Brian, Kelly, Quinn, Grayson and Adelyn!

First big snow

2012-01-19T12:24:00.000-08:00

These photos are from a couple weeks ago really but I never got them up on the blog before my trip to Tampa. This was from our first decent amount of snow. We played in it all morning long!

BABIES!!!

2012-01-15T13:10:00.000-08:00

Pretty much everyone that reads this blog I'm sure has heard me talk about my friend Megan and her triplets. Last week I went to Tampa and left the kids here with Brian and I was finally able to meet the triplets!!! It was such a fun trip, I miss Megan and the rest of the Cate's so much and I am so so glad I was able to hang out with them all for a few days. Graham, Hudson and Emmalyn are the cutest little babies!

Top 11 from 2011

2012-01-02T11:08:00.000-08:00

This was incredibly hard!!! But I narrowed down all of the pictures I took from last year to my top 11. It was a lot of fun to look back at all the pictures that I took of the kids through out the year, so many wonderful memories!

Here they are in no particular order...

So much fun dressing up this little girl!
Not a photo that I took but from a huge moment in 2011, welcoming home Brian from Afghanistan (photo thanks to Fox Hollow Photography)
The many faces of Grayson, this photo still cracks me up!

Our Christmas card...
Addy at just 4 months old, why can't they stay this little forever :(
Even though we ended up switching his school I still used this picture because I like it so much. Can't believe he started Kindergarten this year AND that we're already half way through the year!
Our little weather man :)
While Brian, Adelyn and I were in San Francisco, love her!
One of our last trips to the beach in Cali while we were hanging out with wonderful friends who I dearly miss...
From a fun day at the SD Zoo...

And last but not least a photo from Addy's Easter pictures!

Christmas pictures

2011-12-26T07:38:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Other than our heat being out since Christmas Eve we had a great day! The boys have more new toys than they know what to do with and Addy just thinks they'll all hers!

These next pictures are hilarious to us. She opened up this little Tinkerbell, then explained it nice and close and then flew her around in the air. Lol LOVE it!

She loves baby dolls!! So cute!

Made Addy a new apron...

That was a little bit of a picture overload but oh well :) Hope everyone got just what they wanted for Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!

2011-12-24T16:07:00.000-08:00

I hope you all have a great Christmas with your loved ones! We are so grateful that Brian is home this year with us, that right there makes it a pretty great Christmas already :)

Grayson's Christmas Concert

2011-12-23T09:29:00.000-08:00

Quinn's Christmas Concert

2011-12-23T08:36:00.000-08:00

Back from NYC

2011-12-20T07:23:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we came home from New York City! We were busy busy the whole time and saw pretty much all that we wanted to see. It was pretty crowded the whole time, which is to be expected, so I wasn't able to take that many pictures but I did get some that I liked. Trying to keep up with 3 kids in the crowds and crowds of people in the city requires lots of attention and picture taking had to be put on the back burner most of the time! Here some of what we were able to see...

Love going to New York city!! Can't wait til we get to go back again :)

Headed to New York City!

2011-12-16T07:08:00.000-08:00

We are about to load the car, go pick up the boys and head to NYC for the weekend! I've never seen the city around Christmas time and the kids haven't been at all so we're really excited to go! Tonight we get to see Brian's Dad and he'll be showing us around a little! We'll be back after the weekend with hopefully lots of fun pictures! And you can't have a blog post without a picture so here's one of Grayson holding yummy cake pops that we made last week :)

Story time

2011-12-15T17:20:00.000-08:00

Today we received a package from my Mom and in it there was one of those recordable books. My Mom and Kenny recorded themselves reading "Charlie Brown Christmas!" The boys were so excited and wanted to read it right away.

It's just too bad they weren't in the box as well ;)

This week's favorite outfit

2011-12-11T16:15:00.000-08:00

A couple weeks ago it was the wings, this week Adelyn's favorite thing to wear is one of the boys' old sweatshirt that we got from Disneyland a couple years ago (seen here! on Grayson, which is a pretty hilarious picture that I can't believe I put on the blog haha) She goes on and on in Addy language about all the characters on it and won't stop til she has it on lol.

Oh, Ernie!

2011-12-06T11:55:00.000-08:00

Our Elf on the Shelf has been landing in a lot of fun places around the house. Every.single.morning. the first thing out of the boys mouth is something about Ernie! So fun!

Sweet girl

2011-12-06T11:40:00.000-08:00

More Elf on the Shelf

2011-11-30T07:27:00.000-08:00

Ernie's been busy around here....

One morning he brought the boys breakfast from the North Pole!

This morning he and Woody got in a snowball fight :)

Our Christmas Tree

2011-11-29T18:30:00.001-08:00

Meet Ernie....

2011-11-28T06:46:00.001-08:00

Our Elf on the Shelf!

I have heard about him for a couple years now on a few blogs that I follow and this year we decided to have one in our family as well. He comes to your house from Santa, you get to name him and then every night he flys back to the north pole to report on everything he saw. Then the next morning he is in a new spot and the kids have to find him. Here he is our first morning up on a shelf with binoculars spying on the kids...

I can't wait to see what crazy things Ernie does this holiday season :)

Butterfly Wings

2011-11-26T15:51:00.000-08:00

I bought these wings for Addy a while back to start adding girl play costumes to our collection. I've put them on her a few times for fun but this last week she has been asking, she either brings them to me or points and she "eh, eh", for us to put them on her all the time! I love it!! While I was blowing drying my hair this morning she came into the bathroom with them on and wanted me to read this book to her. Such a funny little girl :)

Syracuse Christmas tree lighting

2011-11-25T17:41:00.000-08:00

Tonight we went to the Syracuse Christmas tree lighting. I'd like to say it was all fun but that's not the case, Adelyn was fussing the whole time since it was after her bedtime and the boys were wondering why we had to listen to 297 songs before they would light the darn tree. But once it was lit they were all excited to see it and then we had to fight traffic, well traffic for Syracuse, to get home. I'm glad we went though, I love Christmas time and huge Christmas trees :)

Veterans Parade

2011-11-16T07:03:00.000-08:00

We went to a Veterans Parade a couple weeks ago and I forgot to post the pictures. I didn't get many because my camera battery died but I did get these pictures of the boys. They're so sweet!

Turkey cookies

2011-11-14T06:54:00.000-08:00

We made a bunch of these this weekend, yummy!

Happy Veterans Day

2011-11-11T19:13:00.000-08:00

So thankful for all those that have served and are currently serving, as well as those who have given all. Freedom is not free and we are forever grateful.

Thank you B! So grateful for all that you do for us :)

70 degrees, in November?!

2011-11-10T14:36:00.001-08:00

Yesterday it was 70 degrees here in Syracuse!! It was such a pretty day. I thought we would have had a few snow storms by now but it hasn't been even close to snowing yet. At this point I'm ready for it to snow so we can go outside and make snowman, have snowball fights and go sledding :)

Thanksgiving decorations

2011-11-07T09:08:00.000-08:00

The Thanksgiving decorations are making their way up! I had the boys make a couple things this weekend to hang up around the house. They were so excited for our "art projects."

Leaf walk

2011-11-04T06:28:00.000-07:00

The leaves here are beautiful, so many different colors! Here's a collection that we had by the end of our walk with the kids the other day...

Halloween!

2011-11-03T07:36:00.000-07:00

We had a great Halloween this year! It is absolutely wonderful having Brian home for the holidays! We decided to paint our pumpkins this year....

You even get to see our beautiful kitchen here in Syracuse. The tile on the wall matches the tile on the floor, love it (major eye roll!)

I tried to get a good picture of all the kids in their costumes but we had a grumpy little Lightning McQueen so this is the best I got.

At least these two cooperated :)

Our Friday in iPhone pictures

2011-11-01T19:42:00.000-07:00

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Cute kids and fall colors

2011-10-28T06:40:00.000-07:00

Took the kids out last weekend to get a few pictures with the fall colors before they disappear. It's starting to get pretty chilly around here, there was ice on the car windows this morning! I'll probably regret saying this later but I can't wait for the snow to come. It'll probably only be fun and exciting the first couple times and then after that I'll be praying for spring, but still, at the moment I can't wait to let the kids play in the snow. For now though we'll enjoy the beautiful fall colors everywhere :)

Star Wars Lego

2011-10-25T12:13:00.000-07:00

Quinn has been really into Legos since he got his first set of real ones this summer. The other day he got a set of Star Wars Legos and has been playing with them ever since....

I love this kid

2011-10-24T09:39:00.000-07:00

I asked for silly faces.... and that is what he gave me.

A dress

2011-10-23T11:58:00.001-07:00

Last week after looking at all those dress patterns that I wanted to try and make for Adelyn, I bought some fall-ish looking fabric and attempted to make this dress. It turned out pretty well for my first time making it! I put it on her one day when Addy and I went to see Brian at school and got a couple pictures of her.

This is when I knew we were done taking pictures haha!

Our little bee

2011-10-19T18:59:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to a pumpkin patch to let the kids pick out a few pumpkins. I wanted to get some pictures of Adelyn in her costume so I brought along the camera, plopped her in the field and snapped a few shots. She is so stinkin' cute!

Branching out

2011-10-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

I've been sewing a few years now but I haven't tried making too many clothing items. BUT now that I have a little girl I keep finding TONS of cute patterns that I want to try with Adelyn. (Like this, this and this, just to name a few!) This weekend I bought a cheap pattern on etsy, that I definitely could have figured out on my own if I had tried oh well, and made Addy this very simple skirt. It's too bad I didn't start this months ago since it's about to be freezing here in central NY but maybe I can just get a head start on outfits for spring ;)

A video

2011-10-11T10:12:00.000-07:00

Fort

2011-10-09T16:53:00.000-07:00

Watching a movie in a fort is always more fun :)

Exploring...

2011-10-06T17:34:00.000-07:00

One of the best things about being in the military (well Brian, but you know what I mean!) is seeing parts of the country that you would probably never see otherwise. I can pretty much guarantee you that I would have never picked to come to Syracuse for a vacation or anything. But I keep finding more things that I love about this area. We've had a couple people tell us that we need to go see the town of Skaneateles (pronounced skinny atlas) so we went the other day to explore a little and I immediately fell in love with the town. It's such a cute little lake town, with adorable homes and cute shops, I just loved it. It was raining that day and we weren't able to do too much, so we went back tonight for some dinner and to walk around a little more.

Love it! Can't wait to see it covered in snow!

Recent quilt

2011-10-04T08:39:00.001-07:00

This past weekend was a sewing weekend here at the house. My Mom and I both got this pattern while I was there in Texas over the summer. I took the easy way out and did it a little different but I still love how it turned out. And it will definitely be put to good use here in New York because we are already starting to have cold days. Well cold to us, it was in the high 40's on Saturday and we were freezing! Heck I was pretty chilly in Cali if it was in the 50's! I have no idea what we are going to do when it actually gets cold here.

Mimi's Birthday

2011-09-29T05:43:00.000-07:00

On the morning of my Mom's birthday the boys helped me make Texas Sweet Bread.
Then we drove down to Ithaca to take them to see the falls and to take the kids to the science center they have there. I LOVE seeing the falls. It's really making me like living here more and more! First we took them to the large one that we saw last time.
Then we went to one we all hadn't seen yet, Taughannock Falls. At first we went to a viewing spot that was above the falls.
Then we walked 3/4th of a mile to the bottom of it. This thing was huge!

This waterfall is 215ft tall, it was awesome. The leaves are starting to change and the area is so pretty! There are many more falls and gorges to see in Ithaca and I hope we're able to see some of them before we move!

Apple picking

2011-09-27T19:10:00.001-07:00

My Mom and step-Dad came into town last week and we had a blast! One of the first things we did was apple picking. I did this with the Cate's last year, and I was super excited that Brian was here with us this year (as well as my Mom and Kenny!)

Just a couple more days!

2011-09-20T19:04:00.001-07:00

Just a couple more days and my Mom and step-Dad will be out here! I can't wait to see them! And the boys are really excited too :) Here's a couple pictures of Adelyn from today!

1st day of Kindergarten - Take 2

2011-09-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

After going to the public school for a few days last week we decided that we'd prefer if the boys went somewhere else, so we enrolled them into a Catholic private school. So far we love the school and I am so happy we went ahead and switched them! So of course that meant I had to take new pictures :) Their school is so cute and I love that Quinn gets to wear a uniform (I wish Grayson did too!)1st day photo!

First Syracuse football game

2011-09-11T12:05:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to our first Syracuse football. Brian was able to get free service member appreciation tickets! This was the first football game we've ever taken the boys to and we had a great time!

I will support Syracuse but Tech will ALWAYS be my team :)

Our Kindergartener!!

2011-09-07T10:02:00.001-07:00

Today is Quinn's 1st day of KINDERGARTEN!! He has been talking about it for weeks! The other day he put on his 1st day of school outfit and went over to the school so I could get some kindergarten pictures (which I'm REALLY glad I did since it's been POURING all day long.) He looks so grown up!
And then here are a couple from today. Since apparently first day of school gifts are the way to go... we did one as well. Yet another fun project thanks to pinterest :)

And the official picture!

I can't wait to pick him up and hear all about his first day!

Visit from Grandpa L

2011-09-07T09:55:00.000-07:00

Brian's Dad and his wife came into town last weekend for a little visit. The boys LOVE when people come to visit and they were very excited to see him! Thankfully just a couple more weeks and we'll have more visitors :)

It goes so quickly!

2011-09-04T20:09:00.000-07:00

I can't believe in just a couple days this little guy will start kindergarten!

New York State Fair

2011-09-03T13:06:00.001-07:00

We had lots of fun at the NY State Fair here in Syracuse. As always the boys loved the games and rides and came home with lots of cheezy prizes :)

Birthday present from Mimi

2011-08-31T18:18:00.000-07:00

For Addy's birthday my Mom gave her a quilt. You know our family loves making quilts. I absolutely love it, it's so cute! It's the perfect quilt to use with her new picnic toys she got for her birthday :)
I can't tell you how fun it is to have GIRL toys in this house after 5 plus years of boy toys! Though I will admit playing legos with the boys is pretty fun too :)

29

2011-08-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

I meant to put these pictures up the other day but forgot. Brian turned 29 the other day! We are only the same age for 6 days a year, I like that he gets to turn all these old ages before me ;)

1st birthday pictures

2011-08-25T05:08:00.000-07:00

Thank goodness for older brothers!

How cute is her outfit?!

1 year old - the last of the weekly pictures!

2011-08-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

This project has been so much fun. I absolutely love that I can look back and see these photos of Adelyn every week (okay fine, almost every week!) and see much she's changed. It also makes me sad though, because Addy is our last baby and I just can't believe how fast this last year went. With the boys being so close in age I feel like I didn't enjoy them being babies enough so I really tried to just enjoy each stage during Addy's first year as much as I could. But even still, it ALWAYS goes to fast. I ended up cutting squares of most of the fabrics that I used and make it into a quilt!

Happy Birthday Adelyn!

2011-08-23T06:48:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday sweet little girl! I love you so much and I feel so blessed that you are in my life. I didn't know if I would ever get to have a little girl and now I can't imagine life without you. I could be here all day adding my favorite pictures but I actually limited it to just 5 from when you were brand new.

Happy Birthday Addy! Can't wait to see what the next year brings :)

Playing

2011-08-22T06:08:00.000-07:00

These two are so cute together!

51 weeks

2011-08-16T17:16:00.000-07:00

I can't believe there's just ONE more week left!!

Our day in iPhone pics

2011-08-14T17:48:00.000-07:00

10 days...

2011-08-13T16:35:00.000-07:00

In just 10 days this little girl is 1 year old. How can that be right?! So seeing as she's almost a year I just had to do cake smash pictures. She did pretty well, she liked it once she got to the actual cake part but it wasn't like she was chowing down by any means. But I still got some cute pictures!

And this is when I knew we were done lol! I wanted to share this photo also because you can see the teeny tiny teeth that she finally has poking through on the bottom!

Cake Smash!

2011-08-12T17:19:00.000-07:00

Just one from night....

Mamo!

2011-08-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

Mamo (my MIL Nanci) came in town last week for Grayson's birthday. These kids LOVE their Mamo and when she's in town Brian and I pretty much become chopped liver!

50 weeks

2011-08-11T10:36:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Mr 4 year old!

2011-08-08T19:01:00.000-07:00

This little guy is so much fun to be a mommy to! He is hilarious and sweet and wild and so loving. I love him to pieces!!

He has been talking about having a Super Why birthday for months, I'm talking since before Quinn's birthday which was 6 months ago lol! So he was pretty darn excited about all the Super Why decorations around this house. The night before Brian blew up 75 blows (only $3 thanks to Dollar Tree!) and we FILLED the hallway with them all. When he woke up in the morning and saw them all, he was so excited!

49 weeks

2011-08-02T17:16:00.000-07:00

This week's picture isn't the best :( I took it a little late and the natural light in our house here isn't the greatest. And I pretty much get what I get these days because she's NOT into staying on her back for too long!

4, 28, 1, and 29

2011-08-01T09:43:00.001-07:00

YAY for August!! 4 out of the 5 of us have birthday's this month and we will be turning 4, 28, 1, and 29. The celebrating has started. Yesterday I made these rainbow cakes in a jar and the boys were so excited about it! Grayson's favorite color is pink so I put that on top and he was pretty darn excited to be eating a pink cake :)

Our Map :)

2011-07-29T13:11:00.000-07:00

I saw this done a couple years ago on younghouselove.com and I've seen it done other places as well. I always wanted to do it for us to have a fun little display of all the places we've been too, lived, etc. I finally made it today!

At the moment it's even color coded! Red pins for the places we've lived, green pins for the places we've visited as a family and blue for Brian and I.

Hopefully we'll be able to add lots of more pins during our time here in Syracuse :)

Ithaca, NY

2011-07-29T05:37:00.000-07:00

Since Brian hasn't started school yet we've been trying to keep busy and check out some of the local things here in NY. Earlier this week we decided to drive down to Ithaca and spend the day. Ithaca is home to Cornell university and also many gorges and waterfalls. These waterfalls that we saw were right in the city. In my head I pictured us hiking into the woods to see all of this but it was actually right next to houses and building, it was so cool!

48 weeks

2011-07-27T14:57:00.000-07:00

NY here we come

2011-07-26T17:05:00.000-07:00

So after a week in Texas we started the trip to Syracuse. Along the way we stopped in Nashville to see my cousin Diane and her family. It was so fun to see all the kids playing together!

Then that night we stayed in Louisville and their triple A baseball team happened to be playing just a block from our hotel so we caught one of their games. We always love going to baseball games when we get the chance!

And here are just a few photos from our first weeks here in Syracuse...

We were at the park and Quinn actually ASKED to take a picture with me so we had to do a self portrait shot real quick :) It's by no means perfect but it's pretty special to me since half the time the kids never even want to be in pictures!

11 months old!

2011-07-24T13:25:00.000-07:00

Be prepared for lots of pictures, I just couldn't help myself. :)

I know there's alot, the mommy goggles are on and I think they are all flipping adorable!

A few more from Texas

2011-07-24T05:02:00.000-07:00

My mom sent me a couple pictures from her camera that I wanted to share too!

Texas

2011-07-23T07:17:00.001-07:00

We had a great time in Texas seeing so much of our family! We stayed at my Mom's house most of the trip and spent pretty much everyday in the pool. The boys LOVED it! Addy not so much :) I don't have much proof of the amount of people that we saw while there. It's hard to find a balance between enjoying vacation without a camera in my hand all the time and documenting the trip!

47 weeks

2011-07-22T07:54:00.000-07:00

Only 5 more photos til this little project of ours is over!! Tomorrow she's 11 months old, I can't believe how quickly 11 months has come and gone.

46 weeks

2011-07-22T07:47:00.000-07:00

You read that right folks, 46 weeks.... I'm ashamed to admit that I missed 5 WEEKS of Adelyn's weekly pictures :( Somehow it just happened and I kept missing more and more weeks.

In this picture she's saying "Hi"! The one word she says, other than Mama and Dada that we hear every now and then :)

On the way to Texas!

2011-07-21T14:11:00.000-07:00

Like that pose up there?! Be prepared to see it many more times over the next few blog posts :)

The day the movers came was a very sad day. Brian and I have lived in Cali since we first got married. I lived there 6 1/2 years, in 4 different houses, through 3 pregnancies, 3 deployments, 3 homecomings and so many other memories in between!! I have been saying the past couple years that I was excited to move somewhere else if the opportunity arrived but when it was time to move and to SYRACUSE for that matter, I was so sad to leave. Mainly for the friends that we've made, for me and the kids. They still talk pretty much daily about their friends. But hopefully sometime during the next 12+ years while Brian's a Marine we'll be stationed together again!!

The first night we spent the night in Tuscon. And the next morning we took the kids to their Children's Museum....

Then after a night in El Paso, we made our way to Lubbock, Texas! Home of the Red Raiders and where I went to college. I was so excited to be back in Lubbock, even if just for a night to see how the town has changed and to walk around the campus again.

Next it was time to make our way to Carrollton :)

FINALLY!!

2011-07-21T13:15:00.000-07:00

Finally, after what seems like months!!, we have a computer with internet again. We are now residents of Syracuse, NY. We had a great time traveling across the country and seeing many different places but most of all we enjoyed seeing family! Brian hadn't been in Texas in a year and a half so it was very nice to be there as a family. The house we're renting here isn't quiteeee what I was hoping it'd be, but we're getting more and more used to it everyday. Of course now we're having a HUGE heat wave with temperatures in the upper 90's and not having A/C is pretty down right miserable. But really, we'll be moving here in either 10 or 11 months so I'm sure we'll survive :) I have tons and tons of pictures to post (though I unfortunately missed a few of Addy's weekly pictures which makes me sad!) so I'll start with Grayson and Quinn's preschool graduation!

Quinn's was a little more "official" since he's graduating to kindergarten but they were both very cute ceremony's. I can't believe Quinn will be starting kindergarten in the fall!!!

41 weeks

2011-06-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

40 weeks

2011-06-04T19:05:00.000-07:00

Almost forgot to post this week's picture!

Guess how much I love you...

2011-06-03T10:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I took some pictures of Addy in our room one more time before we have to paint the wall (we took the lazy way out and only painted one wall in our room!) back. She's grown quite a bit since the last time I took pictures of her on our bed.... see here!

I feel so lucky to have this sweet baby girl in our lives! She is such a happy addition to our family and I just love seeing her learn more and more everyday.

Memorial Day

2011-06-02T19:22:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day is important holiday to everyone, but especially military families. It's a day to be grateful for those that gave their life so that we can enjoy everything that we have here in our life. I am so thankful that Brian is home here with us and that we were able to enjoy the day with friends. We're excited for Brian to get to attend school in Syracuse and live in a different part of the country but also very sad to be leaving behind all the dear friends that we have here in Cali. Hopefully we will end up being stationed together again sometime :)

SD Zoo

2011-05-31T16:37:00.001-07:00

When Nanci and John were visiting we took the kids to the San Diego Zoo. The boys always love seeing all the animals. They both get so excited looking at the map and figuring out which animals to see first and which route to take!
LOL Who's this guy?!

39 weeks

2011-05-25T14:21:00.000-07:00

I know I missed another week, but hey, 2 out of 39 ain't that bad :)

In honor of Memorial Day we used this flag quilt that I made Brian during his 2nd deployment. Thanks to all that have fought for our freedom and many prayers to all those that have lost a loved one.

Refinished desk

2011-05-17T12:43:00.000-07:00

A couple weeks ago I bought this desk....

off of craigslist. And yesterday we (mostly Brian!) made it into this!

I was thinking I'd use it as an accent table somewhere but it is actually a little bit bigger than I thought. Depending on how the Syracuse house is laid out we might use it as a desk or a storage table, but regardless I love how it turned out!! Not to bad for $40!

Family photos!!

2011-05-14T20:28:00.001-07:00

We had our family photos taken a couple weeks ago by Megan Ann photography and I just got the CD today. It's been a couple years since we had our last photos taken and I wanted some of all of us here in Cali before we moved. I'm so glad we did it, they turned out so cute!!

Slow down!

2011-05-13T19:21:00.000-07:00

Time needs to SLOW DOWN! This little girl is getting big, way to fast! She's going to be 9 months in no time, which is way to close to being a year old :(

37 weeks

2011-05-13T19:14:00.000-07:00

Blogger was down for a little while so I wasn't able to post this earlier. This week's photo is one of my favorites (I love this one too!!)

36 weeks

2011-05-04T11:18:00.000-07:00

Beach trip

2011-05-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

Today was a very busy day for us. Brian has 24 hour duty for the first time since he came home and I have definitely already become used to him being here to help!! This morning was the MS walk that I was talking about a couple weeks ago. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the people that donated money, I really appreciate it! After the 2ish mile walk we went and picked up a desk I found on craigslist, should be fun to repaint it! Then we went to the beach with the Cate's for a couple hours because the weather was just beautiful!! And that leads to the picture of this blog post...

Adelyn's first time in a swim suit!! Gosh I just think she's so darn cute!! It's just an phone pic but it's all I had with me :)

35 weeks

2011-04-30T08:38:00.000-07:00

It's getting very hard to get Addy on her belly for this picture!!

Disneyland!

2011-04-28T19:35:00.000-07:00

Finally, Disneyland pictures on the blog! I probably went a little overboard but I had pictures from our camera and my Mom's. We LOVE going to Disneyland and I'm so glad we've been able to take the kids so many times while livin' here in Cali!

Here's a few

2011-04-25T13:28:00.001-07:00

Just a couple from Mimi and Grandpa's trip. We've just been so busy this last week I haven't had time to load pictures!!

34 weeks

2011-04-20T19:16:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter!!

Bunny Hat

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Last week we went out and took some photos of Adelyn in this cute little bunny hat that I bought for her.

As always, I think any photo of Addy is cute but they just weren't quite what I was hoping to get.

But then we went back a couple days later and tried again and I'm so glad we did!! I love all these photos!!

I have a couple other things to post but we're still catching up from our weekend with Mimi and Grandpa. More blog posts coming soon!!

San Francisco Day 5

2011-04-18T14:39:00.001-07:00

Here are the last of the SF pictures. I was sick day 4 and didn't take any pictures.

We started off walking around in the Financial District...

And walked through part of China Town.

Then we made our way over to Little Italy where pretty much every pole had one of these on it...
Then we stopped in this little park and took some pictures of Adelyn!

And this was the last place we ate at in San Francisco!

We had an awesome trip and I'm so glad we were able to go before we move away from Cali this summer!!

33 weeks

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Better late then never :)

Decorating for Easter

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MS Walk

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In a couple weeks we will be walking to support a friend of mine that was recently diaignosed with Devics Syndrome, a disease that mimics MS. She is a Marine Wife friend that I've known for a couple years, her husband is currently in Japan on a 2 year long deployment and they have a little girl who's about 18 months old. Any donation large or small would greatly be appreciated :)

Click here to donate

San Francisco Day 3

2011-04-09T15:35:00.000-07:00

Started off with a delicious breakfast from Mama's!Then we headed over to Fisherman's Wharf

And rode the ferry to Sausalito

Ate lunch

And ice cream! Brian got a free cone for being military which was pretty sweet!!

After that we just walked around and explored a little....
And saw Grace Cathedral

A quick break...

2011-04-07T19:04:00.000-07:00

Taking a quick break from the SF pictures to show you some pictures I took today of Adelyn. Having a little girl to dress up is SO MUCH FUN haha!

San Francisco Day 2

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Wednesday morning we took the cable car...

To the wharf and took a ferry...

To Alcatraz!

Took a few pictures ourselves of the view....

And then we were smart and asked someone to take a photo for us

Then we hopped on the muni and went to AT&T Park to watch the Giants play

After the game we decided to go to Lombard St, the most crooked street in the world. So we got off the bus as close as we could and saw that this was what we were going to have to walk up! These hills were no joke!

to see this section of Lombard St.

and here is the view once we got to the top!

More tomorrow :)

32 weeks

2011-04-05T19:09:00.001-07:00

San Francisco Day 1

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Last week Brian, Adelyn and I went on a vacation to San Francisco while Nanci watched the boys for us. Adelyn got to come along since she's still nursing. We had a blast! We took tons and tons of pictures, too many to share all at once. When my friend Leah went to SF she posted a blog for each day and I like that idea a lot better than trying to add them all at once, so I'm copying :)

First place we ate in SFOur first cable car ride (and the first of many self taken family photos!)Self timer on this one, we thought Addy was in the shot!View of Coit Tower from the Wharf
So there was our first day, more pictures coming tomorrow! As well as Addy's weekly picture :)

Aunt Dana's Visit!

2011-03-29T08:31:00.000-07:00

Dana came and surprised Brian and the boys with a visit last weekend. Her trip was short but we all had a great time!

31 weeks

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Sitting!

2011-03-27T16:12:00.000-07:00

I am SO excited that she can (somewhat) sit up on her own now!! I have tons of little photo sessions in my head that I've been wanting to do with her once she learned to sit up. When we are back from San Francisco I get to start!!!