Victory

Usually I post about both my kids, but this one is a bit different. I am a proud mom today. Benjamin ran in the Elementary Cross Country Championships. He was originally suppose to run last Thursday, but the race had to be rescheduled. They moved it to the following day, Friday, but quickly found out that many schools could not make it. Third times a charm, they set it for today and all was set. This morning was a cold and gloomy morning. We were hoping that the weather would clear and we would get the promised 64 degrees.

48 degrees and Rain is what he gets to run in. The meet started at 9:30 am, he ran at 11:15 am. That means he stood in the rain that whole time. He finally raced and did awesome. 2nd place! AND he PR'd 5:50 for the mile. 

I am so proud of him. He was freezing cold, soaked to the bone, and still rocked it. 

Now for the treat at the end of every running season. He gets a massage pedicure. His feet take such a beating during the season this is his reward. He loves it. 

Halloween

Yesterday was halloween. We had my sister Adele and her husband, my sister in law, her daughter and husband, a friend, her two kids and husband,  another friend and her husband and my in laws. It was a full house and lots of fun. We love decorating the house. The scarier the better.

 
Rain was expected so we started truck or treating at 5:30. The rain started at 7:30. Jasmine was Hermione from Harry Potter and Benjamin was Hunter Pence, Whoopy Cushion, then Robin. I was Poison Ivy and hubby was Batman. We got lots of trick or treaters which is fun. My sister and Benjamin had great fun scaring kids after they got done trick or treating.
Great night. Great company. I love this holiday!

Kids

Kids are growing and getting bigger. I realized I have slacked on posting here. I want to start this blog by saying my kids are each others best friends, but every now and again they get in arguments. The latest was possibly the most funny. They were bickering about nonsense the other morning. No real reason for the argument except for the fact that they could.

Jasmine: You are making me mad
Benjamin: You are no longer my favorite sister.
Jasmine: Ha, I am your ONLY sister.
Benjamin: That is way that hurts so much.
Jasmine: BENJAMINNNN that is not nice.

But in all fairness these little arguments only happen once in a blue moon. 99% of the time they are best of buddies. I am a lucky mom!

On a side note. Hubby and I got Fitbit Flexs and the kids got our old Fitbit Zips. We have an ongoing competition for who can make the most steps in a day, week and weekend. Benjamin dominates us on the week days and walks/runs about 25,000 steps a day. Jasmine gets about 6,000 steps a day. Hubby gets about 14,000 a day. I walk about 12,000 a day. If you want to join or compete against us just send me a message we will add you. It is fun and great way to keep moving

I took a picture of each of the kids every day for a full year of school. We did not miss days. Look how they have grown.

Christmas Program 2010

I know that it is coming as a shock to everyone, who knows me and has read my past blogs, that I have blogged more than one time in the last month. Not to mention four times. A lot has been going on here lately. The trips, parties, events, and then today the kids had their annual Christmas Program at school. 

Jasmine looks all sparkly here because we used about half a bottle of glitter on her. She was so excited and the most animated that we have ever seen her at a performance. Normally she is shy and does not want to be seen on stage. She wants to hid in the group, but this year she was blowing kisses, waving and really performing. I was so proud of her. She was so cute.

 

This is her singing the song.

 

This is Benjamin. He was his normal animated self. He beats to his own drum and owns that fact.

 

Here is Benjamin singing and dancing to his song, reindeer hokey pokey. The whole thing was too cute. They are definitely getting older, taller, and wiser, but they are still cute as ever.

San Diego Trip

I know there are lots of Pictures in this blog, but they were so cute I could not decide which ones to keep or to get rid of. So I kept them all in this blog. We loved this trip.

We went to the Gaslamp District and Uncle Bassim bought us all mustaches. Jasmines was called the Weasel.

 

Benjamin was the Sheriff. It actually looked good on him.

 

This was at Sea World in front of Shamu's stadium. She was so excited.

 Here is Benjamin also in front of the Shamu Stadium. He had a million questions while we were there. Once he found out that the "original" Shamu was dead, he told everyone that he saw that this is a fake one. Cassy (his 2 year-old cousin) then was following up his comment with, "Shampoo was dead and we eat him."

 We were blessed to have not only Rougeh's family with us, some dear friends, but on top of both of those we had my brother and his family with us. Trevor is here with me. I love this little boy!

 On the way home we stopped by Kings Harbor. Captain Kidd's is our favorite sea food place of all times. They steam and crack the spider crabs for us. We ate two crabs and three dozen of their clams. It was such a great meal. The kids saw this whale outside the door to the restaurant and could not help playing a bit.

Jasmine just being stinking cute. I love her so much. Look at those freckles, teeth and beautiful blue eyes.

Daddy and kids in front of a clown mural. They are acting silly. We all had so much fun. Great relaxing trip.

They were on the rocks at the Pier. Rougeh wanted a picture with the kids. His instructions were lift your hand up. Jasmine and him were on the same page, but Benjamin missed the memo that lift your hands up meant in the air, not shrugging your shoulders. I think the picture was so cute though.

These are my boys. They are so much alike in personality, in looks and in the fact that they both LOVE to pose for a camera.

Christmas is in the air

 

Today we spent the day making Christmas foam kits. We made 8 in all. I should have taken pictures while we were making them, but forgot. The best I could do is show what it all looks like complete

This is just one picture of the whole thing. We began at 10:45 and finished at 4 pm. Long day of creativity.