PLAYING WITH NEW TOYS

CHRISTMAS 2013

Merry Christmas!!!

EARLY CHRISTMAS WITH MORGAN AND KYLA

FIRST CUPCAKE ORDER

I love making cakes and cupcakes, I hope to one day to this for a living... well I got my first order for a Christmas Party, I made 2 dozen. So I made 6 cupcakes in each of the decorations below..

 

MY SICK KIDS

Ok this really sucks, just days before Christmas and my poor kids end up getting sick....

 

 

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY LOGAN

Happy 7th Birthday to our amazing son! This year for his Birthday he wanted to do the Chuck E Cheese Birthday party, so we invited his friends and all our family for a fun Birthday Party. I have to say it was really nice having Chuck E Cheese handle all the work for the party and I could enjoy it more. They provided the food, drinks, goodie bags for all the kids, tons of tokens and Logan and I went in the Ticket Machine to collect as many tickets as we could. They also gave Logan a crown and a balloon Guitar and Chucky came out and everyone sang Happy Birthday! Logan says it was his best Birthday ever!!

 

Logan is now 54lbs and stands 4ft tall, seriously this kid only has 1ft 2in to go and he will out grow me and I think it will be very soon... just look at his daddy who is 6'7", my son is going to tower over me when he is a teenager..

 

Logan is really into this game called Minecraft, its all he talks about and love to play on line with his best friend Payton. Logan is doing very well in Public School, getting good grades and had made a lot of friends.

 

THE ELVES HAVE ARRIVED!

 

We have been doing the Elf on the Shelf tradition for the kids since 2011 when our first Elf named Elfie by the kids arrived, this year was a big surprise when Elfie brought along another Elf to help keep an eye on the kids. They named her Bella! Oh the fun times the kids had with the elves!

 

MAKING A FIREPLACE FOR SANTA

After reading a Christmas Story the kids asked how Santa would be able to get into our home, see we don't have a fireplace... So I told the kids that we could make our own fireplace and then Santa with all his magic would turn it into a real fireplace and he would then be able to come into the house and drop off their gifts. Once he was done he would change it the fireplace back to what we created. The kids were excited about our new project. I taped up some paper on a wall that we can paint on and let the kids do all the painting and I added the detail work. Turn out nice and they kids were so happy and proud.

 

 

LOGAN FIRST LOST TOOTH 2013

After Thanksgiving dinner Logan let Daddy pull his first loose tooth and it was awesome. Logan was so brave and I was so excited!

 

Logan's adult tooth was right behind the baby tooth, so when you look at the photos you will see the new tooth already.

 

Logan got a letter from the tooth fairy, a treasure box with $5.00 and a bunch of chocolate gold coins. He was a very happy boy!! 

 

TURKEY DAY 2013

This year for Thanksgiving my sister in law went to Los Angeles with her family to visit more of our family... my mother also went to LA to spend Turkey day with my brother who is a Cordon Blu Grad (lucky) so it was left to me to make Thanksgiving for my family and my sisters family!

 

It turned out pretty good, no one got food poisoning... LOL

 

DONT TEXT AND WALK IN HIGH HEALS

I tell the kids all the time, don't play with the phone or tablet while you are walking... you would think I would know better and follow my own advice, but no... I was walking on the path up to our place and get a text... long story short I was wearing high heals, not paying attention and fell on to my knee so freakin hard that David said he could hear the crack of my knee... I scream so loud...LOL...here is a series of photos of the progress of my ugly hurt knee...

MEET SKY

This very cute and loving stray cat started visiting us, he looked hungry so we fed him and let him come inside for a visit..  and well the kids fell in love and the cat has become a member of the family.. the kids named him Sky.

 

He is a very cool cat, puts up with the kids and is always sweet and not a needed cat... funny thing is David has no interest in the cat at all and it always wants to cuddle up to him.

 

 

PUMPKIN CARVING

 

HALLOWEEN PARY 2013

Welcome to our Halloween Party Hosted by Kristin and Gary, food, decoration set up and all planning was done with our little group of friends. The Party was AMAZING! So many people and everyone had a great time!

 

 

My son Logan is a Zombie! He plays the part so well!!

BAKING FOR HALLOWEEN PARTY

Baking Halloween cup cakes for the Halloween Party at Kristin and Gary's place... think they turned out pretty cute... Also made a Birthday Cake for Kristine since it was her Birthday recently.

 

  

BLUE OCTOBER

 

For our 9th Anniversary my wonderful husband David purchased me two tickets to see "Blue October" here in Las Vegas, he wanted to get me the "Meet and Greet" back stage passes, but at $50.00 a pop it was just not going to happen... I was thrilled just to be able to see them live! Yeah I married a great man! I was so happy because I have been a fan since my sister gave me one of their CD's and said you have got to listen to this, I was hooked and 7 years later I still cant get enough of them! I have made several attempts in the past to go to one of their concerts and really wanted to see Justin Furstenfeld "Open Book Tour" But of course life and money always got in the way, so I made do with watching videos on YouTube, not the same, but hell.. it worked for me. 

PUMPKIN PATCH

My sister in law Christine took our kids and her Daughter Kassy to the pumpkin patch for some fun, thanks Auntie Inna!!

 

9TH ANNIVERSARY

 

David and I have been together for 14 years and we celebrated our 9th Wedding anniversary with a nice dinner out and some gambling!

It was nice just to spend some alone time together!

I love this man more and more everyday!!

 

LILLY AND MOMMY MAKE CUP CAKES

Making some cupcakes with my little princess, she has the baking fever like Mommy! I also got to try out some new frosting ideas and I think they turned out fun!

OUR NEW CAR

Check out our new car, first time for me to buy a car brand new off the lot!! Oh I love our car!!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 2013

Logan and Lilly's first day of School;! Logan going into 1st Grade and Lilly into Pre-School, both the kids were so excited!!

 

 

PAYTON'S BIRTHDAY

Our Friends Shy and Phillip invited us all to Logan's best Friend Payton's Birthday Part! It was a great time and the family made such a cute cake!!

TOUR OF LOGAN'S NEW SCHOOL

 

We were able to take a tour of Logan's new school... it has its own Marine Biology Lab. Very cool school and Logan is looking forward to 1st Grade!! 

 

LAST DAYS OF SUMMER VACATION

 

We had a great summer this year, Logan and Lilly had lots of friends come over and spend time with us, movies nights, crafts like making flubber and trips to the parks.. etc...

 

LILLY'S 3RD BIRTHDAY

Happy 3rd Birthday to our Princess Lilly!!!

Lilly has grown and changed so much in a year, her favorite singer is Pink, she loves the TV show Princess Sofia, and her life is all about being a princess!

 

Lilly will not where anything but princess dresses (dresses she thinks look like a princess would wear) and if you try to get in dress in anything else, it will cause her to cry and say "but this doesn't make me feel Beautiful!"  She get this from her Grandma and Aunt Grace, because I am a jeans an T-shirt kinda girl!

 

Oh and she always wears a hat, a hat is a must in her eyes and a matching pair of shoes, LOL!

 

So for her 3rd Birthday she wanted a Princess Tea Party and invited her 3 Friends.. Kassandra, Gwen and Olive to join her on this special day... she also agreed that her brother and his friends should come, but they were not to be Princesses but they could be pirate. So Logan and his best Friend Payton, Brian and Blake got to join the fun too. Of course I invited all our family and friends along to enjoy the day with us all.

 

I decided that I was going to make a small princess cake for each of the girls and a large sheet cake and cup cakes for everyone else.

This is Kassandra's cake, Pink and Purple

EMMETT'S 1ST BIRTHDAY

My nephew Emmett turned 1 year old!! 

My mother and sister Grace put on a great little party for his big day and my sister made her son such a cute Mickey Mouse Cake and cupcakes.

We all had a wonderful time!!

LOGAN'S KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION

Logan's kindergarten Graduation was awesome, most of the local family was able to attend.

 

We are very proud of Logan, he graduated with A+ in all subjects! After the graduation ceremony we had a small party at our place to celebrate all his hard work!
 

DAVID BREAKS HIS FOOT.... NO WAIT HIS TOE

 

David was walking into the bedroom and kicked the side of the bed, he dropped to the floor and howled out in pain.... I thought nothing of it for the first few minutes, but when it continued I went to investigate....

 

His pinky toe was at a funny angle and his foot was swelling up, so I told him we need to go to the ER, he fought me on this but finally agreed after he got up and tried to walk on it.

 

The first ER we went to was packed, it would be a good 6 to 8 hours so we went to another one across town, David insisted he was doing better to I grabbed his toe and made him scream like a girl and curse me out then agreed one again to go to the other ER.

 

At the ER they did Xrays and told him he broke his foot. A Few days later we went to a specialist and found out that he did not break his foot, only his toe and it was a bad break. But good news.... no full cast, only taped up his toe to the next toe and a walking shoe.

 

MAY 2013

Random photos from May...

APRIL 2013

Random Photos from April....

MARCH 2013

 

Easter Egg Coloring and Easter Day

FEB 2013

 

Random photos of the Month of Feb....

JANUARY 2013

I have had very little time to work on my Family Blog, so here is random photos of the month of January, enjoy!!