Hoo Rah Mama!

Happy Mother's Day to all! I wanted to let my Mom know how much I love and appreciate her. I am so happy that I am a mommy and that I have been blessed with my cute little angels... (sometimes devils!) I love Adi for so many reasons but she just has so much love for everyone. She is the sweetest little girl and is a huge help to me. She is such a happy girl and makes me laugh constantly with what she has to say. I love that she is starting to learn so many things and has so many questions and is eager to learn... but at the same time I can't believe how fast she is growing. Sometimes I want to stop her from getting so big so fast. Every morning she wakes up and is so happy." Look mommy I grewed in my sleep," She really is getting so big. I am so blessed to have her and I love that she is so content and over joyed with her life.

Oh...Kohen...this little boy is my world. I love his guts and the more he is starting to talk and communicate the more I fall in love with him and his funny personality. He's such a tender hearted boy and he plays with Adi so well. It's funny but most times he shares with her better than she shares with him. He loves his big sister so much. He is most happy when he has us all around to play with and that of course is when he becomes a little bit of a show off. Me and Jeff ask him,"Kohen, can you show me your smile?" We in return get the face you see in the picture. So cute right. What is not so cute is that Kohen is starting to talk and his favorite word to yell is NO! It was kinda funny at first but I like it better when he is puckering up giving me hugs and kisses over and over....speaking of the word, no...I thought that girls were dramatic but Kohen has his moments too. When he wants something and we say no, he throws himself on the ground and is sometimes a mad man. He will follow us into whatever room, if we walk away, and give us a repeat performance of the kicking and screaming. He is getting bugged right now because I am on the computer....

I love my kids and love being their mama! I am blessed to have an always willing to help Mother-in-law that loves me and my kids so much. I am so grateful for you Beth! Better give him some attention now...a mothers job is never done!...Hoo Rah!

Adi's 4th Birthday!

On Adi's actual birthday...I had to work but we decided to move the party to Famous Dave's. Bob my boss hooked us up a little and I brought out a big chocolate sundae for Adi. She had fun seeing me work and I was still a part of her party. It was super busy so I didn't get to give them as much attention as I would have liked to but it worked out.

We had another birthday party on Saturday and invited friends and family over for a backyard BBQ. I made her cute cake and Adi had her good friend Haylie over to play with. They had so much fun playing dress up.Adi and Haylie put princess dresses on and Adi was a princess through almost her whole party.
We also had a tea party with fancy napkins and mini cupcakes. It was so much fun and I think Adi loved it.
Our tea was hot chocolate...mmm!
Adi's big present was her bike that she is riding everywhere, even in the house.It's a Princess bike and she even got princess knee pads and helmet from Aunt Jenn. She had two parties but on the days in between she was opening presents from all the family that doesn't live close by. So she had four days of celebrating her fourth birthday.4 for 4! Thanks everyone for all you gifts and love. We all had so much fun!

Gone Fishin!

A couple Saturdays ago I had to work and so Jeff and cowboy Papa took the kids fishing. Papa even found night crawlers the night before to make the day even better. It was kinda rainy but they went anyway.
I love this pic of Adi...isn't that cute? Adi told me later that they didn't catch any fish and papa told her when you don't catch any fish that mean you get SKUNKED! So every time fishing was talked about she would announce to everyone..."We got skunked!!!"
Kohen loved bonding with the boys!

Dye eggs...dye!

Here are some pictures from a night or two ago of us dying eggs. Adi had so much fun and loved seeing how each egg turned out. Kohen just wanted to put every egg in ever color and thought that every egg was a ball and would go to throw every egg he got a hold of. We had a fun time and I am pretty sure Adi's favorite part was the next day when we made some of the eggs into egg salad sandwiches. Funny thing...she has been asking a lot about what her brain does and what would happen if her brain broke and what her heart does and I told her some things. So while we were making the sandwiches, I told her eggs were good for her and they make her healthy and make her live a long time, she said," Everyone needs to eat egg sandwiches so that they don't die." I agreed with her and we decided we would spread the word to the people. So... Eat eggs so you don't die! Happy Easter!

California and Sparkles the Horse!

So now that the whole training of my new job is done and things have gotten less busy I need to do some catch up on the blog. So in March we went to California and surprised my Dad for his 50th birthday. We had so much fun and Adi and Kohen loved playing with their cousins. The girls are so silly and have fun taking turns making each other laugh. We had an extra fun day at a fun house with the kids. They had a fun until we tried to get them all in the pool of balls. They got tired quick and when they were done they were most definitely done. It was awesome to surprise my Dad and see the rest of the family.




All the kids in the car!...and the babies too!

Kohen wasn't super crazy about the bounce house but loved going down the slides.
Happy to be in the balls...playing with the cousins!

Me and the babies... Taylor and Kohen! This place was fun even for me and Ivie. We're just big kids too!
Not so happy now...time to go!
This is our new addition to the family thanks to Cowboy Papa and G-ma Beth...everyone meet...

Sparkles the horse (yes...Adi named her...with no prompting from us...so funny!)

Welcome to Famous Dave's I'm Famous Juline!

Alright...so me and Jeff have really been talking about wanting to take advantage of the housing market and get in a house. So our plan...so we can get our debts a little lower and just bring in some extra bucks we talked and decided I would try and find a night job or something. So we heard that being a server you can get some pretty good tips. So I went into Famous Dave's and got the job. I have been training for the past three days and start taking tables all by myself next week. I am actually really liking it. It is fun to go and do something that is just mine. I am also excited that I am contributing to our 'pay off debts, get into a house' cause.
So yeah...I am having a fun time taking on something I have never done before and I am learning a lot. I have always wondered what it would be like to be a server/waitress. It is something both me and Jeff have said we would like to experience one day. I am a little scared about being on my own but I think that is when I can figure out exactly what I want to do and how I want to do it with out being someone's shadow all day. So if your feeling like good BBQ and you want to drop in...make sure you tip me well, hint hint, or you could just say hi too. I am excited to take this on and hope that I can really rock it and we can get what we want and kinda need.

The Hunger Games

So those of you who are fans of Twilight and go to Stephanie Meyer's website might have seen her recommendation to read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I actually got the book awhile ago but I got started reading it when me and Jeff went on our cruise last month. I just finished it today and I loved it. I think that everyone would like this book. Even boys! I know some boys think Twilight was kinda sappy but I have to say this book is pretty raw at times. I have already told Jeff that I think he would enjoy it. So I finish this book about ten minutes ago and am like what that's it. At the end it just says, 'end of book one'. I am glad to find out that book 2, 'Chasing Fire' is coming out in September of this year. I have been sad thinking that the Twilight saga is all done, but now I have this book to look forward to. I am curious if anyone else has read this book and what you think. If you are looking for a book to read and ant to get into something new this is definitely a fun read...and not just that but it keeps going starting in September. This book has romance, suspense, heart ache, and just kicks butt, literally. I had a hard time putting it down. Hope I have inspired one or all. Let me know what you think.

What the freak dude!?

For those of you that watched the Bachelor this season...you know what is coming...WHAT THE FREAK!...I am beyond bugged with stupid Jason. I am totally team Melissa so was so happy when he picked her but then at the after the final rose thing after the finally he was like " Uh, I am a freaking prick so I am, uh ,changing my mind and want dumb Molly instead." I hate him. Melissa was able to get some of her feeling out and confront him on his crap but ugh! Seriously!!! Who does that? I hope Melissa finds an amazing guy and I wish her all the best in the world! All I have to say to stupid Jason is,"Seriously...seriously...you have got to be kidding me. I never liked Molly and now I don't like you either...you chump! Eww...man you suck!"

And that's all I have to say about that!... Boo to Jason and Molly...Boo!

I wanna be sedated!

Adi went to the dentist last Saturday and both the dentist and I agreed that sedating her would be the easiest way to get in get things done and do a cleaning. Adi hates the dentist like most people in the world and it is quite an ordeal when she is awake. I pretty much have to hold her down and I assume it is not very easy working in a mouth of a moving kid. So we get called back and Adi is already leery but the nurse is really nice and gets her watching a movie. So to sedate her I thought they give her gas or something but it is actually a shot they give her in her arm. So they poke in her arm and she starts crying but the nurse is like," Just give it a minute and she'll calm down." She was right because Adi started to stop crying. Jeff asked her," Do you feel funny?" and she said," Yeah!" She was out. So they said for us to go out into the waiting room and that we could come back and check on her and they would come out and give us updates. You could say me and Jeff kind of freaked out a little bit. It was the first time we were seeing one of our kids sedated. It was weird! So me and Jeff would take turns checking on her and then a long while later she was starting to wake up.We took her into recovery where she needed to start waking up and eat a Popsicle. If she kept that down we could go. The funniest part though was when she started to talk. She said some funny things...

"I see two Daddies!"

"Did I fall asleep? Did they clean my teeth while I was sleeping?"
(she looked toward me and showed me her teeth and held her mouth like that for I swear was like 2 minutes. I had to tell her to close her mouth and just rest.)

"I feel funny!"

"I love sugarplums...they're my favorite vegetable."

as she shakes her head back and forth..."It's like being on a ride!"

pretty much everything she did was drawn out so when she said everything it was super loud and her words were all stretched out.

"Ahhh! Everything looks silly!"

"Mama how long til' my eyes fix, I see funny!"

So if you want more of a clue of what Adi was like check out this little kid after he went through the same thing.

Adi was pretty much just like this kid. I wish I would have brought my camera. It would have been pretty funny. Maybe next time...I was just thinking I wanted her to be okay and wasn't thinking how funny she would be.

Seriously just copy the link below and watch it....It is HILARIOUS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs

Cruise'n Craze!

First fancy night on the cruise

Out in the sunshine and loving it!

Quinn and our favorite server Darwin

It was so nice to give all our attention to each other!

First port- Puerto Vallarta

Lunch on the deck in Mexico

Shopping in a crazy market in our second port- Mazatlan

Hi Quinn!

Boat over to Mazatlan beach

On our way over to Cabo- 3rd port

Hello Cabo san Lucas!

4-wheeling...woo hoo!

Cabo was such a blast! We had so much fun!

Crazy beautiful beach, right!?

Look at me go!

Look at my 4-wheeling man!

Back to our boat in Cabo...yeah we kissed a lot...

no kids remember!

The boat always looks so much bigger from down in the water

This is the last fancy night on our way back to L.A.

You can't see much of me but this is the only

pic we got of the main lobby.

Back on land in L.A. at the Botanical Garden...excited
to get home to our babies!

We had such a great time! Now we need to go on a 10 day fast!