Happy Birthday Jackson

Saturday was my nephew Jackson's 2nd B-day along

with my niece's Baptism(no pics).

Jackson was so excited opening his presents!

He had a lot of hot wheels and each one he was equally excited about like

 it was something he hadn't seen before. I love two year olds!

(Jackson & Rocco lovin life)

Weeks previous we were also Celebrating my

Grandma & Aunt Sherri's 82nd Birthday! 

My Grandma(white) always bragged that she was born

20 minutes earlier, therefore, older & wiser.
Thanks to Grandma we were all able to look back and laugh at ourselves.

She had found these old school pictures of us we'd given to her.

Andee is in the process of telling Chad how much of a dork he was

and Heather is remembering how cool those 80's huge wave bangs were. 

Busy Week!

Todd & I went and had some fun hitting golf balls at a range. I have a lot to work on to get back into the swing of things.


Wednesday we had the pleasure of babysitting little Lincoln while Jeff and Annette were out of town.
We took him to the park even though it was a little chilly. He had a lot of fun with his uncle Todd!


Girls Night was that Wednesday night. Only a few of us could make it so we ate at Smoky Mountain Pizza. I tried something new and was so disappointed! I hate when I do that.
After dinner we went to see Kami and Landon. To my surprise they had an early birthday cake there for me! I got to blow out all 23 candles! I haven't done that in a while it was fun!


~Birthday~
The morning of my birthday Todd was so nice to make me breakfast (french toast-my fav.). We then went to a bunch of garage sales! Bridge Tower subdivision had a huge community sale. We got a few new golf bags (as you can see above I needed a new one!) for $15 and we got our moneys worth. Last night Todd got the bag out of the car and felt that it was heavy. He looked in it and found a bunch of quarters and a few $1 bills! We felt bad because there is no way that we would know where to return that money to because we hit so many places. It was sad but exciting at the same time. We were blessed in a way! Tithing pays off.

That night we met up with friends and went to a Burn game. It was fun to be so close but it's so small! I personally thing that arena football is a joke but it is entertaining. We had some great seats and the cool part is that if a football comes into the stands you get to keep it! Todd was able to make an amazing catch right over a bunch of people trying for the same ball. So we got a souvenir for my birthday!
It was a great day. I don't feel any older like I used to when I was little. I could get used to doing whatever I wanted because it was my birthday though. Todd made it a fun day for me-Thanks honey!

Cinco De Mayo!

I love all of the time I have now that I don't have a job. I was able to pretend to be a stay at home mom, like all of my wonderful friends, and take the kids to the park. We had a light picnic lunch and then went for a walk along the river. I love it down there so much I can't get enough. And my dear Kami, we are crossing our fingers that Landon comes on his due date (May 10th). It was a great afternoon. It just makes me more excited to be a stay at home mom one day.


Happy 3rd Birthday Rocco!

How could you not just love this goof ball?! We had a great time at my nephew's birthday party at Settler's Park. He is a cutie for sure.

Happy Birthday Addie!

My cute niece (in-law) Addie turned 3 yesterday! We were able to celebrate with her because the family is visiting for a week! Also her cousins were are in town this week too. She got to pick out her very own birthday cake design-she chose the carrousel.
But the only thing she wanted for her birthday was Starbursts.
So all of the cousins had a Starburst hunt in the backyard. They had a blast seeing who could get the most. We finally got a good picture of Claire Bear smiling. She is a really calm and fun baby that smiles all the time! I don't get to see my in-law's very much so I'm glad that my sisters are in town visiting and I'm grateful for my adorable nieces & nephews!

Happy Birthday Todd!

Todd's Birthday was Feb. 6th. Todd had to wake up early to go to school so I woke up with him and helped him get some things ready for his day.
I had a few small presents to give to him in the morning to start his Birthday off right. He got this fun rotating tie rack that is so nice to use. I still needed to do some last minute shopping for him so as he headed out the door so did I. I found just what he wanted. Todd has been asking for this for a long while and I thought it was about time.

A new TV! I saw it a few weeks earlier and almost bought it then but they were out of stock. It had been growing on me for a while and I just had to have it. If you have been to our apt. you would know that we had a tiny 20" tv that you could hardly see and it wasn't a great picture. We upgraded to a 32" Vizio. I thought it was time for Todd to get his wish. He was so surprised!!

Todd's parents treated us to a nice dinner @ Carinos. Then Todd headed off to Scouts for a few hours.

I went and rented a movie for us to watch on our new tv. I decided to get Ladder 49 because Todd hadn't seen it yet and I remember it was really good. It is kind of depressing but I have more respect for firefighters after watching it, and I'm glad that I'm not married to one. We ended the night by watching the movie as Todd received a bunch of "Happy Birthday" phone calls. It was a fun day.