Whaling Days

Wednesday some friends from our ward put together a water balloon party at a local playground.  The girls had a blast.  The weather was great for it too.  Here are pics of each of the girls in their bathing suits.





Scarlett with her water balloon.  She wouldn't throw it at anybody.  Instead she ran around with it and threw it in the bushes.  At one point Chloe was cornered by a big kid with a water gun.  She was so freaked out.  It's really aggravating when big kids ruin little kids' fun.



Whaling Days was today in Silverdale, WA.  It's a big deal here.  Streets are closed during the week in preparation for this.  It goes all weekend and there are fun runs, parades, duck races, canoe races, all sorts of things.  We all registered for an event:  Trevor, 4 miler; me, 1 mile walk; Chloe, 50 yard dash; Scarlett, 25 yard dash.  Unfortunately, Trevor is now working 6 days/week and couldn't make it to his race:( I pushed the girls in the double jogger and walked the mile in 16 minutes.  Not bad I guess considering I'm 9 months pregnant and was pushing about 80 pounds. 


Here are some preliminary pictures of the girls.

Scarlett wanted nothing to do with the banner or with her number.  She fought me so hard about getting her number on I thought she might not run in her race at all.  That's half a bagel in her hand.

Here they are after I finished my walk.  They were each given a medal.

Here we are:)  Side note:  Chloe's favorite article of clothing is this pink jacket.  She wears it everyday, all day if I will let her.  It doesn't get too warm here so it's usually not a problem.  This morning it was in the 60s.  She wears it at home, at the Y, wherever.  It's like her security blanket.

She ran in her race!  I had to run with her, but still, she did it!  Once she got going she had fun.  Her babysitter and his family were there and he waited at the finish line so she could see him and run to him.

My friend got these shots.  Chloe was booking it.  I had to start running, which was a little uncomfortable.  If you look closely she is getting quite a bit of air right here.

Great finishing shot of my girl.

Here are the girls with their friend Apollo, who also ran.  After running each child got a medal and a stuffed killer whale (hence Whaling Days).  A guy dressed as a killer whale was handing them out.  Chloe almost wouldn't even go up to get one.  She's not a fan of those huge costumes. 

After the runs we went over to the pancake breakfast put on by the Rotary club.  Scarlett loves pancakes.  We had some sausage too.

Chloe posing.  She wouldn't put the fork down.

Then, we stayed and watched the parade for a while.  One of the floats was passing out otter pops.  The girls loved that.  It was hard to open them without scissors.  Scarlett had to grab her whale for the picture.

We had fun.  I wish Trevor would have been able to be there to see the girls run in their first race.  They were well behaved and it was nice to be able to spend time with the two of them.  I'm so proud of my girls!

Circus Gatti

Thursday we went to the circus with some friends.  It's a small circus here in Bremerton that comes every year.  Last year my mom was visiting so she stayed home with Scarlett.  I didn't get any pictures of the action, just of the treats the girls got.  Scarlett got popcorn and Chloe got a snowcone.  Both girls went to Ringling Bros in April when we were in VA.  That's an awesome circus.  Our favorite part of Circus Gatti was the steel cage where motorcycle riders go round and round.  Chloe also really enjoyed the aerial dancers.

The aftermath of the circus.  Chloe doesn't nap anymore, but I still enforce some kind of quiet time because Scarlett still naps.  The circus changed our schedule a bit.  When we got home I put a movie on for them and we all fell asleep.  We had a fun day.  I'm such a stickler for their schedule that it's hard when we deviate from the normal routine.  The girls were pretty cranky (especially Chloe) after they woke up.

I'm a little over 37 weeks pregnant.  My original plan was to continue teaching right up until Juliet's birth.  I decided a little down time would be nice so this week is my last week teaching classes.  I taught my last step class this past week.  I will teach cycling, pilates and yoga through this week.  I figure instructing step aerobics through 37 weeks and instructing my other classes through 38 weeks isn't too shabby.

More Thomas pics

One of our friends at the party had a professional camera and took these pics.



 An aerial shot of the party people.



I like this pictures of Trevor and the girls.  He is putting a James tattoo on the back of Scarlett's hand.





Thomas, the main attraction.  He pulled numerous cars behind him and we went for a ride.

The next two pics are of the girls in the bouncey house.  Scar didn't last long, which is unusual for her.  There were some big kids in there and she got knocked around a bit. 

Cute Chloe.

Here we all are. 



Mark took this picture of us as we were leaving the depot.  Arthur and Georgia ended up sitting with me and Trevor, while our girls sat across from us with the Johnsons.

Week's events

Just a cute pic of the girls enjoying their snack.



Our big deal this week was yesterday.  The girls' friend, Arthur had a party yesterday at a pizza place and then we went to the day out with Thomas the Train.  The kids all had a blast, although my friend Christie put it best when she said, "why do we do this"?  Good question.  It was an absolutely exhausting day.  But you can see from the pics that they enjoyed themselves, so it was worth it.

Scarlett attacking her cupcake.  And a shot of the party table.

Trevor and the girls in front of the diesels.  Please notice that this is the only shot of Trevor and the girls.  We had some issues getting the girls and me in the photo looking at the camera all at the same time.

"Come here Scarlett"

"No, Scarlett, come here please"

We finally all get where we need to be and both girls look off to the left.

The girls and Arthur.  The three of them are best buds.

As we were leaving Trevor got a couple shots of Thomas as he was taking off for another ride.  The train ride was about a half hour and went right past Snoqualmie Falls which was pretty cool.  We were on the wrong side of the train to get any shots of the water.

Also, lovely profile shots of my preggo belly.

My baby shower

Yesterday two friends of mine threw me a baby shower.  It was awesome!  I didn't expect one at all since it's our third child and another girl.  They were so kind to do this for me.

We're missing Emily here, she had already left.  Breanna, LaRee, Julie, Moi, Diana, Christie, and Sydney.  It was at Monica's bakery.



Me and Julie putting the bottles to good use.  Julie is one of my good friends who helped put the shower together.

Me and Julie again.

Me and Christie, she is my other good friend who put on the shower.  Her son and my girls are great friends.

I wish I had thought to take a pic before we dug in.  The food was really good.  Julie brought me some root beer, which was tasty.  The group was split right about down the middle, half were Navy friends and the other half, church friends- hence the coffee. 

I was given diapers and really cute clothes.  Juliet's not going to have to only wear hand me downs.  Yes, we've decided on a name.  Her middle name will probably be Noelle. 

Another friend of mine brought over a huge diaper cake last night.  Everyone was so thoughtful and I'm grateful to have a great group of friends here in WA.









Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma

After the girls and I got back from our VA trip in April, we moved them into the same room.  Trevor painted Chloe's old room pink and moved Scar's bed in.  We have had such issues with them sharing a room, we resorted to good old fashioned bribery.  I made a chart with 28 days for each of them.  If they had a good bed time at night they would get to put a sticker on the chart the next morning.  After 28 good bed times we would go to the zoo.  There were smaller prizes along the way (happy meal, ice cream cones, slurpees), but the zoo was the big one.  We went to the zoo on Friday, 7/6.  Here are the pictures we took.

The girls loved the aquarium and the aquatic life.  Above is a fish tank with lots of Dori's from Nemo.  Below are walruses.  They are huge!  The biggest one is 3300 pounds!  They kept rolling onto their backs and floating around.  We got to see them from this view and also underground in the aquarium where it looked like they were swimming right at us.

There was a little playground where we spent some time.  Bird's nest-

Spider web-

An anemone-

Chloe's favorite thing is the merry go round.  We rode it twice.  I don't need to hold onto her anymore.

Scar and I kicked back in the bench seat.  I asked her if she wanted to ride an animal and she said "no".  She is having none of it.  So we had fun sitting.

You can't see it here, but Mt. Rainier is in the background.  It's beautiful!  You don't get to see it very often since it's so cloudy here but when you can it's magnificent!

Chloe was in a mood to pose, as you can see from the above and below pics.

In the shark's mouth at the aquarium .

Too bad Chloe is so dark in this one.  This shark was just sitting on the sand.  We all loved the sharks.

I'm proud of them for so many good bed times.  Trouble is, now that we've gone to the zoo and the chart is full- what do I do?  We have had bed time issues since Friday.  Any suggestions?

Family pic and preggo pics

I'm going to try to be better about blogging.  It's unfortunate that my last post was in December.  Geez louise.  I'll try to check in more than twice a year:)

Here's a family pic we had our sitter take last night before Trevor and I went out.  Chloe was in rare form.  Scar, of course, loves the camera.



Here are a few preggy pics of me. I have hardly any pictures of this pregnancy.  So far everything's going well.  I'm still instructing my exercise classes (step, cycling, yoga, and pilates).  I modify a ton in pilates and yoga and I ask participants to help me and sit in the front with me to demonstrate most exercises.  Step is getting a little more difficult and I tell my class "don't do what I do", meaning I keep my intensity really, really low and what works for an 8 month pregnant woman probably won't give them a good workout at all.  People are pretty understanding about it.  I usually do a sculpting class on Mondays and Wednesdays too.  I don't teach those I just go so that I don't completely lose strength.  My bp is really good.  I had preeclampsia with Chloe and fortunately things are going really well this time.  As of today I'm 35 weeks and a few days.  I have an appointment on Friday and then two weeks after that.  My doctor said since things are going well there's no need to start weekly appointments quite yet.  Fine by me since appointments are just one more thing to do.

We are getting ready to leave for church soon.  I'll have to post more pics of the girlies later.  Oh yeah, Scarlett's potty training is going really well.  Much easier than it was with Chloe.