It's Raining, It's Pouring

I got Izzy dressed to run to the bank this morning and she took one look at herself and said, "I'm Strawberry Shortcake." She wouldn't let me call her Izzy. I had to address her by Strawberry Shortcake. My little girls is a funny one.
She was so excited about the rain I had to let her play in it. She was too cute. She kept running out into it and then giggling.
I love her precious little smile. She is such a ham. When ever she sees a camera she says cheese and dishes out this cheesy smile.
What little one doesn't love to catch rain on their tongue? If all of these raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops, oh what a would it would be...

Better Late Then Never

Now that it is almost Christmas I thought I would share a little of our Halloween pictures.



The Friday before Halloween Cherish's class got to dress up like a character out of a book. She picked Camila Cream from A Bad Case of Stripes.

Cherish was a Fairy and Izzy was a Bee. They were so cute. Cherish didn't have any idea what she wanted to be and so we made the best of it and recycled parts of her costume from last year. For Izzy everything was exactly the same.

Welcome Baby Porter

My Sister just had her first little guy. He was born Sunday, October 25 at 11:35 PM. Her due date was December 2 so he came a little early. He just wanted to keep Mommy on her toes and show her who is in charge. He is doing well and is healthy but because he is so little he is in the NIC-U. They are hoping to bring him home in about two weeks. Congratulations Matt and Tiff!! I love this picture of them. He is so tiny, only 4 lbs 7 oz, but oh so cute.

A Bad Case of Stripes

For school Cherish had to dress up like a character from one of her favorite books. She picked Camilla Cream from A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. It is a great book that I highly recommend to anyone who hasn't read it. She said her favorite part was when she got to school everyone was talking about her and wanted to ask her questions about why she was painted in stripes. She LOVES to be the center of attention.
At least the stripes weren't permanent. She couldn't stand the itching so she had her teacher help her take the paint off at their first recess.

Our Little Jack-o-Lantern

Cherish is our little Jack-o-Lantern. I love her toothless smile. We just need to paint her face orange and give her black triangle eyes.

Rise and Shout

The Cougars played San Diego State today and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to cheer on our team. Before the game we went to a tailgate that was sponsored by the Alumni Association. Cherish competed in a hula-hoop competition. Everyone won a pom-pom. Cherish was more than excited. She loves to sing the Cougar Fight Song with us and pretend she is a cheerleader.
We were able to go right down to where the Cougars entered the field.
The girls had so much fun watching the game. When we first got there, before we got to our seats, the band was playing and Izzy stopped got really excited and ask "What's that? A football game?" She cheered them on and she shouted "Go Cougars!!"
It was a great game.
The first half we were surrounded by Aztec fans but we scouted out a spot where we would be closer to the field and surrounded by our fellow Cougars. It was a great move. We had a harder time seeing what was actually going on down on the field but Cherish was able to interact with Cosmo and see the cheerleaders.
Cherish LOVES Cosmo!!! She was so excited to get this picture with him.

Thank You--Grandma and Grandpa!!

My parents have been amazing in helping us lately. We couldn't have run the marathon without them. Almost every Saturday for the last 2 months they have come over to sit with the girls so we could go on our long training runs, those runs were often over 3 hours long. Then while we were in St George running they took care of the girls. We had to say thank you for all of their service.

We took them to one of our favorite Saturday morning treats. We love going to the Gaffey Street Diner in San Pedro, CA.It is a restaurant we discovered while watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network. It is a great place where the portions are amazingly HUGE!! Jose gets the country breakfast, which is a biscuits and gravy, sausage, eggs and home fries. I get the breakfast burrito and the girls get pumpkin pancakes. I only eat half of the burrito so I can enjoy the pancakes because they really are the reason I go. We have gone in the past and they didn't have pumpkin pancakes they had banana, it was very sad. I figured it is October, the season of everything pumpkin, they would surely have pumpkin pancakes now...no such luck. Oh well. I just made them Sunday morning instead.
One of the best parts of going out there is we always stop by the Cabrillo Beach Aquarium. They have a fantastic touch tank. Izzy really wasn't sure she wanted to touch anything but she loved looking.
They have sea stars, sea urchins, sea anemone, and abalone in the touch tank. Inside the aquarium they have fish and other animals that are native to the water off our shores. They even have a 37 pound lobster. He is huge.
Cherish loves to touch the anemone because they stick to your fingers. I love the urchins because they hug your finger.
Izzy thought hard about touching the sea creatures but she never did touch anything.
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa loves fish so we knew he would love it here.
Izzy put on her shark face. She is a funny little girl. She is always making me laugh.
They have an area where the kids can dress up and pretend that they are sea creatures and there is a camera so they can see themselves on TV. They also have a nursery so you can see baby creatures. It is a great place and admission is by donation. Recommended donation is $5 for adults and $1 for kids. You can't beat that.