10 YEARS

We are in Redding this weekend for our 10 year Simpson College (now University) reunion.   Last night we met our best friends at Chipotle (Yummy Yummy)!  It was so fun to see everyone and to watch all of our kids running around and playing together.  I love my friends and am so thankful that after 10 years we still have really close friendships.  After dinner we took my mom and the boys back to the hotel.  We are staying at the Red Lion, which holds special memories for me.  When I arrived at Simpson, my Junior Year, our dorm was not completed.  A ton of us were put up in the Red Lion hotel for over a month which was so much fun...maid service, room service, best friends to hang out with...what more could a college girl ask for!  Anyway, we got my mom and the boys settled in and headed over to Sea Jay's house to hang out with everyone.  First we had to make a quick stop at Discovery Village (our favorite hang out spot when we lived here).  Tim got a coffee and as we were leaving we ran into a bunch of other Simpson Alumni.  It was fun to catch up.  We made our way to Sea's house and while to girls chatted and caught up, our husbands did what all grown men love to do...played video games on the Wii.  It was getting late so we decided we should go back and go to bed, but we wanted to take a drive through Simpson on our way and reminisce about the good ol' days.  We saw that something was going on in the gym and thought we'd check it out.  We ended up staying until midnight and watching the current students put on an "Air Bands"  show.  We could not help feeling like it was just yesterday that we were the ones doing all of this crazy stuff.  The school has changed so much though!  Curfew is only effective for freshmen!!!  It  seem like the "no spaghetti strap" rule is no longer in place and some of the air band music was a litte questionable.  Interresting.  When Tim and I drove away we both agreed that our college experience was one of the most formidable and exciting times of our lives.  Ten years have flown by and it seems like just yesterday that this cute bleach blond transfer student walked up to me in the parking lot and said, "I've seen you all over the place, but I haven't met you yet."   Who would have known that 10 years and 2 kids later we would be back at the place we met, feeling like no time has passed.  I wonder what the next 10 years will hold.

Fire Station Playgroup

                                                        squirting water was the best part
                                          sitting on a giant boot in the firefighters "home"
                                                                    ring, ring, ring
                                                          Aaron's driving the truck
                                                                           Group Picture

Thursday was such an exciting day in Micah's little life.  Our playgroup got to take a tour of the Lincoln Fire Station and it was so so fun.   Micah and all of his little friends got to climb in fire trucks, squirt water out of the big hose and knock over cones, ring the bell on an old fashioned fire truck, and see where the fire fighters live when they are on duty.   The kids loved every minute of the morning!  I am so thankful that Micah has a group of friends from church that he gets to play with every week and that I have wonderful mommies to spend time with.  

MY HERO

Tim came home tonight and saved the day!!!  He dug into the yucky sink pipe and miraculously found Jacob's tiny tooth.  He is totally my hero!

Toothless

Tonight I was brushing Jacob's teeth and I heard a strange little noise.  I looked at Jacob and his mouth was bleeding.  All of a sudden I realized that the little sound I heard was Jacob's first tooth falling into the sink and that to my horror...it went down the drain.  I felt awful!!!  His first tooth and we lost it.  I think I was a little bit more bummed than Jacob.  He actually handled it pretty well.  We decided to just write a note to the tooth fairy and put it under his pillow.  He wrote a note that said, "Dear Tooth Fairy, My tooth fell out when I was brushing my teeth, but it went down the drain.  Love, Jacob."  He was so excited to finally have a missing tooth.  He has the cutest little smile with one gap on the bottom :)  I love my Jacob.  This is just a reminder of how quickly he is growing up.  He seems so big to me sometimes, but I am really thankful that he still loves to snuggle and is not embarrassed to give hugs and kisses to Tim and I.  It is a blessing to be Jacob's mommy.

The Latest...

I am really behind on blogging...so here is the latest with our family in no particular order...

• Jacob's tooth is so loose tonight that it is about to fall out (he is so excited about his first loose tooth)
• we went house hunting again today and are about to put offers on 2 more houses (we were denied on 2 out of 3 of the other ones we made offers on...we are still waiting to hear back about the 3rd)
• Micah and I went to the Pumpkin Farm this week with his little playgroup and had a wonderful time (he got a cute little metal school bus that he has been taking everywhere and even sleeping with)
• Micah learned how to pedal on his trike and is now riding all over the place on his own
• Tim is working like crazy to finish up two online courses that he is taking to maintain his pastoral license 
• My naturopathic dr said that I can retake the food allergy test and that she thinks my allergies may be gone by now or at least not as severe.  (I made the yummiest sugar and gluten free banana blueberry muffins this morning)
• My progesterone is low, so I have to take some herbs to help balance me out  ( I still don't feel like I have a ton of energy, but I am slowly getting better)
• Tim and I just finished watching season 1 or Heroes tonight (love that show!!!)
• Jacob loves playing soccer
• My mom comes to visit in 2 weeks and I can't wait to see her!

...Just a few little tid bits about our little family... 

House shopping

Well, we are looking into buying our first home and today was an exciting day.  We got our loan approved yesterday, so today we went to look at a bunch of homes in our neighborhood.  We want to stay close to where we are now so that Jacob doesn't have to switch schools.  Out of all of the homes we looked at, we only liked 2.  I have to say, some of them were in pretty bad shape.  It is exciting to think about owning instead of paying rent.  We've been told not to get too attached to any one home because it is hard to get an offer accepted on a short sale (both of the ones we like are short sales).  

After we were done looking at houses we were all really hungry, so we headed out to our favorite Friday evening restaurant, Chipotle.  Then it was off to the Nugget market so the boys could get chocolate chip cookies :)  When we got home, we all got our "jammies" on and snuggled on the couch together while Tim read a couple of books to the boys.  What a great day!!!

Mommy mishap

I totally screwed up today as a mom!  My day was going just fine.  Micah and I went grocery shopping this morning, I made him lunch and then put him down for his nap.  I  made lunch for myself and had just sat down to eat and watch the rest of the VMAs that I recorded last night when the phone rang...

caller: "Is this Kerri Loomis?"

me: "yes"

caller: "This is so and so from Foskett Ranch Elementary School..."

my first thougth:  "Oh no, did Jacob get hurt at school...is he sick!"

caller:  "Did you know that this was an early release Monday?  School got out at 1:30pm today! Jacob is in the office, can you be here soon to get him?"

me:  "Oh no, I forgot, I'll be there in two minutes!"

So I have to wake up a sound asleep little Micah and rush over to Jacob's school.  I am at least 20 minutes late (up to this point I have been at the gate waiting for Jacob everyday so that he doesn't get scared and wonder where I am).  I feel terrible and like the worst mom in the world.  I never wanted my child to be the one that was forgotten, sitting in the office waiting to be picked up from school.  So Jacob is happy to see me and so gracious, although he says, "I hope you don't ever do that again."  And of course I promise that I won't, and tell him that even mommy's make mistakes and I am very sorry.  The worst part of the whole thing is that he cried after school because he didn't know what to do or where to go.  Thankfully his teacher saw him and helped him get to the office.  

Not my most shining moment as a mom.