Cars and the news....

I had to blog this because it made me smile, doting mother that I am. I took Myles "car shopping" today, as he has recently become infatuated with them. We approached the toy aisle where rows of shiny little Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars were just waiting to be played with. I handed Myles a couple of packages and told him that he could pick one, and (my boy!!) he chose the cute little classic cars including a VW Bug like Daddy used to have! I let him hold them while we finished shopping, as he would have it no other way, and he had them open by the time we got to the register. As I handed them to the cashier to ring them up, you could have heard the words "CAR! CAR!" across the store. I let him take them out of the package and he proceeded to drive them all over the shopping cart handle and along the sides.
When we got home we got the rest out of the package, and Myles decided that underneath his hign chair made the perfect "garage". He parked all of them under there and has been driving them in and out ever since. They say that money doesn't buy happiness, but $4.99 has bought me at least an hour and a half of peace and quiet, and a huge smile. I'll take it :)

And, in bigger news, Myles is going to be a big brother!! Now, if I had told you that in the beginning, would you have read the whole thing? I had to be sneaky. We are very excited, especially Myles who doesn't want a "brother or sister", he wants a "BABY"! Ever since we told him he has stopped calling himself baby, now he is "Mys". I have my first dr. appt on Febuary 7th, so I will post the ultrasound picture. I am due around the middle of September, by my calculations. We seem to be good a lumping the birthdays together. Myles and Danny's are 3 days apart, and mine and the baby's will likely be a couple of weeks. Oh well, guess we'll just have to do it up!
Okay, now that I have rambled on so long that your eyes have likely crossed from looking at the screen, i'll end the blog. Love to hear from you!

Myles loves Mexico!!

It has been a while since I updated the blog, so I thought i'd put up some recent pictures from Christmas and New years. We just got home from Mazatlan, Mexico and we already miss it. We got there on New Year's eve, just in time to celebrate! We had fun watching the fireworks from the balcony at our hotel and watching Myles run around declaring "CACO!!" which is how he says "Mexico". We spent most of our days there chasing Myles around on the beach, when we weren't sitting under the palapas and eating. In the evenings, Myles loved to rock in the big wooden rocking chairs in the front of the Hotel. He would sit us all down in our own rocking chair and make us rock. This kid knows how to relax ;) Myles absolutely loves the ocean!
He would run along in the surf and sometimes just plop down right in the water. He also had a lot of fun swimming in the pool with Daddy and being thrown up in the air!

About halfway through the week, we decided to switch from being beach bums to tourists, and we took a fun "jungle tour" to stone island. They take you on a boat across a channel and through some waterways with jungle-like shrubbery. They took us to a beautiful secluded beach with lots of palms nearby, very pituresque :). On the boat ride back some pelicans, who were obviously very familiar with the tour boat, decided to join us One landed right on the front of the boat and would not let any of the others land there, so all of the others landed on the roof or flew nearby. The tour guide brought out the good ol' bucket of fish and let everyone feed the pelican, and the ones on the roof, not wanting to be left out, poked their heads down from the roof to get theirs. it was so funny, and Myles slept through the whole thing. Go figure!
Danny and My Dad had a great time golfing, as usual, at their favorite golf course "Estrella del Mar". I am inclding some of their pictures, because from what I have seen, this place rivals Pebble Beach in beauty. I have to learn to Golf so I can go play it someday! Maybe Myles will get to go next time..
All-in all it was a great vacation. Danny and I were able to have a couple of nights out childless, which was a nice break:) We went to Joe's, the beachside bar next to our hotel with Liz and Keith one night.
We had a very nice romantic dinner at Pancho's another night, complete with Coconut shrimp, a serenade, crashing waves, margaritas, and some killer chocolate cake. What more can you ask for? There is so much to tell, but I am sure I have bored you enough (or maybe made you want to go?) But we just feel so blessed to have been able to go, yet AGAIN! It is always a great time. THANK-YOU GRANDMA!!






So, going backwards a little bit.... We had a great time at Christmas! We got to spend Christmas eve at My Grandparents house. It's always nice to see the family :) Myles had fun opening his first presents and playing with the cousins. Then we went home to wait for Santa. Myles woke up and found that Santa had filled his stocking, and he LOVED opening it. We spent Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Livermore, where Myles was quite spoiled :) He opened some presents in the morning, sacked out, and then opened the rest after dinner. Ah, those were the days. I want to be a kid again! It is so much fun to watch your child open their gifts though, more fun than opening your own. And Myles actually wanted to play with his toys, NOT the boxes!! YAY!!
We are looking forward to our second Christmas in Klamath Falls with Danny's family in a couple of weeks! I love celebrating twice!
We hope that you all had a great Christmas and New Year's! we'd love to hear from you!