Maddie's two...

Today my beautiful baby girl turned 2! These two years have flown by. I remember the day I had her! She's at such a fun age, and her personality is showing through more and more each day! I'm loving it. She's so silly, loving, stubborn, and adorable!
She got shy when we sang to her. It was funny! But she loved her cake. She dug right in. When she opened her present, she tried to put the wrapping back on. We had to tell her it's ok to take the wrapping off!

Famous Quotes...

"I wish it would rain money so you didn't have to go to work."

"Pretty awesomer than anything."

"I'm pretty much done talking about that now."

"Dop is a word, you know like adopt."

"This homework is not kicking my butt, I'm kicking it's butt."

"Maddie is the champion of crying."

Yes, you guessed it... these are from my wonderful son, Logan. Everyday he cracks me up with new things he says! I love it.

Now Maddie's starting to talk too! She says, "Love you too." With emphasis on the too. It's so cute.
She likes to yell, "B r a - d e e." (brother) all the time.
She's also very polite in always saying "Pease and Thank-you!"
When she's at brother's school in the morning, she likes to go down the slide, and at the bottom she says, "Weeee!"
And of course everytime I pull the camera out the kids know what to do. "Cheeeese!" with a huge cheesey grin on her adorable little face!

Kids says the funniest things and it's always so fun. I can't get enough of it!

Logan's first injury at school

I got a call at about 11:10am yesterday. When I saw Katz Elementary was calling I got a little nervous. So, Logan was at recess and he bumped heads with another kid. He got a cut above his eye. It bled a lot beacause heads always do. I asked the nurse if he was ok, and if he was he crying. She said no he was being very brave. When Mike picked him up he had a bandaid on it. They came to my work to pick me up. Logan was trying to be so strong and not cry. When we got home, we cleaned it up and it bled a little more, so we put a new bandaid back on. This morning he has a little black eye, but he's ok. I'm sure this is the first of many.. lucky it wasn't too bad! I'll try to post some pics this weekend of it.. My poor little guy!

Oh... and they have a behavior chart that goes by colors. Blu=excellent, green=good, yellow=not so good, and red=bad. The kids can move up and down on it throughout the day. If they're super bad they get a red note sent home. If they're super good they get a blue note sent home. Well, Logan got a blue note sent home yesterday, and it was before his injury so it wasn't just a sympathy note!! Yeah Logan.. we're so proud of you!

Logan and Kindergarten...

Logan had an emotional first week. He's upset I can't take him or pick him up, so he won't talk to me at lunch. They come and pick me up for lunch everyday. Luckily Mike can take him, but I have to work. I tried to explain this to him, but he's still upset. I'm hoping he'll settle in and do better. Also, according to Logan, he's the only one who hasn't got into trouble the first week. That's good, but kinda sad everyone else is being bad! He said he only likes Miss Driscoll a little bit cause she yells a lot.. let's hope that gets better too! Here's him on the first day.. he looks so grown up!


Logan at his desk.


Picking him up.. this is his teacher, Miss Driscoll.


My two handsome boys! Logan and his daddy!


Of course we had to end the day with some family shots! This one Maddie's trying a face!

My Beautiful New Smile

It's been less than 1 year and I have a new smile... Thanks Dr. Scott!! And my husband really thanks you.. that they're off!!

Road trip with Rami...

Last weekend I had the fun oppertunity to go on a trip with my cousin, Rami and her kids. Our husbands decided not to go which kinda sucked, but next time we've already decided, they're coming! So 7 hours in a car with 5 kids wasn't the funnest thing I've ever done, but it worked out! We also all slept in one room which was a little cramped, but it was kinda fun like a big sleep over! The first night we didn't get into town till after midnight. Then the babies decided they wanted to stay up and play, so we didn't get to sleep till 2:30am. We were pretty tired the next day because we got up around 5:30am to get ready to go to the parade. We saw a little of the parade then met up with Jess and my cousins for lunch. That was fun! Then we went to the pool at the condo we stayed at. It was fun, and Maddie loved it. Logan jumped in the pool all by himself which was a pretty big deal. I was proud of him! Then we saw the amazing fireworks by Liberty Park. It was such a long day.. we got back around 11:30. Luckily we slept in a little on Saturday morning. We got to see Jess and family at the park and the kids had so much fun together. I don't know what we were thinking, but we decided to go to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. FYI.. 5 kids with 2 adults.. not an enjoyable dinner out!! We didn't get the chance to say 2 words to each other! It was nice to come back and go swimming again then go to sleep at a decent time! We got up early Sunday and headed back to Vegas. The trip back was better than I thought it would be. The girls actually took a good nap. The older kids watched movies the whole time. It was great! Thanks Rami.. we had a great time. We'll do it again sometime!


Rami and Me.. I just had to take this!


Great pool shot of Mia, Logan and Luke. They had so much fun!


All the cousins.. My kids, Rami's kids and Jess' kids.


My cuties having fun riding together in a Target cart.


My cute cousin, Traci, and her family.. Paul and Zander.. I love them!


My other great cousin, Patrick and his adorable family.. Staci, Spencer and Savannah.


My brother Jess and his family.. Mandy, Simon, Ava and Brahm.. ya there's a lot of them!


Ella, Mia, Logan and Luke waiting for the parade.


Maddie sitting pretty!