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!!

CHRISTMAS 2012

STOCKINGS

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY LOGAN

Our Logan is getting to be such a big kid! He turned 6 years old and it still feels like yesterday that he was born. Watching this kid grow has been amazing. He is doing wonderful at school, loves to play outside all day long and loves to watch Amazing World of Gumball.

VISITING WITH SANTA

I took Logan and Lilly to see Santa, they were both excited to see him. Once we got at the front of the line Logan was jumping up and down and Lilly was getting a little uncertain about meeting him. Santa waved the kids over and Logan jumped right up on to his lap and after seeing Logan do it, Lilly decided it was safe for her to go meet the big guy as well. When Santa asked Logan what he wanted for Christmas, Logan replied "I want a magic pony that poops all the toys I want" after Santa got done laughing he asked Lilly what she would like, well Lilly must have thought Logan was on to something because cause she told Santa she wanted the same thing.

 

WINTER FESTIVAL

HALLOWEEN

 

PUMPKIN CARVING

We carved some pumpkins over at Grandma's place. Lots of fun and our friend Barry got to join us as he was in Las Vegas visiting.

FALL FESTIVAL

David took Logan and Lilly to the Fall Festival. They had lost of fun and got to Trick or Treat at all the booths. Got them all ready for the Big Day...

ANIVERSARY 8 YEARS

For out Anniversary David and I went to see Hollywood Babble on with Kevin Smith and Ralph Garmin. It was a great night, very funny! We did have really bad seats, but at least I could see Kevin Smith from where we sat.

DANCE CLASS

My niece attends a dance class every Saturday and had a bring a friend to dance class day. Logan and Lilly went along and had a great time.

PHOTO BY CHRIS

 

 

This photo was taken by my friend Chris, Lilly and Chris's cat named Lily.

LOGAN FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN

 

Today was Logan's first day of Kindergarten! A very exciting day for all of us, Logan couldn't wait to get to school as summer was just not that fun without all his Florida friends.

 

We arrived at school and Logan was off running around the playground with the other kids right away, he made a few friends and when it was time for David, Lilly and I to leave we let him know.

 

We did not expect this reaction from him, he turned to us and said "OK you can leave now" so we gave him hugs and kisses and said we would see him after school.

 

When David picked him up after school he said he had a great day and made lots of friends, but couldn't remember any ones name. We took him out to a special first day of school lunch and he could pick anywhere he wanted to go, so he chose Ihop. Geez really?! LOL

 

Logan in front of his School

 

LILLY AND THE TREE

LOGAN AND GWEN

Gwen, Logan and Gwens friend

HOT LAS VEGAS

DAVID GETS PULLED OVER

 

 

David got pulled over by a very nice police officer, Logan loves police and this nice officer decided to show Logan his police car and police equipment.

 

The officer even let Logan talk into the load speaker, Logan said this "Daddy your a poopoo head" I think everyone on that block heard what Logan had to say.

 

 



SO TINY

LILLY'S 2ND BIRTHDAY

Lilly is now 2 years old, we had a great little family party with Blues Clues as the Theme and held at Chuck E Cheese.

 

I am really blown away at how fast Lilly has grown, she is a very smart little lady and speaks so well. She loves art, drawing and painting. She is right on track with her growth, still a little on the small size but she takes after mommy!

 

Blues Clues is her Favorite show right now and she loves to sing and dance.

 

Happy Birthday to my little Lilly!!

 

 

KIDS AND BABY EMMETT

My kids just love Baby Emmett so much!

 

4TH OF JULY

Logan made this shirt with Christine

 

WELCOME EMMETT

 

My sister Grace and her husband Scott Welcomed their first child Emmett Pevchin on June 30, 2012

 

Grace has a C-Section due to Emmett's failure to grow due to issues with the placenta, he was born at 5 almost 6lbs a very health baby boy.

 

 

GRACE BABY SHOWER

TO MUCH TO DO

So much to do and so little time in a day! I am sorry for not keeping our little blog updated recently, I have tons of photos and stories to share, but I just can't seem to find the time. Don't worry that should change very soon!

Here is a little update on our life as it is right now.

I am playing the role of single mother, now don't go freaking out David hasn't really left us.... David has gone back to Las Vegas for work. He had an opportunity to make some good money an as fate would have it, it was at the perfect time since things at my job were slowing down.

So David left almost 2 weeks ago and I had learned how hard it is to be a single mom, but yet not single. I am lucky to have such a good support system out here in Florida.

I get the kids ready in the morning, then my mom an a friend of mine Chris take care of the kids till I get off work. Thank you Chris! Thank you Mom! Then it's dinner, play time, bath and bed and start the whole thing over again the next day! I haven't gotten to sleep in on the weekend since David left, man I am worn out all the time!

Anyway, here is the big news! We are heading back to Las Vegas... Yeah you read that right... We are moving away from this wonderful and amazing small town, saying good bye to all the wonderful friends we have made, away from all the family activities and beaches and moving back to Las Vegas. As you can tell I am just trilled with the idea of moving back!!! But we need to do what we have to, to be able to support our little family. Florida as wonderful as it is has not been kind to us, work is extremely had to come by, pay rates are low and the cost of living is high. By the way, I need to compose a little email to Marlene telling her she was right and I was wrong and thanks again for looking out for us!

So there you have it, we will be moving the end of May.

And I have decided I am going to make the best of this situation. We will be buying our first home in a few months and I am going to take my little chocolate, cupcake making hobby into something much bigger an profitable and thankfully I have my brother who is attending the Le Condon Bleu to teach me and I have signed up for some college classes in baking, cake design and chocolate making oh and just for fun a class on show pieces and spun sugar. David will also be doing some college classes in Creative writing.

I think this will be for the best and as long as I have my family I can live anyplace and be happy!

HAPPY EASTER 2012

Coloring eggs

DUNEDIN HARBOR

2 PLAY DATES IN 1 DAY

What a lucky boy Logan is, he got invited to 2 play dates for the same day.

In the Morning we went over to Logan's friend Miles house. Logan, Oliver and Miles played so great together and Lilly joined them for a little bit, but was pleased just entertaining herself with us by exploring her new surroundings. David and I had a great time as well, chatting and laughing with Chris and Joe. They even had us stay for Lunch, Joe BBQ'ed some hot dogs and Hamburgers!

3D MOVIE WITH LOGAN

Logan and I went to see The Lorax in 3D, great movie, wonderful 3D and the movies leaves you with a nice uncomfortable feeling that you are not doing enough to help the environment! LOL

PARTY HAT HEROS

Meet the Party Hat Hero's .... here to save your party!

Yeah, we are weird! LOL

UPDATE

Things have been a little crazy around here and I was just able to add some photos of what has gone on over the last few months.

Here is an update!

I got a job doing Book Keeping for a company here in Clearwater, the company is AWESOME!! So I am working full time and David is home with the kids.

MARDI GRAS

We headed to Dunedin to check out the locals version of Mardi Gras, it was great... I didn't take many photos (Sorry). They kids loved it and we had a great time.

V-DAY

MINI GOLF

FAMILY MINI GOLF DAY

Had a wonderful family day together, we went Mini Golfing. This was Lilly's first time and Logan's second. It was so much fun!!

THE BEACH IN JAN

Weather in Florida is strange, it was in the 80's on Christmas and now its January and we hit the beach, it was a nice day out and the water was just a little bit cold.

PAINTING

Logan and Lilly painting some nice pictures for us.

OUCH

Lilly was outside playing with Logan and the neighbors when she tripped and fell on the cobble stone driveway, poor thing landed right on her face and hurt her nose.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 

OCEAN FISHING

Logan and I decided to try a little Ocean Fishing, we found a spot just down the road from our house, it was a perfect spot! We didnt catch anything, but sure enjoyed the time we spent together!

CHRISTMAS 2011

Merry Christmas!!!

Logan woke up nice and early ready to see if Santa came, we had to wake Lilly up .... she was still sleeping. It was a wonderful Christmas for all of us!

CHRISTMAS EVE 2011

Awe Christmas eve, typically we would be over at the Holloway's house celebrating Christmas eve with lots of good food, family, opening presents, playing then heading home to get the kids in bed.

TATTOO

You know kids are up to something when its quiet!

Logan decided that he needed to give Lilly and himself tattoos on their faces with a ball point pen!

It was pretty funny!

Logan in time out, Lilly joined him....

LOGAN'S CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Today was Logan's Christmas Concert!! David and I were so excited about this.... Logan has been practicing his songs all week!

Logan is in white shirt.... There will be video coming soon!

WINTER WONDERLAND

My wonderful husband David volunteered to play Santa for 4 hours at Winter Wonderland, little did he know what he was in for! haa haa

It took both David and I to get him all dressed and looking good as Santa!

DUNEDIN CHRISTMAS

Dunedin put on a old fashion Christmas, they had a great Christmas Parade and then on Main Street there was snow and vendors and Christmas Songs.

LOGAN'S 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!!

 Logan's actual Birthday is not until the 20th of this month, but we decided to celebrate it early so all his school friends can be there.

This is Logan's Big 5th Birthday Party, we have always done small family and friends together to celebrate his Birthday, but this year we went all out since he is turning 5 years old! That's a pretty big deal for this little guy!

We invited our wonderful neighbors and all the kids on his school, in total we had 11 kids and 13 adults.

Logan chose to have a Mario Bros theme party.

Logan also decided that we would play Pin the Tail on the Donkey and Musical Chairs!

MIRACLE ON CLEVELAND ST

Miracle of Cleveland Street is held in Downtown Clearwater, they had games, food, crafts and a Toboggan / Sled ride with tons of snow. It was a lot of fun and Logan got to ride the sled down the snow all by himself!

WINTER WONDERLAND

Winter Wonderland is put on by the Clearwater Community Volunteers that mom (grandma) is a member of. They have this huge Santa's Village with all kinds of activities. There will be more about this later this month as we were only able to make a quick stop. We will be going again next week and David will be playing Santa one afternoon!!! Too Exciting!! So for now just a quick look...

MAKING LOGAN's CAKE

As you all know I have a tradition of making the kids birthday cakes, each year I have tried to improve my skills and make the best cake possible. The kids get to pick what theme they want to have and I make a cake to match. This year Logan wanted a Mario Bros Birthday Party (his fav game). 

TIME TO DECORATE

We decided to decorate for Christmas early, we got a 9ft tree this year since we have such nice high ceilings. The kids had a great time, this was Lilly's first year helping with the decorations and now she likes to take the ornaments off and put them back on in different places. Logan got to put the Star on the tree, a fun task for him!

Our Tree