Life is awesome!

I realized today that I haven't posted in a while and just wanted to write a little of how I am feeling lately. I feel SO blessed with the life I have. I am surrounded by such wonderful, "little people", they make me smile every day. Even though some days are crazy and they don't seem to listen some times, they truly are such great little examples to me:-) Anna, aka #1 is so smart and kind. She may have her moments, but she definitely is such a kind hearted child. She keeps me updated on her life...meaning she is a talker:-) I love when it is bed time and she and I will talk about her day and she fortunately will tell me everything. She is a snuggler too! Megan, aka #2, keeps me in line and helps me be the mom and wife that I want to be. i.e., Mom count to ten. This is when things got heated with #1, which isn't too often, but I found that the last time, about 3 weeks ago (the week of by birthday) #1 was being very sassy and I started to raise my voice and that's when #2 saved the day. Sad to many that a soon to be 7 year old needs to calm the storm, but this is my life and I feel blessed that I have them here to help me through this life that is given to us. Anyway, she, #2, may be a little crazy sometimes, but all in all she is an introvert who is very soft and gentle, and VERY thoughtful, also very creative and inventive. Amanda #3 is SO sweet. Just randomly, throughout the day she will say, "Mom, I love you! or Mom, you are the best!", always with a soft kiss on the cheek. She is constantly keeping her things nice and organized, especially ALL of her baby dolls. I think she will be the one who has a lot of kids. Last but not least, little Maggie, aka #4. What can I say, she is the funnest little 2 year old. I am REALLY happy that she is out of her screaming stage. Probably cause she talks a lot more. Anyway, she is constantly making all of us laugh. She is always giving me hugs and kisses and is probably the most polite little two year old I know:-) Tanto mommy or peeasse mommy:-) I love it! Did I mention that my hubby is a great daddy who loves to play and be creative with the little ones. He is definitely the calmer of the two of us with the kiddos. He has such a good perspective on childhood. To say the least, LIFE is AWESOME!!!!!

The best weekend of Birthday fun!!!!!

FRIDAY MORNING the 6th of February

Well my birthday weekend started off with a nice surprise:-) A friend came to my house around 6am and kidnapped me to take me to another friends house where I was greeted by........

All of these beautiful women!!!!!

Thanks JL for letting us crash your house SO early and for the YUMMY cinnamon rolls:-)
They had YUMMY homemade cinnamon rolls with fresh fruit!!!
Some funny questions! (there was A LOT more, but my girls either colored or cut the:=( )
THANK YOU LADIES for an AWESOME start to a Birthday weekend; you are all the BEST!!!!!!


I crashed when I got home an hour later
SATURDAY

I took the girls to the D-Back stadium with my Dad and Jan. It was a lot of fun! It was free and they had a lot of bounce houses and obstacle courses, along with a bunch of baseball activities:-)
It was kinda chilly, but MAg pie refused to put on a coat. This is her trying to warm herself up....so cute!
Megan was SO excited that they were ALL going to be going on the next obstacle bounce house.I took the girls out that night to dinner and a Jamba Juice. It was a lot of fun to just spend some quality time with all of them.


SUNDAY...The BIRTHDAY DAY!!!!
The girls made me breakfast in bed: Oatmeal, fresh fruit, and some toast:-) It was delicious!!! The hubby got me some beautiful flowers and a nice card...thanks honey buns!That afternoon we went to my Dads in Mesa and he made me a DELICIOUS Birthday dinner: Apple stuffed chicken with fresh veggies and salad. Then Jan made a REALLY good chocolate cake with yummy butter cream frosting!It was such a wonderful weekend! I couldn't have asked for anything more:-)
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Vegas Trip

Finally I am posting on the "Big" trip that we went on to celebrate our 30th birthday! Okay so my feelings on Vegas was that I had a blast just visiting with Pam, and our husbands, BUT Vegas is a nasty little city. I can definitely see why people call it "sin city"! Anyway, we basically ate 80% of the time and enjoyed every single minute of adult time that we all had:-)

Here's all of us outside the Bellagio. I think it's funny that we are a pattern....black, orange, black orange:-) I think I wore my jacket the whole time...it was really cold to me. I guess I am an official Arizonian:-(

I loved this picture Jonathan took. I am tempted on printing it off and framing it!

Here we are:-)

This is inside the Bellagio. It was beautiful in there. They were celebrating the Chinese New Year.

Pamela and Jared

Jonathan and I :-)

Our first feast! A friend told us to go and it was gooood. It was thirty buck a person and so we stayed three hours to get our moneys worth. To say the least, the waiter was not very helpful or happy to see us there still at the three hour mark. They stopped filling our water after the 2 1/2 hour mark:-) Just some of the desserts we tried:-)

Bellagio water show, it was awesome!
This was inside some mall we went into where P.F. Changs was, we thought is was pretty cool cause it would change colors.
Pam and I at the M &M's store. Seriously not worth your time.:-( Over priced and REALLY really hot in there.
This was our last night:-( We went to a BBQ place of the strip and then went to Freemont Street, the old strip.
Nice view huh:-) Anyway, the only difference between the old and new strip was that there was old drunk people on the old and young drunk people on the new strip. Freemont street was pretty cool with the 4 football field long light show above us:-)The cheaper version (free) of Cirque del sole. (pretty sure I screwed up the spelling on that, but you get the picture)

On the way home Jonathan and I kinda stopped at the Hoover Dam. It is such an amazing landmark!

Belly Picture

Here's a belly picture I found that my hubby took! Seriously it's the only one that I think I like. Believe me I am A LOT bigger than this picture....Believe me:-)