Mom Only Weekend!!

(Here I am in my shining moment on the red carpet!)

I spent this last weekend in Albuquerque at a Regional Luncheon for MOMS Club. We were celebrating the 25Th Anniversary of MOMS Club!

I started the weekend with a coordinator dinner for all the International volunteers at El Pinto Restaurant. It was a wonderful dinner on the patio (I set up the dinner location). After going back to the Embassy Suites I helped with some last minute details and had a quick meeting. Saturday morning I woke up late so I went down to the banquet room with my dress on and my hair in rollers...it was a funny sight. After a quick set up I grabbed breakfast and hurried to my room to finish my hair. My hair was not cooperating which put me behind on time so I was literally running in my heals back down the the banquet room for last minute pictures before the luncheon started. I helped recruit potential moms to volunteer at an International level during the beginning of the luncheon. After a meet and greet game we listened to three great speakers that included Mary James the founder of MOMS Club, a wonderful song and dance from one of the Colorado chapters, we watched several slide shows, and we gave away tons of door prizes. Everything went wonderful and I had so much fun!! It was a great weekend for me to get away. But I did miss the boys and Jason very much...it was nice to come home and get lots of hugs and kisses last night.

(This is the International MOMS Club volunteers for the South West Region plus Mary James.)

(These are the moms that came from my local chapter.)

For those of you that don't know I am currently the President of my local MOMS Club chapter as well as the State Coordinator for Nevada and Arizona. MOMS Club is an International group to support moms that stay at home either full time or part time. Our slogan is MOMS Offering MOMS Support!! I have been a member of MOMS Club for three years and have volunteered for International MOMS Club for 10months. In that short time I have realized what a wonderful group MOMS Club is, without it I don't think I would have my sanity. We not only support stay at home moms by offering lots of activities to go to with your children throughout the month there is also always an ear to listen, someone to comfort you, and a friend waiting to be met. We also do at least one service project every year to help the children and moms in the community. If you stay at home either part time or full time I highly suggest looking into joining your local MOMS Club and if there is not a MOMS Club in your area I would suggest starting one because I know you are not the only stay at home mom in your area that needs support. You can find your local MOMS Club by emailing momsclub@aol.com plus you can get more info about MOMS Club by visiting www.momsclub.org! What are you waiting for??

(Myself and these two other ladies put together our chapter display that took 2ND place!)

(This is the very beautiful table center pieces...I won one of the center pieces!!)

Jason had the boys all weekend and they seemed to have a great time with dad. I liked to give a big thanks to Jason for supporting me with my roles in MOMS Club and understanding how important MOMS Club is to me. I'd also like to thank him for letting me attend this luncheon as well as all of the other luncheons I have attended for MOMS Club!

Dylan's 2nd Birthday!

Although Dylan's birthday is April 23rd we celebrated this last Sunday with all of our family. Everyone seemed to have a great time, especially Dylan. I think he secretly enjoyed all of the attention. On his actual birthday I will make him a special dinner and a give him an extra special treat.

I can't believe Dylan is already two...it feels like I gave birth to him just yesterday. He is growing into a wonderful little boy. He loves dogs plus any other animal, balls, cars, shoes, dirt, food, and wearing moms headbands. His vocabulary has really expanded over the last couple months. He will spend hours practicing phrases then proudly repeat the phrase to us! He is into everything....climbing on counter tops, tables, chairs, or anything near him to reach higher levels. He is our cuddler, always wanting to hug and kiss on everyone. But watch out because if you make him mad he will pull your hair or pinch you. We love him so very much! I look forward to watching him grow over the years into a young man (or as Ryan says "when he is a daddy"). Happy Birthday Dylan!!

This slide show has all the pictures from Dylan's fun birthday party...take a look!!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Easter Fun!

We had a wonderful Easter. Here we are all dressed up in our Easter outfits!


Friday before Easter we had an egg hunt and lunch with MOMS Club. The boys found so many eggs and had so much fun!




Saturday evening we colored eggs. The boys enjoyed coloring on them with crayons and choosing the color we dunked them in.




The boys were so excited that the Easter bunny was going to visit while they were sleeping, hiding their eggs and filling their baskets.


Easter morning was so much fun...the boys raced to the living room to find eggs and to see what the Easter bunny had left them. Ryan was so excited about the baskets he almost forgot to look for eggs, meanwhile Dylan had found most of the eggs.


We got ready for my mom, step-dad, littlest brother, sister, and niece to come eat lunch with us. After some really great food we let Jason, Mike, Liana, and Kayla hide eggs outside for the boys to find. It was a fun day!!



(Here I am on Easter at 24 weeks pregnant!)

Our Silly Boys Plus Baby Update

I had to post this picture of the boys. They decided to take stickers and put them all over their faces. Dylan's hair is all over the place because he had just woke up. They were hoping to keep the stickers on their faces all day to show dad the great job they did while he was working. Needless to say I found the stickers all over the house for the rest of the day but we had the picture to show dad and that was good enough for them. They are silly brothers!!

I had my ob check up today...I am 24 weeks (wow how the time is flying by). They measured my stomach and I'm measuring right on. They felt for the baby's position but she is still to small too completely tell how she is positioned. They are still predicting she will be a smaller baby than the boys were at birth. I didn't even have to tell the midwife the sex of the baby because after listening to the heart beat and feeling for the baby's position she guessed it!! She said she can normally tell which sex it is. Anyways, all looks good. I am still having contractions but they are not of any concern at this point because they are not dialating me or putting me into labor. We are just taking it a week at a time. I take my glucose screening in two weeks to check to see if I am diabetic then I go for another check up in four weeks! I will post more then!!