Some Serious Ketchup

Ok... that got your attention. Actually I meant "catch-up" and I think a woman can open anything. We just pretend like we need our husbands to open the jars so they feel needed with something that's not important enough for them to screw up... just unscrew. Ha! Pun intended.

So I haven't blogged in ages, so I'm going to cram everything into one (hopefully) brief entry. I don't expect anyone to make it to the end. This is for ME. And it's going to be in the form of a rhyme.

JANUARY:
Rich went "back to school, back to school to prove to Daddy he's not a fool." (Billy Madison)
Soon he'll be prez of the world I bet, but for now he'll score us a school loan to help pay our debt.

Transformer preschool is well underway.
They're transforming into readers and learning polite play.
We got word that David was accepted in the spanish school today.
 In August, he will become an estudiante.

David's been taking gymnastics. Jack tries to join in.
It will be nice for Jack to have some mommy time when David starts Kindergarten.

BEFORE JANUARY:

Rob hooked us up with a night in SF at the Hotel Carlton.

We ate Scoma's seafood and enjoyed time alone thanks to babysitters Lacie and Morton.

Jack's eating and climbing skills have had us intrigued.
Oh yeah... and last summer we joined a bowling league.

We celebrated the births of our friends Jeni and Tim
by making them a cake resembling Tabletop Mountain.

There were colds, flu and ear infections too.
But I'm going to avoid posting pics of that Wouldn't you?

FEBRUARY:
We joined Tim and Jeni for a few awesome days in Tahoe.
We switched off snowboarding and watching the kids in the condo.

Then we headed to Utah for Kayla & Tony's wedding.
With ice-skating and mountains of glorious food, it was the best reception anyone's been to I'm betting.

Then Rob, Brad, Corey and Angie (still waiting for pics...) joined us for some family snowboarding.
We couldn't get enough and hit a mountain again the next morning.

My mom joined us at "the Beav" for some snowboarding runs
while Aunt Karen watched the kids who had just as much fun.
Then they took the kids sledding and were so proud of Dave,
soon he was sledding alone. He's never been so brave.

These car trips to Utah are just too long.
The kids look happy at first... but a few hours in things always go wrong.

Rich had a birthday and I made the best meal. Since I'm not much of a cook it was a really big deal.
Rich's mom and bro made it later that night. Family and food made his birthday just right.

Oh yeah.. silly me.
Somewhere in there we also had our 6th anniversary.

MARCH:
The next week I finally taught my first paid Zumba class.
My dad and family came to visit us at last.
The boys hit it off like no time had passed.
It was fun having Kathy there for my class.
Our day together just went by too fast.

I forgot to take pics of their visit. Nothing new. 

So I stole this from their Facebook page, like most of the pics above. Yeah, that's what I do. 

And now my ketchup rhyme is through.