February Updates

New Year's resolution #46: I am going to start blogging again:)

We just wrapped up our February edition of Sassy Mei. It was a fine show, with a very high attendance. HOWEVER, I will never do a February show again. We had this wild idea that selling furniture would be a hit - but seriously, who buys a piece of furniture on impulse? Not the citizens of Issaquah! ...we ended up taking some of our commission in furniture. This is the fine piece I walked away with. LOVE IT!

Kids had last week off for MWB. It was a week full of fun in the sun. Took the kids to the zoo on Friday. This is a picture of Eden in the Australia exhibit feeding a bird.

Kids trying to get the hippos to wake up and take a swim

Kids with their zoo maps.

My mom sent me this cute head band. I know it is all the rage in Utah but I don't know if I am gutsy enough to wear it yet...Eden sure looked cute though!

Valentine's dinner at the Collings. Dave made us steak & penne pasta - yum yum yum!

Comments

Rebecca said…

Bianca... you could totally pull off that headband! :)

February 24, 2010 at 4:22 PM

Let's just call this paybacks

Dave got the heads up this morning that we were going to have a couple of "special" talks on reverence today as the Stake Presidency was a little concerned about how loud our sacrament meetings have become. I thought ~ great, let's prep the kids ~ I told them that they were to be on their best behavior, no snacks, no toys, no talking, you get the idea... The meeting went pretty smooth until the Bishop got up. He very tenderly started talking about how important it is that we teach our children about the sacrament...it was at that moment that my family fell a part. Eden and Luke started fighting and Liza and Tucker started screaming---did I mention we were on the second row? I grabbed Luke and put him in a body hold and motioned for Dave to get Tuck and Liza out. Dave left with Liza and Tuck (so I thought...) and next thing you know, Tucker is up on the stand running back and forth behind the Bishop. My sweet friend sitting next to me jumped up to get Tuck, but he of cours...

Child Rearing Race

My visiting brother from Utah and I were left without spouses for 4 days. This wouldn't have been such a big deal, but our kids had already been together 24/7 for 6 days and our boys couldn't think of anything better to do than fight. I don't know about you, but 1 entire day of fighting is enough to drive one mad--now times that by 4. Near the end of the week(and our rope) my brother and I had a heart to heart and posed the question~what in life could be more mentally difficult than this? The only thing I could think of (now remember, we'd just run the Ragnar) was running a marathon. Someone once told me that if you could mentally get through a marathon, you could get through anything. So, I put it to the test...I ran a... OK , not a marathon, but a 1/2. Raising children and running difficult races are so much the same. They both require so much of you emotionally, physically and mentally and yet the end reward is so gratifying. I can't express the joy I felt yester...

Bag the privacy!

So I tried the privacy thing and it just isnt' working. What am I afraid of anyway? please tell me that terrible people won't track us down! For those that know me well, you know that I am a Law and Order/Dateline/48 Hours Mystery junkie. I have too many morbid stories floating around in my head! However, so many fun people from my past lives (there have been many...) have re-connected through this blog. So, once again, we are out in the open...

The Collings Family

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