Valentines Day

I cannot believe that tomorrow will be February! That is absolutely insane! Time is flying way too fast!! Alex will be 5 soon! Yikes!

Well February brings Valentines day. We dont "celebrate" Valentines Day at our house. Sometimes I wish we did. Especially when you watch movies, and the guys are so romantic and just take their girlfriends / wives breath away during Valentines Day. Yeah well, we dont do that! LOL We don't even acknowledge it. If I didnt work on Valentines Day I wouldn't get a single thing on that day! How pitiful is that? lol For the most part I dont care, as David says it's just a day that's been commercialized by jewelry companies to get people to buy elaborate things for your significant other. But sometimes I WANT to be surprised too... sigh.. oh well that's just not David. I will definitely make sure Alex and Gabe celebrate Valentines Day! LOL

Valentines Day... BOO

Horoscopes??

Not that I actually follow or believe in horoscopes, but for the past 31 years I've been a Virgo. I always thought "Yeah, I kinda fit into the Virgo personality", and now because the earth is "Wobbly" all of the signs have changed dates. So now according to the new dates I'm a Leo... lol I don't want to be a Leo! I refuse to be a Leo! LOL (No offense to Leo's out there!). It's weird how people "decide" these rules LOL And kinda sucks for some that have tattoos of their "signs" on them lol My friend has a few tattoos of her "old" sign, and its wrong now LOL

So?? Did YOUR sign change??

• Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16.
• Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11.
• Pisces: March 11-April 18.
• Aries: April 18-May 13.
• Taurus: May 13-June 21.
• Gemini: June 21-July 20.
• Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10.
• Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16.
• Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30.
• Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23.
• Scorpio: Nov. 23-29.
• Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17.
• Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20.

Christmas Part I

So yeah, I'm kinda slacking on my posting lol but that's ok no one seems to mind anyways.

For Christmas we always do Christmas Eve with my family here at home, and then wake up in the wee hours of the morning (I'm talking about 2 or 3am!) and drive to CA to spend Christmas morning with David's family. This year was no exception! We love being close enough to be able to spend these important holidays with both families. We think Holidays are so important and like the little tradition that we have started since Alex has been born. This year we were able to spend the entire week from Christmas until New Years day in CA with David's family. It was so fun, and the week just FLEW by! I was able to spend time with my friends also, and we went to Disneyland, and met Travis' girlfriend Kjersten also.

The best part was letting Alex and Gabe spend A LOT of time with their grandparents. We want them to have fun memories of both sets of grandparents, and since they see my parents on a daily basis we really need to work on letting them see gramma and grampa more too. Maybe we can skype or something. Or we just need to work on more visits both here in AZ and in CA.

 Gabe kinda didn't have a clue as to what he was supposed to

do, he just saw a million new toys and wanted to play

with EVERYTHING!

 Me and my beautiful mom! 

 Alex, in toy heaven! 

 Papa and Alex hugging presents lol

My Dad is so funny with presents, he 

is worse than the kids! Can't wait to open

them!!!

 My big kid! I love him!!!

 This picture is so funny! Gabe didn't want my Mom

to hug my Dad, so he ran off to the corner to cry! LOL

Poor kid was devastated lol

 LOL dont mind my face here! I look pissed or something LOL

 My Mom made Churros! YUM!

 My Dad made homemade lasagna! Seriously the BEST I've

ever had!!!

 Gabe wanted some cake frosting LOL

 My Mom and Mario

 OMG This is seriously such a HILARIOUS Picture!! He had just woken

up and decided he was STARVING. And since he HAS to feed himself this

is what he looked like! LOL He looks like a homeless baby!! I love this picture LOL

 Dad, Mom, Mario and Becky

 Our front room after the presents had been opened! YIKES!

 Auntie (a.k.a "Sister") and Alex

Alexander Kai

The years are seriously FLYING by! I remember when I was a kid and my birthday, and Christmas always seemed sooooooo far away! Now, I'm going to start to plan Alex's 5th, yes i said F I F T H birthday party! How could that be possible?!?! Wasn't he just born last week?! He reminds me on a daily basis that he isn't my baby anymore! How tragic is that?! He is such a big kid and so independent (at times anyways). But I love that he will still come and snuggle with me (o: He is seriously the funniest kid ever! Says such random stuff all the time!

While we were in CA for the holidays, he told his gramma "Gramma, can you just tell me I'm awesome?!" LOL and he tells us all the time "Tell me I'm handsome" lol Which he IS awesome AND handsome, so they arent hard to do!! He sure can be frustrating at times too though! Like when it's time to eat, he ALWAYS is "Sooooo full!", or he HATES whatever we are eating. Even if we know that's a lie and he LOVES it. For some reason this weirdo child HATES to eat! Well unless you are giving him chicken nuggets, hot dogs, french fries, "Yucky Sandwiches", apples, oranges, rice, beans, and of course RANCH! That kid will seriously dip his eggs in ranch! ugh! But hey if he will eat it, I don't care that he has to have ranch too!

After we read his bedtime story every night we snuggle in his bed, and last night he asked me "Mom, what shape do you love me like?" and I said "I love you like a heart because hearts mean love" and he said "I love you like a circle mom, because it keeps going and going!" How AWESOME is that?! That he knows circles have no real end?! (o: I love my smart boy!

Even though he looks like he would be a bully, he so ISN'T! He is taller than most kids his age but he never takes advantage of that. Whenever we go to the park or a place where there are a lot of kids he never pushes or takes cuts in front of other kids, he always tells me "I'll just wait my turn Mom!", and eventually he will either wander away and do something else or WE have to kinda push other kids aside so he gets a turn too! (unlike Gabe who kinda knocks ANYONE over to get what he wants lol)

Ok, now to funny stuff he says!

For Christmas Santa brought him TWO Hungry Hungry Hippo Games. One at his Nana's house and one at his Gramma's house! (Does Santa know this kid or what?!) And all week he would play Hungry Hungry Hippos with Gramma. On New Years Eve he asked Gramma "Can we play Hungry Hungry Hippos just six times?" LOL Of course Gramma ended up playing like a million more games lol So when we were leaving, I asked him if he wanted to leave his game at Grammas so that he would have a Game to play with when we went back fro a visit since he had one at home too? And he agreed to leave it so that Gramma could Practice lol So last night he had been playing his other set of Hungry Hungry Hippos with Nana, and he asked me "Mom, can you do me a favor?" and I said "Sure, what?" and he said "Can you just drive to Gramma's house and pick up my Other Hungry Hippos game? I can't win using this one!" LOL Ummm sure buddy!

He is also a very sweet boy, he loves his brother so much! Even if Gabe does drive him crazy most of the time. Whenever Gabe is crying or sleeping, Alex goes up to him and sings him "You are my Sunshine". It's so sweet! (o: