Peter Piper Pizza

Alex making his Pizza!

Auntie and Alex on a "Roller Coaster". She is such a good sport! She rode

 this like 10 times haha

Gabe LOVED being able to play in this play place without other kids being there!

They had a lot of fun playing Air Hockey.

This is my best buddy Marissa! She was the speech pathologist at my school! I'm sad that she wont be there next year!!

Gabe and Emma are best buddies! She is Marissa's daughter!

So, went to Peter Piper Pizza "Behind the Slice" tour this morning. It was so much fun! The kids ABSOLUTLY loved it!! They don't normally open until 11am, but this tour was at 9:30am, and it was JUST for us! My friend Marissa found out about it and set it all up! So it was Marissa and her three girls, her friend Jewelle and her three boys, and My sister Jenniffer, myself and my two boys. THATS its! Seriously! No OTHER kids were there!

They started it off with a little tour of the kitchen area. We also go to watch how they prepared the pizza dough and how they cut it up and that was kinda interesting. I do wish that the girl who was preparing the dough explained why she did what she did. The kids were asking US questions haha

Then they let us see the HUGE walk in fridge! Seriously reminded me of when I worked at the movie theater and I counted everything for inventory! haha anyways the kids thought it was funny to be able to have that many people IN the fridge haha

Then, they were able to make their little personal pizza! Alex made sure to tell them that he HATED cheese and wasn't going to put ANY cheese on his pizza haha Gabe wasn't sure about touching the cheese or pepperoni, so Auntie did that for him.

We then watched them put the pizzas in the huge oven! And we waited for them to be done!

They gave each kid their own tokens and they got to play in the play area all alone!! It was seriously the BEST way to take them there!!! I'm always quick to say "NO!" when friends ask if I want to go to Peter Piper Pizza, or Chuck E Cheese, because I always stress out about how BUSY they get and how many people and STRANGERS are there!

STRANGER DANGER!!!!!!!!

Which was the biggest reason that I wanted my sister to come since David was at work! But this was seriously the best way to go there! No creepy weirdos to worry about and the kids had fun not having us hoovering over their every move! Which is usually how we do things! haha and also we were able to just leave our belongings on the table and not worry about people stealing anything!!

Afterwards they were able to exchange their tickets for prizes! Alex always feels pressured to pick his prizes really fast because other kids are waiting. So this was nice, and we also got the employees before they had to deal with a bunch of other indecisive kids. So they were super patient! Even with Gabe!! (o:

so they got their prizes, 2 sets of dominos, two matchbox cars, a bunch of candy and tattoos and stickers. 

This was the first time we left PPP without a meltdown!

Thanks Marissa for setting this up for us!!! It was the best!!!!

Summer

This is the first summer that I've been off work... its been GLORIOUS! I love being able to spend all day with my wild and crazy kids. I have about 5 weeks left before I go back to work, so I need to get cracking and do some more fun stuff with my boys!

And I should probably find some time to update my blog! BUT I did change the layout and the picture hahaha so that will have to do for now!

January 2013

 Seriously can't wait for this Peanut to be born! Look at him / her?! They are already doing cartwheels!!! How amazingly talented are they?! (o: Hopefully they come before January 6, 2013... like on Christmas!! (o:


(FYI, this is my brothers Girlfriend Vanessa, and their baby! haha Just realized I didn't clarify this! This is NOT me, or my baby!! (o:)

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!