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Her and her BFF, McCoy

I REALLY cannot believe my precious baby luvs is 3!!!! Today, 3 years ago, we brought her home to our sweet, little house (that I miss like crazy), in the North Pole. There are days (many of days), where I wish I could turn back time and relive those 3 years. Make better decisions, slow down a bit, videotape her growing up more, RELAX, not worry about keeping up with daily expectations, but just CHILL out and do nothing with my family. Yepppppp........., but THATTTTT won't happen; and as usual, our week is jam packed with things to do, apts., errands, play dates, must-haves, to-do's; aahhhh.... if only we had a nanny to scrub our kitchen floors after every meal with a toddler, 8 month old, and hairy-ass dog!!! Then, I think life would be much more manageable!

So, I leave you with photos from her 3rd birthday pool bash at the YMCA. I will be hosting all parties from here on out outside of the home; I cannot even begin to tell you how nice it was to not have to clean before and after a par-tay'! Genius!

Tavi crashed out on mama

The butterfly cupcake-cake..with her name, nor age, written on it what-so-ever! I'm a terrible mother!

And what would be a party without the kids making/decorating their own visors????? I'll tell you...not a party!

My girlfriend Cathryn (from Alaska), with her beautiful daughter, Vika

Indy

Okay, I HAD 2... a bar downtown Indy

Catching up, catching up, catching up.... I'm pretty sure that has become my life story!! I try my hardest to stay 2 steps ahead, but it seems to be the opposite 99% of the time! Haven't I said this all before??? I sound like a broken record..really!

In case you were wondering...yes, he is still fat!

So..... two weeks ago, our jet setting trip began! I flew with the kiddos to Orlando, dropped them off with Andrew's parents, flew to Indy to spend the weekend with Andrew, then pressed for a 4 day girls trip from there, then back to Orlando, picked up the kids and flew home! I must also mention that I had a triathlon the day after I got home; which I would never recommend doing after being on vay-cay for 2 weeks... What was I thinking??? I did end up doing better than I thought I would, so I guess I can't complain!

Downtown Indy

Now, we're gearing up to have Salem's 3 year birthday party on Sunday (tears!!), Andrew's parents flying here on Monday, then we fly out (again), to Manhattan for 5 days... ALONE!!!

Andrew is #2



My girlfriend, Alex

Indy..... Andrew went there to do the Nascar flyover at the Brickyard 400. I had never seen Nascar before, and I can't say I have any desire to see it again! Sitting in the bleachers as a "normal spectator" sucked, but once we were able to get into the Pagoda/press boxes with the boys, things took a huge turn..4 the best! It was an experience I will never forgot (mostly involving the clientele) and it was touching to see how grateful thousands of fans were to the guys military service. They had little kids, all the way up to the high-rollers in the press boxes, asking for autographs and taking pictures with them. I mean, WOW, it was a sight to see!!!

Kissing the bricks...the winners tradition! I HAD to do pushups on the them...would you expect anything less from me???...I think NOT!!
Jimmie Johnson's trophy


View from the Pagoda Winner!! I won't lie...he touched me.... and I won't complain!

We also had some tennis connections, that allowed us to hit up the World Tennis Championship, that was (oddly enough), being held that same weekend in Indy. We watched Samurai Sam defeat his Canadian opponent in the semi-final match. Below are pictures of his traveling entourage that sling-shot headbands, t-shirts, etc. into the crowd during breaks; it is classic!

And this is what Salem did the entire time I was gone.....

Rumor has it, that she only changed out of the princess dress to go get in her bikini for some pool time!

Now, I'm off to the doctor to get her ruptured eardrum looked at from all that swimming! My guess is that they'll ask me to keep the fishy out of water. Hhhhmmm.... the princesses pool party on Sunday should be interesting!