Here are some pics of a younger Scar.


4 months.

1 month

Brand, spankin new, August 23, 2009

I tried uploading a video but it's not working. I haven't been having much luck with videos lately so I don't usually bother with them. If I can figure it out I'll put it up. It's of Scarlett opening a present on her bday.

Crystal Lake Tri and Salem, MA

August 21st Trevor and I did the Crystal Lake Triathlon: .5 mile swim, 18 mile bike, 3.1 mile run. It was a pretty good race. My bike is getting a little faster and my running's getting better. The swim was rough. I was kicked and punched throughout the whole race. There's always the usual flailing at the start but I kept getting hit. Very unsettling. I finished in 2 hours 7 min and Trevor finished in 2 hours. He wasn't really happy with his time. His work schedule makes it almost impossible to get workouts in at all. Our last race will be on September 18, the Lake George Tri (olympic distance).

After our race we went on to Boston, MA. Saturday night we went to the New England Country Music Festival. We saw Sara Evans, Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean, and Brad Paisley. Pure awesomeness! On Sunday (yes, I know we broke the sabbath) we toured Salem. This is the witch museum. Very interesting. Turns out that Trevor had 2 ancestors who were accused of being witches in Salem in 1692. They died in prison before going to the gallows. I have an ancestor who was burned at the stake for being a witch in Europe.

Here I am in front of the museum. It's undergoing some construction.

Here we are in Salem. I'm quite proud of us. Usually we eat at the same types of places but we had lunch at an Indian place, very tasty.

Grandma's visit and other fun stuff

Scar opening up her present from grandma Carla and grandpa Larry.

A great doll house that the girls love!

Scar on her scooter toy from mommy and daddy. She likes sitting on it ahd playing with the little toys. Chloe helps her scoot along.

Grandma Alice and grandpa Brent's present- a baby Ariel doll. Notice who has the doll...

My mom came for about a week. It was great! Trevor and I were able to go to our triathlon on the 21st and then off to Boston for the night. She was here for Scar's first birthday, which was great. It was so nice having her here. She helped with the girls and did lots of cooking and cleaning. With Trevor being gone so much it was nice having adult conversation during the day! Thanks mom!!!!

Scarlett's first birthday

My beautiful baby turned 1 on August 23rd. She's such a ham! Not walking, not even standing at this point. She's really not interested in any of it. She's quite fast as a crawler. She loves her big sister and her daddy. She loves to laugh and play with Chloe. I'm so happy she is part of my family!


Yummmm...this cake is so good I can't stand it!

Chloe helped her scrape the frosting off the cake.

Here's our helper!

Happy birthday Scar! I made 2 round cakes. One was decorated for Scarlett and we shared the other cake.

She looks pretty happy here. The tylenol had kicked in. Little girl had a fever of 101.5 on her big day. I took her to the doctor the day after and she was fine. Slight fever, no infection.

Cute pics

I want to go to bed but I had to post these pics first. My thought of this one: How'd you like that starin you in the face every mornin? She's precious! Makes me smile:)


Too cute. Chloe loves daddy's work boots. She can kind of walk around in them. I love the head tilt and the "I'm so cute" look.

VA trip

The girls and I went to VA for a week at the beginning of July. At the end of our trip we went to visit my Grandma Billie (my paternal grandmother) with my sister Dara. Grandma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a while ago and is living in a nursing home. I haven't seen her in a long time. It wasn't an easy visit, it's hard to see her like this and see where she's living. Alzheimer's is a terrible, terrible disease. Chloe was totally freaked the whole time. Scarlett didn't seem to mind it.


Chloe enjoying her ice cream cone. Notice the ice cream on the face and jammies- this is post bath. That's Aunt Jenn in the background (my brother's wife).

Here's my sister, Denise and brother, Aaron with Scarlett in the pool. The girls loved the pool, especially Chloe. As soon as she woke up she grabbed her swim suit and asked to go swimming. We swam in the morning and in the afternoon most days of our trip. It was great!

Chloe and Grandma.

My youngest sister Denise came to visit for a couple of days before we drove to VA. We had a great time together. Chloe and Scarlett love her. Thanks for your help Denise!

Pics

Here we are on Saturday at the North Country Triathlon in Hague, NY. This pic was right after I finished. It was a really hilly race, much more hilly than I had expected. It was Trevor's first tri. We had a great time!

Here I am with my stuff in the transition area.

Here's Trevor.

The other night Scarlett kept spitting out her food. Okay, fine, she didn't want anymore. Well Chloe took it upon herself to continue feeding Scarlett. It worked, Scarlett ate a little bit more. Cute sisterly bonding.

Trevor's 31st birthday was on June 17th. This was the only shot I could get of the cake. Notice Chloe's in Trevor's arms- as always after work!

Cute pic I took the other day right after Trevor got home from work. The girls are soooo excited to see him when he gets home. He pretty much can't do anything else (bathroom, eat dinner, say hello to me,.....) because they want all his attention. I think his schedule's really hard on Chloe. She just clings to him as soon as he comes in the door:( I like this pic.

In keeping with tradition...

I figured it was high time to blog. After all, it's been over a month. Just a quick blurb to let you know what we're doing. Trevor has started prototype and it's no fun. He's been leaving for work about 5am and then returning about 7:30pm. Just in time to see the kids and say "goodnight". And this is before shiftwork!! Yikes. Before he started working like this we were spending most of our time preparing for the North Country Triathlon in Hague, NY. It's June 26th. I'm really excited about it. It's my first of 3 triathlons this season. My big race is an Olympic (.9 mile swim, ~25 mile bike, 6.2 mile run) distance on September 18th. I did 2 sprint distance tris (.5 mile swim, 12 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) after Chloe was born so I thought I'd up the anti this time. If we have 2 more kids that means I'll be doing an Ironman someday. Hahaha...I'm pretty sure we won't have 2 more kids. But I might do an Ironman...who knows? Once you've done a tri the "tri bug" bites you and you're addicted. It's a fun, albeit expensive, hobby.

The girlies are doing well. Scar's getting so big and is full of personality. She's pretty resistent to crawling. She's got the longest arms of any baby I've seen. Instead of moving to where the toys are she reaches huge reaches and grabs them.

Chloe's a typical 2 year old. Her latest antic is using her toy box to climb onto the counter and go through the cabinets. Usually snacking on Scar's baby snacks. Potty training's been a huge bust. She had it for like 2 weeks and then decided she didn't want to do it anymore. I'm at a loss. Someday she'll use the potty regularly, maybe she'll be 10, but she'll do it.

I'll write more and post pics eventually. Thing is I'm not a huge fan of blogging. I do it b/c our families are so far away and it's a way to keep people up to date on what we're doing. But if you get the urge and just have to know what's up in between my monthly postings- call me!

Bermuda, Bahamas come on pretty mama...

Here are some pics from Bermuda! There are still a lot more but I want to go to bed and it's taking forever for the pics to load. They're not in any particular order, I just kind of threw them up here. I tried to caption them the best I could. We had an amazing time! It was so nice to be alone with Trevor and not worry about the kids. Big thanks to mom and Dara for watching the girls!! Thank you so much. Bermuda was great but we both agree that the cruise was waaaayyy cooler. I'll write more about it later, but here are some pics and info to get you started!

Really cool fruit sculptures the chefs did at the midnight buffet. Yes, that's right midnight people. We had amazing chicken fajitas pool side and then followed up with a dance party. Well, I followed up with dancing, Trevor watched.

Sea lion with Trevor's glasses.

Pretty pink flower. This was my attempt at photography.

The hotel we would've lied and said we were staying in had anyone asked. We were on a "members only" beach. Oops.

Walking along Elbow beach. We didn't find out until after the fact that it's a private beach. Oops.

More pretty pics.

Here we are in Hamilton, Bermuda's capital. We thought we would just take the ferry and wander and be our own tour guides. It didn't really work out that well. We walked all over Hamilton and I was a little scared. There were lots of people and buses and cars. They drive on the other side of the road so crossing the street scared the bejeezus out of me.

Here's Trevor.

A nice scene from our balcony when we were docked in Bermuda.

Trevor in an empty phone booth.

Look how blue the water is! I've never seen anything like it. Crystal blue water and white sand beaches. Gorgeous!

Pretty pic.

This building with the clock towers used to be the Royal Navy yard. Now it's a mall with great shopping!

Each night Putu folded a towel animal and put out or Compass for the next day. The Cruise Compass told us everything that was going on for that day, where we would be the next day, and weather and stuff like that. It was a very handy little packet.

Here I am eating duck for the first time ever. I loved it!

Here we are at formal dinner night. People confused Trevor with an employee of the cruiseline wearing that uniform.

I love this shot. The pool deck. People still swam and hot tubbed even though it was about 60 degrees and very windy the whole time.

We opted for lounge chairs. It was so relaxing to just sit and read or sleep and watch the water. There were waiters who walked around taking drink orders. There was a drink of the day too. They were all very festive (and alcoholic so we didn't have any) looking.

If you look really hard in the middle of the picture you can see a blueish-green thing. That's the Statue of Liberty. Pretty cool.

A couple of pics of our room. We had a suite which was saweeeettt. The private balcony was my very favorite part!

Trevor relaxing. We had just gotten into our room and he was reading our itinerary. This little sitting area was nice too.

The view from our balcony in Bayonne, NJ. If you really strain you can see Trev's pick up in the way back corner of the lot;)