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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

the story behind the photo

back in 2000 i worked at a company for a short time that was run by "co-presidents". one of these presidents had a side project called MetroManUSA
of course i went to the site to check it out, had many, many laughs and then sent the link to everyone i knew. it was just way too funny to keep to myself.
i shared the link with eric and together we laughed and laughed. we laughed at the mitch , we laughed at the rocky, the jason and well, you get the picture. we liked that each one had its own name and we looked up everyone we knew. we especially laughed when we saw the dale and how patriotic it was (and currently sold out!). eric races with a guy named dale and it instantly became a big joke with us that we would get the dale and give it to him. it was just something we only talked about, until ERIC ORDERED IT!!!
it showed up at the house, from snohommish, they hand signed the packing slip with a little smiley face. eric took it to south seatac park for the wednesday night races there and put it up as the prize to whoever happened to win that night.
mid race eric was too anxious, stopped in the middle of the woods somewhere, stripped down and tossed on the dale. apparently when the real dale pedaled past erics clothes in the woods he said in his very dale voice "atwood's naked" which wasn't 100% true - he had on the dale. he did a few laps, had a great time and discovered that mountain biking in a g-string is not comfortable at all. he then poseded for a few photos and then put his clothes back on. he tied the soiled dale to the real dale's seat post and we have never seen it since.
i, of course was at home, probably pregnant and miserable. as soon as he walked in the house he said to me "before you hear it from someone else...." and then told me about his stellar race. its all in good fun. i can't remeber though if this was before or after he had his picture taken while posing like a sports illustrated swimsuit model in his pink speedo.
really, he is very manly.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

random photos and stuff


my husband at one of his finer moments.












i am very tall. why is everyone so short?

there are funny things happnening in this photo
my new car!


my old car if it were covered in snow in wisconsin.

bye bye sunfire

so i am dropping the sunfire off today to its new owners. its an end of an era and i am kind of sad. i took some photos so i will post them when i can get around to it. eric took the bike rack off the roof and now the car looks all nekkid. so sad, i hope i don't cry!

Saturday, May 27, 2006

diaper free weekend

but first, we had date night last night. highlights include:
the fancy hotel downtown
the stick on bra i wore under my dress
the look eric gave when he saw me all dressed up - one i had always wanted to see but he had never given, although he claims he has that look every time he looks at me, whatever
dinner. this is what we had
smokey met martini
dirty russian martini - tasted like butter, the olives were stuffed with blue cheese!
yellowfin ahi poke salad with whipped avocado
huckleberry blood orange barbeque prawns
spinach salad
tomatoe, sweet onion & blue cheese salad
a glass of red wine each
prime new york peppercorn steak - served with fries
filet mignon & premium australian lobster - served with garlic mashed potatoes
chocolate lava
five layer carrot cake with vanilla carrot cake - our server was all amazed by us. not just because of the phat tip he was going to get but because we ate everything
the table of prom kids next to us
a king sized bed
the trashy super model shows on cable tv
walking around downtown before everything opened
going shopping and getting stuff for the kids before heading home

then we came home and started diaper free weekend for seamus. in the 5 hours of diaper free weekend that we had before she went to bed, she went through 6 pairs of underpants, she peed on me, she peed on eric and peed once in the "oval on the potty" and she pooped in her underpants but then went and took it over to the potty only to tell us about how big her poopy really was. the whole time we had to try to keep sirus away from the potty because he was so interested in it the whole time. tomorrow is going to be a loooong day. i was so worn out from today that i had to take a nap and i went on a little jog - the first exercise i have done since the trail run. i am so happy that i can go out for 1/2 and hour and not feel like i am going to die.

now it is raining so hard that the sewer lines are backing up! oh no!

Friday, May 26, 2006

sleeping through the night...

results in growing teeth! i came home from work yesterday and sirus had a tooth! this morning he was cuddling in bed with me and eric and i wanted to cry. he is growing up way too fast!

Thursday, May 25, 2006

ah....

happieness is sleeping through the night. not sure if sirus has been doing it, but i sure have been. tuesday night he woke up once, well, i think only once and cried for just a little, well, i think for just a little. last night he didn't wake up at all, at least i don't think her did. seamus woke up though - yelling "bottle time!" over and over. but then she stopped. seamus doesn't get bottles any more. she is a big girl, and sirus is learning to sleep through the night because he is a big boy. and wow, i feel quite well rested after these two nights. i have been exhausted!!

someone at work was giving away some cross country skis, so i picked them up for eric. they are on the floor in the living room and this morning seamus was standing on them doing funny things with her knees and arms - like she was really skiing. she is a natural! those skis are pretty long for her but never underestimate the seamus!

other exiciting news, i bot my car! finally - new car on the way. it is coming from idaho so i don't get it until tuesday. damn - that was some process and i have had a headache over the whole thing. i talked to one of the meanest audi sales people ever. he was mean, he was condesceding and he even insulted me! what is that about! i guess it was good he was such an arse because the audi was just too expensive and not the right choice for us right now, so i went with the passat. still a very nice car and i think it will work better with our life style. once i made that decision my headache went away most of the way. the passat guy has been so nice and so helpful, i have actually been dealing with him since february so i imagine he is ready to be done with me and is probably just as excited that i will have my car on tuesday as i am! hooray!

do you want to buy the sunfire? i can make you a good deal!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

rainbow blankie

seamus and sirus like to be rolled up in the rainbow blanket. its really a big giant beach towel but seamus has adopted it has her rainbow blanket. she LOOOOOVES it.





Sirus had some run ins with some pee. i went to go change him before i went to work and he was totally drenched. i couldn't just put him in some clean clothes so i tossed him in the sink for a little quicky bath. how cute is he??

Monday, May 22, 2006

whoohoo!



look at me! i ran a trail run race this weekend and it was so awesome except for my double chin! it was so fun we are evening thinking about doing the next one which is 7.5miles! eric did really well and i came in right at my goal so i was pretty happy. what a great experience!! the one thing that was a little strange was that for the 250 ppl there they had only one porta potty. 25 minutes before the start we got in our car and went in search of someplace to go. we found a park that had the nicest puclib park restrooms ever. they had two options for flushing - low flow and high flow. because it was race day, we both took advantage of the high flow. aunt christie hung out with the babies!
saturday evening my mom took christie and i out to celebrate both of our birthdays and mothers day. the food was amazing and i ate a ton of it. after dinner mom wanted to go and drive by the ocean and take some photos. so christie and i acted like we were 10 and posed for the photos.









my work is sponsoring a Second Chance Prom in the bay area in which Rick Springfield will be playing. my work is going to send one employee and their date to the prom but to be eligible you have to submit a prom photo. the one with bill hanlon is from freshman year home coming the one with kirk hendrickson is from my sophomore year but his senior year. i want to go to thr prom with eric, that would be so much fun!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

so much

lots going on. sort of. well, so much that i made my self a little outline of things to write about. ok, its not an outline, its a list and it will disapear as i write about each.

first off, i feel extra special this week because not only was sunday mothers day but i was mentioned in two blogs this week! that is always a treat! TWO! i am practically famous. that makes me happy!

seamus is so amazing. she is so so smart, its almost scary. for quite some time now she has known all of her letters and numbers and can count things and tell you their shape and their color. all of that is totally amazing. the new thing that is amazing is her memory. she has a stack of 52 cards that have different animals on them. there are mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles and one other? what is that 5th one? fish, maybe? anyway, she loves to look at these cards and she knows what each of them is. if you put them on the floor and then ask her to find the mudd puppy she will find it for you. if you ask her for the red spotted newt she will find it. she can tell the difference between a canary and an american robin, a sea turtle and a giant tortiose, the tree frog and some other variety of frog that i can't remember now. she knows all of them. it is so cute to watch her while she thinks. she is amazing.

the other day eric and i were eating dinner. seamus and sirus were done so they were on the floor playing. seamus got down on her tummy just like sirus and they sat there looking eye to eye. seamus thought this was very neat and would laugh because sirus would reach out to touch her face or her hair. she would say "sirus touch the nose" and then just laugh and laugh. last night in the car they were playing together too. seamus would make sirus laugh and that in turn would make seamus laugh. there is nothing greater then hearing two laughing babies!

last night i went on my very first trail run. it was so fun. i went out for 40 minutes and the time totally flew by. i had decided it might be a good idea to try it out before we go this weekend to do the cougar mountain trail run. its supposedly 5 miles although the map on the website says it is 5.9. i won't do it if its is 5.9 but i will try it out if it is 5. who knows how far i went in 40 minutes but i felt like i could have gone longer. i would hope that i could finish the 5 miles in an hour but we will see!

on the hunt for a new car. looks like in the next two weeks! whoopee!

Monday, May 15, 2006

brick workouts

so, allie suggested i start doing some brick work outs. these work outs are when you go straight from on the bike to a run to get used to the transition and used to your legs feeling like bricks. i have not done one of these yet and i will tell you why. last week i rode my bike home from work. i did not ride it into work the next day and i didn't do anything the whole week until saturday because that ride took it out of me. sooo lame. i also seem to have some sort of weird connection between my right ear and running. my right ear has always caused some issues for me. i don't hear very well out of it and then when i got the vertigo and told my doctor about that he said, oh, that is interesting, and that maybe i should get that checked out, which i never did. anyway, at about the 30 minute mark it seems that my right ear starts to totally plug up and i can't hear anything out of it. not totally deaf just mutted and weird. is that normal?

Friday, May 12, 2006

tequila

so, for dinner tonight eric made tequila lime chicken without the lime. it is always very tasty but also always creates a lot of smoke in the kitchen and the rest of the house. so much smoke that this evening, seamus went running through the living room commenting on all of the clouds! she is getting to be very funny.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

having babies for lunch

so, lots of exciting things going on in june. first - jen is coming for a visit. that is very exciting! and not only that, but we are hooking up with our friend goat! and we are going to go on a mission to try to find maria. it will be a total high school reunion. i am very excited about this whole thing, very much indeed!

second - another jen is coming for a visit! how exiciting is that! june is going to be a 2 jen month! jen and i have had our babies at pretty much the same times. she had a little girl 6 weeks after i had seamus and then she had a little boy like a week before sirus was born. they are named fiona and bruce! anyway, she is coming for a visit and we are going to have a slumber party at my house with the girls in this photo. eric OKs the slumber party but says that panties and pillow fights are mandatory.

my brother is coming for a visit in june, too! he hasn't ever met sirus and its been well over a year since he has seen seamus so this will be fun! busy busy busy!

and i am going to do my first triathlon june 3 which is terrifying for me. i have lost all motivation for training. could it be that all i ate yesterday was M&Ms and powdered sugar donuts? i have to get my consumption back on track.

and the car search is back on. it maybe happen by the end of the month! whoohoo! wouldn't that be exciting. i want a new car so badly but at the same time constantly struggle over it - its not the responsible thing to do. but hmph, maybe i just need a new car.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

i am iron man

so, seamus is making some steps in becoming a grown up kid. no more bottles. she really only would have one at nap time and that was it, but since the trip to disneyland when she had one any time she pretty much wanted one, she hasn't had any. its all sippy cups. and now, too, at meal times she is using a normal cup, which today, she showed us how she can accidentally spill it all over. next on the list for seamus is potty training. we think over memorial day weekend it will be a no diaper weekend and we will just see if that will do it. there will likely be lots of crying and lots of pee all over the place but hopefully it goes ok.

sirus's new thing is getting a big mouthful of food and them blowing it all over the place. he seems to think this is pretty neat. he is also army crawling all over the place. he can get up onto his elbows and knees and rock back and forth and squel with excitement, but the army crawl is how he gets around right now.

other big news - we went and got some wetsuits today. big fun. we chose to buy instead of rent since i have already registered for 3 events this summer and will do at least one practice open water swim, too, and to rent a suit 4 times would be about 3/4 the cost of buying one. we bought one for eric, too, just so he can be cool. his has red arm pits. i am excited to try it out. i am a little less freaked out about the lake swimming now that i have tried the suit on. i do know that the guy at the place where we got them had ZERO sense of humor or maybe i am just not that funny. i think it was him.

the plan is to drive my bike into work tomorrow, ride it home tomorrow evening (if its not raining) and then ride it into work on tuesday then drive home tuesday evening. its been so long eric and i were discussing that i may have forgotten the route.

nadj puked on our bed. i sat here and yelled to eric and he came and looked at it and commented that it was a good thing it was on my side. then nadj went out and puked in the family room. eric cleaned that up but left the puke on the bed so i had to clean it up. sirus puked on the bed earlier today. i think we need to wash the bed spread.

Saturday, May 06, 2006

disneyland


































































Thursday, May 04, 2006

tea?