Rocking Davis Ranch

This has been a weird summer in the Sacramento area! Usually we literally fry during the summer. This summer, however, has been very mild. While most of the nation is literally cooking chocolate chip cookies on their dashboards, we have been blessed with very warm (but not unbearable days) and perfect evenings where you can sit outside and enjoy your self. In fact, it has been so awesome, that we have even been able to bike ride without just falling short of IV re hydration!! I love California...right now!

Super blurry...my moms old school camera phone. Don't you love the girls helmets :)

Yesterday my mom, the girls and I ventured out to a little area known as Sloughhouse. With most people in our area, you say Sloughhouse, and they say...best.corn-on-the-cob.ever!! And yes, it is the best corn-on-the-cob ever!! Not only does it taste a little bit like Heaven, but you can get 27 ears for $7 bucks!!!

The barn where all the goodness is kept!

Strawberry picking area!

They bring the oodles of corn in on these tractors and bag them up for ya at the barn!

This awesomeness, along with all the best fruits and veggies is located at this ranch called Davis Ranch. I love to go there for their amazing fruits and veggies, but every September they have a fun event for kiddo's called the Gord Festival. And, if you are one that purchases real Christmas Trees, this is the place to go!!! And...you can pick your own Strawberry's!! Shockingly though yesterday, with no fun kids stuff, Elizabeth had a ball and Meghan was super quiet, along for the ride, in her stroller!!

Some of our goodies we brought back. Those there folks are green tomatoes...I'm gonna have me some fried green tomatoes!!

So...go to Davis Ranch!! Get yer veggies and fruits...and don't forget the corn!!

I Suck...

At blogging. I sit and read everyone else's blogs, venture off to new ones and fail at mine. Yes I'm busy, but so is everyone else!! Time for me to get back on track!!

Well, since summer is over, here is a rundown of what the happenings have been.

Elizabeth - finished 1st grade :) and will be going on to second grade starting next week. She is so not ready to go. But I sweetly tell her too bad, it's a part of life so she better start liking it or it is going to be a long 11 years. For the first time ever, she went to church camp. It was only two nights but she had a blast!! She has been swimming like a fish, ballet/jazz and gymnastics. There is no way she can ever say that she was bored this summer. And, amazingly, I followed through with taking her and her friend to the library every week so we can keep up on our reading! I'm a nerd, I know all the librarians by name now!!

Miss Knight! Amazing teacher. This was the card that we made to give her. She retired last year!

Meghan - is a little over half-way in her hyperbaric therapy. She is doing fantastic. She listens and follows directions better. She is associating objects with words more often and trying to say different things. Her attention span is so much better. But, that girl just won't sleep. She is up anywhere from 2 to 5 times a night. Potty training is also sucking bad. I just hope that someday these two issues will be a thing of the past and we can move forward more refreshed and without having to change diapers.

Meghan having a blast in the backyard pool!!

Matt and I - have been working like crazy. We all went down to Pismo in June for my nieces high school graduation. We took a week and just relaxed. Matt and I ran away for a couple of days to Santa Barbara and had some alone time. I was looking forward to undisturbed sleep, but, Matt got a cold and snored in my ear both nights. When we were in Pismo, I took Elizabeth to my elementary school, Shell Beach, and played with her on the play ground. Talk about sentimental. She swung on the same swings I played on when I was her age. I'm getting misty eyed even thinking about it again :) I was showing a friend of mine pictures of my elementary school and he said that he would have purposefully failed just to stay at that school. I guess us Bears were lucky!

 My niece...Anna (sorry, little blurry)

 I used to swing on that same bar.

 The view from my elementary school playground!

 Matt and I rented this little 3 wheel motorcycle/car/thingy. We totally got laughed at.

Santa Barbara State St. If you have never been...GO. Three words girls, Paseo Nuevo Mall!!

We got our back yard done this summer. It no longer looks like we are ready to go mud bogging! We actually have grass, a garden, and room for the kids to play.

See the grass!!!!!!!!

Good think that middle finger is pointed in!

We have taken the boat out a few times this summer. This is the first year that we really have gotten to take Meghan out without any issues. Last year when we took her out, she would have seizures, we would have to give her Diastat, then she would pass out for a few hours. Meghan loves the boat, but mostly she likes to drive it!! The last time we went out, Matt flipped Elizabeth out of the tube. I have never ever seen anyone cartwheel across water before. I was so afraid that she would be scared, but she popped up laughing!! Thank goodness. Next year, I want to get her up on a wakeboard or at least ski's!

That's our friend Jenny's back. Awesome little place to float, play and drink it up!

Don't worry Matt...she's not going to break it or like forget to put the plug in (ahem)

Elizabeth finally has a loose tooth! I mean for crying out loud she is going to be 7 in October. She was the only one in her 1st grade class that did not lose a tooth. However, the longer it takes for her permanent teeth to come in, the healthier they will be.

Alright, that is a snapshot of what has been going on. I can't wait to get these kids off to school! Meghan will be going to preschool again. She went a few weeks at the end of last year and loved it. AND, what is so cool is that she gets picked up and dropped off by bus. Yes, it is a little yellow bus, but she rock is!!

Much love to you all
Kerri <3

Let's Meet!

Hi! I'm Kerri. I'm 34 years old living in Sacramento with my husband, also my best friend, Matt! We have two awesome daughters Elizabeth and Meghan. Elizabeth was born on October 22, 2004 and Meghan was born March 23, 2008 (Easter Sunday). Also living in my not so large house is my mom Sharyn and our 3 to 5 crazy cats (I will explain all this later).

Matt and I both work full time and cherish the time we actually get to spend together. We love summer!! Sacramento gets to be pretty hot so we take our boat out to the river (usually) to do some wakeboarding and tubing. So when the weather heats up...we are always on the water!

Elizabeth goes to Kindergarten. She loves it, I think for the sake of socializing! She is a great student and really tries hard in school. I'm so proud of her. I seriously have not met a more well mannered kid than her. I guess all the nagging I did when she was little worked out well! Elizabeth does both ballet and gymnastics. She is the stockiest ballerina I have ever seen but she loves it and I love watching her! Elizabeth also had tons of friends who are just awesome! Elizabeth started daycare when she was 5 months old and still is very good friends with those kids (even though we are all at different schools now).

Meghan, my sweet Meggers, where do I start! Meghan can light up a room when she toddles on in! She has also taught me so much about what is truly important in life. When Meghan was 6 months old, she started having seizures. All seemed good, and we plugged away at life keeping her as well as possible to avoid anymore seizures. Three months after her first seizure, she had a really bad one during the night. It was bad enough to cause damage to her left frontal lobe of the brain. She was 10 months old when this happened, and after that seizure she was developmentally set back to a 2 month old. Meghan still has seizures (Partial Complex and Generalized Clonic-Tonic) but are controlled pretty well with medication. We just try to not let her get sick. She still has some delays (especially with Speech) but she is in a Preschool daycare 3 days a week and also goes to toddler gym! She is my rock and I so admire her strength!

I plan on capturing the important, crazy, insane, fun and just down right stupid moments of our life on this blog...both past and future! I gotta say that I am pretty excited to do so. I hope that when the girls are older they can look back on this blog and enjoy it to.