Taking a Break

So for the summer I will be taking a break with blogging. First off my camera is broken, so my pictures are all on my phone and I think it is a pain to email it to myself, download to my computer, etc. I am not that technically savvy. Plus our summer has been so crazy and busy that I would rather spend my days sleeping in(Gavin woke up today at 8:45 and Sloan at 7:30- score!), going to the pool and playing with the kids. Sloan will be one soon and is definitely our drama queen and keeps me on my toes. Gavin is growing into such a boy and has taken the summer off from school, so we are trying to keep him busy and entertained. Lucky that is not hard to do!

So be patient, I will hopefully resume soon, but in the meantime- ENJOY!

My Baby....

Girl is now full on walking! Yikes! She just turned 10 months and must feel like she is missing out on life or something. She is amazing with her stability and balance. Yesterday she just stood in the grass for 3 minutes. Just hanging out. We were counting her steps and the last we counted was 20. Now we don't bother, she just motors. Unless she is feeling like she is too slow, then she drops and crawls. It is very cute. Now if she would only get some hair.

The pictures are from the wedding we went to in Nebraska. Both kids did great and were so cute. The pic of Sloan sitting down was her mad that her Daddy went into the house. She is such a Daddy's Girl!

Mexcio Part 2

Forgive me for no getting this out sooner. We were home from Mexico for less than 1 week and set off again for Nebraska for a wedding. We were gone for 5 days, got home and Greg the next day for 3 days for work. We are all finally back together and the house is put back in order. Yea! We will be back to normal for a week before Greg leaves again. Sheesh!

On our trip to Mexico we took a trip over to Isla Mujeres for the day. It was such a great day, but ended up being a very long day. We got to go to a wonderful place park that had snorkeling, zip lining, open bar, infinity pool and great walking trail along the cliffs. It was perfect getaway from the resort for awhile. Jason did some snorkeling while both boys zip-lined. I love the fact my husband did a spread eagle for his pose! Lovely.

It was a great time, with our lovely weather now, I would go back in a heart beat! There will be no blog about Nebraska, I did not take one picture, whoops! On the up side though, I got Lasik yesterday and this is my first post sans glasses! Yea! I can't believe I haven't worn them in a full day, my face feels naked. But I love to be able to see...

Mexico Part 1

Our last dinner of the trip!


Well Greg and I survived Mexico! It was a fun time, but I was very much ready to get home. Besides missing my kids so very much, I got a lovely case of Montezumas Revenge on our second day there. Super fun! But here is our trip in pictures. I will break this up into two blogs because one day we went to Isla Mujeres and we took over half of our pictures on that trip.

The boys doing shots at our pool off our room- that was an ugly evening that my husband barely remembers!

Our main pool

Having cocktails before dinner

My husband the last night. It was not a great day to fly the next day!

April thus far...

I am trying to get my act together. One more blog in the month of April. I remember fondly when I would do a few a week, or at least one a week. Now I am lucky to get 2 a month. Oh well! Who knew that having 2 kiddos would keep me so busy!

We started our April with some beautiful weather. That I why I love Colorado so, the day of our hike was 80, while the next day was 40! The pictures are from our first hike of the year. Gavin did wonderful and Sloan did ok. I only say that because while applying sunscreen, she rubbed her eyes and got some in them. Poor thing. She was a trooper though! Never cried a bit, just had that one eye tearing the whole time. She absolutely loved being in the back pack though. She just sat up there soaking it all in and then fell asleep about 1/2 way into the hike. We did 3 miles and Gavin had a ball, even Crash came along. We had to cross over a stream several times and he thought that was so cool. I can't wait to do more.

Greg and I are off to Mexico this Saturday with some friends. It will be our first long trip away from the kids. I am a little nervous for sure. I know they will be good, or at least I hope so. Both Gparents are watching them. So hopefully they behave! Hopefully I can fix my camera before we leave so we can get some pictures! Happy Easter!

March Madness

I am finally getting around to our crazy March! Just a few highlights. St. Patricks Day Parade! We had so much fun, of course I didn't take any of the kids pictures on our actual camera, just our cell phones. Whoops! We all were decked out though and the kids did great!

March also brought my sister's 40th birthday. We had a lot of fun. There was some craziness sure, maybe some dancing, drinking, puking in the stairwell, falling on the dance floor and possibly some butt cake. Here are some highlights:

It wouldn't be proper to end on this note (the birthday girl barely standing wearing some randoms band hat. Seriously who actually wears that to a bar???) Anyway, here are some pictures of the morning after. Taylor (Bubba) is a classy guy! I still don't know how I ended up being the responsible one that night! Sheesh!

Happy April! Hopefully more to come!

Neglecting

I know, I am neglecting my blog right now. I just looked at it and realized I only did one blog in the month of March. I really don't know where the time has gone. Oh wait, yes I do! I have been a single Mom off and on for the past 6 weeks with Greg's company being bought (which happened today- Yea!). He is in St. Louis right now. I don't even know if I spelled that right. Oh well. I have been slammed with planning vacations and parties, my sister's 40th last weekend and several coming up. Lets see, we go to Mexico at the end of this month, we host 2 parties in May and head to Nebraska for 5 days, 2 parties in June, a trip to Breckenridge with friends for 5 days, another big party in July for Sloan's first and probably an August one. Who knows with us! We still haven't even talked about his companies party. I have been trying to find the time to get a cavity filled for over a month now and schedule Lasik. Plus a bunch of house stuff (painting inside and out) and hitting the gym at least 4 times a week. I sometimes feel like I would get more done if I went back to work. The kids are crazy right now, Sloan is now pulling herself up onto things and walking. EEEK! She is still stinking cute and so much fun. Definitely the happiest baby I have ever seen. Gavin is big and getting bigger. And also a tad bit more sassy. He told me yesterday when we left the house to turn off the TV (we leave the radio on through the TV for the dogs when we are gone) because it is wasteful. True, but really? He is too cute. This morning Sloan was up at 4:40 am. Yea! And went back to bed at 6. Of course Gavin got up at 6:10. So I put a movie on and we crawled under the blankets on the couch and watched some Scooby Doo. I was dozing and I noticed he was searching for my hand and when he found it, held it. Seriously brings a tear to my eye. He is getting to be such a little man, but still a Mommy's boy when need be. I will download pictures today, I have a ton! I forgot we even hit 2 St. Patty's parades with all of us decked out in green. Plus random pics around the house and Jen's 40th. Some very classy pics in that group!