So things couldn't get better in our house. Lilah is growing like a little weed and seems to get happier and more vocal everyday. McKenna is throwing SOOOOO much less temper tantrums (T/G!) and I am getting more sleep. Time really does seem to become more fleeting when you have children. I honestly don't know how I have enough time in the day to get anything done, but somehow things have been working themselves out.
We had a really great Mothers Day weekend. We took the girls to Tacoma and stayed in a hotel over night so we could go to the Point Defiance Zoo, Tacoma Childrens Musuem and take the girls swimming. I had my doubts about how things would play out since we were all sleeping in the same room but everyone behaved quite well. It was Lilahs first time in a swimming pool and she sure soaked it up. I have never seen a baby that little enjoy herself so much, she was cooing and smiling the whole time. McKenna enjoyed swimming too (as usual) and didn't want to leave the "Tel" room, as she calls it, when Sunday hit.
The fun didn't end on Sunday though because Mark took today (Monday) off and we got to spend time with his sister Sue who came to visit from Utah for the week. We were so happy to get to spend time with her and McKenna was especially taken with her Aunt Sue showing her all over the house and outside, it's wonderful to get to see Sue and we hope that she gets to come visit more often.
The last news I have for now is a congrats to friends Casey & Todd Schoepflin. Their foster-to-adopt baby arrived in their home Thursday of last week, I have yet to meet the little angel, but saw pictures and she is a beautiful little baby. We wish you guys the best and love you mucho.
Jaime

“Time, Time, Time, see what’s become of me.”

Busy is how I would sum up our life recently. It seems even more now that there aren’t enough hours in the day to complete all of the tasks we have to do. But we’re getting along, and enjoying life as it happens.


For all intents and purposes, we finally got the back deck finished and it looks great! (I still have to go back and screw all of the boards down the rest of the way). We used Trex Contours and inlaid some porcelain tile for a fire pit area. A heartfelt thanks to Shawn, Jeff, Connor and Gary for all of the help throughout the process.

Jaime has gone back to working nights now. Jaime comes in to work at 5pm with the kids (most of the time they are napping during the car ride). I come out of work and she goes in. I take the kids home, sometimes stopping at the park to play if they are awake and it’s nice outside, change diapers, feed them, play with them, change them again, get their pajamas on, and put them to bed. All in 3-4 hours! I can’t imagine being a single parent. I really enjoy spending the alone time with my girls and getting to see Lilah develop a little personality of her own. She smiles at everything now and is starting to giggle, although her giggles usually turn into a coughing fit (she hasn’t quite got that whole breathing and swallowing together thing down yet.) McKenna has really taken to Lilah and always asks to help out by feeding her or changing her diapers. McKenna is very protective of Lilah and is a really great big sister. We are very fortunate to have 2 wonderful, beautiful kids.

Since Lilah’s birth about 3-1/2 months ago we purchased a new camera (Nikon D40x) which rocks! Jaime and I have been going nuts taking so many pictures that it’s now a chore to go through them and weed out the not so good ones. We take on average about 1,100 pictures per month. Good thing it’s digital and we don’t have to pay to process!

Among other reasons, and since I’ve not had much time to work on the website at home, we also purchased a new laptop computer. I figured that I would be able to update the website and go through all of the pictures, and edit our family videos during my lunch hour at work. I might even be able to drum up some more website development work for some extra $$$ (That’s a good excuse, right?) This computer rocks! It’s so much faster than the 5 year old desktop we have. And although I thought I was going to have a lot of problems with Microsoft’s Vista, it has worked flawlessly for me so far. I think I might prefer it over XP now, although I’ve read and heard that you have to have a fast computer to reliably run it. I recently finished uninstalling all of the needless programs that come with the computer, and installing the ones I need. I’m well on my way to a complete website overhaul so look for that in the coming weeks.

Well, that’s it for now. I hope all is well with you and yours. Stay tuned for more information.