Happy Birthday Devin!

Happy Birthday Devin! We hope you had a great birthday and we LOVE you lots

Rub a Dub Dub

It's so funny watching Ayden grow and his personality change. I don't know if there is such a thing as the terrible 1, but if there isn't there should be! Ayden has changed in the attitude department ever since he turned one and he can be a real stinker sometimes. His new thing is throwing little tantrums, like when we tell him no or take something away he's getting into. He throws his arms up and down and if you are unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity he hits you! And not on accident, he hits you and then gives a mean, crusty look. He did it to me the other day and I hit is hand (not hard of course) and told him not to hit. Brian just laughed at me and asked how I could hit him and then tell him not to hit. It's so frustrating, I don't know what to do when he acts like that. I don't want to spank our kids, but I don't know how to discipline him when he does something like that. This new little attitude is kinda scaring me! I don't know what is happening to my happy, smiley boy! Don't get me wrong, he still is happy and smiley, I guess he is just leaving the baby stage and entering into a terrifying world of being a toddler. Scary! He was such a stinker today and I was eyeing the clock all night to see if it was 8 o'clock yet (his bedtime). Finally he was just in such a bad mood that I decided to give him a bath. It was like night and day. He was having such a good time in there! It was so cute. It's funny how 5 minutes of him being cute and smiley erases all the frustration I had during the day. Anyways here are some pictures of him in his bath!

His two little front teeth are so cute! I LOVE them!

(Brian makes fun and say's they are like goofy's teeth :( )

He loves putting his hand under the running water, even though he get's a face full of waterHe is very into small round details, like buttons or screws in things. Weird, huh!

How could a baby this cute have been a little stinker all day!?!

Memoirs of a Geisha

I just finished reading Memoirs of a geisha (the novel) and I thought it would be fun to watch the movie again. I just LOVE this movie! I could watch it over and over again. I think that it's the only movie I have ever seen made from a book that was even better than the book! I thought anyways. And the book was really good too! I think I loved this movie even more when Jaime and Hok from last season of So you think you can Dance did the hummingbird and the flower dance to music from the movie. Nothing better than combining my favorite movie AND TV show! It was one of my all-time favorite dances from last season. Has anyone been watching So you think you can Dance this season? I just LOVE this show! I was VERY disappointed last night when Matt got voted off. I really liked him! My favorite girls are Katee, Chelsie, and Kherington. My favorite guys are Twitch, Gev, and Matt (so sad :( )
I would also like to know, how much do you spend on groceries each week?!? I try so hard to spend as little as I can and today I spent like $15 dollars more than what I normally spend! I didn't get anything extra or anything just mostly what I normally get. Is it just me or does it seem like grocery prices are going like WAY up? Maybe it's just me, I really want to try and do what money saving mom does and stick to a $45 dollar a week limit. But I don't know how that's possible.
Anyways here is a little blast from past from last season of Jaime and Hok doing my favorite dance:

Day at the park (LOTS of pictures!)

Today was such a nice day outside (okay, nice for being the middle of the summer in phoenix), so I decided to take Ayden to the park. We tried taking him once before a few months ago and he was just not into it at all. But today he LOVED it! It was so fun seeing him get so excited about swinging, and going down the slide, and feeding the ducks. It was so much fun to go and spend the day with my baby. I'm really excited about this stage he is entering, where he can go out and do kid things and play. So much fun! It was just so nice to get out and do something, Ayden has been in a stge for a while where he needs Brian or Me to pay attention to him 24/7. He has been driving us CRAZY and it's always nice to change things up and do something different. Anyways, here are some pictures at the park and there is also a video from the other day. Ayden woke up from his nap and Brian jumped in his crib to try to get him back to sleep. I hear this hysterical laugh coming from his room and find Brian making sneezing noises and Ayden just cracking up! So much for calming him down, anyways it was pretty funny. I love how the dumbest things are hysterical to babies!

Not so sure about this whole swinging thing at firstThis isn't so bad

Cheesy smile

LOVES going down the slide!He totally just took off on his own sown the little path that goes through out the jungle gymtaking off, he went fast!feeding the ducks, he was loving all the birds coming right up to him!

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the 5 people you meet in heaven

Okay, so I figured it was about time I try to venture away from teenage literature (at least till the next twilight book comes out :)) and move on to grown up books. The 5 people you meet in heaven was on a friends reading list and I thought it looked interesting. It was so good! I recommend it to anyone looking for a good book to read. It is a pretty small book and a very easy read, I finished it in 2 days. It's a nice change to read a book that makes you think about your life and how your living it. I have been rediscovering the library and now have quite a few books to read! We also are renting movies from there (they actually have a very descent collection), which is a nice free way to spend a night. Anyways I'll let everyone know if I come across any other great books! For me, it's really hard to find books, unless I know someone who has read it and liked it. But I am feeling adventurous, so we'll see if I can find a good one on my own :)

AYDEN'S 1ST BIRTHDAY!!!

Today is my little baby's 1st birthday. It's so hard to believe that he came into my world only one short year ago. How is the time going by so fast! I wish I could just slow it down and keep him my little baby forever. However, it is fun to see him grow and learn new things. For his birthday we bought him this little explorer's truck thing. He can either push it or sit on it and ride, and it's got about a billion little buttons and things to do on it. He loves pushing buttons, he takes his little pointer finger and very carefully pushes them. It's SO cute! I'm so excited to watch him grow older and I'm so lucky to be the mom of the cutest little boy! Here are some pictures we took of him digging into his first birthday cake!

So good to be home!

So we are finally home! It has been a really long week, so fun!, but long. It's good to be home. We went to California with Brian's family and it was so fun to be there with everyone. It was the first vacation where EVERYONE was there, since I have been in the family anyways. My favorite day was when we went to Disneyland. I am a pretty big Disneyland freak and I was SO excited to go and to take Ayden on his first trip! I don't know why, but he was SO excited. As soon as I got him out of the car he was laughing and waving his arms around. There is a video clip we got of him before he went on his first ride and that's pretty much how he was for quite a while in the beginning. It was so cute! We took him on some of the little kid rides and he loved them. He would stand on our laps and was so fascinated by all the lights and colors. He would dart his little head around trying to look at every single thing on the ride. He was really good there too, I made him this baby sling before the trip and it turned out to be a LIFESAVER! He just loved sitting in there being close to someone, and he would even fall asleep in it! It was so fun cuddling with him! I had so much fun in California, It's so nice to not be so new in the family and to be comfortable. Karen, Jennifer, Katie, Brian's Mom and I decided not to sit around too much while the guys did stuff. We had our own girl's night's, going to see Indiana Jones, getting ice cream, and shopping. Brian and I had a blast and are so sad to be back to real life! Thank You Don and Robin for such fun trip that we will always remember!

Ayden and I about to go into Disneyland! (Look how cute he looks in his little sling :))

Brian and Ayden, he is so happy!

Ayden passed out in his stroller (don't know how he slept with all the noise around him!

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