poor Nathan. He is so tired of me stalking him with a camera that he actually goes out of his way to give me corny smiles. The results are interesting...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disney On Ice

We went to our first ever Disney On Ice show. Poor Nathan. Jason failed to mention that the show was specifically Disney Princesses so I figured it was going to feature some of the unisex films to no avail. But he was a trooper and boogied down to some of the music before finally asking where 'his stuff' was. Unfortunately I didnt bring the nice camera and had to rely on the cell phone which didnt do well with the strobe lights. Here is what I managed to get.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This class picture cracks me up. It looks like something just went down seconds before...

Class pictures

We just got school pictures today for both schools. Still waiting for Ali's class picture but here is what I have plus the baseball team photos. Poor Nathan. They set up the place to take pictures and aimed it straight into the sun. We couldnt get a decent smile out of him at all.