Hop on girly!

Here is Jake being a nice big brother and actually wanting to ride Madison around on the back of his bike. They had a good time riding around the yard a couple times and under the trampoline. I love when they are nice together like this!

Missing Grandma

Mike's mom came down last week and we had such a great visit! The kids warmed right up to her which is good cause they haven't seen here in 7 months. Jake pretty much knows who she is now since he is older but Madison hasn't seen her since she could crawl. But she did great. They both had a lot of fun spending time with her. Unfortunately she had a terrible experience at the airport getting here. Almost here in Charlotte the weather was very bad and her flight got canceled. So she had to get a hotel and fly in the next day. But she got here safe! The first day she got to spend time playing with the kids and then Friday we went to the beach and enjoyed the nice weather and cool water. Then on Saturday we drove down to Wilmington and went to a water park which was a lot of fun. they have a nice area were the kids can play. Then Sunday which was father's day we hung out and took Mike out to dinner were he wanted to go. Then she had to leave on Monday so we went to lunch and left on an afternoon flight. Well she left and flew from here to Charlotte to Denver and then again missed her connecting flight!!! Which they said was due to the weather! So yet again she had to get another hotel and fly out the next day. What and awful flight experience! But got home safe! But we are so grateful she was able to come out and see us and spend time with the kids. She spoiled us a lot and took us out to eat a lot and bought the kids lots of gifts, which they loved! But even as we left the airport Jake said I want to go to Grandma's house now. It's so hard when we live so far away! But I just want her to know we miss her very much and I know I didn't mention it in my mother's day blog but I want everyone to know what a great Mom she is and a great Grandma! She does so much for us and cares so much about us and the kids! We love you!!!

Happy Father's Day!!!

I know a day has passed but I just want to say happy Father's day to my wonderful husband. He is an amazing Dad. He loves his kids with all his heart. I love to see their faces when he comes home from work they go running to the door and Jake is yelling daddy's home! He always does all he can to make his kids happy. He does so much for our family and I am so proud of him. And we all love him so very much!!
I also want to wish my own dad a happy Father's day. He is a wonderful dad and I love him very much. Especially when I get those random calls from him every once in a while. Thanks for all you have done for me dad!! I also want to wish Mike's dad a happy father's day! We love you dad's!

Tag I'm it

Well Alison has tagged me to give my 7 random facts about myself so here they are:

1) When i was 7 I fell down and split my head open in between my eyes and had to get 13 stitches. Which just so happened to be on my birthday. Then a year latter i fell in a camp fire lucky it was just put out but i was rushed from our camp site to the hospital and lucky just got my lower back and just missed a sever 3rd degree burn and having surgery!

2) Unfortunately my life went the wrong way when i was 18 and i have 3 tattoos one on my back of a bumble bee, one around my belly button and the biggest one on my ankle of tinker bell. One day i will have a lot of money for laser surgery and get them removed!!

3) I get annoyed very very VERY easily!

4) I hate to run every morning but, I love to run every morning I do at least 2 miles 5 days a week unless we have some crazy early morning thing to do.

5) After high school I got the only scholar ship to beauty school from Yuma High. I finished and became a Barber at Daniel's Barber shop. I worked there for 5 years till I had Jake and we moved to North Carolina.

6) I am the oldest out of NINE kids. And the funny thing is there is a 23 year gap between me and Joey!!

7) I love to crochet and make blankets I learned from my mom when I was about 9 years old and have of course gotten a lot better but I do it almost every night to unwind.

So now I am suppose to Tag 7 people so the people I'm tagging are:
Angie, Carolina, Carrie, Deidra, Edna, Ericka, and Sabra. Have fun guys!

Beach day!

Today we had planed on going to the pool on base but when I got there they were full to maximum capacity! Well great how do I explain that to my 3 year old who is dying to go to the pool!! AAGGHH!! Anyways so me and my friend Paulina decided to try to see if another pool was open which it wasn't so I ran home grabbed the beach toys and blankets and we headed out to the beach! Which turned out to be a lot of fun. We were only there an hour but that's what's great about only being 25 minutes away! So we let the kids loose and Madison just took off! She was running around the beach like a crazy lady. Which was great because the last couple of times she has been scared to even touch the water. Jake just loves to get in those waves and jump them. He had a lot of fun with his friend Morgan today as you can see him chasing her around. It's already started him chasing girls!

Our New Addition

Well here is our new little kitten. We finallybroke down and got the kids one. Yes he is so cute, his name is Boots. Jake picked out the name. The funny thing is before Mike and I had the kids, when we lived in Yuma, we had a cat named Boots. Who is now living with Mike's parents. But we gave Jake a couple choices of names and his first choice was Socks,well the next day he let me know it's not socks anymore it's Boots. Which is funny so now I guess he's Boots the 2nd.
But when deciding you want a kitten you just see them and they are so cute and lovable! Till you get them home! Somewhere totally different and they don't know where they are, well he's only 8 weeks so he's still a baby! Yes a baby that's exactly how he acts. If he can't see anyone around he cries. If we put him up before we go out he cries. If we put him in his room for the night he cries. And if he's just around he cries! AAAGGGHHH I'm about to loose my mind and we're only on day 3!!! But he is cute and hopefully he will grow out of it! But we're happy to have him, that is Mike, Me, Jake and Madison are. Now Panda (our dog) is not sure what to think yet! I think we'll introduce them next week!!

Our Walt Disney World Vacation!!!

Here is a few pictures of our fun filled week we spent up in Florida. It was so great to be able to take the kids up there and enjoy our time in Disney World. It was alot of fun. The first day we spent driving. It was a long 10 hour trip but it wasn't to bad, we left at 5 in the morning so the kids were pretty quite. And we got to the hotel right at check in time. Then we took a nice dip in the pool. Our next day we went to the Magic Kingdom which was great the lines were so much shorter than at Disneyland, the longest line we had was about 20 min. It was great! The next day we went to the Wild animal Kingdom which was fun we went on a animal safari ride and saw a lot of animals. They had a dinosaur land which Jake really liked. Only one ride though that the kids could ride the others were to big for Jake to ride he was sad he wasn't tall enough. Then the next day we took a little break and went to Coco beach which it was a beautiful day we spent a couple hours out there and came back and went swimming. Our last day (Friday) we went back to Disney World and went to the MGM studios. It wasn't something I would visit again, it wasn't to fun I think for the kids. They did have a Mickey Mouse club house show and a little Mermaid show that the kids liked. We took a back stage tour also that showed alot of how they make their movies and stuff disney has bought. We also saw a cool Indian Jones show Jake liked. Saturday we had a long drive home and the kids were quite ready to be home! But we want to thank Miguel and Faye they got us in for free to Disney World all three days!!! They are sooooo wonderful!!