Daddy

We love you. Your the best daddy.
Hope you have fun learning to kite surf.

Fathers Day

My dad and kardiff doing what they love to do.
Kaia and my parents new puppy river.
We also celebrated my little brother James birthday that was on June 20th.
And of coarse no one can have a birthday with out Kaia having a birthday candle to blow out.
I cant get over how handsome my son is. Once again.. Im obsessed with this kid.
My sister and her boyfriend, almost husband.
Kardiff and his twin.. This is little Nick. He is my Aunt and Uncle's son. Kardiff and him are like 3 months apart and they are about the same size and doing the same things so they have so much fun together.. Oh and they both are like off the charts HUGE in case you didn't notice. They are not even 2 yet!

Love this face.
I think Kardiff looks so much like my little brother Parker. Does anyone see the family resemblance here?

For Fathers day we spent the after noon at my parents house with some family. We sure are lucky to have such a great dad/grandpa.

Kardiff's Lesson 6/16

I Know it's a lot of pictures.. but I just love my new camera so much! It really does make me want to document their little lives more now that it is was easier... Kardiff did AWESOME today! He only wined for the first minute or so and the rest of the time he was having so much fun and doing so well! He really does love the water and now that he is comfortable with the teacher he is loving swimming lessons!

Kaia's lesson 6/16

back to blogging

Iv had no desire to blog lately because I really was mad at my camera. Well I finally broke down and treated myself to a nice new camera so I should have no excuse now. The kids started swimming lessons this week with teacher Debbie. Day one Kardiff cried "mama.. mama.." the entire lesson but did really good and was comfortable in the water. Kaia did not cry but is not exactly swimming yet. I will post the end results at the end of the week.

love him.

Um this is how he rolls?

Just a little after bath stroll... Why not?

I got so sick of him getting in the fridge and helping himself to soy sauce and ketchup, and all the other condiments within his reach so I though I was outsmarting him and tried some Christmas ribbon on the handles. Well that lasted about an hour until he apparently out smarted me and drug a chair over to take the ribbon off and make me feel dumb...

How could you not just be totally in love and obsessed with this face? I stare at him all day long and I am just in awe that I created such a perfect looking human being. (sorry that may sound conceited but that's really how lucky I feel)

So for those of you who don't know,I'm pretty much obsessed with this kid. He has the RADDEST personality and the squishiest most kissable body ever and he is so in love with me and all that makes me totally look past the little trouble mess maker that he is..

i live with these animals!

I told the kids we would make a goodnight video for daddy and this is what they came up with! These wild animals do this kind of stuff ALL DAY LONG!

carlsbad flower park

When my in laws had the kids last weekend they took them to see the beautiful flowers in Carlsbad. These pictures are

Vegas

This is where my husband lives Mon-Fri. In this tiny little hotel room. Kinda sad huh?

He is there for work, the company he works for is based out of San Diego, but all the work is here right now. This is a new section of hotels, malls, and condo's on the las vegas strip called CENTER CITY. It is the largest construction project in the worlds right now. It is so crappy to have him gone during the week, but it is a great job to have on his resume. He is there with all his co workers/friends from CA so they hang out at night and do man activities like bowling/golf etc.

These pictures dont even do this place justice. The size of this project is truly remarkable. Huge! He drives to work from behind the strip in a golf cart, and has to drive it around the job all day because the place is so freakin big!

There are 5,6,7 sometimes more cranes here at any given time.

Can you see those tall skinny things attached to the exterior of the two side buildings? Those are the man lifts. (think temporary elevators??) can you say SCARY?? Oh and here something even freakier. Apparently 22 guys have died at this job so far? That sounds like a lot, which it is, but there are around 10,000 people working on this job at times.

The buildings in the front that face the strip have some really cool architecture. It will be neat to walk through when its all done. I was not aloud to go in yet, they are very strict about who is aloud on the job right now. Everyone has to be drug tested, badged, and all this crazy security stuff because of the deaths that have occurred. Apparently guys were getting drunk on their lunch breaks and then going back to work and getting in to accidents, so they Breathalyze at random to get back on the job after lunch! CRAZY huh?

This is the "ghetto" breakfast dave took me to at this Wild Wild West place right by his company office. It is open 24 hours so sometimes he and his co workers go there to eat breakfast because they go in to work as early as 4 am. The place was freaky looking on the outside, and at night it is known for housing "women of the night" because it is located right across from a truck stop. Awesome! Oh another interesting fact- directly across from his office is a place called BATTA BING, a"gentleman's club". Awesome #2! Back to breakfast. They go there because it is close and cheap. Cheap as in they must loose money cheap. we ate"the gamblers breakfast" $1.49.

$1.49? That is not a typo. Eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, and toast for $1.49. That seriously was Awesome with out sarcasm. Who cares if there are hookers when your total meal for 2 people is less than five bucks? the best part is the conversations i overheard in the place. That's a different post in itself. Vegas is a scary place.

Next item of business... The random girl on the right of the picture above is walking around with that plastic guitar strapped around her neck and there is an alcoholic beverage in it, which she sips as she walks down the street through a 2 foot long straw? Awesome? And if your not a rock star at heart you can have your choice of other ridiculous looking drink holding contraptions like a cowboy boot, 3 foot long plastic tube, cactus, Eiffel tower and many others.

So that pretty much sums up Vegas. We also did some fun stuff. We went to some shows, ate some good food and had fun just being together.

Dear Dad,

This morning started off with being dragged to do some work with mom... we were so good in the car driving all over town so we were rewarded with what any mother of the year feeds their kids at 9 am? a shamrock shake! breakfast of champions...

This is the fit I threw when mommy took it away because I sucked it dry and took the lid off and was shaking the cup upside down in an attempt to get every last drop in my mouth.

Then mommy needed a break from us and had to do some work so we watched woody and buzz.. but that didn't last very long. We had to get our mess making quota for the day filled so we went in to the family room to see what we could tear apart...

This was our attempt to make a fort.

Then I decided I was too white and tried to get a fake tan going and used PERMANENT red marker to color all over my body.(Im now banned from marker using until Im 10)

Caught red handed.

After mom got us out of the tub she rewarded all our stellar behavior with some blue toes...

And then put Kardiff in baby jail.

Dad,

Please come home and bail us out. (bail mommy out really)

She's tired and misses you.

Cant wait to see you at the airport tomorrow.

Only 12 more hours(but who's counting really?)

Love, Thing 1 and Thing 2