My 7 month old!!

Aaron turned 7 months old on the 25th of this month. He is getting bigger and is developing more and more personality each day! He has finally taken to solid food with his favorites being applesauce and sweet potatoes. He has learned how to twist, turn, and roll across the floor to get to a toy or anything else that he wants. He seems to be quite mischevious and I can only imagine what things he is going to be into when he really starts moving.

As from the beginning, Aaron is just an absolute sweet heart. I love watching his face when Adam, Grammie, or Grandma comes into the room. Aaron's face just lights up with the biggest smile you have ever seen.

Our New House...

On March 17th, St. Patricks Day, Adam and I put in an offer on a new house! We have not sold our house yet, but we found a house that we fell in LOVE with and it was a great price so we went for it. Thankfully we were able to work a 90 day escrow into the deal so we have some time to sell our house. Hopefully things will work out ok. There are lots of prayers being said, let me tell you that! Here are just a few pictures of our new house. To see the rest of it you will have to either come and help us move in June or come to our big Open House/Housewarming party once we are moved in. You are ALL invited!!

This is a view from the family room looking into the breakfast nook, part of the kitchen, and onto the backyard. The current owners are smokers so we will need to paint the house from top to bottom and re-do the flooring. Not a problem since the decorating style is not exactly what we want anyway. The house has SO much potential and I can't wait to get in there and start doing stuff!

Here is a picture of the outside of the house downloaded from the MLS. On the day of the inspection we met our neighbors who were very nice. They said that the culdesac is filled with children playing on the weekends and that everyone gets along very well. I am sure we will fit in the community very well!

A picture of Adam standing in the living room taken by me standing at the top of the stairs. Alec is SO excited that he will be moving to a house with stairs...I am more excited about a inside laundry room. Wow, have my priorities changed!!

A day at the San Diego Zoo

Every winter we, along with the Celmers, make a trip up to Big Bear for a fun day together. We had planned on going up there this day, but due to heavy snow fall the prior weekend as well as another foot forecasted for that night, we decided that maybe going down to San Diego and going to the Zoo was a better choice.

We headed down to San Diego and met up with Brian, Carrie, and Kasey at their house. We went out for a nice lunch and then headed to the zoo. We had a wonderful time looking at all the animals and enjoying our friends company.

Alec and Maddie strolling along in the zoo. Next thing you know Alec will be buying Maddie a sippy cup full of milk and a cookie! How two-year-old romantic!

For some reason the pictures came up a little out of order but it is late and I don't feel like trying to change them around. Anyway, here is Alec on the way home after a day filled with fun. This is about the only time during the day where he is NOT talking. Aaahhh...peace and quiet!

Carrie, Kelly, Myself, Aaron, and Brian having some fun at the zoo. Apparently Aaron's Baby Bjorn has some reflective strips on it. Does not make for the most flattering picture of one's self!

My puppy loves me!!

Just short of 7 months old, and Aaron already has a four legged best friend!

It's Baseball Time Again!!

On March 12th a bunch of people from Adam's work got tickets to go and see the World Baseball Classic at Angel Stadium. The tickets were purchased quite a bit ahead of time so we had no idea who was going to be playing that night. It turned out to be Mexico vs. Korea. It was quite an interesting turnout of fans!! We just wanted to go and see some pre-season baseball! We had two extra tickets so we asked Jason and Allie to go with us. Despite freezing weather, terrible seats, and a horribly boring game, we had a great time together.

There were only two good things about our seats...their view of the bullpins and the proximity to the snack stand. Now if only the beers were not 10 bucks a pop!!

The four of us trying to keep warm at the game. As you can tell from the empty seats, lots of people decided to skip out on the game and stay home where it was not FREEZING!!

Me and my ever hilarious hubby! Who can resist a nice face like that? I am so lucky!!

Alec and AJ

One of Alec's favorite people in the world is his AJ. She and Uncle Ludy came over for dinner and Alec had a blast playing with them. One of his new favorite things to do is to take his glass and tap it to another class and proclaim, "Cheers!!" He of course laughs hysterically after he does it...

Cheers!! Oops...hope that is Mommy's wine glass!

Alec and AJ

My lawn boys...

Alec thought it was the greatest thing that Daddy was outside doing the lawn so he ran and got his play lawn mower and started helping. I bet Adam can't wait till Alec is big enough to do the entire job himself!

Helping Daddy push the big lawn mower.

There is nothing like spending a warm California afternoon mowing the lawn!

Ian's 3rd Birthday

Ian, Alec's best buddy, turned three on March 8th. The week of his birthday, at Miss Heidi's class we had a little celebration and then that Friday Pauline had his birthday party at his house. Despite bad weather the birthday party was lots of fun and all the boys had a blast. Below are some pictures of the birthday celebration at Miss Heidi's class.


Miss Heidi and Ian in front of the class while we sang Happy Birthday to Ian.

Alec singing his heart out!!

Alec playing outside holding his favorite train toy. He always rushes outside at the start of free play to make sure and grab his train. Watch out if someone else is playing with it!!! No one messes with Alec and his trains!

Date night at Lawry's

Every year for Jason's birthday we head out to LA and have dinner at Lawry's for some yummy prime rib. Ironically almost all of our kids were sick the few days before we went so it was up in the air as to if we would be able to make it or not. Thankfully all the kids improved enough for us all to get out and enjoy a much needed date night.Birthday boy Jason and Kelly.

Phil and Natalie
Chris and Janet
You know these guys I hope...

After having a HUGE dinner at Lawry's we all went up to Universal City Walk to walk off some of the thousands of calories that we had just consumed. After we finished there (did not take that long, was not much to do) we went back to Phil and Natalie's house and hung out talking until late. It is so nice to be able to hang out with our friends and enjoy eachother as we used to before all these kids came along!

The proof is in the picture...

Back in January we were over at Phil and Natalie's house playing cards with them, us, and the Celmers. Mya and Alec were watching TV and playing in the other room while we were playing cards. At the end of the card game we realized that Mya and Alec were very quiet. I walked into the other room and cound them laying like this on the couch. It was like they were just snuggling and watching TV. Natalie immediatly got her camera and took this picture. We figure we can include it in their photo slide show at their wedding reception one day...