Recent pictures...

Rory petting a turtle at Sea World... Up a tree...

One of Rory's favorite things is to go to a nearby park and walk the train tracks...he could do that for hours. So we went and walked around and around.

Thought this was hilarious...typical man, hand down pants.

Silly kid.

My girl.

At La Jolla Shores for FHE on Monday, we had a blast with our friends! Sydney was obviously having a good time.

Playing in the sand/dirt/firepit ash..thought this was funny because Rory's friend Caden(on the right) had a raccon eye from rubbing the ash on his face...a little bit later he and his little brother Logan both had almost completely black faces. Out of all the kids, Rory stayed the cleanest, surprisingly!

Rory and Gene, they had just had a wrestling match, so thankfully they cooperated so I could get a picture of them being nice together.

What a good big brother...

I taught Joy school the week before last, and both days we learned about the Earth, so what better place to have our lessons than at a park? The first day we hit Old Poway, and then the second day we went to Lake Poway for a picnic. I had to add some of these pics in, they were just too cute, and we had a blast at the parks! One of our kids was out of town, but here's 4 of the 5 in our little school.
Here they are feeding the ducks/geese.

Hey all, here's some photos from the past couple weeks. Not anything too exciting happening, but we've been at Sea World a ton lately(and going again tomorrow). Figured we may as well get sea lifed out while we can, because as soon as summer break officially starts for the nation(next week maybe?) we don't go to places that draw crowds anymore for the rest of summer. We like to go when we have the park to ourselves!

Rory and Sydney are both doing great, Micah has been really busy with work, and I've been busy with all the fun day to day stuff that's been happening. I've had the priviledge(thanks Micah!) of having plentiful girls-nights-out over the recent weeks, so those keep me sane. Micah and I celebrated out 8th(count that, 8!!!) wedding anniversary. What a wonderful eight years it has been. We've had some extremely wonderful blessings lately, so lots to be grateful for!

Summer has begun

Summer has begun here in the Kim Household...even though we had May Gray and now June Gloom has set in, with a deep marine layer that lasts most of the day, we're not letting that get us down! We're living it up. Here's some updates:
Sydney is mobile! She does this cute little crawl where her right leg stays stuck underneath of her, and she pulls her bum along the floor. It's adorable. And she stands up along the furniture like a champ now, so looks like she'll be cruising before long. She plays peek-a-boo, claps, waves and says "hi," and loves cuddling with Daddy. She gets really excited when Rory comes in the room, and her whole face lights up. If he's there, she's a happy camper. She has a whole mouth full of teeth(7 with one more breaking through as we speak). She eats more than me most days. As of her 9 month appointment, she weighed in at just under 22 lbs, and measured at 28 1/2 inches. Still at the top of the charts. She's such a happy girl, and soaking everything up like a sponge. I can't believe how fast she's growing!
Rory is a crack up. He says things that amaze me everyday. He's so smart, he notices and remembers everything. He's got more energy than anyone I've ever known...like the energizer bunny. He'll say anything if he thinks he'll get a laugh from someone. He has his own opinion on everything, and has a comment for everything. He reminds me alot of myself, actually. Micah says that all the time... he has a fit if he doesn't get his way, and everything has to be just so. He is a very loving little boy, he tells me he loves me every 5 minutes...it's pretty funny. He likes to be tickled, cuddled, and thrown around. He loves music, books, and anything with wheels on it. He has the biggest imagination, I love that about him. He always pretends Gloria the Hippo(from Madagascar) is at our house. I've even tucked her into his bed before and helped Rory feed her lunch. Rory is VERY social, he'll talk to anyone that comes within his eyesight. He'll say hi to anyone a million times until they acknowledge him. It breaks my heart when he says hi to someone and they aren't paying attention and walk right on by without looking at him. I want to grab them by the collar and yell at them"Hey! Look at my beautiful boy and say Hi to him!!!!" Anyways, that got long, but it's easy to write a million wonderful things about your kids.

So Rory is taking swim lessons right now, he gets out of the pool after each lesson and runs over and says"I had SOOOO much fun at my lesson, Mommy!!" Now if only he'd sit still and pay attention, he would probably learn alot more! But he is doing well, it'll probably take a few more sessions to actually learn to swim, hopefully by the end of summer he'll have the basics down.
We're heading to Utah for Micah's family reunion next month, his family is camping, we booked a hotel. We always do when his family camps!! Micah is a smart man. he knows I would be extremely grouchy if I had to camp. No bed, no bathroom, no tv, no a/c= grumpy wife. But we'll have fun seeing everyone. That's about it for now!

Sydney stole my rootbeer popscicle.
Rory at his swim lesson...

Loed this pic of Sydney...

dad and Sydney chilling out.

Meet me in St. Loui...Loui...

We had a reall great time in St. Louis, visiting with our family. It's always nice to see everyone, and catch up on the missed hugs, kisses, and conversations. We weren't there very long(Thu-Mon), but by the time Sun. rolled around, I know I was more than ready to make my way back to San Diego...home sweet home. We pretty much just spent the weekend hanging out and relaxing. The weather was great, the day we got in was a little warm and muggy, but a storm came through on Friday evening, with tornado warnings for the surrounding areas, and all. We got some thunder and lightning, but it as shortlived, and cooler weather followed for the rest of the weekend. I even had a scare... I drove my sister and sister-in-law over to my Grandma Drury's house to spend the night, and on the way back to my Grandma Edward's house, a huge branch off a tree almost took my rental car out...I was a little shaken, but glad to get back!
We got to go to my childhood frozen custard place, Fritz's freeze, which was super yummy, and we of course hit up Steak and Shake,White Castle(or as I like to call it, diarreah in a box) and Cracker Barrel for a breakfast. We went to my childhood home(which my Dad built, he also built the neighboring homes), and the people who lived there even let me and my sister Kathryn in to take a peek. Let's say it was MUCH smaller than we remembered, but all in all, the same. We took a walk around the block, and over to the school I attended for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Rory played on the playground, and I walked around the school, and it was soooo weird, but a vent that had air coming out gave me a whiff of the inside of the school, and I'll tell ya, it smells EXACTLY the same as it did 20+ years ago!! Blast from the past...isn't it funny that you remember smells? Both of my Gransparents homes have very distinct smells, too, and I'll never forget them. It was weird driving around Florissant(the suburb we lived in), it almost felt like home, but not quite. It's no San Diego. ;)
My sister-in-laws couldn't get over how green it is there, and it is beautiful, but weird to see nothing in the distance because it's so flat. I'm used to looking off at the rolling foothills and mountains that surround us here, even though it's brown.
And it's fun living somewhere that you can brag about, or have poeple say"why the heck are you here if you can be in San Diego?" It gave me a new appreciation for where we live.
Anyways, as much fun as we had, it was wonderful to get home, we missed Micah so much(Rory whined about how he missed Daddy almost 20 times a day, that got old really quick!). Micah got to live it up while we were gone, and got a nice Friday and Saturday of playing disc golf, so hopefully he enjoyed it. Here's some pictures from our trip.

Rory on the plane ride over...he had a view of the turbine on the way there.
Rory and Great Grandma Drury.

Hanging out at Grandma Drury's house.

Sydney taking her sink bath.

Talking with long time neighbor Mrs. Price.

Bonus shot of Kathryn.

Sydney and Great Grandma Honey.Grandpa, Sydney, my cousin Grace, and Grandma

Rory and Grace playing

Rory out on the porch at Grandma Honey's.

Aunt Kasey and Rory

Sydney hanging out.

We had a family barbecue on Saturday, all of my aunts/uncles came except my Mom's oldest sister(we got to see her Sunday).

I like my grandpa in the back, he looks so stern!

Rory in front of our old log house(my Dad built this). We planted those trees in the front when we were little...they were tiny little trees back then!

My old school, Halls Ferry Elementary.

Rory going down to the playground at the school.

Front of the school, hasn't changed!!

I love to spy...

On people through their blogs....it's such a fun way to see what people that you know and care about(or maybe don' t know, or only care about a little) ;) are up to! I get the feeling that more people than I realize look at my blog, and I promise, if your reading this, I look at yours to(if I know your blog address). So this is an invitation from me...if you do not see your blog in my Rad people section, please send me your blog address, and I'll add you, because you know you want to be a part of the Rad person club. And if you don't want to be a part of the club, well, then, you don't belong anyways...
Oh, and check out this new blog, it's super fun to look at, and makes me absoloutely green with envy that their are people who are so talented and crafty out their...I know that I have my own talents that other people appreciate, but I am absoloutely not a "crafty" person. I'm sure I could pretend, but neither have the energy or the patience that would be required. So I will just enjoy nice gifts from all of you crafty people out their(hint,hint). This lady, Julie, is a friend of my parents from church. Let me know what you think, and leave her a comment, too!

Mother's Day

Rory and the cow.

Rory and I are down their on the sea walk,sorta in the middle... (it's like a search and find).

We had a wonderful day today! Micah and I came down with a bug of some kind on Friday, and we were both miserable Friday afternoon into Saturday, but today we're both recuperated, and just so glad neither of the kids caught it. Micah's parents were so sweet and came and picked up Rory on Friday night, and he spent the night and most of Saturday with them, which gave us a lot more time to rest, and Rory some quality time with his Mema and Grandpa Kim. He has been whining since he got home yesterday that he wants to go back, so we'll have to make this a more regular thing(is that okay Mom and Dad?) ;)

Anyways, because we didn't want to risk spreading any remaining germs, we decided to skip church today, so I got to sleep in this morning, and awoke to handmade cards from Rory, Sydney, and Micah. Micah even included a sweet letter(which he asked me to burn, but of course will not!!!). After the kids took their afternoon naps, we decided to get out of the house for a little bit, so we headed down to La Jolla to the children's pool to see the sea lions, and take a little walk. We kept seeing painted cows all over La Jolla.(We found out it's to raise money for Children's Hospital, you can actually buy one! Local artist painted each one, we saw at least 25 just down a couple of streets around downtown La Jolla.) Anyways, all Rory was concerned about was getting out of the car to see one while we drove by, so we stopped by one and he wanted to ride it, but unfortunately their was a sign that said no climbing...booo). So we sufficed with a picture next to it.

All in all, it was the best Mother's Day I've ever have two beautiful, smart, funny, and healthy kids, and a wonderful Husband that makes it possible for me to stay at home with them everyday. Thanks for that gift, honey!!