it arrived!

I’m at the apple store right now waiting to turn in my old dell and for them to transfer all my data and give the imac back to me tomorrow or friday!

can’t wait!!!!!

dorothy has been home ’sick’ for the last two days, and today we didn’t leave the house at all. I need her to go to school tomorrow

I can’t wait

Our Dell computer is on its way out. and fast. The thing is older than dorothy…which really isn’t that old, but this thing is slow like molasses.

I decided a while ago that I would replace with a mac if we needed to, and the time has come. A new iMac is on its way to my house as we speak.

hooray!

cheers to david, my heavy air sailing husband!

quick post to say congrats to david. he finished the sunfish worlds in 3rd place. two firsts yesterday and one today. Couldn’t be prouder….he did barely any sailing to train for this….no wind in st pete to do the training.

now, vacation and relaxation for both of us. and home to the kids on sunday!

in the bahamas

lots of blog silence around here….I know. The computer sucks, and its just difficult these days. We’re in the market for an iMac, and I’m here on vacation borrowing a friend’s MacBook.

Here in the Bahamas with David for the Sunfish World Championships, David is in 5th right now.  its beautiful here. Lots of wind, so you don’t mind the heat

Yesterday david found a few cool shells to bring home to dorothy for her collection. Unfortunately (or fortunately, you decide) I discovered that one of them had a hermit crab living inside! The thing was not very happy to be sitting on our bathroom counter, and started walking around! Eeek!!!!! I started screaming, and we made a field trip to bring it back to the beach immediately. But not before making a quick video for dorothy. I’ll attempt to post once home (or once in posession of our new computer!)

I did it

31 days later, I never could have done it without the wordpress for iPhone application. Without it I never could have blogged while out of town this month.
Now, in your head, cue Dora the Explorer singing “we did it”

I might take a few days off now…or maybe not!

working out in the rain

Last night dorothy got home from a baseball game with David waaaay after her bedtime, and woke up this morning coughing and cranky. She didn’t go to school, but we did go to strollerfit.

Dorothy got to run around with her old friend Alya, and then it rained. Oh, boy did it rain. And boy did it feel amazing. It was so hot, and there was no wind, so the sweat was just dripping off of us by the bucket, so when it started raining, we were thrilled. We pushed the strollers under a picnic enclosure and continued exercising until the kids were freaking out so much that we had to stop…the rain ended and we all walked back to our cars feeling refreshed (if a bit stinky)

want to see some great pictures of the kids?

we took pictures with my friend christy marrone a few weeks ago, and the pictures came out great!

watch her grow

Here are three pictures of dorothy sitting ‘on the big chair’ in downtown Ketchum, Idaho. My how she’s changed!

2007:

2008:

2009:

A crappy mood

This morning I cut the boys nails. Reid did fine, perhaps he even relaxed while I was doing it. Adam, on the other hand screamed the whole time and continued to cry for hours while pulling on his fingertips. He’s never done that unless he hurts his hands. Maybe I cut them too short? I don’t know. But I felt terrible for him. He was too distraught to eat lunch. Huh

Oh, the drama

Today I took Dorothy with me for a manicure and pedicure. She didn’t get her nails done, but was great entertainment while I did. She was so well behaved that my manicurist offered to put a sticker on her nails–2 of her choosing. Dorothy asked for flowers on her thumbs. The flowers had rhinestones on them. Dorothy said her thank-you’s and we left. In the car I reminded her not to pick at her newly polished nails

By the time I got her out of the car she was in tears. She picked, and the rhinestone had fallen off of one of her nails. The crying went on for at least 1/2 hour and then occassionally when she would look at her hand

Oh the drama