Movember

Look who's participating in movember this year. Compliments of Green Goodness.

Pizza

So we all know im a foodie right? Well, a couple of weeks ago I decided to recreate california pizza kitchens pear gorganzola pizza for Heather, Amy, Keith and the kids. Honestly Yum! It was perfection from the very first try!  I ran across this picture this morning and my stomach rumbled for another. Looks like I'll be making pizza again this weekend.

Pear gorganzola pizza with greens on top :)

P.S. Yuliya only ate the greens.

pan roasted tomatoes with our pizzas

Oh and this is a lovely meal that Keith whips up when I am desperately craving Huevos Rancheros....doesn't it look amazing? It's finished off with an over easy egg on top of corn tortillas ...yum!

Guess who liked dragon fruit! It was a total hit with my curious George's. They ate every last piece then rooted for more.

Fun with cousins

Recent trips to the zoo with Miss Alyssa and Aunt Amy and to the Childrens Museum with Aunt Tara, Madison, Jackson and Kaitlyn. Unfortunately this was the weekend that Amy and Alyssa had a stomach bug, so while we had fun at the zoo, Alyssa was back to being sick at night. She made a full recovery though, and is chattier than ever! Madison is starting to become a preteen and outgrow all of the "kid" stuff. But I think she still had fun with us :)

All three kids in the double stroller. We live on the edge.

When this chimp came and sat down Cash moved far away but Yuliya stayed to bond. Good Chimps eat their brocolli and greens. This is also where Amy quietly did her monkey impression seen here

Does this count as a picture of all of them?

All of the Lehrs snowboarding on a virtual mountain

Kaitlyn the daredevil, she happened to be the only one wearing appropriate shoes and good thing too, she really wanted to climb that wall. Pretty good for a three year old!

Artistic Madison did cat faces on Kaitlyn and herself.

Tara did a hilarious dog face on Jackson.

And they all put on a wonderful puppet show :)

The End.

Something new

Who likes wasting food? Not me! So I searched for a recipe that would allow me to use up the rest of my fresh spinach and found one called spinach brownies. It was incredibly easy to make, and I had all of the ingredients including a bag of mozzeralla cheese that also needed to be used. Now while the kids finished dinner I prepared the spinach brownies and popped them in the oven.

Gross name.....tastes fantastic!

So I sat and ate spinach brownies and watched an episode of Madmen.

I went to bed

at 12:44 a 2 yr old boy runs into my room, and holds his arms up to jump in bed with me, I lift him up and we snuggle

20 minutes later the same little boy slides off the bed, and runs back to his own room

3:15 same little boy starts opening and closing his bedroom door

3:18 close

3:18 open

3:18 close

3:22 open

3:24 close

3:24 open

3:27 close

3:27 I turn off their night light

3:50 open

3:51close

3:53 open

3:54 close

3:58 open, and a rumbling comes pouring down the hallway like a stamped of baby gazelles. I look in the doorway and there are my two babies standing in the doorway asking what's for breakfast and if its a school day.

3:59 "It's bedtime!"

6:15  Cash is surprisingly wide awake and ready to roll.

Yuliya is not, she doesn't want to:

 open her eyes

get out of bed

be talked to

be looked at

get dressed

brush her hair

6:25 Toddler melt down, she's certain I haven't zipped her dress up all the way and theres no convincing her I have.

6:45 we hold hands while I drive them to school.

(lots of traffic today)

6:55 She's better, lots of hugs and kisses from both, and off to breakfast with friends.

And now the sun is rising..... :)

Good morning family.

As promised

Here are videos from swim class number 4 a couple of weeks ago. Yuliya is on the far left in her class, orange goggles. I was standing in a seperate room with all of the waiting babies, please excuse the background noise

First visit to the beach

 wait for me!!

 

you build'em I smash 'em, Cash's demolition business

 

I love yuliyas face here

Today we took the kids to the beach for the first time. Both had a blast. I am not a fan of big bodies of water and made the mistake of saying, "this is scary" So both of the kids tensed up in the deep water after that. We had a blast finding seashells, building and destroying castles,  and running along the shore. Chris is the only one that walked away with a burn, good news for the kids, bad news for Chris. I think we will be knocking sand out of our shoes for a week to come. :)

Swim Class 4

Swim class number 4, went smoothly for all, until the end of Cash's class where he decided he was done with water getting in his ears. I really enjoy this swim class, SwimJim, it has an indoor pool, so its not shocking to get in the water like most pools. We signed them up for another month of swim, and maybe another after that? When they start growing gills, I might take them out.

Happy Kick, kick, kicking! With Dada and Ms. Regan

Patiently(sometimes more than others) waiting for her class. Yuliya has to watch her brother swim for a whole half hr before its her turn! She does pretty well, until about the 10 min mark and then I start counting down the minutes with her.

Swimming across the pool, she did so much better with this this time.

Diving in!

This is what Cash does while he waits for Yuliya to finish. CRACKERS!!!!

Video soon to follow :)

potty training again

Cash walked up to me, said I have to potty, and then went! Grown up little boy :) Check out the video