Recent pics of my sis's family

My sister and a few friends of our went out to this AMZING apple farm in Yucaipa. It is so beautiful and have they have the BEST caramel apples. My sister here is sampeling the glory, still warm with fresh caramel and that stuff is well...kinda sticky. Her mouth is a little sealed shut in this photos. :) hehe


At our friend's recent birthday they had wax lips in the goody bags.


Memo (my bro in law) and my yummy niece Violet.

Meet taco baby. I gave her a bath and then wrapped her up and set her down while I got jammies and she stayed there all wrapped up. :)

Lego lover

We (collectively) clocked in over 4 hours on Luke's most recent Lego acqusition. FOUR HOURS. I did about two of those hours and I must say snapping together little squares to create spaceships, men, monsters, etc. if actually quite fun. After two hours and I start to loose my steam. That's when grammy and grandpa took over. Thank goodness! This picture was taken at 10:00pm. Yes I let Luke stay up. Once you get on a roll it's addicting I tell you! :)

Cuddle time

Luke,
Saturday mornings are glorious around here. They are our one lazy morning and we relish them don't we? Here I got a wild hair and decided to bring the camera along to cuddle time. Glad I did. Captured our goofy selves. :) I love you so much buddy. You are just amazing.....

xo, Mommy

How sweet it is...

...to sell your toys. I took you guys to Once Upon a Child last weekend to sell some of your old toys and with that money we walked next door and bought ice cream. You really liked this idea Luke. Charlotte....you on the other hand made the clerk give you back your jump rope. LOL Classic!

And he does dishes too

Dearest Hubby,

I had to snap this photo so as to hopefully remind myself how sweet I have it. Not only did you change diapers when we were in that phase, you wake up with the kids at night if they need water or a cuddle, you spend as much time with them as you can, you check off items from the honey-do list, and my most favorite....YOU DO DISHES!

You rock!!!

xo, your appreciative wife

First day at the Office

Luke is raising money for his school fundraiser, his first one. And I had the brilliant idea of having John take him to his company meeting to ask John's coworkers for donations. This is Luke's first offical trip with John to the weekly company meeting. The pajamas were his idea. He raised $120!

The Fam

This jumping picture pose was something I have always wanted to try since I saw it in a Leonardo DeCaprio movie. I am SO GLAD we did it. I LOVE it. You should try it because you can't help but all start laughing and making goofy faces. In here are all of my immediate family memebers plus a few spouses. The shot was taken spring of 07. We had so much fun with this. Check out my hugely prego sister, hysterical that she is the only one who can't jump. LOL




This pic was taken at my grandpa's 81st birthday party that we had here at the house this past May. My sis Jess couldn't make it but here are my other three siblings.

The beautiful bride

This weekend my sister Sara and I drove up to Vegas for Gab's last minute but very planned marriage. It's a funny thing. They knew they wanted to be married, they have known each other for a long time, and they just decided to forget waiting, stop putting their life on hold, forget "too young" and just jump in. I applaud that. As scary as it sorta kinda is to think of my younger sister married, I am happy for them. I jumped in and look where that got me! Blissfully happy. So, kudos for not over thinking things Gab!!! May you have a happy and prospereous marriage to Ben!


This shot was taken after the ceremony in the back veranda of the hotel. So cute.



I love this shot. This is Diane, Gab's mom trying to take out her earrings so Gab and wear them. The morning was tense and this goofy moment was perfect and I am so happy I caught it on film.



I just love the classic "bride gazing at herself" shot. She's so yummy.



Before the wedding and all the way up to the moment Gab walked down the aisle she seemed relaxed and was making all sorts of jokes. She also declared to us that she would not cry at all. Well...the MINUTE she started down the aisle with her dad and saw Ben it was over! It was the sweetest ceremony I think I have ever seen.


And this is Ben seeing Gab walk in. You can see the minister raising his hands up to signal the crowd to stand up for Gab.

I am so grateful that I could be there. And I am so thankful I was able to capture these memories. ;)

Crazy weekend

Okay so my sister and I had a blast in Vegas this weekend. My younger sister decided to get married, spur of the moment you might say, so we drove up to wish her well and take pictures, etc. Will post more about that with pictures tomorrow.

Also, while I was gone we got a new dog!! A 2 year old pitbull (don't freak) named Maya. She's a total love. Will post a pic tomorrow as well.

Just wanted to keep you updated. :)