Where have we been??

The girls and I are on our second cold of the month. Add in a stomach bug for all 4 of us, and you can see part of why I have been missing. I am always so excited for summer to be over and winter to arrive until we start getting sick. Yes, we only get summer, an Indian summer and rainy winter here in the Bay Area. I miss my East Coast seasons! Fall and winter are my absolutely favorite times of the year. My birthday, college football, cozy fires, Thanksgiving and Christmas...what more could a girl ask for? That is until we start getting sick, and a very, very small part inside me longs for summer to be back where we are outside in the sunshine with no worries of sickness.

Despite yucky colds and bugs, we have been very busy. Ballet resumes for the little ballaweena. She's actually learning quite a lot and is constantly singing "Tendu and first. Tendu and first." while moving her feet into the correct positions and doing passes, plies, and leaps all over the house. She is so proud of herself, and B and I just love to watch. We are all taking a gymnastics class on Monday mornings now too. Campbell and I are in a mommy and me class, which I will blog more in depth about in the future (Let me just say I'm not sure what goes through some parent's minds sometimes.), and Kayleigh is in the 3 year old independent class. They both love it because to be honest it is really like a ginormous play room. They jump down the trampoline, do rolls, hang on the rings, climb ladders, and do all sorts of other fun things. Campbell's class even does parachute time at the end with bubbles. Does anyone remember those awesome parachutes from elementary school? They were so fun, and the little 2 year olds love it just as much.

In other news, I'm finally pursuing photography, which has taken all the time and energy I've had lately. I am wrapping up all the legal stuff and already have a few sessions booked this month. For now, I just have a page on Facebook. Maybe it is just California, but I had NO idea there were so many hoops to jump through to start a business. It's fun learning all these new things though. Feel free to check out my page, "like" me and even book a session if you are in CA! In case I've never mentioned it, I'm more of a team player kinda girl, not so much the solo, put myself out there kinda girl. I was a ball of nerves taking the first leap, but I survived. ;)

Last but not least, a few pictures from our fun weekend forever ago. Fleet week was here and though we missed out on most of the events, we did make it to the parade of ships and a delicious lunch in Sausalito. 

USS Carl Vinson...a navy supercarrier that came through. It was HUGE and so awesome to see coming under the GGB. A sidenote, it was named after a congressman from Georgia. :)

 

 

Click to make this bigger and you can see the whole crew lined up around the sides of the ship. So awesome to see and gave me chills! So proud of these men and women.

A fireboat that was saluting each of the ships.

One of the 47' boats from Brett's station headed out to do security. Pretty proud of my husband and his shipmates too.

The delicious burgers in Sausalito. The place is so tiny and the line goes out the door, but they were SO YUMMY!

Trying to teach little Miss to do a thumbs up for some delicious burgers.

Burgers? On my thumb?

I love fountains. So do they. <3 Daddy was waiting on the burgers, so I was all alone in getting them to cooperate for pictures. You can imagine who cooperated and who didn't. ;)

When did she get so big??

Last but not least, the awesome swing Daddy built. We live such a blessed life. <3