Off and running....

2012 has started off really good for us, we sure are hoping the fun continues!! 

The first week of the year Gramma and Grampa got here and they will be staying for a few months.  We are excited to have them here and to get to see them more often!! 

We took the girls to see Zoo Lights with Grampa, Gramma, Uncle Adam and Aunt Lindsey.  It was fun!!  The girls really loved looking at the lights.  It was pretty crowded to get in since we went on the last weekend it was open, but once we got inside we didn't notice the crowd too much.  There sure were a lot of lights this year!!  The girls got to ride the carousel and they enjoyed that.  Camdyn didn't like this carousel as much as she liked the Disneyland carousel, but really I can't blame her since the zoo carousel is just a little less magical than Disneyland's!!

Zoo Lights.

Tatum has started to love dressing up in her princess clothes.  She has a great time dressing up and looking like a princess or a fairy.  She of course also has to make sure her hair and makeup are princess quality too.  When she put on her fairy wings we told her to try and fly and she responded, "I can't fly, I don't have any pixie dust."  How cute is that?!?  We told her next time we go to Disneyland we will have to ask Tinkerbell for some!!  Tatum is so funny with things that she says, another new thing she is saying, "Hey, whats the big idea", not sure where she got it from, but it is definitely adorable. 

Tatum, our princess fairy.

Camdyn has already had a lot going on this first few weeks.  Guess she is just trying to squeeze a bunch of milestones in before her first birthday!!  Her 5th tooth popped all the way through.  So she now has a tooth showing on the top, super cute!!  We had tacos the other night and she had the ground turkey with the peppers and she loved it.  Camdyn is loving clapping and high five's, love it when she smiles and claps for us!! Camdyn got to try out a sippy cup for the first time, at first she didn't want it and then she understood what it was for, she didn't drink anything out of it, but we are working on it.  And yesterday she got her first ponytail courtesy of Miss Lindsey at school.  She looked adorable with that little pony on the top of her head.  Guess it is pony tails from here on out for her!! 

Testing out her sippy cup.

Pony Tail!!

And finally, we ran........  We ran far...........  Today we did the P.F. Changs Half Marathon!!  We ran 13.1 miles.  I am so super proud of us.  We got up early and the 3 of us (Matt, my Dad and me) headed down to Tempe to get ready for the race.  It was so exciting being down there.  I am not going to lie, at one point before we started I got really upset because I got scared not knowing if I would be able to do it since the farthest we had ran up until today was 10 miles.  But thankfully, both Matt and my Dad were there encouraging me telling me I could do it.  It took about 40 minutes from when the race started for us to actually cross the start line and then we were off.  We did pretty great!!  We ran about the first 3 miles without walking and were feeling great.  We walked a couple of times throughout the rest of the race, but ran a majority of it.  We completed the run in 2:54.27seconds.  We were feeling pretty tired and then we saw our fan club waiting for us right after the 20K.  It was so great to see my Mom, Tatum, Camdyn, Butch, Adam, Jenny and Kehoe cheering us on!!  It was so awesome having them come out and be there for us, we really do have the best family and friends!!  It felt so awesome crossing that finish line.  We were getting close to it and I started getting pretty choked up because I was so proud of us for accomplishing our goal!!  I am so excited that we did it and the 3 of us did it together.  Now I really want to do a Disney half marathon because the medals are just so darn pretty!!

Tatum made us a sign to cheer us on!!

20K mark

I was so excited to see everyone (and to be almost done)

WE DID IT!!

2012 Here We Are

2012- Here we are and we are ready for a great year!!

On Friday I got a call from the girls school that Tatum had broken out in hives during her nap.  Not sure what caused it, but they were there.  So I was off and on my way to pick up the girls.  About 10 minutes later I got a call that Camdyn had woken up from her nap with a 103.6 fever.  Not good.  So I started rushing even more and got there as fast as I could.  I picked up the girls and got them home and was on the phone talking to the doctor about what we should do.  I gave Tatum some benedryl and she seemed to be fine pretty quickly, she just needed some cuddling time.  Camdyn of course still had a high fever so I gave her motrin and tylenol and a bath trying to get her to cool off.  Her temp remained high throughout the next day and we were just rotating the motrin and tylenol trying to keep it down.  Turns out the cause of her fever..... 2 new teeth coming through!!  Camdyn's 2 top front teeth are starting to make an appearance in her cute little grin.  She has had a few rough nights of sleep, but we are so glad that the fever was the result of teeth and nothing much more!!

Camdyn Breeze is now 11 months old!!  Where have the last 11 months gone?!?!  She really is so amazing and we love her so much!!  I have started planning her birthday party, getting so excited for it!!  It won't be anything huge or over the top, but I can't wait to watch her open her presents and dive into that cake!!

We rung in the new year with our best friends and had a great time.  Matt had to work on New Years Eve so the girls and I had planned to go out to dinner with some friends, but when you have kids plans change quickly and that was definitely the case this weekend, with all that was going on with the girls.  So the girls and I had a night at home, relaxing and playing and watching movies.  Matt got home about 10:30, and our amazing friends came over after dinner to ring in the new year with us!!  It was so great to have the Veeh's, the Kehoe's and the Nissen's at our home.  We played games and watched the Times Square Ball drop and then played a game of Gin (Matt's favorite) to end our evening.  It was a great way to spend the first part of 2012!!

January 1, we got up and got outside for a nice 9 mile run.  It is getting so super close to the race we cannot believe it is almost here!!  We went and ran along a canal that has a paved area next to it, and it worked out really well.  It was hotter on Sunday than it has been so it was tough running, but we did it.  We have a 10 mile run this coming weekend and then the following week it is race day - Can't wait!!

Gramma and Grampa are driving out to Arizona as we speak.  Grampa officially retired on Friday and they are headed here for a few months.  We are so super excited to have them here and to get to see them more often.  I know they are going to love the reitred life for sure, many adventures ahead for them!!

Here's to a great 2012, we can't wait to see what fun this year brings!!