Family Vacation

Okay so I know I said I would post pictures of my trip to Idaho and then I didn't ..... life is crazy, trying to get into a new routine with Ashlyn being in school! Well we are a good 2 weeks into school and we are starting to settle in with homework and playtime and then bedtime.

I just want to take a minute and just say that I love my family.... we are all in such different places in our lives but we love each other so much and we are there for one another and this makes me very happy, although I live far away and have a life here I know that I also have a place in the hearts of my family back home.

I enjoyed spending a week with my sister Megan and her family we had such a great time and she kept us busy with all sorts of fun things! I am so grateful for her and the way she loves me... I love you too girl!

They took us to Cherry Hill a water park with water slides and a lazy river! Ashlyn had so much fun with her cousins!

Oh how cute me and my sister Meggy

That was a fun week. We went from Meagon's house to my moms house in Twin Falls and met my sister Amber and her kids there and had a fun week with my mom and her.... meagon had to get back to her hubby. Amber and I had so much fun together... I miss living in the same house so that we can share cloths and do each others hair!

So we took our kids bowling and there was no one to take a picture of me and my sister but me so this is how it turned out.... our little ones were like what the heck, but we did it! Brook is so stick en cute! I am so lucky because not only do I have my sister Meagon but I have my sister amber as well I love her so much and am so glad that we are sisters! I love you girly! I have one other sister who is just as great.... she lives in Texas and I miss her and her kiddos I wish we saw each other more, thank heavens for blogs!

Here are some pictures of the kids bowling! Carter and Ashlyn were so cute and they played so well together!

I don't know if you noticed but my little Ashlyn likes posing for the camera each pix she is striking a pose.... oh what a drama queen.

I always have a wonderful time visiting my sisters and I love spending time with them and their kids, I also love spending time with my mom and dad they are such great parents and I love them so much.... I love getting to know them as an adult I feel so lucky to have them as teachers throughout my life, I can appreciate that now that I am grown and have my own kids!

I love seeing my parents with my kids its like the circle is complete we are one big happy family and I love it! I love my mother she one of the most selfless people I know, and I have always been a daddy's girl there is just something about him that owes me... he know just the right things to say he knows how I think a little scary sometimes but I am sure that comes in handy because I can be a little crazy at times. I love you all and thanks for loving my hubby and my kids, and making it such a great visit.... until the next time.... and yes this is a formal invitation to my family to come and visit me here in calil!

I love this video of my mom playing with Collin its so cute!

Summer!

ok so I haven't posted in quite some time but to my defense I was gone for two weeks visiting my family in Idaho! I had a great time, then as soon as I got back I was off again at the beach and then we went to our friends wedding.... it was a great way to end the summer! Ashlyn is on her third day of kindergarten and she loves it, wich makes easier on me!



I have so many pictures to post be prepared its gonna be a long post! I will start with what a blast we had at Brook and TJ and Jaylens wedding, jaylen is brooks son and they did such a good job at making him apart of the day... a shout out to how beautiful their wedding was we love you guys.

look how cute their family is!

Brook and I on her big day!

megan and I trying to cool down from dancing our booties off!

Chris and I getting ready to eat... yum yum.

Okay so my hubby let loose and decided that he was going to be a good sport and dance and have fun.... I thought it was great when he danced with me without having to beg him! Boy was I sure surprised when he came onto the dance floor wearing my heels, (I had to take them off so that I could dance more) and started dancing with me.. I couldn't believe it and at first I was a little embarrassed and then I was like did someone spike your drink babe? It was a great night!

All of his buddies were getting pictures on there cell phones they couldn't believe it either!

It was a fun night! I love hanging out with my friends they are all so good to me and it nice to be back home and know that even though my family is far away I have manage to make a pretty good one here in cali!

So I don't post a lot of pictures of myself ex specially after I had Collin, but these weren't so bad and my kids always look good so I decided to post them. You know its bad when your 5 year old daughter is darker then you and you both have had the same amount of sun.... she will be thanking her dad for getting his skin tone.
I have to admit that this picture is cute.. I think that I am even more pale then Collin!

Ashlyn still loves to be around Collin and he loves her... he is ether laughing at her or he just likes to watch what his crazy big sis is doing.

Its been so long!

So hold on to your hats its going to be a long one. I know that its been a long while since my last post but my life just seems to get crazier and crazier!

First things first... my little Ashlyn graduated from preschool and I am just so proud of her. I cant believe how the time has flown by.

So here is to my little one starting a new chapter in her life.. Kindergarten!

Okay so now for the second event on my list. Well my awesome hubby got promoted again! yeah for chris he is on the fast track now. He is now Investigator Durham. He works at the professional Standards Devision in the internal affairs, I know that he is not thrilled to be doing this end of police work because he says its not police work but its a compliment they don't just pick anyone to go here they know he is an honest hard working cop and anyone who is anyone in this department does their time in internal affairs so this is good for his career, not to mention for the first time in 8 years we are acting like a normal family.... he gets to be home for dinner and on the weekends.... although I have to start making sure I have dinner prepared, ha ha!

Here is chris getting promoted to Investigator! He is shaking hands with the sheriff! Go chris, we sure are proud of him.

Okay so I don't have a lot of pixs of the 4th of July.... but for the first time in 5 years Chris had the holiday off, (like I said normal family stuff), so we spent it at our friends house by their pool, it was a great day and the kids had a lot of fun with poppers and so on... the adults had some fun as well we decided it would be fun to have a Popper fight and throw them at each other! good times. Well the next day everyone came over to our house for another pool party, fight party and birthday party for chris... he is 30 wow how time flys! I need to charge my other camera and get the pictures off of it so I can post them. We had a great 4th we missed our family but as I have said before our friends our our family! Collin is getting bigger and starting to roll over and move all around. Life is always moving and I am just glad that I have an awesome family to share it with.

Girls night out and so much more!

Okay so it has been a while since my last post and a whole lot of craziness has been going on... craziness and fun. Me and my gals got out for a night out on the town! We went to the Sex and the City movie and we laughed our *#@ off! I had so much fun with my friends... after the movie we called my man who was on duty and he met us in the parking lot and took our picture!! We are so hot!!

So time is just flying by... the time has come for Collin to start rice cereal!! He is almost 4 months old and he still wants to nurse every 2 1/2 hours.... he does really good at night but during the day he is hungry, So I decided that I would try and give him some rice cereal in the mornings and at night so that he could start getting a little more nutrients during the day! Well this is what I got when I gave him the cereal.....

as you can see he didn't like it, and that is an understatement! He is jut growing so fast, and looking more and more like his daddy! I am still trying to get him use to it, its getting a little better but not by much.

On one of Chris's days off we usually try and take the kids out for a family fun day... this day we went to the Family Fun Center. This place has an arcade and then an outdoor play place with miniature golf, kid rides, and go carts, and bumper cars..... Ashlyn is finally old enough to drive the kids go carts she had so much fun! We played miniature golf, ashlyn rode rides and we had a great family day.

Life gets so busy with all the responsibilities and day in and day out duties that we forget to stop and enjoy what is truly important! I love my family and I am so grateful for the days that I get to stop and just enjoy their company. Life goes by so fast you blink and you miss it! I am trying to just relax and enjoy every part of it!

Its been an amazing 8 years!!

well it was Chris's and my 8th anniversary!! It truly has been an amazing 8 years, I am so lucky to have found such a great love. We have had our ups and our downs but no matter what happens we always find our way back to one another! 8 years and two kids later we are still so much in love and still our spunky selves.....! If you know us you know what I mean by spunky, I could never of imagined a better partner to go through this life with! Here is to another 8 years and many more, life with Chris is never dull and I am sure he would say the same thing about me. I love you chris, thank you for my two precious babies... Ashlyn and Collin. We have created a great family together!!

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