Erik, Jenn, Tyler & Mason

I haven't put a lot of updates on here lately but I have taken quite a few pictures. First time in the big boy bath Feeding crackers to himself I turn my back for one second and he scoots and rolls across the house! First time crawling! YAWN! Crawling is tiring!

I have such great friends. Each of them is awesome and I value their friendship very much. Not to mention they are all quite beautiful. Who has ever seen so many beautiful women in one place? I look up to all of you-- you are all such great moms, you always seem to have it all together, you all work so hard and are so sweet and kind. Your honesty, your talents and your charity amaze me every day. Thanks for always being such an inspiration in ways you don't even know.

This is our very first family photo. Isn't that sad??!? We have never handed anyone a camera and said, "Hey take a picture of us!" So, we were at Snoqualmie a few weeks ago with the Holman's and Suzanne took this cute picture of our little family!

It's too bad there isn't a 24 hour fitness around here I can go to. I've been laying in bed completely awake all night. I read 100 pages in my book at midnight and that didn't even make me tired. I'm drinking warm milk, I took a sleeping pill, nothing. Isn't it the worst feeling ever when you know you are tired but you can't sleep? My brain is going a mile a minute on dumb stuff I don't care about and I am dreading Tyler's inevitable 6:00am wake up call because I just know by then I'll be exhausted and dragging--though you wouldn't know it with the energy I have now. I bet you one million dollars I could get Suzanne to run 5 miles with me right now. Don't worry Suzanne--I won't be calling you. :) But seriously, I want to sleep!!! ARGH!!!!!!! Tomorrow will not be fun.

We went to Best Buy today and got a Canon Powershot. It's awesome. We had a lot of fun breaking it in.

I ran 3 miles tonight (thanks Ash and Suz!) without walking and I was thinking about how much I've changed--both for better and worse in the last 3 years. I've gone from 118lbs to 209lbs and then back down to 148lbs and counting. So I wanted to show you some pix of me both when I was super hot and not so hot. It's motivating for me and it's nice to show off how skinny I used to be. Maybe someday I'll get back there.....I hope this doesn't seem full of myself. I just wanted to show some before and afters. Even though I'm not after yet. Last week 2 months after Tyler was born June 2007 April 2008 (yes, those are size 2 jeans) February 2007 at work ...

Tyler finally got 2 of his teeth to pop through this week! The first one on Saturday and the second one this morning (Tuesday)! What a big week! He turned 8 months old today. I can't believe how fast he's growing. He still doesn't crawl and I can't say I'm too disappointed...at least I don't have to chase him all over the house yet. He says Mama and Dada and Baba and Hi and he's working on Bye bye and Binky. He feeds himself crackers and fruit and practices with a spoon. We've been having a lot of fun. I know I hadn't posted in a while so I wanted to put something on here. I will also add that I have been stepping up my working out to two or three times per day and making them more vigorous. I haven't seen a ton of results yet but I'm sure they will happen. I was thinking yesterday, I'm finally going to get my body back just in time to mess it up again with another baby! ARGH! I don't know how some of you do it!!!! Have a gr...