Louis & Dan

wow, i am delinquent.  super tardy.  i am remiss, jammed, in the lurch, missed the boat and unpunctual!

what else is going on?

Seamus is playing lacrosse.  not only is she playing it, but she is a super BAD ASS lacrosse player!  both she and Sirus went to lacrosse camp last summer.  and when i asked her if she wanted to play on a team she said yes! but eric took her to a beginning of the season clinic and 1/2 way through she came up to him crying, asking to leave.  apparently it was so boring, all they were doing was rolling the ball and scooping and she couldnt handle it.  luckily the 2nd half of the clinic was a little better. and once practices started and eric would play catch with her during the week she started to really enjoy it.    since the girls are only 8-10, there is a rule where they have to pass twice before they can try to score.  seamus seemed stuck on that, as soon as she would get the ball she would pass, even if she was perfectly lined up to shoot.  she admitted she didn't want to shoot and miss, but after some encouragement, and one miss, she made one in and now she shoots all the time!  we are so impressed with how hard she plays and how good she is.  her coaches are so patient and she likes the other girls.  she even wants to play next year which will be interesting since she will age up into the next group!

i finally got a new phone after mine was stolen about a year ago.  i got an iphone 5s and am enjoying the camera!  fuzy is such a good model!

 this weekend we headed out to Roslyn for the Roslyn Rush Mountain Bike Race.  i've never done it, but eric has several times. i've been out there to watch i think only once before.  this time, the kids and i headed out.  we decided to hike the course and hike the course we did!  other than the hill at the beginning, the trails looked super fun.  the kids and i had a blast and it was beautilful.  there were some really cool rock formations and had i been by myself i would have run.  i actually did run some, so did the kids.  except let me tell you how not fun trail running is in blue jeans and clogs. glad i didn't twist anything.  we managed to hike i think the first loop, it took us almost an hour and a 1/2.  and the kids did great!  eric came in an impressive 3rd in the pro/open class, tobias crunch was in 2nd and KBP won. toby had to leave, so seamus took his spot on the podium.  she wasn't shy about it at all.  i love the look that KBP is giving her.

after the race we headed out to ellensburg to set up camp on our property for the night.  we were all pretty tired.  sirus had spent the night at his friend's house for his very first sleep over part on friday night and then all the hiking, eric racing, etc. so i wasn't so sure how this whole camping thing would go.  plus it was WINDY.  but first thing we did was set to work on flattening an area for the tent.  eric, the smart one that he is brought a bunch of tools.  we cleared the big rocks, the smaller rocks and the rock solid tufts of grass and other tufts of who knows what.  seamus took the shovel and cleared the elk poo.  it probably took an hour or more to get the spot cleared.  the kids and i unfolded the tent and it was so windy i was sure it was going to fly away!  but we got it up and secured really well.  then eric strategically parked the jeep to block as much wind as possible.  i thought it looked like a commercial.  you can also see a bit of Mt Rainier poking out over there on the right!

 after we got the tent up we took a little hike. eric had rented a metal detector to help locate the surveying pins so we took it with us to try it out.  we found a spot that beeped a bunch and said there was metal 6 inches deep.  sirus decided we would need to come back tomorrow and dig.

we crawled into the tent, everyone got into their jammies and started to settle in.  it was past 8pm and it was still light out, but i totally fell asleep.  eric and the kids watched pitch perfect.  i don't know how late they actually stayed up but in the morning, eric said he went out when it was dark, looked at the city lights and saw more stars than he had seen since was a kid in Vernal Utah.  bummed i missed that, but there will be other opportunities.  the kids got our old sleeping bags and eric and i got new ones!  i cannot sleep in a mummy bag.  i just cannot do it, so i refused to camp again if i had to. in fact, i had not been camping since 2010 when we hiked into Colchuck Lake.  so we got some cheepo but terribly comfortable, flannel lined jobs from fred meyer!  mine was warm and i loved it!  oh and i got to bring my pillow and it was delux!!
i did wake up at like 2:30 convinced it was probably 5:30.  it wasn't.  then i woke up again at 3:30.  still wasn't 5:30, then the birds started chirping at 4:30!  an hour before sunrise!

 eric made us pancakes!!! and eggs!!!!  and then he and the kids (still in their jammies) headed off to dig up whatever it was that made the metal detector beep.  turns out that everything made it beep.  all the rocks up there are full of iron...  at least according to that thing.  it wasn't much help.  when they came back, seamus was carrying this flower with a butterfly on it.  she said it had landed on her, so she picked the flower and the butterfly crawled onto it and stayed there the whole walk back.  she set it down and it continued to hang out for another 10 minutes or so.   grandpa and grandma came out and eric and the kids and grandpa went all over the place trying to find the boundaries of the property.  after about 4 strait hours, they had found one marker.  its a big job!

in other news, i turned 40

eric got me this pillow case with my boyfriend Louis Tomlinson on it.  it scares me every time i walk into our bedroom.

 my girlfriends took me to the Barking Frog at Willows Lodge in Woodinville for brunch - aka liquor and eggs.  that is amy's bloody mary.  she let me have a sip and it was spicey!!   i wish i could get over the fact that they are made with tomato juice.  it was good, i just don't know if i could drink more than a sip.  and that was my mimosa.  i don't think i will order mimosas any more.  i am just going to go straight for the champagne.  but it was fun, and i am thankful they took me out!  super fun, i would like more time with the GFs.

at liquor and eggs, we were talking about yoga and hot yoga, etc.  we were discussing the people who go to yoga and show off with how awesome they are at it.  and how there is inevitably someone who does a head stand before class.  i was just like, dude, i can do a head stand.  granted i haven't done one in a hundred years and i wasn't sure my skull could handle the bazillions pounds i now carry around with me, but i was just like, dude, i can totally do it.  so i went home and that evening i did one.  i did it near the wall so i wouldn't fall back, but i didn't even touch it.  and then i did another one!  dude, i can do anything!  i am 40!
and then the next morning, i couldn't turn my head!  doh!!!  totally didn't expect that.  took about a week or so to feel better, but man, that was disappointing.

and lastly.  did i tell you about the neighbor's baby goat and how i am totally obsessed with goats and how i want some?  i also want to get a duck.  i have wanted ducks since i was a kid.  my dad had ducks when he was a kid and i want one!  i decided that if i get my duck, since i missed out on naming the cat , the duck will be named Dan Hugo.  my mantra is: no more cats and no more babies.  no one said no ducks.  or goats for that matter.

we'll talk about my health another time.  until then, lets all think about how i can get our HOA to let me get Dan Hugo.

not so many this time