Our day

I am joining in on the typical day posts. Ours vary by day during the week as we have preschool Tues/Thur. Our nights also vary as I have band twice a week and meetings for preschool twice a month. Also Sharon may have a work function that gets her home late.

7:30 wake up
7:40 workout while Cooper watches a show
8:20 eat breakfast, read paper, check email/take shower
8:45 school days: leave for school.
9:30 take dogs to the park
10:00 non-school days: run errands, go to the indoor bike park or indoor skating rink, or playdate.
12:00 school days pick up Cooper.
12:30 lunch
1:00-4:00 take dogs to the park if we didn't make it in the morning. Cooper plays, I do house stuff, we play together.
4:00 start thinking about dinner.
6:00 Mama comes home, Cooper is super excited!
6:15 Dinner
10:00 in bed, check facebook/email, chat with Sharon if she is awake. Read a book before I fall asleep.


1:00-4:00 Mondays: watch neighbor's baby
4:00-5:45 Wednesdays gymnastics
4:00-5:30 Thursdays swim class

Days I am home at night we have family time and Sharon puts Cooper to bed around 7:30-8:00.
While she does that I make lunch for sister-in-law and Sharon.

I have band practice Mon and Wed nights from 7-9:30. Those days I have dinner ready, either crockpot or warmed in oven for the family.

Clovis -From early December

We are in Clovis, CA this week visiting Sharon's family. Grandma Barbara passed away the week of Thanksgiving and Papa had her service last Saturday. It was definitely a celebration of life service. While
We are here we are getting in lots of cousin time. Chloe and Noah are staying at Oma's house, where we are, so we see them daily. Cooper loves cousin Noah and looks forward to seeing him after school. We are also playing with Cousins Alexander and Adam. We took them to play-place this morning and going to an inflatable play-place tomorrow.
We visited Uncle Silly Billy today with the three boys and they played with all of Bill's toys (bicycles and ATV rides). Cooper took a ride on a go-cart too.












We took all the cousins to zoo lights this weekend. Sharon, Sonya and Kris took Chloe and Noah and Cooper rollerskating on Sunday too.
Tonight we walked some streets with Adam and Alexander to see Christmas lights.

Special Friends Brunch

This year Cooper invited Uncle Jeff to his preschool Special Friends Brunch. I was a parent helper that day and was able to enjoy the festivities too.
It was a fun day, we made rice bowls again this year, party hats and the kids made necklaces for their special friends.












Jeff took Cooper home after the brunch so I could clean up, it was fast because we had an extra parent helper. Cooper also showed Jeff around the classroom after they ate. He had a lot of fun.

Year in Review 2012:

What a year. Let's review:

* Sharon got a new job!
* The upstairs project was completed.
* Family trip to Manzanita before Sharon's new job started.
* April started our camping season with a trip to Bend.
* We took our annual camping trip to Lake Almanor.
* Cooper turned 5!
* Jeff and Chikako moved in!
* Sharon turned 50!
* Our last camping trip was to Pacific Beach for Sharon's bday.
* Nonna visited 3 times, twice with Bob.
* Cooper began his last year of preschool.
* Grandma Barbara passed away.
* We took a trip to Fresno for Barbara's service and had quality extended family time.
* The Rosey's stayed with us for Christmas.

What a great year full of milestones and change!

2013 is off to a great start and will ramp up in April when concerts and trips commence!

Making lunch

Cooper loves making his own food. Today he made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Rockin in the New Year!

Our New Years Eve was filled with a little volunteering for me to start. During the day I helped a local Japanese organization put together traditional bento boxes for the new year. They sell these boxes of Japanese American food as a fundraiser for their organization at $130 a box. In Japan these boxes sell for $1200 dollars. I spent 4 hours at the Oregon Buddhist Temple with Jeffrey and Chikako making food. My favorite part was making the sushi rolls, I had a great teacher and am excited to try it at home!

After our shift we stopped for much needed coffee then home to start making pizzas. We had our neighbors William and Jean over and our dear friend Connie. After eating we went to William and Jean's for dessert and jam session. Sharon and William jam occasionally (hopefully once a week starting this year) and we got Jeff to play the drums! We jammed until midnight then popped champagne and watched some neighborhood fireworks. Cooper was able to fall asleep during the jam session, after trying out the drums with Uncle Jeff, around 10:30.

We had a great night, we are all a bit tired today though.
Pictures of the jam session.