Holiday stuff

This is braden in his kindergarten class dressed as an Indian and singing songs in a little performance for thanksgiving... i'm going crazy because i totally got teary eyed watching him, freaking pregnancy.

This is our tradition on sunday night, chad starts a fire and i make hot chocolate and he tells them semi-scary stories by the fire. The kids love it and it totally reminds me of my childhood.

This is every morning in our house, the baby moves a ton in the morning and the boys love to feel it. Cade lays on my belly and then as soon as she kicks he laughs and then lays back down to feel it again. Its so cute, cade, not the belly.

Halloween

Braden was optimus prime the transformer and cade was obviously a skeleton. They had tons of fun and literally ran from house to house for candy.

Fun Weekend

This weekend was tons of fun. we went to fresno to see chad's brother travis and his wife Kristy and their new baby Brennen. Their house is the party house, as you can see kristy was showing everyone how dance dance revolution is done. Travis showed the boys how to do it while he patiently waited for his own turn and then kristy popped some poppcorn in their poppcorn maker for everyone. Their dog nala followed cade around like a hawk and for good reason. They also had a kareoke game for the playstation, all of which just made my christmas list for chad. It was so fun to hold a little baby again, he is so cute and such a good baby, we are so happy for them!

Disneyland

So this last weekend we went to disneyland and it was a blast! Braden turned into a roller coaster junkie and cade's favorite ride was the goofy bus that took us from our hotel to disneyland and back. The fireworks were my favorite and it just so happened to be chad's birthday also so he just had fun watching the kids have fun... he is the best dad ever! oh yah, on the nemo submarine ride we rode with tony hawk and his family, pretty cool, i've never seen a celebrity before.

Random

so these are a couple of random things about our family. The first is a picture of chad, if you'll notice on his side is a sword that he's been using to not only play pirates with the boys but continually smacking me with it in the butt every two seconds. They say i only have two children but i beg to differ. Also the sword soon after went in the garbage.
This is cade and his favorite meal in the whole world which is salad. What two year old likes salad, i don't know, enlighten me. He chooses this over anything else i offer him.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!

So if you didn't recieve my mass text or a phone call im having a girl. It's just shy of a miracle considering my and chad's side of the family there are very few of them. I've never been so excited for something in my entire life and i just came home from the doctors and thanked my heavenly father for blessing me so much! Chad's very confused because i barely mentioned the baby for the past 20 weeks, and now in the past 24 hours ive picked out tons of names, went to the store to buy something girly and started designing what i want for the nursery. I just can't wait for all the high pitched screaming (don't quote me on that), all the pig tails and earings and everything that comes with it. Im just glad i won't be out numbered anymore . YYAAAHHH!!!

Braden's B-day

I forgot to post for Braden's Birthday. It was all about sponge bob squarepants which is his favorite t.v. show and we were forced to watch the weirdest movie ever " speed racer". Anyway he got a bike and a scooter and of course pads and helmet to go with them. He is under the impression that if you don't wear the pads you will die or get seriously injured but we are slowly trying to convince him that it is just a precaution for a scraped knee.

Golfing!!!

Who would have ever thought in a million years that I would like golfing so much. I didn't even think it was a sport... and i still don't, but its fun anyway and relaxing, so we took braden and cade with us and they loved it! We had them stay in the cart until we were on the green and then we let them get out and putt with us. So a clarification, i like golf, i didn't say i was any good at it. however many strokes it takes to get it in the hole I multiply it by two and then that is usually my score.

Santa Barbara Zoo

For labor day we decided to take the kids to the Santa Barbara Zoo. Its small but has all the things you'd want to see, plus it's the most beautiful zoo i've ever been to. It is on the beach basically and you can see and hear the water from the inside. It had a play place for the kids with a grassy hill that everyone was sliding down which kept them way more entertained than any of the animals.

7th Anniversary

So it was our 7th anniversary on the 31st and all i wanted was for my mom to take the kids for a couple of days so chad and i could go out to dinner, go to the movies, and go to the bathroom all by myself without someone trying to sit on my lap or ask me for something. So my wish was granted, and we had a blast! We even went golfing because i always wanted to try it and thought i would have beginners luck or something, apparently there is no such thing in golf and chad said if i tryed to break his clubs again i wouldn't be allowed to go anymore.

Cade's birthday

Cade just celebrated his 2nd birthday. We had a small party with some of my family and cade loved every minute of it. I just had to show everyone the cake i made for cade at his personal request. This sucker took me about 3 hours to make and i'm not a very motivated person so i don't know what drove me to this but cade was happy so i guess that's what matters.

Air show

So every year santa maria has an air show with warthog jets and i can't remember, F18's or something. They also have old planes from world war II fly and helecopters you can go inside and sit in the driver seat(if that's what they call it) anyway it was right up my two boys alley. They had a blast except for when the jet came close and the sonic boom shook you from the inside out. They were a little conserned about that.

Oregon

So i went to oregon for a week to visit my best friend april and her husband sam and their three kids, addie, gwen, and jackson. I have a ton of pics and we did too many things to put them all on this blog page. Here are a few of the things we did, and i don't know if its in order of the pictures either. We went to a couple of waterfalls which were beautiful, and in oregon there is plenty of the most beautiful landscape to see. We went to a small pond and caught salamanders for the kids to play with, well, sam caught salamanders for the kids and april and i sat and watched them, only getting up to go in the canoo and once when a huge dragonfly flew in aprils hair and unfortunately to say i did not come to her rescue, i ran and we both screamed like a couple of girls. I must explain the chicken suit on braden, he was outnumbered by girls and so they dressed him up in his boxer briefs and a chicken suit and they dressed in princess dresses and addie married them in the backyard, our only condition was that there was no kissing. The picture of all the kids basically past out in the car was common after every day's activities. Im going to miss my friend i wish she lived by me still, it was the most fun ive had in a long time!

Superman

The boys have never seen superman, the only way they know him is by their action figure of him. However they think they are each superman and fly through the house all day singing " superman, da da da da, da da!" they can do the superman the best when they use the kitchen table as a prop. Also speaking of superman, if you notice chad's black eye. He tells everyone that i got mad and punched him in the eye ( people who know me actually believe him) but the real story is that at a pool party last weekend he did a front flip and a half off the ROOF!!! and went face first into the water but hit so hard it gave him a black eye, then he couldn't understand why anybody thought that was crazy. All the guys at his work know he doesn't drink but thinks that he must have been drunk to do that and dont believe him when he says he was sober. The last picture is a common one. cade and braden should be spokesmen for popcorn, they love it, and cade fell asleep the other night with popcorn still in his little fist.

Gualala

So every year for memorial weekend we go camping at Gualala with a bunch of my family and friends. Its 3 hours north of san fransisco on the coast and it's right in a red wood forest. It's amazing and beautiful and we love it! Its the best kind of camping because it has the whole tent and campfire in a secluded forest, but it also has a place to go take a shower and go to the bathroom. my kind of camping. We took a raft down the small river with the boys and caught frogs and looked for crawdads and turtles, braden was all talk about how cool everything was until we let him hold the frog and then he freaked out, he got used to it eventually. Their favorite thing the entire time was to throw rocks in the river with Chad, we knew when they were getting tired though because braden would switch arms to keep throwing. The worst part about the trip was that cade finally figured out how to get out of his crib and then also the tent. The first insident we had put him down for a nap and sat around the campfire and about 20 minutes later he was walking barefoot around yelling dadda. I didn't think much of it that night because we were in the tent too so i didn't think he would escape, or at least that we would hear him. The next morning i woke up and went to get cade and it was my worst nightmare, he was not in his crib or in the tent at all and the tent was unzipped. I screamed at chad to wake up and we both franticlly jumped out of the tent and started looking for him. He could have been anywhere in the mountains, or even down by the river, luckily my cousin jimmy found him wandering around early in the morning and picked him up and sat with him by the fire. After we found out where he was i totally broke down and was crying, safe to say he didn't leave my side the rest of the trip and we tied the tent zipper shut from then on. He is a crazy kid!! So other than that it was as usual an awsome trip.