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!

two...

my baby girl is 2

miss cecily mae

i can't believe that you are already two years old. this is seriously my favorite age. i still get so excited to see your smiling face every morning when i get you out of bed. you are so sweet and just a joy in our lives.

...cecily's favorite things...

reading books with anthony,

anything involving her daddy,

 annie - our babysitter,

swimming "shwimmin",

shoes,

her little friend sophie,

 & dora the explorer of course!

{dora fiesta pics to come}

i am so grateful to be your mommy. we love you so much.

happy birthday cecily!

1st grade...

anthony started 1st grade this week...he is getting to old!!!

he was so excited about getting to play on the big playgroup with the red monkeys bars at recess!

he was excited to have mrs. rotert because she won teacher of the year last year. he said he saw her trophey and it was a lot smaller than he thought it would be, but it was cool!

he was excited about being able to walk to school with his friends!

i am not so excited to see him gone. :(

so he woke up to a big breakfast and everybody ready to see him off.

he could be happier to be back to school. it is nice to see them so thrilled about school, but sad because my anthony is spending more time at school then at home!

then some quick photos

some of anthony's friends.

here's to a great 1st grade year!