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everyone has been sick at our house and i have not been very good at keeping this blog updated. i have just uploaded my pictures from my little camera and i have not done that since february so i have plenty of pictures to post. dave is enjoying his new job but not the commute. my mom and i went to lunch at coastal flats on wednesday, that was fun. i bought a new pair of shoes that i was really excited about, loved them the first time i wore them and then the second time they cut into my heels and gave me blisters because my feet were too swollen...i am really frustrated with not being able to wear shoes. the swelling in my feet always comes back. even when the swelling goes down, it is always just temporarily. i am sending the shoes (cute red strappy mary janes) with my parents to jerusalem to give to mariah. i hope they fit her and won't be a complete waste of money. hmm, what else?? dave and i are off sugar for the month of may and i have been doing jillian michaels thirty day shred. i am currently on day three.

audrey is a champ at rolling to what she wants. she rolls across the room and i imagine she will be crawling soon. she is so playful and loves to play with her mom and dad, her grandparents and the dog.

here are a few pictures of recent happenings:

the view on our hike at torrey pines in san diego


thomas singing "the highwayman" (the poem my mom would read to us when we were little) to my mom during the program for her birthday


my coupon shopping trip. this all cost me $15.31. i saved $18.59 in coupons. i was making a cake for truman's birthday and the snickers were at his request. the frosting tubs were fifty cents a tub. i need to continue shopping with coupons since groceries cost so much here.


some cute shots of audrey:





in a darling outfit from Edee and Brooklyn Proctor (thanks!):











she was playing and she started to whine while i was cleaning the kitchen so i walked over and she had gotten herself tangled up in her activity gym:





who's that kid with the oreo cookie?




here are a few that dave snapped when we were knockin' around old town alexandria:




portrait taken 4/28/09