4 YEARS OLD!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX!!!

Keeping busy as the cold weather arrives...

I'm not really sure what's going on with this website lately but format is all messed up, which is a bit frustrating but it appears to post ok but when I'm looking it it it's all over the place! Here are a few pictures of the boys!

Quick trip to Willard Beach in South Portland...





Halloween....

Max was Mister Incredible and Mason a red M&M...





MASON IS 8 MONTHS OLD TODAY!!! He's growing up so quick! Cutting his two upper teeth, crawling all over the place and starting to pull himself up!

Mason's on the move...

Mason has started the "army crawl" He pulled himself around all weekend! If he sees something across the room - he'll squirm his way to get it! Oh lord - time to baby proof the house again! He's changing all the time! He's growing up way too quickly! He's now holding his own bottle (YAY!!) and he's cutting his top two teeth.

Last weekend we headed to North Conway for a mini vacation (in the Minivan...which BTW - I LOVE! HA, I can't believe I just admitted that, but I really do!) It was such a nice time and much needed! We stayed in a hotel where there was a few water slides which Max, and Ray and I :), had a blast going down! Then we went on a hour long train ride...it was beautiful and the foliage was at it's peek! Here are a few pictures~

Some of the beautiful foliage from our train ride and drive through the white mountains...

ONLY IN MAINE...we actually stopped on the side of the road to take a picture of this beauty that was in someone's front yard!!!

And lastly...a picture of the boys that I love...

GO SOX!!

AND HER NAME IS...

WALLY, THE GREEN MONSTER...(She is a '05 Toyota Sienna)

Yes, I did what I said I would never do...I bought a minivan!

As for other photos from this past weekend...here are a few:

Off to North Conway, NH tomorrow afternoon for a mini two day vacation, just the 4 of us!

HAPPY OCTOBER!

It's been a while! We've been busy and unfortunately I haven't been snapping photos! BOOOO! Hopefully this weekend I will be posting a few! We plan on taking the kids to the Cumberland Fairgrounds for a pumpkin lighting contest. Camp Sunshine (great place in Maine that does a host of things for kids with life threatening diseases) does it every year and they are trying to break the Guinness Book of World Records for most pumpkins lit at once. It's something like 33,128, so it should be a perfect opportunity for some really cool photos! We may also try going apple picking, where we'll take a few more cute photos with the nice foliage in the background :)

The kids are great! Max is loving every second of preschool and is counting the days until his 4th Birthday (which isn't until Nov 30th!). He's got it all planned out from the venue, who's coming, the menu and what kind of cake he wants!! Unreal!! So much for the days of throwing together a small gathering and calling it good!

Mason is getting up on all fours so crawling is in his near future! Oh boy! He already manages to roll himself all around the house! He's still a breeze of a kid. He's such a good baby, with such a happy, mellow demeanor!

Ray & I have been running a few 5K's and with every one our times improve! And it's helping with the weight loss, coupled with Weight Watchers! Since I started WW, which I think was on September 1st, I have lost 10.5lbs!! YIPPEE!! It's been tough and I've had to exert a lot of will power but I'm fitting into some of my old clothes and feeling really good! So I've already met my first goal of losing 10-15lbs by Julie's wedding...maybe I'll be 15+ by then! I'm certinaly going to keep on chugging along with what I'm doing...it seems to be working!

Well a few have asked when I am going to post on this so here you go! :) I'll update this weekend with some picture of the kiddos!

Time to hit the treadmill! Check again for photos!

6 months

Mason had his 6 month appointment yesterday.

19lbs. 9oz. (90th percentile)

28 1/2 long (97th percentile)

All in all he's a healthy little boy! They did find a slight heart murmur, which of course had me in a state of panic but the doctor said that it's nothing to be concerned about, it's just something that they are going to have to monitor. Still, it gives me a knot in my stomach thinking about it.

Tomorrow Ray & I are running a 5K in Falmouth. We've both been running a fair amount so hopefully it will go well!

I started Weight watchers 2 weeks ago and I've lost 4.5lbs. I'm hoping the pounds keep coming off! Here are my goals:

• Nov 15 (my friend Julie's wedding) - to have lost 10-15lbs.
• Dec 31 - to have lost 20lbs.
• Feb 19 (my birthday) - to have lost 30lbs which will put me back at my college weight and where I would be VERY happy!
• Summer '09 - to be in a bikini- HA, HA, HA - I'm hilarious...I think the days of bikini's are LOOOOONG gone!

Here are a few photos of the boys!

Cool dudes!

Sound asleep (in the most awkward position!)

My favorite picture of the two of them!!! Priceless!!

Is it really September???

I was sort of putting this to the back burner because I didn't think people were really looking at this but I've been getting the "when are you going to update your blog!?!" a lot lately so here we go...

It's been a whirlwind last few months but I think we've finally slowed down...thank goodness!! In a REAL brief nutshell this is what we have been up to:

• Sebago Lake/Bear Island with the Lozano clan last week which was FABULOUS! (Thanks to James and Crystal for being great hosts as always!)

• Labor Day weekend (Sunday) at my parents camp - they have an annual celebration for all the kids for all the residents in the area


• Ray & I have been hitting the pavement running again as we have three 5K's coming up in the next few weeks. ** Ray also is going a dualathlon at the end of the month! (biking & running)


• Max started Preschool 3 days a week (M-W-F) and loves every second of it!!





• Mason is already 1/2 year!! Holy cow, time flies!! He's sitting up all by himself, rolling all over the place...the days of putting him in one spot, leaving the room and coming back and he's still there is LONG gone!

I'll try to update a bit more often now that things have slowed down a bit!

Red Sox, hail, wedding & trains

I know I always start my posts like this but - another busy weekend!!

It started on Thursday - Ray & I got last minute got tickets to the Sox game! It was awesome and nice to get down there for a game. We weren't sure if we were going to make it to one this year! Bill Cosby threw out the first pitch (kind of funny) and Dice-K pitched a good game!

Ray left on Friday AM for his "man-cation" with his 16 fraternity brothers so I was flying solo with the kids all weekend. We headed to Dundee Park with my sister and her kids on Saturday morning and then the storms moved in - we had INSANE hail! Max was mesmerized by it! "It's snowing in the summer time - that's silly!"

Sunday it was off to Boothbay for my childhood friend, Arin's wedding. The day was beautiful and she looked amazing!

The boys stayed at Ray's parents for the night and met us in Boothbay at the Train Museum - SO AWESOME! I'd never heard of it but - I highly recommend it! Max loved every minute of it.

Off to get some ZZZZ's! Here are just some pictures of the boys...