It's been a while.

Well it has been a long time since my last post and hopes are I will be better about keeping this thing up to date. So to fill you in on the past 9 months of our lives. July = Quick trip to Utah for the 4th where we watched a Baseball game, fireworks, hit the zoo, and relaxed with great friends. August = Hells Canyon backpacking trip. We had planned a 5 day trip with 27 mile round trip total but due to the weather it turned into a total of 30 hours and 17 miles total. It went from sun and wind to down pour rains and wind followed by my face blistering into a disaster. Still had a great time with the Garrison's and the Russell's. September = 6 years of marriage celebrated at the Jason Mraz concert. Wow six years! October = Yet another move. Well kind of. Matt was offered a contract job with Nordstrom again and we decided to take advantage of the opportunity and worked out a deal with Mike and Heath to let Matt stay with them. The 3 month contract has turned into a 9 month contract and a lot of flights back and forth to Seattle. I'm not complaining about the time in Seattle, but being a single mom and hearing Matt's sad voice when he talks to Ike is a killer. Thank god for our awesome family that has helped out in so many ways to make this all possible. Fingers crossed we will have an idea of moving or not this summer. November = Thanksgiving and lots of food. December = Christmas with lots of family and friends. The highlight being the midnight bike ride through the neighborhood with Jess and Jackie. I love how the holidays bring out the kid in everyone. January = another year older for Matt and an adult weekend for Matt and I in Seattle. We finally made it to the EMP and Scifi museum. Matt was amazed with all the cool junk and I was just happy to be there to celebrate with him. February = Just a boring winter month. March = Another year older for me and another great weekend with my boys. I can't forget March was the month of illness for Ike and I. Flu, colds, ear infections, and bronchitis. That is a summary of the past nineish months. As for April it is starting off the right way Matt and I get a whole week together first him in Boise than all of us in Seattle for a little bit of time. I'm hoping I will be able to keep up on blogging more and use this as I get out and take more photos with my new camera. So keep checking back.

New hobby helps me get Seattle bound!!

The other day I was re-informed by a coworker that I needed to find a hobby. I completely agreed that I needed to find something other than work to focus on. So today with a trek to the new library I found my new hobby. I'm going to train for and run a half marathon within the next few months, and a full marathon within the year. I have never run a competitive race. I have always been a good runner just used it for the purposes of soccer, but now I'm going to put myself to the ultimate test train and run a marathon. So the training begins July 19th with race day 20 weeks away on November 29th. The best part is I get to race through downtown Seatown. I'm really excited for this race and can't wait to push myself and feel the joys of competing in a sport again. I also want to compete next June in the rock and roll marathon in Seattle where they have bands at every mile marker. Man this is going to be a great hobby. I realize it is not going to be easy and I will have to push myself like never before, but if I do this I get a trip to Seattle so its a great incentive to make it happen. Wish me luck and I will keep everyone updated on my progress.

Isaac survived his first year (and so did I)

I can't believe it but Ike turned one a week ago. I can't believe how much he has grown and how quick the year went by. I spent time today going through his clothes and cleaning out his closet and it was amazing to see how small his onsies once were and to remember how calm he once was. He is walking and if he could have ran first he would have. He is so smart and figures things out quickly. He has figured out that the dog door is a great resource of freedom, and the stairs are a blast to play on. He is starting to talk and I realize more and more I have to watch what I say. We do need to teach him how to be gentle, and can be a little aggressive with other kids. The other day at the doctors office he attacked a couple kids to give them hugs but due to the aggressive nature he ended up pushing them down. The kids were sadly much older than Ike so I think I might have raised a bully. A bully that gives frighteningly aggressive hugs and kisses. I will display a video of Ike on attack and you all will understand. Plus who can leave out pictures of him destroying his cake.

Some cute ones of Ike

Here are some latest pix of Ike. He is 9 months and counting, I can't believe he is that old already. The crazy kid is a crawling fool and I think he will be walking in no time. He already walks along the furniture and lunges from coach to whatever is near. He loves going up the stairs and then diving headfirst to the bottom. He has discovered how a dog door works and lets just say what could have turned out a disaster some how was just a great adventure for Ike. I unfortunatly didn't get a picture of his adventure to the great outdoors. You forget to snap those things when your child is sitting on the frozen patio after escaping the warm indoors. The other thing he loves is to attack the camera whenever it comes out so the majority of the pictures are close ups and contain drool. Just one of those things only a mother can love and will spare sharing the real drooly pictures. 

We had our friends Patti and Issaia come visit us from Seattle this past weekend and we had a freaking blast. We had a chance to go out to dinner just adults and let me just say that was much needed. We also had fun tubing up in Garden Valley, ID and that was a ton of fun. Patti and I were a bit nervous at first but soon realized that the 6 inches of mud in the parking lot was avoidable with a little quick move in the parking lot, the inbred sleeveless worker wasn't as scary as he looked, and the slopes weren't as brutal as they looked. Well the Uggs didn't make it, we were very soar the next day, and Matt of course hurt something, was the hero of the day, and has some cougar that would do him in a heartbeat. It is hard to beat tubing and beers, but later that night was a great game of Apples to Apples, drinks, cigars, and Sex and the City movie. It was a great weekend and can't wait until they come back for their next visit. Here are some pix from our fun weekend. 

Tolman update

So I have slacked in the updating department only because life has been crazy busy. So here is a month in review. Isaac finally got over the teething thing and now has 3 almost 4 very sharp teeth. He loves to give us kisses on the nose and then try and bite our nose off. It was all cute until he picked up the tiny chompers. He also is constantly moving and the roll seems to be his favorite form of transportation, but he has crawled a little bit and gets better at it each day. He is a crazy eater and can really pack the food away. Typically it is packed right into the mouth but some days it turns out to be a real mess. (See pictures below). Well I think that is the Ike update other than he is the coolest kid ever. Now onto the other fun and exciting things that have been going on with us. Matt and I spent October on the house hunt, and looked at a ton of homes put in a couple bids on some, but finally found one that was perfect and the bid was negotiated just right for us to buy it.  We closed on the house just before Thanksgiving and spent Thanksgiving weekend cleaning and moving. I tried to convince everyone to move us on Thanksgiving but for some reason people thought we should be eating turkey. I was nice and gave the family them Thanksgiving the day to relax knowing they would be busy the next few days. We are all moved in and realized that living in cramped spaces like we did in Seattle you really become a minimalist, needless to say we have multiple rooms with nothing in them. I'm sure it will only be a matter of time til they are filled up. Other than house hunting, moving, working crazy schedules, we also celebrated my grandma's 88th birthday, helped rake up leaves at my parents (this was mainly to keep them on my good side for when it came down to moving), and took some time to decorate a Christmas tree. Oh and in case you have no furniture to put in a room just buy a Christmas tree it seems to take up some of the space. Oh yeah I almost forgot we proudly watched Obama acceptance speech and had a great laugh when we saw the footage of Bush getting a shoe thrown at him. (Sorry the political side of me had to come out.) All of this just in time for Christmas hopefully I will be better about updating the blog on our fun Christmas within the month of December. Ok so pictures to come on all of our adventures only because I have no clue where the cord for our camera is to download all of our pictures. (the joys of moving and losing all your junk again)

Grandma + Camera = Ike going crazy

I think the final picture sums up Ike's feelings.