Jackson's Batman Birthday Party

These pictures are a little out of order, but I will catch you up on the activities that were taking place!

Last year for Jackson's birthday party it was small and pretty quiet. We were in Tucson and had a couple friends from there and my dad drove up to see us for the week. So Jackson's 3rd birthday was more of a gathering and not a party. So being that we are home and around our family and tons of friends, we decided to go all out this year!

We had a bounce house, large blow up slide, face painter and lots of friends and family! What else could a kid want? Gifts you say, well your right on that too!

This year Jackson got to pick the theme and we did fill in invitations (not custom orders for me on this one) and what did he pick? I know your dying to know!?!?

BATMAN!!!!!

He had a great time and so did we!

Here is Jackson blowing out his candles with the help of Carson and Tyson.

Jackson opening one of his many gifts! This was by far his favorite! Bumble Bee Transformer.

Here is a picture of my dads 2nd backyard! lol This area is off limits to the dogs and perfect for these type of events! I think we will be booking him more often for gatherings!

I am a horrible mother these days! I worked so hard and special ordered this batman cookie cutter and totally forgot to hand out the party favors when people were leaving Jackson's party! So long story short, I baked sugar cookies, decorated them the night before, bagged them in the morning in these cute batman bags and forgot all about them! We came home with a few, but for the most part gave most of them away to the last few guest to leave!

I wanted to share some of the pictures I took of the kids after they got their faces painted! Loretta did an awesome job and the kids loved her! This is one of Jackson's classmates from school and one of his favorite buddies, Tyson! He came to Jackson's party dressed as Wolverine. I forgot to mention that it was a Super Hero Costume Party! Jackson's idea!

Here is one of our High School friends, James! Let me be the first to tell you that he is the biggest kid ever! As you can see his head was covered with all of his brilliant ideas! He had some stuff on there that you can't see, but they were funny. One being a light bulb, some tribal markings and the other stuff you see. It was pretty funny!

My niece Olivia's foot! She was scared, but we got her to do it!

One of my favorites! Miss Hayden looking at herself in the mirror! She was Wonder Woman and a cute one too!
(OMG, I just deleted the picture!)


And here he is, The birthday boy himself!We wanted to thank all of our friends and family who came and helped us celebrate! We had a great time and we hope you did too!

HaPpY 4Th BiRtHdAy JaCkSoN

HaPpY 4tH bIrThDaY bAbY!!!!

Yes, it's true....

Jackson is finally 4! Bring on whatever the 4's have in store for us!

What a year for this guy!

*Finally going BIG potty in the toilet

*Attended Little Gym Classes

*Started swimming on his own (still needs lessons)

*Made some great friends in Tucson

*Became a BIG brother

*Moved back home to California

*Started a new school

*Took a trip to the beach

*Celebrated the holidays with family

*Made some cool new friends after moving back

Despite all the events, Jackson has changed so much. He has learned so much at school!

He can tell me all his numbers all the way to 12 and if I point to a letter, he can tell me what letter it is! (That's if he's not playing dumb!)

He is a super smart little boy and super hyper too! I swear he has more energy the the energizer bunny! He is a really good BIG brother when he wants to be, but has his moments! He's Jeff's little shadow and buddy these days! I think he prefers him more then me now! Even though I know he'll always be my little man!

Other then him being our baby, he is our SUN! He lites up our days and has changed our lives so much. We can't imagine any different and love him to death!

Happy Birthday Jackson!

We love you so much!!!!

Happy 30th Babe!

Happy Birthday to Jeffrey!

We celebrated Jeffrey's 30th yesterday! He spend most of the day doing his chores. He took his A-10 out to fly with some other pilots from work, but the controller didn't work! So he said he needs a new one! He then worked on his motorcycle and truck! It was a real uneventful day, but we did manage to go to his favorite restaurant Yoshinos. We went with Jeffrey's mom Kathy and the Sweeten family. Good times!

We then came home for some cake!

This is the design he got this year. I wanted to get him the princess cake at Costco, but Kathy made me change it! She thought Jeff would get mad. I thought it was hilarious because he wanted to take the left overs to work. I could just see all the pilots giving him HELL over it!

Jeff and Jackson getting ready to blow out the candles!
Make a wish!

Happy Birthday To My Best Friend & The Love Of My Life!

HaPpY bIrThDaY BaBe!

8 Months Old

Well worth the wait!

It's a late post, but just by a few days!

As you can see, he is my smiley boy and always happy. He has had some days where he seems a little more fussy then normal, but I blame it on those gums. When is this little guy going to get some teeth!?

He is growing so much and this last month has brought so much change for Mr. T.

We went to the beach for the day

Started sleeping through the night

Crawling (crawls all over the house)

Eating a ton

babbling up a storm (was saying ma-ma and da-da, but stopped. Can hear more da-das now)

Trying to pull himself up, gets on his knees and bounces

Can feed himself finger foods really good now, have to really watch him now because he can't get them in fast enough!

Loves Jackson's room

Doesn't like Jackson to smother him, not to fond of having Jackson up in his face all the time

loves his daddy

loves to be held and will follow you until you pick him up

His motor skills are great (I recorded him playing with a golf ball, but don't know how to upload it)

What else..... mmmmm

He is such a good and easy baby. He loves attention and loves being with us. We can't get enough of him and just love him to death.

(We've had a couple people we know loose their babies this month, please say a little prayer for them and for those of you who have your own little one's, give them some extra love. We are so lucky to have healthy children and can't even imagine what they are going through. We are thinking of them.)

Random Pictures From This Month

So I am a little behind on this part of my life and tasks that need to be done. I have taken so many pictures this month and I am just realizing that I haven't posted them and the month is almost over. My life is so crazy these days and I forget everything if I don't do it right at that moment. I feel like I'm running around with my head cut off half the time!

We've been pretty busy this month! Park play dates, everyday errands, planning a Birthday Party for Jackson, planning something for Jeff's 30th Birthday and spending time with our family and friends.

Today was a busy day! Lunch with my mom, Toys R Us for some Birthday gifts and Jackson got a cool new haircut (picture below) and to Target for a few odds and ends!

As usual, I am going to write about each picture!

Can you believe that my baby (first born) is going to be 4 in a couple of weeks? It makes me feel old and sad that life goes so quickly and everyone is old before they know it! lol

Jackson with red hair gel and his super cute haircut!

Tanner and Jackson's first actual big boy bath together. It seems like these last few weeks have brought so much change to our life's. I will post about most of them in Tanner's 8 month post, but the boys take baths together now and pretty much will play together. Although there isn't much dialog between the two, but Jackson still enjoys Tanner's company!
He's the Devil in disguise! Have you seen that commercial of that little boy trashing and breaking all of his toys with the Elvis Presley song playing in the background? Well, if you have that is Jackson!
Jackson and Tanner snuggling at my moms the other day. This was the moment Jackson wasn't being rough or trying to roll all over the ground with Mr. T.

Grandma and her boys!

Tanner checking out the rain. He is definitely exploring everything now!

Digging for Gold! I don't think he's hit the jack pot, but I'm sure he'll keep trying!

He had the other one in as well. 2 at a time is expert level!

until next time.......

Jackson's Valentine's Day Party

This Valentine's was Jackson's first actual V-day party! He was so excited and couldn't wait to go to school! I on the other hand felt so bad because I didn't buy any V-day cards for him to pass out at school. I thought the school handout just said bring a treat. Lame! Worst mom award for me!

He survived and still reaped all the benefits of it!

I made these cute little fruit kabobs for the kids! I figured they would be eating enough junk that day and wanted something healthy! It ended up being a hit cause the kids were asking for seconds!

Jackson having a good ole time while the kids were passing out there cards. You could have skipped him and he wouldn't have cared! He was to busy laughing it up!
Hudson giving Jackson his V-day card!

Jackson's little buddy Tyson giving Jackson his V-day card! These two are so cute together.

After all the cards were passed out they had their little snacks!

Jackson being a good little eater.

He had a great time and really enjoyed all the goodies!

We didn't celebrate Valentines Day here at home so this was perfect for him! Maybe next year we will actually be with it and he can participate in the activities! lol

7 Months Old

7 Months! Can you believe it!!!

I'm not sure he's going to sit in here very much longer for me to take these pictures of him. He's trying to sit up and pretty much trying to escape the torture of his monthly picture!

This last month has brought lots of change with Tanner. He is babbling up a storm, rolling every where and getting in to the crawling position, but no crawling just rocking. His eating has changed a little. We are having fruit for lunch and a snack in between dinner and dinner consists of rice cereal with a veggie followed up with some yummy breast milk. Breast feeding is still going strong and despite all of the distractions he still wants to nurse. I have to tell Jackson to be quiet about a 100 times, but he eventually gets a full tummy. He hasn't perfected putting his snack in his mouth himself, but we are working on that! Bella is benefiting from this!

His sleeping patterns haven't changed. Still up once at night for a feeding.

No teeth yet. Jackson already had teeth, so I am wondering if he'll be a late bloomer.

He had his first hair cut. Couldn't handle the hair in hanging in his eyes and his morning Mo Hawks!

So far, he is doing good. He loves his brother so much and he can't get enough of Jeff, but he is still a mamas boy. He tries to kiss me all the time, pull my hair, loves for me to hold him and cries just about every time I leave the room. I don't think I can tell everyone enough what a joy he is. He is so easy and the best baby. He makes me want another one now. We will see on that though! Jeff and I just love him to death. I feel a stronger bond with him. Maybe it's just the second baby thing. Not so stressful and we are so much more relaxed with him. It's just more enjoyable. Not that it wasn't enjoyable with Jackson. You just don't really know what your doing and if your doing it right with your first! Jackson and I have a wonderful bond, but it's definitely different with Tanner. I suppose they can't all be the same!

Here are some extra photos I decided to share of Mr. T in the crawling position. He scoots forward when he's rocking in this position, but he usually does a face plant. Doesn't have the upper body strength yet.

Getting his Monkey

Playing with his brother! My 2 favorite boys, the loves of my life. I couldn't imagine my world without them.

The Day After Family Day...

The day after family day wasn't so great. Jackson came in to our room on Monday complaining of a tummy ache. We kind of blew him off and said it will go away, well we were wrong. Poor guy spent most of the day laying in the bathroom sleeping and throwing up. He said it made him feel better!

My poor baby.

We both had clam chowder for dinner the night before and I ended up like him at the end of the day.

Not fun! We both woke up today feeling so much better!

Family Day

What's 1 thing you might not know about Jeff?

Well, he used to be a surfer and still enjoys it when he gets the chance. Luckily, there are a few surfer pilots out at Jeff's work. So yesterday we headed to the beach (2.5 hours away) and spent the day together as a family and then met a couple of Jeff's fellow pilot friends out for a surf. They didn't last very long. A little blown out, but he enjoyed getting in the water.

We went out to the beach when we first got there and Jackson had a ball. After an hour or so we headed in to Cayucos to have some yummy fish and chips at Duckies! Love this place. It's like a restaurant you see in the magazines where all the locals go and there's a bar wrapped around the entire inside and outside of the restaurant and the windows open up so you get the fresh ocean air coming in! Just need to grab a beer and sit outside and your in heaven!

So we ate and headed back down to the beach! Jackson had a little to much fun, he ended up walking back to the car in his skivvies! We then cruised around looking at beach houses. Nothing to exciting!

Then we ended up at the beach, again! It was beautiful and 70+ degrees. When we left Fresno yesterday it was pretty overcast and cold. Thank god we saw the sun! I think we all needed some vitamin D!

Here are some pictures of Jeff and Jackson playing on the beach! They had a good time together.

Morro Bay Rock
I love Jackson's smile in this picture!

Jeff headed out to surf.

Jackson thought Jeff's wetsuit would keep him warm and dry! NOT! He looked like a penguin!

We ended our day with dinner in Morro Bay.

The best part of the day for me was when Jeff told me how much he loved our little family!

These are the moments I love the best!

We will be doing this more often!

Playing

Last week we were playing in Tanner's room (something we do a lot since we don't have an area rug in our living room) and he couldn't stop playing with this glow worm that his great aunt got him for Christmas. He found it quite interesting especially when he found himself in it.

Well, who is this handsome little guy?
Kisses?

mmmmwwwwaaaaaaa!

He definitely discovered himself!

When he actually starts crawling he can start chasing it around.

Tanner's First Hair Cut

Oh, yes I did!

Jeff has been bugging me for months to cut it and for some reason I couldn't bring myself to do it. I feel some kind of attachment to his hair and he is so young for a hair cut. Well, I took Jackson yesterday for a hair cut and asked the lady if she would do it and she said yes and then changed her mind and told me to wait. Me! Wait? Hahahahah.....

If you know me, that just isn't in my vocab! Once I want something I have to have it now!

So here is the before picture of our hot mess!

(You've all seen the FB posts with his morning Mo Hawks!)

Ta Da!
Luckily, he still has curls!!!! YAY, this was one thing I was worried about as well. I know a ton of people who have cut their kids curls off and they are completely gone. Not Tanner's!
Here is the little pile of curls! Yes, I saved them and they will be put in his baby book.
I will get a better picture of him. All of our camera batteries were dead last night! So, I used my phone camera.
He looks like a big boy:(

Tanner Is 6.5 Months

HaHaHa! I couldn't resist posting all of these pictures of him! We were having some fun this morning while he was eating his puffs and I was eating my cheerios. I had to grab the camera and take some pictures of him making his funny faces. The only bad thing is that they are kind of blurry and when I tried to do the manual setting on my camera, I forgot to switch the lens to manual! I'm such a dork. I will try another time and see what I come out with!

I can't believe that he is 6.5 months old. He is getting so big and loving his food! I think he's grown so much in the last couple of weeks. He's definitely put on some weight! lol

I have been putting him in the highchair whenever we eat and I will either give him some baby food or some sweet potato puffs. When I give him the sweet potato puffs, we crack up at how many don't make it in to his mouth and how many Bella ends up getting! It is so amazing to watch him and watch him interact with us! We just love him so much!

Sorry there are so many pictures I couldn't help myself! Besides, I know you all don't mind!

Raspberries

Almost
Trying to pick up his puffs
So tired

Sweet boy!

I love this one! Wish it wasn't so blurry.

My happy boy!

I will try it again and see what happens! So hard to get good pictures when they move around so much!