My little boy is 1!!!

Today my baby is 1! I can't believe it. He was 3 weeks early and weighed in at 8lbs 3ozs...he definity wanted to come out and make his mark! I'm so happy he is here, and can't imagine NOT having him. He brings so much joy to our home and our family. He is walking more and more and soon will be running I'm sure..

He is silly, and loves his sister! He is her little shadow and to watch them play together and how Taylor cares for him brings so much joy to my heart! Blake is still a mommas boy but he loves loves his daddy. He gets so excited when he sees Mark walk through the door after work and right away wants to be in his arms.

My children are so sweet and watching them grow into their own person is so great to be part of. Blake is doing so much and I can't wait to see how much he weighs at his 1yr check up this Thursday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAKE!! Mommy, Daddy and Tay Tay love you very much!!

My little girl is 6 today!!

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!!

I'm such a proud mommy that my little girl is 6 today! I can't believe it's been 6 years already, time sure is flying. She is such a beatiful little girl who has such an amazing little spirit. I love her love for life her spunk. She tells it like it is and isn't afraid to stand up for what is right. She is a great big sister to Blake and they both love each other soo much! She makes Mark and I so proud of her. She is a total daddy's girl, and even has shirts to prove it and she wears the proudly!

Today she is with her Titi Stephanie and cousin Sarah at Disneyland celebrately her big day today!! Yes, I let her play hooky from school..LOL I am grateful that Heavenly Father allowed her to come to me and give me the opportunity to be her mother and raise her. I hope that I can do a good job that would make him proud of me. Taylor brings so much joy and love to our lives. I am so happy she is my daughter and so happy to watch her grow up and become more of a young lady.

This posting is for her..Taylor Mommy loves you very much and I'm so proud of you! You make me happy everyday, and I smile everytime I think of you! Your smart, funny and beautiful. Daddy and I are happy and proud your our little girl. I love you beyond words and like you would say "from her to the sun" or "from her to nana bebe's house and back" or "this much" with your arms outstretched...Well baby girl mommy loves you all these and much much more!! You will always be my baby and you will never be too big for hugs and kisses and snuggling with me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!!!

LOVE ALWAYS AND FOREVER AND EVER,

Mommy

July Aug fun

So not so much happening in the last several weeks since my last post. We have been celebrating birthdays up in Torrance w/our family there. The picture below is Sarah (the kids cousin who we went to her b-day) taylor and blake at dinner celebrating my sis in laws b-day. A great time was had. Mark and I at dinner.

Our little family with Elmo at Sarah's birthday. It was so much fun!

Blake my little serious guy!

My little princess. I can't believe how big she is getting and beautiful if I do say so myself!! :-)

Well, just a few pics to update this blog. We have 2 other birthdays to celebrate w/our Torrance family this weekend. So busy around here, and Mark with work that it's tough to really do what I want to do or get done. Right now Taylor is visiting nana and papa so it's just Blakester and I. I miss her so much when she is away but I find peace when I hear all the fun stuff she is doing. Well, both kids birthdays are coming up mid Sept and I have no clue what to do. I want to do a Tonka Truck (not the construction ones) but the other ones like they sale at Target dump truck, monster truck, garbage truck, school bus etc theme but when I google it constuction theme tonka trucks come up. So I'm stuck...What do you do for a 1yr old anyways!????? How do I make a cool theme cake anyways too? Do you have to be talented and able to draw??? Cause I would love to make their cakes!! Any ideas? Taylor was to do her b-day at chuckie cheese so that is pretty easy but I still have to do a theme for treat bags, and cake...Man, both b-days are 4 days apart so we are celebrating 2 weekends in a roll...I have no idea where to start or what to do...(okay I'm starting to sound crazy!! LOL)

Also, does anyone know of a place I can buy a cocktail dress or formal gown that would cover my "g's"??? Mark has a Khaki ball coming up, and I have searched and searched and most dresses are sleeveless, spagettii strap...I'm in need of a gown badly and soon!! Any ideas of where to look would be much appreciated...(I did see a strapless gown at davidsbridal and though of wearing a half 3/4 sleeve sweather over it so then I could wear my "g's" but I have no idea where I can find a sweater like that either....dilemas (sp) lol

Well Mark is almost off work and I need to pick up mister Blake's mess and get dinner heated up..I made cabbage cornbeef soup and made it yesterday and so glad I did cause I am in no mood to cook tonight...

Snap shots

He was moving around too much for me to get a clear pic!! (BLOG is below all the pics) He is sooo over me taking pics of him lately, he doesn't want to do it anymore!! lol

My pretty girl!!!

Blake was not having it to take a pic w/sister

Ummm if I pretend she isn't there, maybe she will go away with that stupid camera!!

I thought it would cute to take pics before church today of the kids. Late last night I remembered Blake had NO church clothes at all. He has out grown all his and just has summer clothes. So I ran to Walmart first cause I wanted a GOOD deal cheap you know since he would be out growing it soon! So off to Walmart we go, get there and what do you know NO church stuff, they have TONSSSSSSSSSSSSS of cute girlie stuff but no BOY stuff!!! I didn't even bother to go to my FAV store Target cause I never find church stuff so that wasn't an option. So being disappointed I said "lets go to Khols" Off we go! We get there, and hmmm go figure having the same problem not being able to find anything!!! So before I was going to throw my hands up and say forget it, our boy is going to church "whiskey tango" (a.k.a white trash) I run across a rack of CHAPS. Totally cute stuff, but TOTALLY EXPENSIVE!! Button up collar shirt $24.00 khaki pants $32.00 holy moly are you serious!!! Then I see a sale sign that says 50% off..okay a little sigh but still stressin!!! But I was not wanting blake to go to church "whiskey tango"!!! So I did it!!! So about $30 later we have a ONE SHIRT and ONE pair of PANTS!!! I'm el cheapo!

So okay NO WHISKEY TANGO kids going to church!!! Mister Blakester got a stylin outfit....and DUMB me got 12mos instead of 18mos. He will probably be able to wear it a few times if I'm lucky!!! I'm such a DORK!!! He is 10mos totally thought 12mos would be okay for awhile, but NOPE not for my BIG BOY!!!

Blake 10 months today

My baby is 10 months today! I totally remembered after 9pm when we were walking out of the store. What a bad mom I am. Not that we had or planned a big celebration but I felt bad about remembering soo late in the day. So as soon as we got home I rushed to take pics of him so I can post and also have some so I can put in his memory book. I thought I would share with everyone.


This first pic was the ONLY smile I could get out of him, and I ended up taking 17. He was sooo OVER it all after this one..He looks like his daddy in this pic...I love his smile and he is soo stinkin cute! He is moving everywhere through out our house and doing so much and saying so much..He says mama, dada, nananananana, bah, and is starting to recongize some signs I do for him for drink, more, and all done. I love him soo much and he adds so much to our house!!
This was a I'm totally not into this mom look !

As long as I have my binki I'm okay with anything you want to do mom and sportin OLD SCHOOL RUN DMC shirt...( I might add his mommy LOVES RUNS House on MTV) ha ha ha

As you can see he loves to stand up against EVERYTHING and does not matter what is there he goes for it..in this case his sisters cop truck...boy it's nice having a tomgirl who likes some boy toys, makes buying toys for him a whole lot easier and cheaper when it comes time..lol

This is my little stud muffin!!! Even though at times I want to pull my hair out cause all he wants to do is whine or cry or hold me mommy ALL DAY sometimes...I would NOT trade him for anything. I am very blessed to have this little booger and grateful to have him and be his mommy! He helps with learn patience! Taylor and him are one of my many blessings I'm soo grateful for that I was blessed by my Heavenly Father to have.

Some of our July fun!!

I have managed to upload and have for here our pictures we took at the beach last friday. We decided since Mark was off work we should go to the beach and do a family thing, we went about 10ish and didn't get home till after 4pm. Mark and I got sunburned cause we didn't reapply, the kids got minor sunburns that went away within a couple days and now are sunkissed. I was a good mom and re-applied sunblock to them but now smart enough to do it our myself or Mark. lol So I'm paying for it still!

I love this pic of Blake we had just sat him down on the wet sand and the tide had just came up, and he just stared out to the ocean. It was soo cute, and I just LOVE LOVE this pic!
Blake crawled around everywhere in that wet sand close to the water with taylor watchful eye. They both had so much fun, and to see how happy they both were was soo much more fun! Both loved the water and had a blast!

Mommy and Taylor before we got in the water, we had bought those glasses for Blake which he would have nothing to do with them and Taylor forgot hers in the truck so we opted for a sunglass mommy and tater picture together..

My water babies before getting into the water and playing in the sand. Blake did good, didn't put sand in his mouth as often as we expected. He was more interested in crawling to the water and off the blanket by our sun tent then to really eat the sand, but the sand he did get on his hands he put that in his mouth and giggled when he was tasting the sand..lol So for that I was constantly wiping his tongue off.

Daddy and Taylor building a sand castle, they build a really good one too! The tide came up several times after they were done, and went all over it but for some reason their castle stood still! No major damage and you could still tell it was a castle..I like a dork didn't take pictures of it, but it was an awesome castle!! Spent awhile on it, while Blake and I napped in our sun tent!! Both Mark and Taylor had RED RED RED backs..taylors went away and is now a tan and Mark is still dealing with a sunburned back..what a great daddy he is!!

So this was our fun so far captured in photos. We spent 4th of July with our Torrance family and had a great time. We were able to watch it outside their house which made for easy baby watching, and relaxation with great company. I can't believe Blake will be 1 this Sept. Taylor will be 6 this Sept as well. I have 2 parties to plan and both are 4 days apart. With Blake coming 3 weeks early made for a busy Sept to plan 2 birthdays every year just 4 days apart and of course they have to be different, the huge age gap, the boy/girl sitution...but it will be done and everyone will have fun! Just have to come up with what to do..Next baby, Mark and I will have to really sit with a calender and come up with all the different scerinos (sp) and see what is a good time to start trying again...lol My luck we'll have another sept baby..ha ha ha ha ha ha I hope not!! I want a summer baby, so I don't have to undure another summer preggers...:-) and to be preggers around the holidays would be awesome!!! I can eat and eat and have an excuse....I think that would be wonderful!! Hmmm my hamster is turning of dates of when we should start trying now, lol I have to hurry up and get my heart stuff done, and out of the way before we try again anyways. So we will see!!

Getting back into Blogging..

So much pictures com up backwards..grrr so the pic below is of Taylor's last day of school at her ceremony which was also my BIG "30" birthday. It was a great start for a great day! This photo of Mark and I was takin at lunch the same day, we met up with our Torrance family near LA in Old Town, San Diego. We had yummy mexican food. I opted for a sundress to even out my tan. Gotta love the farmers tan and that was from the day Mark came home two days prior. So I was trying to get a more even tan...

Blake waiting for his daddy to come home...(this was a couple days before the pics above)

Taylor holding up her sign she made for her daddy to see, It read something like I love my daddy, he loves me we play ball at home, Can you play with a ball? It was way cute!! and she was soo proud of it..

This was Mark's ship coming in, the USS KIDD I have to say the presence of seeing it come in spoke volumes. I got goosebumps watching it come in and seeing all the guys man the rail in their dress whites was amazing and breathetaking. I cried it was so strong of how neat of an experience it was to see them come in and how proud all the family members that were there to be part of. I'm so proud of Mark and his accomplishments in the Navy and what the Navy means to him and our family. Growing up Navy it runs thick in my blood and now being a Navy wife it is a honor and a privilage to be his support and go through this experience together.

So here is what happened in June and I will now post about July...