Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today is my mom's birthday, if she were still alive she would be 70 today..wow...I just thought I would post a tribute to my mom...I miss her dearly and I think she would just have a blast with the twins. I know that she is looking down on us and enjoying it from afar...She always said that everyone should have a kid for payback...well I guess I just had to have 2, was I that bad of a child? Just kidding...but makes you think....

I wanted to post a "happy day" picture and I think this was a happy day for everyone, it is just amazing at how fast time flys...it seems like yesterday when i got married, and it is hard to believe that it has been 7 years!

Oh and another funny thing about this day...she once made a comment to me about what she was wearing...well when Toby got married back in 1988 she wore a pink dress and she had this theory that Toby and Kandi had all girls because she wore a "pink" dress to their wedding, then she preceded to tell me that I am going to have all boys because she is wearing a "blue" dress, well glad that didnt happen...I am happy with my boy and girl...(although my little girl is a turd)

Anyway, I was just really thinking of my mom and thought I should do a little blog about her...

I love you mom and I miss you lots! XOXO

We have a smarty pants in the house!

I always knew and could tell you time after time that Hayden is a "Smarty Pants" she is always too smart for her little britches. She would be a little sneak, she always figures out how to do something first....and she really pushes your buttons, she knows how hard to push and she will back off sometimes...but today she was really smart...

Nick and I were in the living room and all of a sudden it was quiet...hmmm what could the twins be up to? Well he goes walking down the hallway and says you need to come and look at this. I guessed it before he could say it, Hayden crawled in the bathtub. Now let me tell you they just LOVE the bathtub for some reason, so pretty soon Nick was going to put away the camera and there goes Kaden he was leaning so far into the tub to get toys and he was in the tub too! Silly kids I tell ya!

So now it is lunch time and I am hungry, so I decide that taco bell sounds good for lunch. I get dressed and get in the car and off to taco bell I go...while in the Drive thru lane a picture message comes in from nick....and lo and behold here it is...

Now the kids have always been facinated with the doggie door and I have just been waiting for the time for one of them to figure out how to get thru. She did eventually make it thru to the outside, in the time that Nick was getting the video camera as well as the still camera she was outside laughing at him from the sliding glass door and walking down the sidewalk...what a little stinker!!

On my way to work I get another text msg, stating that Nick was looking for Hayden and when he couldnt find her he spotted her on the outside and once she spotted him she darted down the sidewalk...she escaped thru the doggy door.... Oh my....

So there it is in a nutshell, we officially have a smarty pants in the house!!! I wonder what she will come up with next...

Speaking of the little devil, as I am typing this I get another text from Nick saying that Hayden is a little turd and it was quiet and she was then again OUTSIDE... we are in trouble!

Merry Christmas!!!

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas...it sure was interesting this year having two mobile little ones...it sure was fun though!!! I can only imagine how much fun it is going to be as the years come...I would love to post some pictures, but...we dont have any downloaded from the camera, and I stole Nicks laptop so I can play games here at work on Christmas day LOL...anyway...the babies made out and came away with a haul of toys and fun stuff...They got lots of learning toys, bath toys, food stuff (plates, forks,etc), clothes, and some cool toy boxes to put all the stuff away...we got gift cards (which are super dooper)...the best thing of all was spending time with family, I am so thankful for all my family and what they do for us! THANK YOU!

So as I sit here at work and dwell on all the stuff that will have to be done on my days off I just sigh...oooh but I do want to go shopping haha there is always time to do that right???

1st birthday WOW...

We survived! YEAH! It was a fun party, we had a Sesame Beginnings party, the kids adore Elmo and Cookie Monster...They had a lot of fun, they got LOTS of presents (thanks everyone) and I think they liked the cake the best! LOL Here are some pics of their party!

Woo hoo, one less thing to do!

I voted!!! Make sure you do too... LOL Nick thought it would be funny to put the sticker on his head...dont worry it was removed once the photo was taken! LOL he actually didnt care...

A Christmas gift arrived....omg

Ok so Uncle David, Aunt Tina, and cousin Patricia sent the babies Christmas Gift, it arrived yesterday...Yes it is early, but with Tina being preggers, she is ahead of the game and getting everything done now...So here we have a stuffed Dinosaur that is really fun, oh and the best part...it is stuffed with like 65 balls!!! LOL So not only do we have a fun toy that the kiddos can sit in and play with and now mommy and daddy have to round up all the balls that were thrown out...Oh and on a side note, Smokey loves the tail because it rattles and if he had the opportunity to drag the dino around by the tail, he would! I cant wait till we can play "the clean up" game and they can help me put the balls back inside!

My first Photoshop Project!

OMG...so last night I decided to play around with photoshop and create the Halloween Card...(sorry this is a spoiler, but you should get your card soon) lol... Just had to share!

My little Pumpkins

Here are some pics of my kiddos in the Pumpkin Patch...how fun! They were quite tired as they didnt get their morning nap yet...all in all it was a fun day!

Are we crazy?? Maybe, but still...

Ok so I am not sure if you all know about our HOA wars going on...here is a senario in a nutshell...Back in August there were these gentlemen roaming the property to get us to sign a petition to recall our current board members, we did not sign as I didnt want to have anything to do with it. Evidently they had all this proof that they were spending the money illegally blah blah blah...anyway the petition passed so they had a recall election. During that time, these men were approaching homes to make sure they turn in their ballots and were actually taking the ballots for them. Now that is a big NO NO as this is a secret ballot, so we're thinking sabotage and the president put the recall on hold, then there were slander flyers again and the president just pissed off, so he said "hey lets just do this recall and get it behind us" so they did and little did he know that they won and he was kicked off the board along with his other counter part (oh so say it). That just left 1 board member left to handle all this crap that is going on...anyway last month they had a petition to recall the last board member...now if that passed there would be NO ONE controlling the association...uh HELLO! Luckily it didnt pass as they didnt have enough ratio of votes vs home owners...

Now it is election time and I just really dont want this jerk on the board, he is VERY negative and there is just something fishy about him. It seems as if he has all the people who are in "trouble" backing him up. He is promising to do all sorts of stuff yada yada...

So, I just wanted to have more choices on the ballots, so I elected Nick! LOL He is on the ballot along with 5 other members (2 are the other guys that are fighting so hard)...so I was happy to see the other people added and it gives people a choice.

These men are drilling it into peoples head to vote for them and putting crazy flyers on the doors...the last one Nick took a little personally because it was mentioning that most of the other people on the ballot are "raymond joe" supporters (who is our ex president) who freaking cares??? OMG it just gets me upset talking about it...

We made up a great little profile flyer and passed it out today and boy am I exhausted! Our little note told everyone about Nick and I pointed out some "facts" that the Greg dude talked about to nick...Yes it is a little dirty, but it really isnt because I am just stating the truth, and I have noted my websites to back it up! I am just curious what he is going to come out and put on my door next (hopefully to piss more neighbors off)

My feet are killing me and just to think that these 2 jerk offs do this almost every day makes me sick, they have to have help or something!

Ok so that is my little HOA rant, thanks for reading....but election day is October 20th and its not that I want to win (I dont really care) I just dont want THOSE guys on the board you know what I mean???

Just some randomness....

This week has been interesting! We have hit some milestones in a way...

Hayden now "claps" she loves to do that...if you start to hum a song or whatever she will start to clap...it is the cutest thing! Also Ms Hayden will say mama over and over...Now I know that is what she is saying, but Nick isnt for sure? hmmm he is just jealous! LOL

Kaden on the other hand, he has just figured out how to dance! Hayden always bounces and rocks, but Kaden really didnt do much of that....now he does the head bop...It is the funniest thing! It is like the dance from night at the Roxbury...LOL I want to get a video posted, but that will be some work for me!

Instead enjoy these wonderful pics that Nick took yesterday and today...

A very unique gift arrived...

Our Anniversary is on Sunday (7 yrs OMG) so anyway I little suprise was in my mailbox, a BALL...what a cute idea...it says "Have a BALL on your anniversary" love Joan and Don....Thanks so much Joanie!

Slip N Slide time

Ok so this is a few weeks late. On the 6th my sister celebrated Devons bday and they had a slip and slide (they are way more fancy these days). Hayden was just looking at all the kids playing and you could tell that she just wanted to JUMP right in, so we did...

Woo hoo an UPDATE! 9 month checkup

We had our 9 month check up on Monday (although they are 9 and a half months) anyway...they did great! Here are their stats

Kaden
17 lbs 14 oz 5-10%ile
26.5 in long < 5%ile
his head measurement was also in the < 5%ile

Dr said he was a little man, but THICK...lol Yes he is!

Hayden
17 lbs 7 oz 25%ile
27 in long 25%ile
her head measurement was also in the 25%ile

They are growing quite nicely, they are going along the curve so that makes all of us happy! They did not have shots this appointment, however they did have to do a toe prick to test their hemoglobin....and all was normal! They didnt even cry when they pricked their toe...so proud of them...Of course they were very intrigued with their new colorful bandaids on their toes and wanted to take them off...silly kiddos!

Here are some pics that I took today, Nick took the ones of them together because they wouldnt get that close this morning... LOL

Updates!

Ok so YES I have been a BAD blogger! There has been so much stuff happening...We did have our 1st family vacation in July, that was quite interesting...I would post pics, BUT Nick hasnt downloaded them!!! I can steal some from Awburns blog, or you can go view them on her blog...LOL

Also the babies are mobile now....YES they are on the move...Kaden crawls everyone and he follows you around like there is no tomorrow. I guess you wouldnt call his crawling "crawling" he is more of a breakdancer, he does the WORM! LOL I swear it looks like it has to hurt him everytime...he goes up and lands flat on his tummy and makes an "ugh" noise everytime...

Hayden is crawling as well, but she would rather stand and pull herself up. She is amazing...I wont be suprised if she just "skips" the whole crawling phase (lord help me).

2 weeks ago I took the kiddos to Costco and had them sit in the cart for the 1st time together, it was quite interesting, but they had a fantastic time and as usual everyone drooled over them... Here is a pic that I took...TOO FUN!



There is more to come and of course I would love to update more, but time is running out...I will get better I will I will ;)

so I am a bit behind...lol

This was a few weeks ago (ya ya i know its late!) I am involved with lots of different mommy groups online and I had an opportunity to meet one of the wonderful ladies, she was out here visiting some relatives...If you think about it we all starting chatting back in June last year and we were all preggers at the same time, our plus size mommy group is very active and there are about 10 regular ladies that post frequently. I love my mommy friends and I hope one day I can meet them all! Here are some pics of Hailey and her hubby Frank, with their daughter Abby...It was a nice time!



Abby was telling Hayden a secret...shhhhh



Kaden took a little cat nap...



Hayden was a social butterfly...

Photos

Here are 2 photos that I thought Id share... This was last weekend at the cheesecake factory for Grandmas bday, too bad Hayden wasnt looking right at me!


This was taken 2 weeks ago and I caught her drinking and driving! OMG

6 month check up

Today we had our 6 month check up, although they are actually almost 7 months....so anyway, everything checked out great, they skipped on Kadens shots because he has been throwing up the last few days, but he is doing better. I have an appt to take him back next Tue for his shots.. They are still low in the percentiles, but accounting for them being born early, we are good!

Hayden has 2 teeth as well, and boy can she bite hard...Kaden doesnt do too bad either...

I cannot believe they are growing so fast! What am I to do???? :)

Houston, we have a TOOTH!

Well I am a little late on posting this, it has been a cranky mess in our house! Kaden cut his first tooth last monday May 12th. I am not sure when Haydens little suprise will arise, but I am sure it will be soon, she was a HOT mess last night!

So now I am stocked up on teething tablets, teething drops, tylenol, you name it we probably have it!

Just when they were starting to calm down, a tooth arises! What are the chances? Pretty good I assume...LOL

A Day At The Park...

We went to Sunset Park today just to have some fun. It was Nick, Grandma Ann, Great Grandpa Art, Great Grandma Max and I. The kids seemed to enjoy themselves, we slid down the slide, swung on the swings....it was a good day. Hayden was really interested looking at the other children as you can see in the pictures. A full school bus pulled up about 15 minutes after we got there and were running everywhere! The kids didnt seem to mind at all. This is just preparing us for Saturday when they go to the Company Picnic with Aunt Laurie...oh fun! They sure were worn out though...they fell asleep in the stroller when walking back to the car...this can be a good thing! LOL

Its almost a year!

Well it has almost been a whole year since I found out I was preggers! I found out last year Mother's Day weekend. It is hard to imagine that a year has already passed.

We have started feeding them veggies. It has been interesting! Hayden seems to like Peas though. We will start the "orange" foods on Friday. We had to do the green stuff first because those arent as favorable...hmmm we shall see!

Also a new thing this last week, Mr Kaden found his tounge and he thinks its funny to do raspberries! It is so funny! He has a blast making the "spppppppzzz" sound...

It is also fun to see how they recognize one another. They surely do LOVE eachother!

Here are some pictures...the first one I took while we were resting in bed with my cell phone, then the individual ones are from Aunt Kandis cell phone while she was babysitting them today....

I might have beat the system!

When I first started to blog I was able to do it at work, then word decided to block the website! (oh how dare they? I am still doing my work!) Anyway...dunno what happened, but I got to my homepage to do a blog and it is working! OMG! So hopefully this will continue because I can update more when I am at work than at home taking care of my 2 babies! WOW so lets hope for the good!

5 months old! OMG

Well today the babies are 5 months old! I cannot believe it! They are growing soooo fast. Hayden wants to be independent and sit by herself. Kaden does that as well. They are talking more and they do notice one another.

After they had their Dr appt last week he said we can give them cereal and solid food now. So tried the cereal and here is the result...





Oh and thanks to Aunt Kandi, they LOVE to watch their Sesame Street DVD. This is just a great photo of them...



Also Hayden was just fighting sleep (she does all the time) here is a picture Nick took, it is so funny. There is a video that goes along with it and I will work on getting that uploaded...