BUSY!!!!!!

Luis and Monica Crespin. So cute!

This was from their daughter Jayelynn's baptism.

This is from my friend Marissa's wedding. She was such a beautiful bride! Loved taking her pictures!

So, I've been so busy with my photography lately! It insane! But I love it!! (o:

Kim is the Bride on top of the "O". He bridesmaids were so much fun to photograph! Whatever silly thing  suggested they do, they just went for it! Which as you can see included climbing this huge statue / sign IN their dresses I might add!!!

AND jumping into the "forbidden"... "DO NOT"..."SERIOUSLY DO NOT GET INTO THE FOUNTAINS" fountains! (o: 

 

 

This is Kanina. These were from her "Sweet 16"

Karina is so cute, and fun to take pictures of! She was willing to climb things and is just photogenic!

Of course I've been taking millions of pictures of my own babies also!!

Love now photogenic Alex is

So, as you can see, ALL my free time is being taken up by my hobby! PHOTOGRAPHY! I'm hoping to take a lot more pictures over the summer since I will be out of school on June 8th. So if you want pictures done, let me know! (o:

Santa vs. Auntie

 

Alex loves Santa.... 

Gabe hates Santa...

Alex says he's on the nice list

Gabe says Alex is on the naughty list

Alex Says Gabe is on the naughty list

Gabe says "I a good boy!"

Alex says "If you cry and don't sit on Santa's lap you wont get ANYTHING!"

Gabe says "Auntie buy me ANYTHING!"

So... moral of the story, even if you HATE Santa and your older brother says you are on the naughty list, as long as you have your Auntie, you will still get ANYTHING you want! LOL

Slacker!

Seriously have been slacking on my blog! Hmmm.... oh well, at least I updated the background AND our picture on the front cover thing haha

Wow!

So yeah, I suck at blogging! I seriously haven't posted ANYTHING new since Mother's Day!!! How pathetic is THAT!?!??! So much has happened since then its ridiculous! I'm NOT even going to TRY and get to everything!!! Yeah everything that's happened deserves it's own post, but who are we kidding?! that will NEVER happen! So in a nut shell;

Alex started Kindergarten!! He LOVES it! He is learning so much! And can even start to read signs when we are out and about! He is OBSESSED with the letter sounds and how they make words! Makes us spell EVERYTHING he sees. I swear sometimes it seems like we no longer use words to speak, but letters to spell everything out! haha

Gabe turned TWO... yes TWO! I can't believe how fast time flies! Seriously I know I say that ALL the time! but Seriously! It's mind boggling to me!! One second he wasn't here, and the next he is TWO! What the heck?!? How did that even happen?! Well, Gabe is a funny little temperamental guy! No joke! He knows what he wants and will get it NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!! His favorite things to do right now are;1.  be his own boss! No one can tell him what to do! You can try, but it wont happen! 2. ANNOY Alex to NO end!!!!!!!!!! He seriously drives Alex crazy! Poor kid!  3. Read books.... my kids come from nerdy parents who love to read. So is that even a surprise that they too love to read!? Too bad that Gabe bugs Alex so much I doubt Alex will want to read to him haha

My mom had a horrible accident at work mid September. Seriously I was talking to Jenniffer last night about how September flew by and was such a blur! All I remember was My birthday, Mom's accident, and Gabe's birthday. Her injuries include a broken arm from her fingers to her elbow. her bone was broken in three different parts. Her ring finger was the most damaged of all her fingers, and she required two skin grafts! Yeah my poor Mom has had a rough painful month! On Thursday it will be a month that this happened! So glad she's feeling SO much better!! Not only was it stressful trying to take care of her, but also trying to find people I TRUST to watch Gabe for us!

We seriously have the BEST family EVER!!! At one point or another everyone dropped everything they were doing to help!!! So again... Thank you So Much Becky, who watched him a few times. Thank you so much Sue (Gramma) for literally dropping everything and spending an entire week away from your house and your life to watch Gabe for the entire week! And for making delicious dinners and picking Alex up from school and helping with homework and reading Gabe 98 million books, and playing games with both boys so that David and I could catch our breaths! (Have I mentioned that we should have kidnapped you and really miss you a lot?!) Thanks Dad! For moving your vacation around, not only to help take care of Mom, but for watching Gabe too!! I know he was rough with his tantrums, and wanting to be his own boss and all. And for making yummy dinners too! (o: Thanks sis and Mario for watching Gabe too!!! Thanks David for rescheduling your fun Christmas vacation, to a boring one in October to stay with our sick boys. Sorry you got sick in the process! (o:

My Mom is feeling better this week, and I had Monday (Columbus Day) off (what you didn't?!) so I had BOTH my monkeys, and Today my Mom insisted on taking Gabe alone so he wouldn't be put in day care! Uh oh!! Hope everything goes well and David gets off work early to pick him up from her house. He or my Dad usually have Wednesdays off so they can watch Gabe, and Thursday and Friday she will have have him for a little while again. Then I'm off for Fall Break!! WOOHOO!!! (What you dont have a Fall break?! What a rip off!)

Anyways this post is a bunch of nothing haha makes no sense, but I really just wanted to post something! (o:

Yes I have pictures too, but am definitely too lazy to post them! So maybe next time!

Mother's Day!

This year for Mother's we kept it low key and didn't do anything fancy. David kept the boys for hours so I could go and get a pedicure, and my eye brows threaded. Yeah I went to FOUR different places for my pedicure and the waits were INSANE! Like from an hour to 3 hours?! Geez!! Apparently I wasn't the only one with the same idea! So out the window went my pedicure )o: boo! So maybe this weekend! We'll see! (o:

Anyways I didn't get any extravagant gifts this year, but I did get LOTS and LOTS of hugs and kisses, and "love you Mama" and the kids were extra good, and David was extra helpful with them. So it was a good day!!!

I know I'm loved by my babies, and didn't need a lot of gifts for them to show me they love me. They DID take my car and get it detailed! Which is sooooo nice! I love getting into a nice and clean car and not having to worry if I have cheez-it crumbs on my pants haha Clean cars and kids never last long! but so far so good!! haha (Yeah, yeah I know its only been 2 days! haha)

We also went to my parents house and spent time with my parents, Jenniffer, Mario and Becky. So that was nice. We ordered chinese food, and had fruit. It was a nice easy going Mother's Day! (o:

Things I love about being a Mom;
1. That I'm their FAVORITE person EVER!
2. Unexpected hugs
3. Hearing a lot of giggles
4. Kisses (yes even slobbery, I'm in the middle of eating a sucker and I'm 1 and have so much sticky gunk on my face I will probably stick to wall by my face kisses! haha) {NEVER turn down a free kiss from my babies!}
5. hearing "I love you Mama" 5,489,416,518,945,621,654 a day! (pretty impressive that I actually counted them huh?)
6. Having 2 extra little helpers to help me do chores (even if most of the time I have to redo them, or it takes me 10 times as long to get them done.
7. The smell of freshly bathed babies
8. Hearing "Let's hold hands, shall we?" from Alex ALL the time!!!
9. Hearing "Gabe was crying, so I picked him up and made him feel better mom" and Alex brining him to me, and not dropping him haha
10. Silly pictures!
11. Silly "new" ways to give kisses
12. Making my boys laugh when they are crying by telling them something absolutely ridiculous haha
13. Driving in the car with the radio off, because I have my own back seat entertainment. ("Mom, lets tell silly jokes all the way to _______", or "Mom, lets sing songs the wrong way!" ex- "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder.... WHAT YOU HAD FOR BREAKFAST!" haha my own personal favorite!
15. hugs
16. Having Alex think of something that I would LOVE on his own! haha this year is "Hand's free soap dispensing system!" So I don't get germs on my hands!!! (For Christmas, it was a hand's free tape dispenser! My kid sure does know its the simple things in life!)
17. Tippy Tippy's (I will be at the bottom of the steps and I'll reach my hand up to Alex and we'll say "tippy Tippy's" until his little fingers reach mine!) And EVEN better now because Gabe joins in too!
18. Wiggly rugs (Crying, tantrum throwing kids on the floor get stepped on and tickled at the same time and we say "Why on earth would we buy such a wiggly rug?!" and they stop crying and start laughing!)
19. kisses
20. Being woken up a million times a night because they miss me, or because they need a hug, or whatever their silly reason may be at the time.

I love these two kids more than ANY other kid on this Universe! They are the best kids *I* have! I wouldn't trade them for anything on earth!!!! I'm so thankful they are MINE and they love ME! They make me be a better more patient teacher! When a kid frustrates me, I stop and think, "Now, if this was MY kid, how would I want their teacher to talk to them?" So, I breathe and think about what I say.

As exhausting as it is to be a Mom, I wouldn't trade it for anything on earth! Even if there are times, when I have gunk in my hair, stains on my clothes, and a perpetually MESSY house and Car! I love my kids, and wouldn't change them or their silly characters for anything!!

Thank You for the millions of free un asked for hugs and kisses, and laughs every day!!
Alexander Kai0 March 15, 2006
and Gabriel Ryan- September 30, 2009

I don't even rememeber life without you two crazy kids!!!!

(Thank you also to my WONDERFUL AMAZING Husband, David! Without him they wouldn't be here!!)

Life... doesn't get any better than this!!!!!!!!!

Hope all of my Mommy friends had a wonderful day!!!

Remember!

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we takebut by the moments that take our breath away". - Hilary Cooper

We have 21 days left of school! Not including weekends and Memorial Day which we will have off! I'm so incredibly excited!

We are teaching our kids to dance the "Electric Slide" and sing to "I Will Survive"... We didn't think this through! We have to TEACH them how to sing and dance! Which requires US to SING and DANCE! Gasp!!

Maybe YouTube has instructions we can show them instead?! Nah, I don't mind dancing in front of them. Adults, thats a different story!!!

Anyways 21 school days left! WOOHOO!!!!!!

Inspired... haha or just complaining!!

So I was reading my favorite cousin-in-law's blog, and I'm going to copy her. Only mine will be a "If you don't like it, get over it, or do something about it of the week!" type LOL



Call me lazy, a bad Mom, Wife whatever... I hate laundry! And I freely admit it! I hate ALL aspects of doing laundry and I will wait until the last possible minute to do any laundry!!! And when I do I spend most of the day doing it. So I will REFUSE... YES FLAT OUT THROW A TANTRUM LIKE A 19 MONTH OLD REFUSE to put it away!!!!!!!! Hey at least I will fold it! That SHOULD give me some points right?? AND!!!!!!! I'm making sure my family is always clean and dressed in clean clothes right?! Even if they can't wear the same clothes twice in one month LOL Anyway, I will seriously fold the laundry with every intention of putting it away, but my laundry room is downstairs and my bedrooms are upstairs. So you do the math. With Alex and Gabe being my shadows everywhere I go in the house, I can't carry a laundry basket upstairs AND Gabe. So down in folded piles IN the play pen they go. (LAZY!!!!!!! I know right?! Oh well! Like I said, at least my family will be wearing clean clothes! lol) . Now, if we are having company the clothes will be put out of sight out of mind.... IN my bedroom! It used to be put in neat piles on the bed in my computer room, but since David's brother and his wife are living in there, I figure that would be extremely rude for them to sleep on the floor so that my clean clothes could sleep on their beds HAHA So by the time they make it upstairs I now have two options, I can take up valuable room in my room with laundry baskets full of clean clothes, or I can put it all away. It's a 50/50 chance on which option I will pick.

Yes, thats extremely lazy and probably disturbing, but I have a few good reasons why putting laundry away is low...low on my priority list. First the already mentioned shadows that I have perpetually following my every move at home, plus the 40+ hours of teaching I put in (haha ok right now doesn't count as teaching because my kids are at lunch!), with grading and reading essays, thats probbaly a few million extra hours a week I WASTE.... er I mean put valuable detailed attention to. Then there is making sure my family eats dinner. It could be made my me, or picked up on the way home by me. (I need to invest in a chef) Then there is Alex and his karate, he loves it and how can I tell him he can't go to karate one day because I have to put laundry away??? That would be horrid! Then there is David and squeezing time with him between the kids and everything else I do. PLUS having Gabe is like having 3,548,932 extra kids!

So..... yeah putting laundry away is the LAST thing I want to do!!!!!

So there you have it, my first confession and entry in my "If You Don't Like it, then get over it, or do something about it" blog.