Socal Vacation

The girls and I are in Simi Valley for a few days for Tate's College Graduation. I also wanted to come to say goodbye to a dear friend, Heidi before she moves to Scotland for 3+ years. How exciting for them. Jason, her hubby is studying for his Doctorate at Saint Andrews. We had a great time visiting with them and I did a mini photo session. Look for sneak peaks late next week on the photo blog. Below are some pics of the last few days. Practically SOOTC (straight out of the camera) so be kind! :) No fancy smanchy editing software here!

New photo blog

Hello hello! I know I am waayyy over due for a post but it's been CRAZY over here! Hopefully I will have some down time next week to tell you all about it. I did want to mention that I have a new photography blog. Super simple to remember: www.cierraperaphotography.com/blog

That's it!

Love to you all!

Christmas 2008

A Christmas post you ask? I like to plan ahead. If you spend the holidays with us I wanted you to clear your schedule. Since you will be traveling to my house this year. I am putting my foot down. I want family here. There are a few catches though- You will need to stay at a hotel- our only spare room will be taken most likely. I will not be cooking, so plan on bringing a turkey or ham or whatever. You will probably be put to work washing laundry and such. I will probably be very crabby too. The house will be very loud and lots of things going on. What WILL I be doing you ask??

Isn't it obvious?? I will be on the couch with my feet up BEGGING the little person inside me to come out!

Surprise! Pera baby number 3 on the way! Due December 31! Itwill be interesting to see who responds to this. I have a feeling my mom is the only one who checks! Love to you all. Oh yeah- fun picks too:

Southern Cal Beach Fun

Way back in the beginning of March we went to Southern California. Here are some pictures from our trip. These are the beach pictures. Next post will be of the zoo!

Update time! I am hoping to move this blog into a more daily reader about LOTS of things, rather then just family updates that my mother reads! There are some great things out there that we need to know about! So I'll be brushing off the old journalism dream and posting more- don't quote me on that! But for now here are the updates:

Our house before the ripe out! Sooooo ugly (but thankful!!)

Our house after the clean up! It's almost pretty! We are thinking about paint colors and landscape ideas. We also have the hard shale (extremly hard sandstone rock) that is just below the surface. NOTHING will grow in it! Couple more trees out and we will be almost there.

After 7 years of dreaming, 3000 hours of internet searching, Steve has his dream truck! It's a '68 Chevy Long bed and such and such. Maybe he can do a post about it. He litterally knows EVERYTHING about this truck. Thank God!

Took the girls to Daffodil Hill again this year. Love it there.

That's all for now. Promise to update soon.

C

Valentines Photos

Thought you might enjoy these shots I did today with the girls... we had a ball!

Growing

There is a lot of growing going on around here. Not all good I might add.... Today I did something amazing: When others where tucking in their shirts... I was tucking in my 'growing' I've done over the last months. And no smarties- I'm not pregnant! SIGH...

I think this means I need to exercise. I hate exercise. I hate it when others say " I feel so great after I run and I have so much energy." Me? I feel like death and want to sleep... Ahh, life's big question looms: How do I loose weight without doing anything??

I'm just kidding. I know I need to exercise (yuck).

Isn't interesting how closely our lack of endurance with weight mimics our Christian walk? So often we seem to just float along, nibbling here and there from the world. Not eating and drinking the Word of God or running our race? Then one day we look down and our fat pants don't fit? Our flesh has multiplied and taken over? Why is it we think that one little cookie won't hurt? Or one peek at Grey's Anatomy on ABC won't really matter? We're just watching for the medical stuff right???

Time and time again I am reminded that I can't just walk the line. It's no good to be *almost* Christ-like. Just like it's no good to be almost in a 4, err I mean a 6.... Ok Ok a 8! Snap!