So Excited!!!

We are getting a minature dachsaund! Ryan's coworker sent him an email about a friend selling puppies and Ryan saw the pictures and instantly fell in love. Yes, my husband the Antidog man fell in love with a puppy. He was born 3/13 weighing 10oz. H was the first born. We haven't come up with a name yet, but isn't he adorable! We have never owned nor crate trained a puppy before, so any advice is greatly appreciated. We will pick him up on May 1st. Isaiah is ECSTATIC...Hope on the other hand is afraid of anything that moves, so there will be some adjusting!

Happy 30th Birthday Nicole

My sister-in-law turned the big 3-0 yesterday!!! And to celebrate we went to eat at the yummy Japanese Kitchen. It was so good and very entertaining as usual. Of course, Hope was scared of the fire and Isaiah had a blast, but he kept saying "it's not nice to scare babies with fire!" We had a great dinner and Happy Birthday Nicole. We love you and here's to AT LEAST 30 more!!!

Everyone enjoying the YUMMY food! Some of us are more talented at using chopsticks than others (me)!


I think Isaiah had more fun playing with the umbrellas than he did eating his food


How could you resist this cute little face :)


My brother, so serious all the time, and the Birthday Girl (or should I say Woman now)


My BEA-utiful mama and her parents

Missin' Alex

I have had the pleasure of watching my nephew Alex now for the last 7 almost 8months. But now he is going to start daycare. I am going to miss him soooo much. They kids are going to miss him a ton too. I remember when all he did was sleep and eat, sleep and eat. And now he is rolling all over the place and constantly cooing, saying "dadada, mamamam, and gogogogo" (I am still waiting for Aunt Cari)! He is the cutest little guy. He screams just to get your attention and then when you look at him, he smiles at you and your heart wants to melt. He and Hope are such good buddies. They love to play together and laugh at each other. It started off with her sitting on him and now I think she's a little hesitant to do anything because he could roll over her and he fights back now. He does outweigh her! It's hard to believe that such a strong baby was born with three heart defects and had heart surgery only five days after he was born. He is a little miracle and I am going to miss him. However I did get to watch him for two more weeks thanks to the daycare not opening on time. I love you Alexander! I'm goin to miss you!


Hope is going to miss her favorite buddy



Playing with his favorite toy...he loves to clap when the toy claps



What a good eater...he loves to get messy!



Rollin....Rollin....Rollin



Look at those precious red cheeks



Yawn...all tired out from rollin around the house!



"I am stuck....help me....now!!!!"


My sister-in-law made this beautiful basket for me. (The day started with me crying...then ended with me crying) If you read all the little sayings, you will cry too! On the laundry detergent-"Just because I love to change clothes", face mask-"A mask for the face I love seeing to keep it beautiful", Hand lotion-"To care for the hands that cared for me", Mocha chocolates from Starbucks-"Sweets for the mouth that has given me sweet kisses," & Eye gel mask-"A teat for the eyes that have watched me grow!" See ya wanna cry don't you? Thanks Nicole!

Flapping Arms

So I always talk about Isaiah's flapping arms, well now I finally captured it on video. I let him play playhouse disney on the computer this morning and he was getting so excited. Here it is ladies and gentleman!

Camera

So we finally got a new camera with a piece of our tax refund. So I have been checking it out this week. I love it. It is so cool! I have to say a special thanks to my friend Jessica who encouraged me to look at all the ratings and research before I bought. I love it. So here are some of the pics I took, nothing fancy...I'm not quite there yet.

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Yesterday was my man's Birthday! He is the best husband, dad, and friend a girl could ever have dreamed of. I am so glad, well more like ecstatic, that God chose him to be mine. Every day I am so blessed to have a man who loves me and takes care of me and our family. I am so grateful that he was born 28 glorious years ago. He is the most caring, loving, kind, and generous man I know and HE's MINE!!! Happy Birthday babe! I love you sooooo much!

We spent the whole day together as a family. Ryan doesn't usually have President's day off, but he took it off so we could spend the day celebrating. It was so relaxing. My mom had watched the kids overnight on Sunday, so Ryan and I could have a belated Valentines date. So we picked up the kiddos and then met Ryan's parents and younger brother Ted for lunch. Then we came home and Isaiah and I baked Ryan a birthday cake. It was so much fun. Isaiah loves to bake and help me in the kitchen. Then we went out to dinner with my mom and my brother and his family. It was a beautiful day.

Ryan proudly holding his Birthday cake


Isaiah picked out a spiderman candle to put on the cake


Isaiah was so excited to blowout the candles with daddy that he was waving his hands and moving so much that the pictures didn't come out! I love it!

Day in NYC

The day after Christmas we went into NYC to do the touristy thing. Cindy and Katie couldn't make it b/c Katie and Sean got into an accident on Christmas night. They hit some black ice, but they are alive and well, just seriously sore for a few days! We started the day walking through Rockfeller Center and getting me some much needed Starbucks! Rockfeller center was beautiful. Then we headed to the MET (that's really all Craig wanted to do). It was pretty cool to see it. You could spend days there. We didn't even make it through half of it. Then we headed to get some pizza. We wanted to go to Serendipity's but it was like a 4hr wait and we were starving. After we walked blocks and blocks and blocks and blocks, then we met up with Uncle wayne, Sean, Justin, Cindy, and Katie. We changed cloths in the parking garage...yeap,it's a good thing they parked the car in the corner. Then we walked to the restaurant for dinner. It was chinese foodish. It was good. I tried sushi for the first time. Not horrible, but not great! Then Ryan and I hung out near RadioCity music hall while everyone else walked down to Rockfeller Center again. I just couldn't walk anymore. But it was so nice to just sit with Ryan and cuddle on the streets of NYC. Then we went to the play. We saw WICKED. It was soooo good. I loved it. So here are a few pics of the day. I have more posted on facebook, but our camera is on the frists!

Christmas Night

After we opened presents and ate our delicious breakfast, we relaxed for awhile, then we got read to go to my Aunt Gloria's for dinner. My Aunt Gloria had the WHOLE family there, I think about 40 people! It was really cool to be a part of their Christmas celebration. We hadn't been in five years and so much changes. We had a delicious catered meal, parmesean chicken, lots of different pastas, salads, cookies, and so much more. Then we had their annual Christmas auciton. Everyone brings something from home and wraps it in newspaper and then you bid on it. You can only bid up to 50 cents. It was hilarious to see what people ended up with. Then we played poker. It was a blast. I didn't do too bad. All around it was a FANTASTIC Chirstmas. My kiddos got spoiled rotten. And of course we did too. My Dad payed for all of us to go to NY, so I definetly got spoiled.

Christmas Morning

Chistmas morning was great! We woke up and Isaiah went straight for the Christmas tree. He couldn't wait to see what Santa brought him. He got an orange robot, which he wanted so bad when we went to the mall on Christmas Eve. He especially loved the fact that he could be with his cousins opening presents. We were so fortunate to be able to stay in the apartment that my Uncle Wayne has. And they decorated it for us with our own stockings and tree and lights. It was amazing, way more wonderful than we ever cold have imagined. Isaiah got to play with a few presents before everyone else got there, but then once my dad, stepmom, stepbrother, stepsister, brother, and his family got there, the kids went to town. So even though we didn't have the "official" christmas box, the kids still had a wonderful morning!

Christmas Eve

So as most of you all know we spent Christmas in NY with my Dad's side of the family. So you will be seeing plenty of posts from the trip. My camera is having difficulties, so I got some pic CD's from my dad. Anyway, We arrived on Dec 23rd after a long day of flying. But the kids were awesome on the plane. Treking Hope in arms through 40 gates in the Denver airport b/c we had 20 min to make it to the next flight was a little stressful, but we made it. We got our rental cars...Ours was a convertable seebring b/c that's what every family of four needs in NYC in the middle of a snow storm. Hey but it worked! We ended the day eating pizza with my Aunt, uncles, and cousins. It was delicious! Nothing like NY pizza.
On Christmas eve we spent the morning at the four story palisades mall shopping for Christmas gifts for the kids b/c the box I shipped with ALL their presents two weeks ago never arrived!!!! Fun Times! Then we spent the evening at my Aunt Laureens having a P.J. party and eating goodies and playing games. My Aunt makes the most delicious chocolate chip coffee cake. It was so good, but it was the start of the allergic reactions. Hope picked up a fork off the table that had been placed in the coffee cake, so she started with hives all over her butt then back, then face, then we Benadryl'd her and she finally fell asleep two hours later. It was craziness. My poor baby! We played Battle of the sexes and of course the feminine men won. Seriously a little freaky when your cousin and Uncle know soooo much female stuff like "watching Steel Magnolis in a half slip!" We had so much fun, laughing and joking around. We ended the night wrapping presents for the kids. It was so nice to be with the family. We haven't been in Five years! Here is a slideshow of Christmas Eve! There are plenty more posts to come about our trip!