We moved to Alameda!

In case you didn't know, we moved to Alameda.

Pro's

1. Jon no longer commutes 4 hours a day, or falls asleep on the couch before the kids even go to bed.
2. I get to stay home with the boys!
3. No longer paying a nanny to take care of our boys!
4. No more Central Valley heat!  100+ temperatures in SPRING!
5. Lower electric bill...see above.
6. Closer to family.
7. Closer to old friends that knew us "before kids."
8. Closer to old friends that now HAVE kids.
9. Closer to EVERYTHING we love.  Music, Culture, non-chain restaurants, fill in the blank________.
10. We live walking distance from great food, shops, a great park, library and BEACH.
11. Schools are much better than Woodland.
12. No longer have to worry about fixing our house, or yardwork.
13. Got rid of our second car and it's insurance.
14. No more paying for UC Davis outrageous parking fees!

Moved at Christmas...what were we thinking????

Front Steps Puddle Stomp

    Walking to Park & Crown Beach.

                                                                         Crown Beach

Washington Park

Con's
Sold home...Renting again.
No more private backyard and garden.
2 BR instead of 3.
No longer a 2 income home.





                              Date Night at The Fox


We are so much happier here and are loving life...sometimes change is GOOD!

We need a professional family photo before these kids leave for college.

We have lots of photos of us with the kids.

 But not so many of us as a whole family, and none you would call "Professional."

This is the best one we got so far, thanks to Amy.

My World

Wonder why there has not been a real post in a million years? Life is crazy in my world.  Baby schedules or lack there of, sleepless nights, potty training, birthday parties, finishing graduate programs, broken garbage disposals, gofer infestations and hot, hot weather keeping us in the house way too much!  I think this picture says it all.

Scary because my child looks like an amputee.  

Photo Book

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Update

I don't want to go making excuses for why I haven't been keeping up with my blogging, but if I was going to give an excuse it would be that I've been a bit preoccupied lately. So here is an update of what we have been up to.

Baby Bower 13 wks 4 days (3 mo.)

Oliver has become quite the little crafter!

*3 months*

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTrick o' Treating with the Cooke boys.

Apple Hill

*4 months*

Thanksgiving with the Hill's

Baby Bower almost 5 mo.

My 37th Birthday Dinner...Greens in a Parmesan Cheese Nest.

Xmas Visitors!

*5 months*

Oh Deer!

xxxxxxxxxxxxThe creepy things you find in boxes while cleaning your parents garage.

Grandma feeds her little chicks

Happy 2012!

New Years Day at the Race Track

*6 months*

Crocker Museum

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxFirst Real Bike Ride

Jon was bothered that Oliver's Valentine Darth Vader doll was wearing some sort of GIMP suit. Oliver didn't seem to care.

*7 months*

Old Town Sacramento...where the Salt Water Taffy is so so sweet! How I wish I would have brought home MORE!

This trip to the Train Museum marks the day that I started to feel that 3rd Trimester EXHAUSTION. It was hard keeping up with my guys!

Oliver officially starts potty training...hopefully this will be mastered by late April!

*8 months*

8 mo. pregnant, Jon and I attempt dinner & a concert. Luckily we were able to trade in our standing room only general admission tickets for tickets with SEATS! Thank You Ticket Master!

*9 months*

Just a few weeks to GO!