Hunter's birthday

Hunter looking pretty for the camera.
Here are some of the presents that she got, and her cupcake cake.
Her cupcake cake courtesy of Safeway bakery. Hunter picked it out herself, and wanted it to say "Happy 3rd Birthday, Princess Hunter". She even picked out the coloring of the floaties and the writing.
Here she is watching us as we sing to her.
Still waiting. Ian didn't get a pic of her blowing the candles out.
Hunter got a snare drum with a strap to go around her neck, a tamborine, harmonica, and one other music thing (that pink thing next to the tamborine).
Here I am showing the people on the couch her new Dora dress.
Here's a spring hoodie that she got from aunt Leslie and uncle Kelly.
Summer top for this summer. It has a chick on it and says "Sweet Chick".
Here's another hoodie, only in orange.
Here's 1 of the 2 pairs of shoes that she got for her birthday.
Sock monkey won everyone over, including her.
Here's some pj's from Aunt Karsten and Uncle David. It says "Dance, Smile, Dream"
Here's another set of pj's. She's going to be 1 styling girl, that's for sure. Everyone asked what she wanted for her b-day, and I said clothes. Boy, did Hunter have a fun time opening all of the clothes.
Lastly, a cookie monster HUGE coloring book with stickers in it. It's pretty tall, and she loves it.

All in all, it was a good birthday, and we even showed up and had a surprise visit from Aunt Patricia and Uncle Steven, who are in town from San Jose area for a week.

Dang computer

The computer is having problems loading the pictures. I go to click on browse, to pull up the files with the pictures, to upload them on my blog. When I click on "browse", it does NOTHING. It brings me back to this screen. I don't know if it's a javascript error, or what exactly is going on.

So, until Ian can get a chance to look at it tomorrow morning (Monday), I can't put up any pictures :(. Sorry mom, I'll get them up tomorrow morning, then put up the ones from the zoo tomorrow night. Love you.

Catching Up

I was talking to my mom and dad tonight, to see if she had seen a good money saving/making deal at Target in the ad. She mentioned that I needed to keep my blog updated, I told her I'd try, so here I am updating my blog.

After Christmas, life got busy with me going back to work (had 4 day weekends for Christmas and New Years), and Ian starting "county hosted" job searching classes. I was keeping up with facebook, but neglecting my blog. I'm sorry everyone. I know it was my New Years resolution, to do better with my blog. I promise now that I have fun things to report, that I'll update my blog more often. If not, you can hunt me down for it..... lol.

Mid January, Ian had a job interview for Assistant Manager at Famous Footwear. He was hired on the spot, and started the week after. He was promised 30 hours/week A@ $9/hr, but has only been getting 20-25 hours a week. I can't complain though, since it's still money and still a job for him. Hopefully things will pick up when the manager goes on maternity leave, and people come in to start buying shoes.

K, off to put some more updates up and put more pictures up.

New Year

I just looked at my blog and realized, I didn't do so well in 2009. Here's to doing better in 2010 (ok, so January is almost over).

Christmas was amazing. I worked the week of Christmas, but was lucky enough to have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. Ian got a job at UPS for December as a driver helper. He brought home tips, butcher meat, and chocolate. It was a fun time for him, but unfortunately, that job ended Christmas Eve. It was back to looking for jobs for him.

Christmas Eve my brother-in-law Shane drove up from Southern CA. He stayed with his parents, and we got to spend the day with him after Ian got off work. We went up to Dutch Flat to spend time with Ian's family. It was a very nice night with orderves (sp?) and talking. We came back down to Rocklin and walked around the neighborhood to look at all the Christmas lights and decorations people had in front of their houses. I walked that neighborhood 3 times and never took pictures :(. You'll have to wait until next year.

Christmas Day I was up at 5:30 A.M. Yes, I was up before my 2.5 yr old. I stayed in the bedroom and looked at e-mails and facebook on my phone. Hunter woke up at 7:30, Ian woke up shortly after that, and McKenna was the last to wake up. I took a picture of all the presents in front of our tree, and will post that this weekend. I didn't take any pictures of presents being opened since I played Santa. Family came over at 9:00 for breakfast and presents. It took us 1.5 to open all the presents (a lot of them were for Hunter and McKenna so it took longer, and we have a tradition of opening presents one person at a time). We had eggs, biscuits and gravy for breakfast with yulekaka bread and Goat's cheese with it. The family took off so Shane could get dressed, and they could take a nap. That afternoon we headed up to Dutch Flat again for dinner. It was a nice dinner with more orderves (sp?) and lots more talking. I always enjoy going up there.

The New Year came and went. We had the missionaries over for dinner, then played games with Ian's parents. They left at 11:00 to get home before all the traffic got bad, and we put Hunter to bed. I fell asleep on the couch at 11:45 with McKenna on my stomach. I tried so hard to not fall asleep, to make it to midnight. Ian came to wake me up at 12:00 to give me a kiss, wish me a Happy New Year, and told me to put McKenna in bed and come to bed.

Since the New Year, Ian attended 2 weeks of County supervised job workshops. The last day of class, Ian got a call for a job at Famous Footwear for Assistant Manager. He gets $9/hr and will work 30 hours a week. We were happy for him.

I promise to put pictures up this weekend of the girls (they're getting so big). Until then, keep being who you are and remember we love you.

P.S. Losing weight this year. Lost 10 lbs since November. Let's hope I'm more healthy in 2010 than I was in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Jeep

Our dash displays. The top is the CD player, the middle are the temperature knobs and the bottom display tells us if we need to service the Jeep, doors are open, or if light bulbs went out.
This is the backseat looking to the rear hatch.
Side view

Full view.

Free earring giveaway

My friend is doing a free pair of earrings giveaway on her blog. One of the ways I can win is to link this site to my blog. She has her own jewelry business. Check it out...

http://skydivingthroughlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/sassy-jewels-giveaway-2-winners.html

McKenna scooting

Here's another video of McKenna scooting. I have also included a pic of her new crib.