Lots of good things this week! First of all – a new blog makeover! Change is always a good thing. I finally figured out how to design the header (are you impressed Heidi?) – Kenny still had to help with the technical HTML codes (putting said header on blog). Thanks babe – I know how you just LOVE to spend your evenings helping me with my blog. :)

I had such a great “mom moment” this week. One thing I love about my gym is that I can see into the windows of the kids club (where my kiddos play while I workout) from the treadmills. Every once in a while while I’m exercising I see the top of their heads running around. Last week I saw them run by and for the first time, Addison looked up and saw me through the window. She got so excited and she ran to find Ellie and they both stood there waving and blowing kisses to me with the biggest smiles on their faces. I started frantically waving back and blowing kisses to them and everyone on the treadmills lining both sides of me were looking at me like I was a total idiot. I didn’t even care. For some reason it just hit me and I was so overwhelmed with love for my two girls. I got a little teary eyed and just thought about how much I love them and how much I really do love being a mom. It was the highlight of my week. (Now I just need to remember that moment the next time they paint all over my carpet)

I’m a list maker. I LOVE to make lists. I make to-do lists every night (sometimes twice a day). I make lists for things I need to get done, projects, goals, recipes, scrapbook/blog stuff, ideas/ activities for my kids, etc. I hardly ever do half of the stuff on my list and sometimes I make them and don’t even look at them, but there is just something wonderful and therapeutic about making a list.

Last Wednesday (my one free morning w/o the girls) I headed to the UTC mall in La Jolla and had some fabulous alone time. I love San Diego malls! They are all outdoor and full of beautiful vines, flowers, and palm trees. It’s so fun walking around surrounded by so many enticing stores all in one place, feeling the sunshine and the ocean breeze…just makes you in the mood to shop! UTC is also fun to take kids to because they have a kid area with a jumpy, train, and little toys to play on. But I do have to say…malls are always more fun without the little ones! Speaking of lists and malls…is it too early to give Kenny my Christmas list? He just loves that every year I give him a list of things I want and then say “and don’t forget to surprise me too!”

Lastly, a good thing for my girls. They had such a great time this afternoon helping daddy pick lemons off of our lemon tree. The tree gets so covered in lemons that we have to keep picking them before they are even ripe. Kenny throws them off the hill and the girls love to pick them up and play with them and put them in bags to throw away. We don’t even eat lemons. We call the tree my mom’s “diet coke tree” because when she comes to visit she’ll pick a lemon for her diet coke and that’s the only time they get eaten! The girls also had fun playing with a snail they found among the tree trimmings – kept them entertained for an hour. That was a good thing for the whole family!