My week in review

My head is spinning from this last week, another week with Todd in DC. He has been gone for almost two weeks now, but fortunately he is due to come home tomorrow, for that I am VERY thankful, and excited!

Here is a small glimpse into the last week of my life....

Logan Had a track meet last Thursday

He was amazing - mile in 5mins 1 sec
(new goal break 5 mins)...

Friday morning I flew out to DC to spend the weekend with Todd. Can't go more than a week without major withdrawal! :p Even if that means a total of 20 hours in 3 different airports and 4 different airplanes in three days to spend less than two full days with my Love.

I had such a wonderful time!

We actually did SO much. I am absolutely in LOVE with that area. We spent time in DC, Maryland and Virginia. I was taken away with the beauty of it....

Yah, kind of hard to see this movie.
But was able to twice with the same view.
The Young Victoria if you are wondering.

My other view:

Much better...
Between Heaven and Earth
My favorite place to be.
I would love to live on a cloud and never come down...

After landing, we were able to visit another heavenly place...

We visited the DC temple, which is really in Maryland.
You can see it through the trees as you approach... amazing.

Every where you looked beauty was abundant...

Even down to a sweet cardinal
happily singing in the tree... I was so in love...

once again... I didn't want to leave....

We toured DC as well.
We saw cool monuments, and went to the Smithsonian institute! So much fun!

and sooo windy... A skirt wasn't the best idea that day.

We went to the Harbor in Maryland and appreciated how beautiful it was there too.


Then I had to say good bye to my Love,
and was able to return home to my babes... Whom I missed lots.

My Mom was able to spend some time with the kids while I was gone, which the kids really enjoyed.. (: Krystin by Monday morning though was not feeling well. She really looked terrible. It appeared to be a sinus infection, so off to the doctor we went, but not before...

the dogs had their fun...

Because mornings are not quite crazy enough, especially when Todd is gone and I have a sick kiddo... Pups decided to have some fun of their own or was it revenge for me abandoning them for three days???...
Usually, the dogs go outside, do their business and come back in within maybe 5 minutes. Well, somehow we lost track of time in the craziness that is morning... I asked - are the dogs still outside? Why yes they were, so I called them...
All I can say is that Lily, white Lily,was no longer white. She came scampering in the house completely Black, except for her little white snout... With Honey closely behind her sharing in her joy of this new look. If I had my wits about me I would have taken a picture, but we were NOT sure if it was mud, because it smelled so badly!!! Really badly. So gross. (What on Earth could smell that bad on the side yard, behind the bushes, opossum potty, don't know?) Apparently, to my dogs it smelled like perfume. They made sure to cover themselves as much as possible and looked tickled pink! Once inside, they quickly got tossed into the shower, and then won a trip to the groomers (they needed to be deodorized and disinfected).


New record for bow removal - shaken off within 1 minute.

Definitely not my favorite way to start the day,
but good if you want to diet.

off to the doctor...

Krystin had the opportunity to have her first ever blood draw. She has been having pain in her feet and hands, unrelated to the current sinus infection, so doctor wanted to do some tests...

Yes they made her wear a mask, and no she didn't like it one bit.

She was seriously brave though about the blood draw.

It appears there will be follow-ups with a specialist to figure out exactly what is going on with our little love-bug, but we are optimistic that things will go well.

Logan was feeling a bit left out, so we arranged a physical therapy treatment for his legs.
Just to keep them up to snuff.

A little runner maintenance.


Krystin got her braces off!

It sort of gave me that happy feeling, akin to when she was potty trained.
Last child, youngest baby out of braces...
Check - done with this stage. I hope.

Last pic with braces


First after braces!


Then after 20 million doctor calls, stopping at doctor offices, going here there and everywhere, Krystin had a performance tonight!

She really is fun to watch on stage.
and thankfully was feeling much better, aside from foot pain...
She always makes me smile!

Kayla and Logan waited with me in the FREEZing,
cold rain for over an hour before the show, so we could get good seats.

Cause we all love Krystin

Having fun at home after

And to finish off this crazy week - Todd returns tomorrow night! We are all super excited to hav him back. Orinigally, Thursday was set to be quite like the rest of my previous week, a bit insane. Logan was scheduled to have a track meet tomorrow from 2:45-6:30ish, while Krystin a second night of her performance call time 4:45pm, and Todd's plane landing at 5:1opm... Hmn, how to be in three places at once and how sad Daddy has to miss these things????

Well, Capistrano school district solved my dilemma for me. Teachers are on official strike as of tomorrow, Thursday, so Track meet and performances are officially postponed...

So, no teachers at school means? Disneyland day for kids I think!