Happy Halloween

Just a few pictures from our pumpkin farm trip and the kids all spoofed up. There will be more later after trick or treating with the cousins tonight!

Happy birthday Colin (day late...but he doesn't know that..LOL)

Happy 3rd Birthday Buddy!! Can't believe that 3 years ago you were born. Where did the time go? Now you are a crazy little guy running the show :) We love you so much and are so lucky to have you in our lives. You bless us everyday with those bright blue eyes and magnetic smile! Love you bud!!

Party #2...

Success!!! Lots of happy (sugar happy!!) kids and even though it poured outside everyone had a great time. Time to start planning next years parties!! Just kidding...really I am kidding.

Enjoy some pictures from todays festivities...

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Potty training

SUCKS!!!!!!!!

Aubree's 1st bday party

Ok....grab a snack and drink cuz this is a long slideshow!! We took alot of pictures!!

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Happy 1st Bday Miss Aubree

Happy birthday bug! We love you very much and hope you had a wonderful time at your first birthday party!!

Success!!

Aubree's first birthday party was a success! Everyone had a great time and I can't wait to get the pictures. My camera battery wasn't charged so I borrowed my mom's. So hopefully tomorrow I will have some pictures to share from her party.

Now time for bed.....

Getting ready for the party

Checklist:

Food shopping

Goody bags

Decorations

RSVP's

Birthday outfit

Sunny weather (fingers crossed)

My daisy grass table decorations!




Goody buckets personalized for each child....

1st artwork from school

Proud parent moment:


Don't really know what they are but I love them!

Grandbabies~Cousins~Best Friends

Here is the newest picture taken last night with all the cousins. Kind of an impromptu photo shoot but still pretty darn cute :)



Colin~Maddie~Carter~Morgan~Aubree~Conner~Kinley

Big help

Since I am the one in charge of the kids' birthday parties, and aren't all moms supposed to be, I think I got myself a little in over my head! Oh well, its going to be great and I LOVE doing stuff like this. If only Tori Spelling was my best friend and we could share in this love for parties together...lol! I was hanging out in my bedroom and Colin wandered in and asked me what I was doing. I told him I was planning his and Aubree's birthday parties and since hers was first I was working on that stuff right now. He was very excited and wanted to help me! I will use these pictures as blackmail when he gets older and tells his girlfriend or wife that he doesn't know how to wrap place settings :)

See ya later mommy

I got a few pictures of Aubree walking away from me. I need to get it on video but that would require charging the camcorder...hehe!





All safe and sound inside...for the moment!!

First day of Preschool

(Picture removed due to privacy. Name of school and phone number was on the sign....oops!! Don't want any weirdos to take my babies...Thanks Don!)
Today was the big day! The day that I have been waiting for all weekend...Colin's first day of preschool. No I didn't go because frankly I would have been a mess. The first tear or big lip pout with sad puppy eyes he would have been outta there. So Mark and Jen took on the task for me...thank you very much (plus I was at work...thats my head telling me its ok that I missed it!)

He was excited from what I was told and did ok until of course it was time for them to leave. He started crying and just like the Miss Anita (his teacher) said in orientation, just leave, he will be fine. And I am sure he was. I bet it will take a few weeks of him getting used to the whole school thing and then I really hope he loves it. It is only two days a week and for 1 1/2 hrs. so I hope he really enjoys this time with kids his own age and his great teachers. He brought his backpack with his new Spiderman slippers, to which is his favorite thing right now, that and Batman. Everything is better if it is a superhero...even his boxer briefs :)

Wow...time for a hair cut..IKES!!

I really wanted to grow out Colin's hair this summer. I was trying to relive the old days of when he was just a wee little lad. I loved his surfer hair when he was a baby. It was so soft and bleached blonde. Totally not a "Call baby". Today we spent the day at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe. Had alot of fun until the rain came...hello August is over and we live in Washington....of course it rained ;)
Anyways so this is Colin's first experience on rides. We stayed in the Kiddie Playground the whole time and I was fine with the "baby" rides. The ones that don't go up and down and really fast and make me sick just looking at them. Colin and his buddy Sean wanted to ride the Surf City rollercoaster. Ummm no! It was way to fast for my liking. But I was quickly over ruled by daddy and the boys since they would be just fine. Ok...long story short, they were just fine and I am still learning how to not be so overprotective. But check out the picture we got of Colin's hair blowing in the wind. Like I said

Time for a hair cut.....(click on the picture to see the hair and awesome face!)

One in 3 weeks....ahhh!!!

I can't not even believe that in about 3 weeks Aubree is going to be turning one!! Where did this year go??? Not to mention 2 weeks after that Colin is turning 3. Gosh, a 3 year old and a one year old...wow!

I am in the process of planning 2 birthday parties, getting all the old clothes ready for the JBF consignment sale, the Sassy Mei craft show that we are debuting in this year, and helping my bff plan a wedding in Vegas in January. And this is just stuff for September and the first part of October. My plate is FULL!!!

Think I could pull off a birthday/Halloween party for Mark and the kids at the end of October too...we'll see...

Grandpa :)

Thought of you when I saw this and it brought a smile to my face...

Preschool....already

Today I have a realized my little guy is growing up to fast. Mark and I checked out a preschool for Colin. He will only have to go 2 days a week and for 1 1/2 hours. The teacher was very very nice and he seemed to warm up to it. I guess the real test is when he actually gets dropped off. Glad it is going to be Mark and not me!! I would be crying like a big baby (kinda like I am right now!) and the first wimper of wanting to leave with me would totally be a ok with me :)

Aubree won!!

I entered Aubree in a little local contest to win a Nonny baby blanket and she won. Below is the link to the article on Nonnybaby.com

http://www.nonnybaby.com/2010/08/congratulations-to-aubree-our-real-nonny-baby-contest-winner/

Friday.....

you are only hours away...glad you are here!

My new obsession

Crazy, that is all I am going to say.

Books are my newest obsession. I want them all!!!

Self help is what I love right now and soon, very soon my autographed copy of Tori Spellings new book will be here to add to the rest of my stack and I am talking a stack of books, not just a couple.

One last shot

Ok, lets try this one more time! I am going to give this a shot one more time and if it just doesn't work...bye bye blog!

I changed the design and added some of my favorite tunes. Maybe that will keep me motivated.

Or not.....

Vegas in 20 days!!!!

I can't not wait! Mark and I are going to be taking our first vacation away, all alone, with no kids...well that doesn't count Nae and Andy who will be joining us on our trip. We started talking about going to Vegas since I was the only one who had really actually been out of the 4 of us. Mark and Nae went when their mom and Mr. Chris got married but they say that doesn't count since they were under 12 :) So we decided to start checking out vacation packages online and I think I found a great deal. We are staying at the MGM for 4 days and 3 nights...and for airfare and hotel, and transfers to and from the airport (no need for a car in Vegas) it was only $600 per couple!!! What a great deal!!! Since I save money weekly in a Christmas club account throughout the year this is our Christmas gift to each other.
I am a little nervous to be away from the kids for that long but my mom and Marks mom (Thanks Moms!!) are going to be watching the kids so I have nothing to worry about. Now I get to souvenir shop for my own kids finally....how fun!!!

3 month pictures..Aubree

So here is the newest pictures of Aubree taken by my very good friend, Ara, at Krazybird Photography. If you need pictures done and at a great affordable price Ara and Ron are excellent!! I am a little biased since she is my good friend from high school...but trust me you will be very happy with them. And this post is also for my mom since she is not a fan of some of the other pictures of Aubree that I put on here :)

My new hobby!

Well I should say "our" new hobby! My mom, Jen and I decided to finally follow our dreams and try and sell our crafts. I always go to the craft shows and say I can make that and sometimes even save a few bucks doing so....sometimes I don't cuz the cost of the craft materials is more than what I actually could have bought it for. But we decided to make Little Lizzies Closet real again! And what a fun time we have had at it. I am so proud of our first boutique show and am really looking forward to the next one....to bad it isn't until the fall. We have our site up on etsy, which is an amazing website of homemade crafts...I love it!! Its very addicting. Anyways here is a link to our site on etsy....tell everyone you know :)
www.etsy.com/shop/LittleLizziesCloset