Decorating with underpants

Caught in the act "Isn't this funny mom?"The view from above

Our front yard decorated with underwear

Left alone for a few short minutes Jonah manages to throw an entire bag of clothes that I recently took out of their closets through my bedroom window onto our from lawn. When Ava sees it she said "What will the neighbors think?". I told her they would think we decorated with underwear. "Oh buddy, that's funny!" she told him as he laughed and clapped his hands. I haven't even cleaned it up yet. We still have underwaer outside our house. It has just has been one of those days where it has been one incident after another. Including cleaning pee off the couch which I origionally thought was from the puupy but quickly realized it came from the giggling baby who figured out how to take off his diaper. Nice. Boy oh boy!

Our new friend

Introducing Noodle!

Well I have to begin by confessing that I used to sort of despise small dogs. I just didn't really "get" them. What are they for? I have always been a big dog person and have owned a golden retriever my whole life. Then, this weekend we welcomed our little Noodle into our family. She is a Bugg. That's right, a Bugg. Which apparently is a pug/boston terrier mix. We absolutely adore her and she fits right into our loving and slightly goofy family. Ava and Noodle are now inseparable because really, what little girl can resist a small girl dog with a pink collar who wears little sweaters and cuddles with her constantly? Our 70 lb Golden Retriever, Rosco loves her too. Our cats are not so sure even though Noodle weighs only about 3 lbs and is about a 1/4 of their size. So anyway, I still don't really know what exactly you do with a small dog but we sure do love her!

Fun in the sun

Ava and Daddy building a sand sea turtle (no plain castles for us!)

Watching the polar bears

Happy boy at the beach

Touching and feeding dolphins! (I was just as, if not more excited about this than the kids were)

We went to San Diego at the end of August with my parents for my mom's birthday and had a blast. It was also our first real vacation as a family since Jonah has been born. It was so much fun for all of us. We went to the San Diego Zoo twice, Sea World twice, and sat by the pool and hung out at the beach every day, and did a lot of eating yummy food. Dan and I also celebrated our anniversary while we were there which was fun. And what is cuter than tanned little baby bums? Not much.

I've finally done it

Being the only mom in the world I think who didn't have a blog, I have finally done it. So here we go!