Best Friends!

Tonight was a much needed break for me and my best friend....most of you know who she is but just incase you dont her name is Nicole. We have been best friends since 2nd grade! She is the most loyal, caring, trustworthy friend you could ever ask for!
Tonight we had a "girls nite" and it was so much fun. Nicole is due with her 2nd baby on March 20th but could be any moment now as she is already 3cm dialated....yay...cant wait to meet little Dustin or Mariah(yes I had some influence on them not finding out the sex!!) We went to Chili's and had a delicious meal. We had so much time to eat slowly...very rare when youre used to going to a restraunt with 3 kids...we just talked, gossiped(thats what best friends do best of course) and enjoyed the quiet time to just visit. She had 3 good contractions during dinner that she had to stop talking and breathe through but we'd pick right up where we left off in our conversation. After dinner we went to see Bride Wars..I know, I know total cheesy girly flick but it was perfect. 2 best friends since they were little girls getting engaged then married...we've been there done that!
We made a promise tonight that we have to keep this new little tradition up. Also, we'll switch and have date night where one weekend we drop the kids off with them and go out and vice versa the next time.
Thanks Nicole for being my best friend! I love you to death and I know we'll be old and gray and still gossiping 50 yrs from now!!!

Crockpots!

I think they just may be the BEST invention ever! I use my crockpot at least once a week and it makes meals so easy and the best part is......your whole house smells like you have been slaving over the stove all day....yummy!! As I type this right now all I can smell is the aroma of porkchops smothered in Cream of Mushroom Soup :)

Britney Spears

Mini-Me!

This morning while I was getting out of the shower and getting ready I heard Riley singing. I listened a little closer and realized she was singing "Womanizer, womanizer!!" by Britney Spears! Thought it was the cutest thing.....wonder who she heard singing that?? :)

Over Looked

To my Beautiful wife,You are my heart and soul and I love you more and more with every beat of my heart. I want you to know that I truly see all the little things you do in your day to day life for me and the kids. Such as

Feed the kids breakfast every morning

Get the kids dressed

Clean the house

Pay bills

Take Riley to School

Make dinner for me and the kids

Take the kids out to play

These are just a few of things you do, and you never complain or get upset and I think that it takes a truly beautiful person to do all that you do, and not have much time for yourself. The reason I put this up is to say I know when I have had a long day at work and I come home I want a break and just want to relax. But I want me and all guys that work, and have wife’s that stay home to think of the day your wife had doing her 24hr job with the kids and when you get home to let her put her feet up for once and lets start letting are wife’s have a nice break.

Bills...agghh!!

Doesn't it seem like sometimes all you get in the mail is bills! I swear it just took me an hour to write all the bills out....pheww! I love the days when you check the mail and there is no ads or bills and instead you get a card, magazinge or even better yet...a check! :)

Something Fun....

I came across this on another blog and thought it was neat...The items in italics are the things I've done.
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15.Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19.Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow man
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Gone without food or water for 24 hours or longer
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Stayed up for 24 hours with NO sleep at all
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Changed a light bulb
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Mowed the lawn
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating..just a fish
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Been to the Caribbean

Christmas...better late than never, right?!

enjoying our fondue
Ireland Kate's 1st Christmas!

Riley opening presents

Great Grandma, Gramma, Riley and Ireland on Xmas Eve!

after Santa came....

baking xmas cookies!




So I am finally able to post some Christmas pics. We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was very different from all our Christmas' in the past. Zach and I decided that since we have a family of our own now that we are going to stay at our house on Xmas' and whoever wants to come by can come by whenever they want...we'll have a open house all day! Our menu was different too...we had a big breakfast which consisted of french toast with powdered sugar, eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit and orange juice! For lunch we were supposed to have pulled-pork sandwiches that had been marinating all day but we were all so full from breakfast that we skipped lunch and went straight to our yummy fondue dinner. We made a delicious cheddar cheese beer fondue and dipped carrots, french and sourdough bread, veggies, crackers and green apples into it and then had a chocolate fondue that we dipped strawberries, cookies, graham crackers and marshmallows into!! So good!!

All in all, we all had a great time and just hung out, visited, opened presents and watched movies. We were so excited to have a 3rd little bambino to celebrate with this year as well!!!

Recent pics of our lovebugs!

She loves twirling in this dress :)

"cool kid on the block"

sitting up..7 months

Happy Valentines Day!

Usually you think of this day as a "date" day to just spend with your significant other but why not spend it with your little ones...they are of course a direct product of our love! A friend gave me a good idea to go on a rock hunt and come back and paint the rocks for our garden! We were thinking too of taking the kids to a movie!

My hubby made me a beautiful homemade card and got me the new Britney Spears "Circus" cd which I totally wanted (I love her!) and when I was opening it a piece of paper fell out and its 2 tickets to her concert in April!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooo excited!!!! I am the luckiest girl in the world to be married to my best friend. He is an amazing husband, partner and daddy! He is and always will be my one and only Valentine!!!

Sick Sick Babies....

Will it ever go away?? Had to take the kids to the Dr.'s again today. Poor babies are all sick again. I swear they have been sick for 2 whole months now. Trevor has been coughing so bad that he is throwing up..he has a respiratory virus and is on Triaminic and a heavy cough supressant. Riley has a cold so she's on Triaminic too but started coughing tonight..agghh and poor Ireland has the same respiratory virus with a horrible cough and a double ear infection!! I feel so bad for the 3 of them....their not getting any sleep at night which of course means neither are Zach and I but we just want them to feel better. Especially with tomorrow being Valentine's Day and all....we wanted to do something special with our loves but we'll have to see how that goes :(

What are all your guys' plans for Valentines Day?

Some Before and After Pictures of Our New House!!

We have Internet!!!

The day has finally come...almost 2 months of living in our new home we finally got Internet and phone today!! Look out for major blogging and pics as I will be "catching up!!"

I Am A Damn Good Wife....!!!!!

My husband is dragging me tomorrow night to see a live WWE Wrestling event at Arco Arena. He is obsessed with Wrestling and I couldn't turn down how excited he was that they were coming to Sacramento...he was like a little boy on Christmas morning!!!

But I couldn't resist not seeing my favorite wrestler...Randy Orton baby!!!!! (hot guy at the top!!)

Great Movie to see....

Went and saw "He's Just Not That Into You," last night on a Girls Nite Out and highly reccommend it for men and women and also for a Valentines date movie!! Lots of people in it and pretty funny!!

Getting fit for Summer!

We've been going to the gym trying to get ready for this summer time!! We've been taking this Glow Dance class and its so much fun!

Now we're just trying to get Trevor used to the childcare area...it used to be Riley was the fussy scared one but ever since she started going to preschool shes just walks right in and loves it!

Wish us luck on this..were trying hartd...Ive already lost 2.5 pounds this last week!! Yay!!! Slowly but surely!