Mother's Day Love!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day that started Saturday night with dinner at Olive Garden. Then the kids let me sleep in a bit before going to McDonald's for a quick breakfast then running errands...one of which was buying me a new purse that I have wanted for a while now! We came home to clean and do laundry which I was totally fine with because I was spending it with my beautiful family!! Jason also bbq'd us some steaks for dinner, yummy!

I am so blessed to have three wonderful children! I am also blessed to have a wonderful mom that paved the way for me to become the mother and person I am today!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there!!

Moving from NM to TX

Well I can finally officially say that we are Texan's, lol. We made the move from our house in Farmington to an apartment in Midland, TX. It was a fast and furious move...we found an apartment on Thursday, found out our house was going to get a lease on it finally on Friday so we headed to Farmington on Saturday morning. We spent all day Sunday and Monday packing, loading, and cleaning. Woke up early on Tuesday to finish loading the last few things and hit the road to TX. We arrived at our new house on Tuesday night late so we got up early Wednesday and spent all day unloading the truck. Thursday we had to return the truck so we finished unloading the last few items and took it back. When we returned to the apartment we started unpacking. By Friday we had everything unpacked and in it's place!!

It feels great to have our family all together again. We like our new apartment and so far we enjoy Midland very much! The boys are already signed up for spring flag football and we enrolled Ryan for Kindergarten next year!

We are so grateful for all the help we received in Farmington with packing, loading, cleaning, and taking care of the kids!! We couldn't have done it with out all of our wonderful friends and family!

We do miss everyone in Farmington terribly but we are keeping in mind that we will be back to visit at the end of July!!

Enjoy this slide show of our move including pictures of our house in Farmington, our traveling, and new apartment in Midland!

This slideshow made with Smilebox

Happy 3rd Birthday!!

Dylan was very lucky boy that got to celebrate his 3rd birthday several times! Once on Easter with Grandma Dixie and all his cousins, once at Chuck E Cheese's in Las Cruces with Yaya, Papa, Aaron and the Zoll's, once in Midland, TX at Chuck E Cheese's with just our family, and then again with Yaya and Papa in Farmington just before we moved. =)

He got some great presents that included books, clothes, big boy underwear, skate board, helmet, arm and knee pads, sword, and a scooter/skate board!!

I must admit that Dylan turning 3 came up much quicker than I had anticipated. I can't believe how fast the last 3 years have gone. He is 3 going on 13...no kidding. He has the attitude of a teenager. Dylan has always been ahead with his milestones like talking, walking, etc which I think is because he wants to keep up with big brother Ryan. He is so stubborn and hard headed but then again he is so darn sweet. It is tough to stay mad at him because he is constantly telling us "I love you!" and coming over randomly to give us hugs and kisses.

He loves his brother and sister so very much. He is always giving Rebecca hugs and wanting to help us with her.

Dylan hit a big milestone just before he turned three...he got potty trained!! All on his own he came to me a couple days before we left for Southern NM and said he wanted to wear big boy underwear. Now of course he has had a few accidents but really nothing to complain about just him trying to figure things out. He even wore underwear on our long drives to Las Cruces and Odessa. I am so very proud of him!!

Here is a look at Dylan from birth to now! Happy 3rd Birthday Dylan!! We love you!!

3 Years Old

2 Years Old

1 Year Old

Newborn!

Traveling...

The kids and I headed to southern New Mexico to help my sister and brother in law pack up this weekend. This was the first time we were meeting Zackary, Liana and Jeremy's new baby. We had a great weekend with them that included celebrating Dylan's 3rd birthday at Chuck E Cheese's, swimming, bumper boats, and go carts!!

From there we headed to Texas to spend some time with Jason. Plus I have a luncheon in Arizona to attend and Jason is keeping the kids while I'm away.

Easter 2010!

We had the best Easter weekend that started with a surprise visit from Jason. He was supposed to be in TX but instead he traveled through the night to spend his weekend off with us! =)

With Jason in town we had to spend every minute we could together so we enjoyed some time at the park flying kites, coloring eggs for Easter, and spending time with all of our family.

Here is a scrapbook slideshow of our fun weekend!!

This scrapbooking design made with Smilebox

After the weekend was over we decided to have Jason take a week off of work to help me pack more of the house and get things fixed up around the house and back yard! We spent every single day working from early morning until late into the night to get everything done we needed to. At the end of the week we had 75% of the house packed, 7 yds of sand filled in around the artificial grass in the back yard, bathrooms and boys' room painted, and much more! We're hoping it will do the trick to get the house rented!!

Play date w/friends from near & far!

We had our friends, the Bjordahl's, stop in Farmington on their spring break vacation so we met at a park for a play date! The kids all played together like they hadn't ever spent a day apart. It was amazing to see how much all of the kids have grown and changed.

Jenny and the girls joined us at the park as well. Here we are all (minus Eric Bjordahl who was taking the picture) at the park!


Rebecca was enjoying the sun and the attention from the Bjordahl's!

BEFORE (Taken summer of 2008)
AFTER (Taken spring 2010)

St. Patty's Day

We woke to a few surprises St. Patrick's day morning!! Those naughty leprechauns turned our toilet bowl water green and our milk green!! The boys were so excited to see signs that the leprechauns had visited! ;-) It sure did make the day extra special.

Little miss model had to brake out a dozen poses when I went to take a picture of her (she is 8 months old here).

Way, way behind!

Well it has been a couple months since I have done any updating to our family blog. Mostly because we have been so busy. I'll give a quick recap of our last few months before I get down to business and start updating it all. We had a fun St. Patrick's day (the leprechauns even visited during the night), Jason was able to visit for Easter plus spent a week helping get the house all fixed up, a week and a half after Easter the kids and I drove to Las Cruces for a few days to visit Liana and Jeremy before traveling the rest of the way to Texas, I went to AZ for a luncheon, we came back to Farmington packed up our belongings and moved to Midland, TX, and now we are all settled in our new apartment!

I will spend the next few days giving more details about all of exciting events so stay tuned!!