Happy Birthday Jake!!

Today is my sweet boys birthday! I can't believe he is already 4 years old. I am so proud of him and how big he is getting! Each day he makes me laugh and smile and grateful that I am his mom. Mike and I love him so much and are so grateful for our little halloween baby! Happy Birthday Jake!!

Jake's Party

We celebrated Jake's birthday on Saturday we had lots of friends come and have lots of fun. We had pizza from Little ceasars and then we played somes games like musical chairs, pin the flag on the pirate ship, and find the coins in the yucky gunk! Then we had a pirate ship pinata. Then Jake opened all his many presents and got some great gifts! We want to thank everyone for all the gifts and for coming to Jakes party! Then we sang happy birthday and had some yummy pirate cake! Jakes real birtday is October 31st (halloween) but Mike is leaving on Monday so we had his party Saturday. We will go trick or treating on his birthday then some of my friends and there kids are going to come over for some cupcakes! I can't believe my little boy is almost 4 he is growing up so fast and getting so big and so smart! We are so proud of him and they cute little man he is becoming! We love you Jake! Happy Birthday!

Grandma and Grandpa Strebe's visit

This past week my parents flew into see us. We had such a great visit and had a lot of fun with them. Monday we got to show them all around town and the bases and Mike got to show my dad all the things around the bases and everything he works on and then Tuesday we went out to the beach and then Wednesday we drove to Greensboro, NC so my dad could see a business that he does business with. Then we finished the day with driving to Mt Airy, NC the town were Mayberry (from the Andy Griffith show) is based on. They had some fun things to see and it was fun to see my mom so excited cause she loves the Andy Griffith show! Then we drove past Raleigh and went to Smithfield, NC to the outlet mall for a bit. Then we drove home. They left on Friday the trip went so fast but we are so glad they came and enjoyed our time with them. When they left Jake cried so much. He was so sad the rest of the day. We love them and can't wait to see them in a few weeks!

Jake's New Bed

We found Jake a captain's bed and got it all put together last night. We went today and bought him a new mattress and he picked out the pirates of the carabien sheets and comforter. He loves it. I figured since he will be turning 4 at the month it was time for a big bed. I can't believe how big he is getting and it's just going so fast! We are so proud of you Jake!!

Cool Tricks!

Here is Jake doing his cool trick! He was watching yo gaba-gaba a show on noggin and on each show they do a cool trick and he saw a little boy do this cool trick. So he wanted to do it. So here he is with the spoon on his nose. He is just to cute!

And It's GONE!!

Well we have accomplished one of the hardest tasks of parenting getting rid of the pacifier! Yeah for us! It only took us 3 days she does do a little crying before she settles down but it went a lot smoother than we had hoped for! She is even sleeping through the night! I guess our next goal is potty training Madison. Which I was very lucky and had my friends potty train Jake so I will have to be patient trying to work on her. Wish us luck!

my babies

Okay so another post of my kids pictures but I was going through all my pictures from my photo picture frame and I thought I would look for some pictures from when the kids were the same age so I know Madison's is pretty recent. But in these pictures they were both 11 months old and they are so cute!~