an early christmas present...

we found out what our baby due in june will be....

everyone is excited! 

we all wanted a girl....we love pink!

i wanted cecily to have a sister because i can not imagine my life without my amazing sis

{plus i wanted to have a sister to hand me down all of cecily's clothes and shoes!}

anthony and weston wanted another baby as cute as cecily &

they wanted our family to be even 3 boys and 3 girls

corb actually was excited either boy or girl-

he was conflicted between have a full foursome to go golfing or

another sweet princess to spoil...he is thrilled with the idea of another princess!

yay for pink and for babies. we can't wait till june

merry christmas.

season of christmas cards...

i just get giddy thinking about christmas cards. i look forward to it all year. from the planning of the pictures, to the design of the cards, and even the address labels...crazy for them and love all things christmas cards.

my mailman comes at 3pm. right i as i leave to pick up the elementary carpool and  i can't wait to check the mail. as i sit in the carpool lane i open the cards with a giant smile on my face and read, reread, smile and just enjoy looking at the cards. we put them up on cupboards in the kitchen and they stay up seriously until february!!! so keep me giddy, keep the cards coming...

we had our family pictures taken for our card by my friends sister in law, love her, thanks jill! she was so fabulous. she took us to this darling antique store in american fork called star mill. loved her, loved the location, loved the pics.

it's beginning to look alot like christmas...

the stockings are hung,

tree has all the trim, 

the christmas music playing,

& "alfie," our elf on the shelf, has returned from the north pole.

i think it's beginning to look like christmas...

 i love this time of year!!

happy birthday corby...

say goodbye to the 20s,

this guy turned 30

happy birthday!

 your are the most amazing man, father, & hubby

love you!

happy halloween...

it was a fun filled week of halloween events.

trunk or treat at church

1st grade halloween party

preschool party

annual adults only halloween extravaganza

neighborhood pot luck

street pot luck

friends party

trick or treating

i just love it!

hope you had a great and safe halloween too.

our big girl...

cecily is official is a big girl. no more diapers and no more binky...poor girl. she has been ready for a while but i was not...she just turned 2!  after a couple of times of her taking of her poopy diaper, i finally decided to not buy that $40 box of diapers at costco and bit the bullet. we went to target on the way home to get some princess panties and some tinker fairy toys and seriously that was it. she came right home took off her diaper, stepped into those snow white panties and jumped on the dora potty and sure enough went "pee pee" on the potty. weston and i did the "pee pee" dance and a few hours later she was asking to go poopsie!!! i couldn't believe it!  my boys took weeks to potty train at 3 years old and still one of them {which shall remain nameless} still struggles at night!!!! people have always told me that girls are just way easier, i never believed it, but now i do.

the next day, i went to put cecily in bed and we couldn't find her binks. she was calling it saying "binky r you?" after a while, she whispered to me "swiper took it" and i looked at her and saw this opportunity and decided to go with it. i quickly kicked the binky, that was on the floor, under her crib and rocked my sad sad little big girl to sleep. she struggled for a the next couple nights and one night i overheard corbin putting her to sleep...

cecily "pease dad, get my binky swiper took it"
corbin "oh naughty swiper...but ceci, you are daddy's big girl now remember? you have big girl panties and you pee pee on the potty. big girls don't have binkys, honey."
cecily {in the saddest little cry} "i don't want to be a daddy girl anymore"

so so sad. you should have seen my sweet husbands face after. i thought corb was going to run to the store and get her a new binks.  it made his and my heart melt.

what a week...

we just got back from california with corbs family. we just missed our cousins so much and it was so fun to just hang out with them for 7 days. my kids just loved every minute with their cousins.

we did it all...

spent the day at the del mar race track...

{trying to get a group shot of all the kids!}

pony rides for the kiddos

cecily wasn't sure about this

the kids were loving watching the horese and being so close, 

they started to do races. it seemed like a fun activity of course until someone fell...ouch!!! :(

that's it...time to go!

many days at the beach & pool

 

 

in my attempt to be a fun my, i volunteered to be burried with sand......

bad bad idea! cecily was totally freaking out and scared and i had sand every where!

disneyland

cecily working with corb one day. she said that she was texting....she's 2 and already texting!

coronado

we always take roadtrip and we love to drive in the car.it is such a great time talking to each other and to the kids.  we, well i, decided to take some pics of us on the way to document.  the camera died so there weren't very many to choose from. none of the pics were that good. don't judge!

we stopped at kneaders in yuma on the way home, our favorite place! we seriously were a mess and shouldn't have been in public. cecily was just an absolute disaster. you can't tell how bad it was from this photo, but she had peed through her diaper, she has only 1 shoe and it's on the wrong foot and she was filthy! just had to share it because it was pretty funny!