i love you.

life has been busy.

swamped.

summer came and went.

my kids are growing so fast i can't keep up.

pre-school has started and gabi is excelling in all areas!

i have been wanting to start blogging again, but i don't know where to start.

so i will start with what i just heard about 10 minutes ago.

i was in my room.

gabi and jake were supposed to be getting books and getting ready for nap time.

i heard gabi yell through the house, "JAKE!"

i immediately thought oh great...what now.

the jake replied, "WHAT?"

and the most precious three words came out of gabi's mouth!

she said, "I LOVE YOU!"

what a precious moment i will never forget!

i hope to be blogging again!

clean or dirty?

i have to wonder after a full day at disneyland which of these would be cleaner and which dirtier?

i'm pretty sure jake said, "horsey mouth...jake mouth"

i think i'd rather not know:)

disneyland in pictures.

april 2011

3 months!

hudson was 3 months on april 29th!

he started cooing a lot more and we are getting tons of really big smiles all the time.

it makes me smile when he smiles!

at the beginning of the month he had a cold with a cough.

it was very raspy and only seemed to bother him when he was trying to nurse, which was not fun.

one time this month he slept 7 hours straight!

the only bummer was that it started at 7pm so i didn't get 7 straight hours of sleep, but i got about 4, so that was nice.

we didn't have to go to the doctor for a 3 month check-up, but hudson is getting very heavy, very quick!

i have decided that babies grow up way to fast, my little guy is definitely no longer a newborn!

can't wait to see what this next month brings!

disney princesses

for melonie's birthday she wanted to go to disneyland and meet the princesses.

we always focus more on getting on the rides, rather than finding characters, but not this time!

there is a new place where cinderella tells her story.

then the princess dance with the kids and teach them how to bow and curtsy and wave like a princess does.

after the dancing we were able to get some pics and autographs.

the girls were so nervous, but it was so cute and well worth the time.

we will definitely do it again because apparently it's different princesses each time.

Thank you Auntie Erica for these wonderful pictures of this special time for our girls! i know we all enjoyed seeing the excitement on their faces as much as they liked seeing the princesses.

Melonie and Gabriella are our little Princesses!

a circle.

so gabi has been learning shapes at pre-school and she likes to draw and look for different shapes.

the other night she was practicing her cutting and we weren't watching her.

apparently she went to get her wallet and she pulled out a dollar bill.

in search for a circle there just happened to be one right in the middle of that dollar bill so she did what anyone looking for shapes to cut out would do!

she cut that circle out!

when i went out to check on her i asked her what she was doing and she said,"a circle!"

all i could do was smile because she was right it is a circle and i couldn't argue with that!

then we had the we never cut money talk!

now i have a nice circle to put in her baby book.

never a dull moment!

boots.

when papa was here i had to get a pic of hudson in his boots and papa in his too!

my dad has worn his boots forever and jake loves his boots too so when i saw these i knew i had to get them for hudson.

i got them here, on this etsy shop.