Flowers & Nerds

This is a very random post.

Nevertheless, I need a little break from packing and getting ready for our trip to Newport Beach, CA. We leave on Monday for a full week. This is our fourth year to go for Jason's National ALS conference. It is such a dream vacation for me: warm weather, fabulous hotel, two pools, two miles from the ocean, sushi, sunshine. Need I say more? And now this year I finally get to tote a baby along with me while Jason is in his meetings. I have dreamed of this for the last three years!

Well, back to the random post.

Randomness #1: During the week between Christmas and New Years, Kate dropped three fourths of her children off at my house while she got groceries with Brady. Evidently while they were grocery shopping Brady begged his mom to get flowers for his Aunt Nen. Kate finally said yes, and so here are the beautiful flowers my sweet, sweet, seven-year old nephew, Brady, brought me.
I nearly cried.

Several times since we have adopted Abram, I have said to Brady, "You know you were my first baby boy, don't you?!"
Randomness #2: This is how Jason and I spent a good portion of New Year's Day . . .
Oh yeah . . . organizing the files, baby! We are both big nerds . . . and we know it.

Not only did we organize, but we purged. Big time. Here are all of the manila folders that are no longer in existence in our household. WOO HOO!
This was our second trash can full of trash. Not to mention the shred pile.

Jen's Academy . . .

I took my Taebo workout DVD to Kate's yesterday. Brady had really been wanting me to bring it. I've done Taebo a number of times at their house before so they know what it is all about. They'll follow the video for a little bit and always end up doing their own thing. I usually do it with them, but we had just eaten dinner and I wasn't about to do Taebo that soon after eating. So, I sat back and took pictures. And laughed A LOT.

They all got their "exercise clothes" on, moved the furniture like we usually do and went to town. Greysen wasn't going to miss the action.
Syd turned around and said, "Aunt Nen, I do this one really good." Cracked me up!Mya decided to do some sit-ups (even though they don't do that in this video)!

Now it was time for Brady and Sydney to do sit-ups.

And some more....

Mya capped it off with some jumping jacks on the chair.

When Jason got to their house and I showed him the pictures on my camera, his only comment was, "Jen's Academy."

Owls

For the past many, many months whenever Sydney would pray before a meal (which was at least every day), she would say,

Thank you God for the sun, and the moon and the stars and the owls.

Where she ever thought to thank God for owls no one knows. But it is stinking cute. So, for Christmas, I just happened to find the cutest pair of p-poppers with owls on them (and they are even purple!). Last week, Mya just happened to get a pair of hand-me-down, matching owl p-pops from the Zielkes!

I couldn't resist having them pose for a pic!