Sorry about the size

I thought "Oh look how cute a side show of all the pictures I want to post" did not realize that it would be so large that part of it would be missing from the page. I am a beginner when it comes to posting and I have stayed away from unknown things. Well look what happens when I cross that line into the unknown. I get the exlarge (but I must say that it didn't cost me an extra $.35), when really I just wanted the medium or even a small would have been nice. To all those that come to look at the pictures and read the comments, I am truly sorry for the extra large slide show. Before I post another slide show, I will see what I can do to fix my error.

Fun Things

This past month we did some fun things.
Here are a few of the things that we did.

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10 Years Yesterday!

10 Years. I am so happy that it seems like yesterday that we got married. We got to have a great celebration. We just did it last weekend. My brother and Sister-in-law took our kids for the weekend.(we have a swap set up so we both get to have time just as a couple, every one should do this). Well back to my fun weekend. We started on Friday with dinner at Cafe Bernardo, such a great place to eat and realx (super yummy food) and then rented a movie. On Saturday morning we went on 14 mile bike ride, in the afternoon we went bowling for the Big Brothers, Big sisters organization. In the evening Christian suprised me and took me to a Play "Little Women" the musical. It was really good. After the play we went to "The Tower Cafe". I don't know if it was because it was 11:30 at night or that we were so hungry, but I can't remember eating food that tasted so good. It is food from Mexico/south america, everyone should try it.
We did have a great day yesterday. Christian came back from his trip and we took the kids to our favorite Chineese Resturant, in Natomas. The kids loved it. We told them we had been married 10 years. They were not sure what to think. Aaron just asked if he was at our wedding. We both just laughed and said "nope none of you were at our wedding".
Just think 50 years doesn't seem that far away.
We are also going away because 10 years is a time to celebrate.......We are taking a trip to Washington DC in April. I am so excited I have always wanted to go the the Smithsonian.
I hope you all have as much fun on your anniversary as I had on mine.

The 6th of the 6th

I was tagged on Jamie Petersen's blog , so here it goes.

The rules:

1.Go to your document/pictures file on your computer

2.Go to the 6th file

3.Go to the 6th picture

4. Blog about that picture

5. Tag 6 other people

Here's my picture:

This was taken the day before Christian went back to work. For the past 5 years Christian has had Dec 25th until the First Monday in January off. It has been such a great thing for us. This year we went to the Exploritorium and played on the beach with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. I really like him with a beard, but he really doesn't like it all that much because he is going grey. So for the week he was off, he grew it out just for me. Such a sweet husband.

The six that I tag are: Christine Fisher, Marci Hansen, Emily Moss, Garrett Brown, Stephanie Fry, Kristina Cox

I am excited to see what you post.

The Wicked Witch of the House

Today Nicole and Christian were playing. She got mad at him and called him the wicked witch of the house. She is so funny. She has started using words I didn't know she knew the correct way to use it. Frustrated is the new term she uses. She was at the park with her friends on friday and got separated from them. When we were eating dinner that night she was telling Christian all about her day and playing with Kiaya and Abby . She got this look on her face and thru her hands out to her side and said "I got, well, frustrated when I could not find my friends." We just looked at her in amazement and said "you got frustrated?" "Yeah that is what I did got, Frustrated." Now that is her favorite word. She is getting frustrated at every thing now.
We love that she is getting big. I hope she continues to use big words for a 3 year old.

If some one cut off my nose!

Today Nicole was pushing the dog. She was taking her wagon and pushing it into the dog. I told her she had to stop touching the dog:
Nicole: I am not touching Oakley.
Mom: Stop pushing your wagon into the dog or you will go to your room.
Nicole: All of me
Mom: Yes all of you needs to leave the dog alone
Nicole: All of me in my room
Me: Yes all of you will be put in your room
Nicole: What about my nose?
Me: Yes your nose will be in your room with you.
Nicole: What if some one breaks in and cuts off my nose?
Mom: Nobody is going to cut off your nose.
Nicole: what if my nose gets cut off and is touching Oakley.
Mom: Now that is just silly. Why would your nose be missing and touching the Oakley?
Nicole: So that it would have to go to time out.
Now if that is not thinking I don't know what is.

My kids and our dog

The Golden Gate Bridge in the back ground. New Years weekend 2009.

We had such a great day at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

For Christmas we got a Magic Bullet. We have made smoothies in them almost every night. The kids love it because they get to choose which frozen fruit they have in their cup.

They had to show off their mustaches.

Nicole loves make-up. So I decided one night that we could do some mommy/daughter bonding this is the end results. Nicole loved her beads and earrings. We went to the DI and bought all the clip on earrings and all the bead necklaces that they had. Nicole has been in heaven ever since.

I think that I could be a model! If only Nicole would go pro as a make-up artist.

Nicole is definitely the queen of her own style.

Over the last month Nicole has been walking around the house singing "Hello, Hello." This is now her favorite primary song. She has been telling us all about John the Basket and how he was Jesus' friend. She is such a funny little girl.

This weekend was the annual Monster Truck show at the Arco Arena. So Christian and the boys went with a group of friends (because it is boys weekend only). The boys loved the the cars that transformed into robots. It was a great night for all.

Nicole and I stayed home. We painted each others Nails. My toes ended up with paint up to the knuckles, it was still very fun to spend just mom and daughter time together. Nicole had a blast being big enough to use the finger nail polish. She read to me out of the scriptures and told me lots about the pictures in the Book of Mormon. We ended the evening with watching the beginning of "Mama Mia". Now before anyone gasps that I showed it to a 3 year old, she only made it through about 5 minutes of the movie and was a sleep. Her new favorite song is "Mama Mia" She tries to sing it. But after she was a sleep I got to watch it in full and loved it. I guess all that ABBA music growing up just grew on me.

I get a kick out of watching the kids love our dog. She is so good with them and she still treats them like puppies on a few occasions. You would think that Nicole and the dog are like magnets. Nicole can not leave Oakley alone for more than 30 seconds with out climbing on top of her, or rolling over her, whispering in her ear (she really hasn't mastered the whisper part, but it is still cute), and when Oakley has had enough she will growl and then snip a little. Which is when Nicole comes in crying and I give her a big hug and a big reminder that Oakley needs some space. Then she leaves and goes right back to being with the dog. Aaron is so funny, he will walk in the house see Oakley and say "I knew you missed me the most." I love to hear him say that to her. But he will get her so wound up that I have to step up and keep that dog from plowing him over. Isaac loves to help walk her, she is so strong that it is more of her walking them. She is getting so much better since we got the Halti, it has made all the difference with her. He loves to brush her and feed her. I love that he is starting to get responsible.