Pajama Day!

A few weeks ago Cole's preschool had Pajama Day. From the moment I told him about it, he was so excited. And so the countdown to "Pajama Day" began :-) Here he is with one of his buddies Dylan. The kids all looked so cute dressed in their Pajama's and then they got to eat Pancakes and make Puzzles. Can you guess that the letter of the week was "P"!

A Big shout out to Jim!!!

So as I mentioned in my earlier post Jim has at an eventful couple of months. In January he was promoted to HSE (Health Systems Executive!) We are so excited and so proud of him. He has seriously worked his tail off this past year and it's so nice to see that his hard work is finally paying off. He essentially has the same job except that instead of covering Northern California/Northern Nevada, He now helps support other AE's in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and all of California down to Fresno. So the bad news is that it means alot more traveling but he is so excited about his new role and is really enjoying this job and on the bright side he is racking up a ton of southwest rapid rewards :-)
On day he found out about the promotion, the kids and I went out and bought balloons and decorated the house.





These are my two little "Star War characters" all dressed up and waiting for Daddy to get home!




So in addition to his promotion, we just found out this weekend that he made "Champions Club" for his Company, which is basically the top sales performers for the year. We are still waiting to hear what is final ranking is, but we know he made it in the Top 5!!! All of the employees that make the top 5 also get a fully expense paid vacation to Florida!!! Woot Woot! So Jim and I are off to Key Largo in April for 5 fun filled days! How cool is that? We snapped some pictures of Jim opening up his invitation.

Here's the little Fed Ex package he found waiting for him at the door.


Champions Club!!


The official invitation to Florida


We had to celebrate with some champagne :-)


And of course Cole wanted to help open it!

Another Grandma original

My mom made Olivia this cute little hat and scarf and sent it to her in the mail a few weeks ago. So cute! Thanks mom!

Sacramento Zoo

The kids and I ventured downtown a few weeks ago to check out the Sacramento Zoo. It's a perfect little outing for us and they always really enjoy it. They had a fun time running around and seeing the animals (the giraffes were the big hit this time) and then we stayed for lunch. The big highlight for the kids was that they used their very own money to buy these stuffed animals. Cole picked out a tiger and Olivia wanted a purple giraffe. Cole had been bugging me since we walked in the door to buy him one and I kept telling him "no!" While we were eating lunch he kept asking and I finally told him that if he used his own money, he could buy it. We ended up sitting in the store for 20 minutes while Cole weighed his decision. He was soooooo concerned about using his own money and kept asking me over and over again if it was alot of money. While Olivia made up her mind in about 20 seconds. So true to their personalities. Any hoo here are some pictures of our little adventure!





The infamouse stuffed animals!

2011

Well apparantly it's been a somewhat slow start to 2011. I went to download the pictures off of my camera the other day since I haven't updated my blog since Christmas and there wasn't a whole to download :-( We've just been keeping busy with our normal routine and activities and hanging out locally on the weekends. Cole has been keeping busy with preschool and really starting to enjoying it. It's no longer a tear fest when I drop him off, which is really nice. We've also decided to start Olivia in preschool next year so she will be joining Cole 3 days/week which leaves me KIDLESS for 3 hours on those days :-) He also started T-Ball about a month ago but since the last 2 weeks have been rained out, he hasn't had a whole lot of practices. Their first game should be interesting!

Olivia is still my little shadow. I seriously can't leave the room without her yelling, "Mommy, where are you?". She likes to help me with the laundry and the cooking. She usually goes to the gym with me while Cole is at school and has done really well with the daycare there, so that gives me some hope that she will do just fine at preschool. We also enrolled her in Little Gym in January and we go once a week while Cole is in school - she LOVES it. She loves the bars and the balance bean and gets the biggest kick out of playing with the bubbles and receiving her stamps at the end of each class - it never seems to get old to her. Maybe we have a little gymnast in the family??

As for me - not much to report. The weeks seem to come and go faster than I can keep track. Jim has been traveling quite a bit this year so there is never a dull moment for me!

The only person that seems to have had an eventful kickoff to 2011 is Jim! And he has had so many things happen that he is even going to get his first official "blog post", so stay tuned!