june 8th, 2013–OUTLAWS!

Outlaws season tickets are THE BEST! We had so much fun last summer, oh my gosh! With Joe’s busy schedule and me & the kids running around like crazy, it was guaranteed family time for us. We just LOVED it and so did the kids. Since we had season tickets, we always got cool stuff before the games. Obviously at this game, it was the sunglasses. We had like 10. The boys enjoyed those things. They’re still all over the house now too. Ah, memories. ; )

Travis’s expressions just kill me!

Love my Joe! Looks like a rockstar!

Tiny Gwen! Haha. She wasn’t thrilled at the games but she wasn’t bugged either. She was a lot of fun.

Enoch has four eyes! AH!!

Travers – snacking as usual!

This was an especially fun night for being at an Outlaws game. They showed Honey, I shrunk the kids! On the jumbo screen and we all sat on the field to watch. It was a lot of fun. I figured the kids would be exhausted after the game and would probably sit all nice and quiet to watch the movie but boy was I wrong! They ran all over that field. It was pretty comical. We did make a good effort to keep them all from bugging other viewers. The Nardones were also at this game so we sat together on the field. It was a really fun night and I’m glad we were able to share it with them! They’re such a fun family!

SO much fun!!! Outlaws Season Ticket Holders for LIFE man!!!

Some random photos from June 2013

This is Joe’s favorite thing to do with the new babies, sleep with them! And they always do it so well.  

Gwen loves chillin’ with her big brother.

Playing with Papa

July 2013

 

These are my boys, and they melt my heart. I love and miss the carefree days of summer and no school. It means I get to be with my kids all day, every day.

What a wonderful feeling.

So I turned 30 this year - 01/24/14

Turning 30 is a big deal I guess. I was happy with treating it like any other birthday, but my friends and family had other plans.

These flowers were sent with love from Australia – Thanks Katrina! This made me feel like a million bucks!

I got a Birthday text from my nephew Jackson – he’s never texted me before. Like, he’s texted me in response to something I’ve texted him, but he’s never initiated a text with me before. I felt REALLY special! Thanks Jackson!

Joe picked up a lovely tiramisu cake for me! YUM. Thanks Joe!

I got bored and took a selfie. This is what 30 looks like!

This awesome package arrived for me in the mail, Janna, you’re seriously the best! I’m so glad my birthday is in January too, otherwise these would have been some awesome pudding bars!

I enjoyed every last candy bar. I hid them from the kids. haha.

I think its funny how my carpet is a different color in every one of those photos.

Then Lindsey planned this awesome 30th birthday celebration with some of my favorite people!!!

From left to right:

Lindsey, Shannon, Stacy, Gail, Me, Peggy, & Pinky.

I love these ladies!

This is the crazy thing about bowling, Insta-Pregnant! Haha.

And Gail, how I love thee, let me count the ways.

She was pinching sum bums while we were distracted with bowling!

I laughed so hard it hurt!

Go Peggy!

Cosmic bowling!!!

Lindsey, just another reason why I love ya!!

Happy 30th Birthday to me! Thank you to everyone who made me feel so special and loved. Y’all are the best.

My 30th year has been awesome!

woah

While checking out my blog today I noticed something; I haven't blogged a word since August of last year. Dang that's a long time and a lot to catch up on. I will be rectifying this shortly... I hope.

Here's to blogging more regularly in 2014. :)

Enoch’s Teeth - 01/16/14

Enoch & his teeth. First of all, Enoch and the dentist do not mix. They never have, and I’m pretty sure they never will. After having 4 surgeries, you would think he was the bravest kid in the world. And in a way, he is, when he’s put under. Enoch deals with a TON of anxiety when it comes to having anything worked on now and I can’t say that I blame him. His short life here on this earth has been a rough one to say the least. He comes out on the other side with flying colors every time though.

There is a HUGE story behind all of this but honestly, I don’t feel like typing it all. To make a long story short, Enoch gets anxious at the dentist and for some reason, gas makes him worse. After seeing four different dentists, we found Dr Lewis. She is AMAZING. If you live in the Aurora area, you must go to her with your children. I love her. They gave Enoch some anti-anxiety meds to take an hour before each visit, because he needed an extraction, and then a space maintainer installed. They were SO good and patient with him. It was awesome.

He’s had three visits with Dr Lewis now, the first was for his extraction, second was for the space maintainer, and the third was for his very first cleaning. After all the visits he has had with Dentists, he’s never had a cleaning. His cleaning went so well though, he has now told me that he enjoys going to the visit. And at his cleaning, he had NO cavities. Which was SO awesome to hear. He’s doing really well!

This was the same day as the extraction. He did really well and Dr Lewis was awesome. She had to be firm with him towards the end but they got it done and it just worked out so well.

February 11, 2014.

A month after his extraction – this is his space maintainer. He really likes it and its very comfortable for him. It will be removed when his molars start popping in.
All in all, its been a wonderful experience. After 4 years of back and forth and getting nothing done, dentist after dentist, he’s finally in a good place and enjoys the dentist. YAY!

Now if Rocky would just move back to Aurora, we would be set. : )

Nuggets!! - 01/9/14

Every now and then, Joe scores Nuggets tickets from work. Another perk! So fun. This time, we took the Nardones with us. Not quite as cool as the Nutcracker, in my opinion, but I’m sure Joe & Josh would disagree.

This was the first time I had seen the NEW JUMBO SCREEN at the Pepsi center. And I mean, WOW. I couldn’t help but watch it the entire game. It was just so huge and so HD. WOW.

Taking some seflies.

I seriously love this girl. Lindsey is so fun!!!