More painting.

We worked on more painting this weekend. Last night Jeromy and I worked on the ceiling color, and then today we worked on the wall color. We were painting the rest of the dining room and kitchen matching the living room. Here's some "in-action" painting!Cleaning cobwebs from behind the fake plants that were up there... gross!Some before and after...But we still have to paint the vaulted ceiling here, but since it's a different shade we have to paint it later. I'm really liking this brown...

Aurora and her friends enjoying some popcorn with last night's movie...

Lunch today...It was such a nice day, they decided to eat outside...Here's a couple of pictures of Kent's field trip with his Japanese class to Seattle... here they all are on the ferry ride... see Kent right in front with his headband on??I think Kent took this one cause the class rode a city bus...And lastly, one day while Jeromy was watching the Trig kids, he watched Hannah and Natalie, poor Max was recovering from his quarter incident, so Laura wasn't able to watch them. J3 to the rescue. Here's Jeromy feeding Natalie... so cute....

Beriah holding Ashton and Natalie...And Maranda, if you're reading this- I'm sure baby Natalie was totally safe in this laundry basket :o)

Ok, time for me to take my shower after painting all day. Enjoy the sunshine, and thank God for our veterans and those fighting for our freedom!!

Busy busy busy busy busy...

... busy busy busy busy busy Saturday!!!

I started off my morning running 11 miles- yes, you read that right... 11 miles! 132 minutes, or 2 hours & 12 minutes of running, burning 1,776 calories WOO-HOO!!!!

Jeromy dropped Aurora and Jade off at 9 this morning to Tessa's party, they were getting all dressed up for pictures this afternoon. I met them at 12:40 for the photo shoot- with 12 girls! They even did their nails all fancy...

That's alot of girls, they were getting into position here...Here's Michelle, the fabulous mother of the birthday girl- Tessa, with one of her other daughters Beriah....In between the real pictures, the girls were acting goofy... Nadia, Tae', Beriah and Aurora!

There's that birthday girl Tessa- who's now 14, with Jade... ROCK STARS!!!Tae' and Nadia... come on these girls are ADORABLE!After the pictures I headed back home, while the party people went to explore the mall and then to go see the Shrek movie in 3-D. Jeromy and I were watching the younger Trig kids, so Michelle could focus on the older kids and the party. Jeromy is so cute- sacrificing himself to take a nap with Ashton.

While they were sleeping, I needed to take Kent to the ferry in Bremerton, cause his Japanese class was taking a field trip to Seattle for the day, they were going to see a Japanese movie, eat at a Japanese restaurant and do some shopping in a Japanese area of town. Kent was pretty excited. Except he wouldn't be returning home until 1:50 at night. I brought Aiden and Iana with me so they could see the ferry (and so Jeromy and Ashton could sleep LOL)After dropping Kent off, Aiden said he wanted a hamburger, how could I resist that face? We got fries, too! :o) The girls were probably just getting out of their Shrek movie, so we were heading back to Michelle's for the rest of the party fun. We got there a little early, so Aiden and Iana and Ashton were having fun with my sunroof in my car...And the rear view mirror...Time for Pizza...

And ice-cream...

Presents...

Hair extensions....

And piggy-back rides...Now that's a party, and now I'm exhausted!

Happy 14th birthday Tessa, we love you!

Jade is staying over for the slumber party, and Aurora is coming back home but we brought Beriah, Tae' and Iana back with us! We'll have the younger girl slumber party over here! Poor Michelle's stuck with the teenagers! But they are good kids!

Now all the kids are in bed here sleeping, and I'm waiting until 1:50 to pick up my baby boy at the ferry terminal! I sent him with a camera so hopefully he took some pictures of his adventure and I can post those later, along with some pictures Jeromy has taken of misc. stuff. Can't post all our fun stuff at once, gotta save some for later!

Have a great day tomorrow!

Friday :o)

I took the day off today... which means 4 day weekend! Woo-hoo!!!!

And of course our weekend is packed with fun events as usual!

But first, Kent's Japanese class does this thing where they play soccer against the other foreign language classes, like the Japanese kids verses the Spanish class or the German class. And Kent's team wore these cool Japanese headbands, Kent's practically been living in his for almost 2 days now, but it looks pretty cool on him, he says it says "number 1".

Jade and I also got "shredded" with Jillian Michaels today- meaning we did a 50 minute cardio workout! Then we were meeting with Laura, Julia and Tessa, to celebrate Tessa's 14 birthday!

We were going out to eat at Red Robin.... here's Julia, Tessa, me and Jade...

And then Julia, Tessa, Laura and Jade...Julia and Jade's chocolate milkshakes... yummy!Tessa and Laura's fancy drink...I had boring ol' coffee, don't need a picture of that- but it was good!

Tessa's tower of onion rings! We all shared that!

Here the crew at Red Robin sang to Tessa, as you can see she was a little embarrassed, but totally adorable anyway!While we were all out, Kent hung out with Austin and these 3 little guys, such CUTE boys: Alex, Shane and Max- who posed for the picture!Tessa is having a huge party tomorrow, she's having a bunch of friends over and they are getting all fancy dressed up and getting pictures at JCPenney's, then going to see a movie, then having pizza, cake and a slumber party- more pictures to come cause Jade's going to all the party events! And Jeromy is on his way to getting Aurora and she's going to be celebrating with all the girls, too!

So that's about it for now. Bye!

Today seems a little better.

Last night Jeromy took Kent to his "Distinguished Readers Club Award Ceremony". It was for the whole school district from elementary to high school. Here's Jade and Kent- Jade also went to support her brother...

Kent and his certificate...Just finished running 5 miles for today. I ran a little earlier that normal today cause this afternoon Kent has an appointment with an OC counselor about his class selection next year. This week is a really busy week- actually this week and next week with getting everything done for the kids for the school year.

Waiting for the sun to come back...

BLAH

Having a blah day.... I blame the weather.

I did run my 4 miles yesterday, but I'm just not feeling the cardio workout today. And since it was extra added to my training, I'm not going to feel bad about dropping it today.

And Jade is making warm chocolate chip cookies right now to help us feel better on this blah day.

Stay warm and dry out there...

BLAHHHHHHHHH

Random stuff.

Some random pictures of the weekend.

Saturday night we had some boys spend the night. Here's Sunday morning... they all look so cozy playing video games...

Here's Jade and Kent with one of their favorite foods... sushi- GROSS!

We visited with great-grandma Shield yesterday. She insisted on feeding us orange juice and fig newtons- thanks grandma!

Jade got this one of Kent, it's so funny. He was so tired from doing his homework, that he just layed on the floor right by his desk and crashed for a couple of hours in the middle of the day... it could have been from staying up late the night before with his friends. Jade grabbed a blanket for Kent then took the picture. She said he didn't even move.

Jeromy got this one of me this morning mowing the grass... nice...We have an appraiser coming over this morning, he's 45 minutes late. We're trying to refinance the house- fun stuff people I tell ya!

Then we have a million errands to run. Costco, albertsons, car toys to pick up Jeromy's van, pick up Kent.

Then I have to do 4 miles today, and before I forget, here's this weeks training...

Week 6 of 10:

Monday: 4 miles

Tuesday: 50 minute cardio

Wednesday: 5 miles

Thursday: 4 miles

Friday: 50 minute cardio

Saturday: 11 miles

Sunday: REST