Gabi and Ezra Sunday best

The kids were looking extra cute today so we had a bit of a photo shoot!

Gabi last day of school

Gabi had the best Kindergarten teacher EVER! Lisa Schell really understood Gabi and loved her. Thank you Mrs Schell for everything!

We posted the picture on Facebook and Lisa posted the following:

Every day was a complete joy. I will be having Gabi withdrawals!


Update: We had lunch with her during the summer!

Mother's Day 2013

Got this from Gabi after church. Feast your eyes on this cuteness...

I am actually 30 but I will take 27!  

I am so grateful I get to be a mother to these wonderful kids!

Marathon with pop pop

Congratulations to my dad Stan on finishing another marathon at the Phoenix Marathon this morning! Gabi got to run across the finish line with him, which was the highlight of her week.

And yes he ran with shoes but took them off at some point and ran barefoot the rest of the way. He has a lot of practice running properly barefoot. Do NOT try this at home. ;)

So I broke my toe...

So after going 30 years without breaking any bones.... Here you go.

Let me tell you it is a dumb story.

So the night before I had an argument with Jack and said something to the effect of this "Maybe I just won't do anything around the house and just lie around all day..."

Watch what you say because the following happened at around 3 in the morning while getting up groggy to comfort a crying child.

I tripped over one of Jack's shoes that was left out, as I rounded a corner to get out of our bedroom and caught my foot on a table as I fell.

Truth be told it didn't really hurt except for the initial fall. It did start to puff up and bruise right away thought so I figured it was broken. Since it wasn't visibly broken and I wasn't uncomfortable I decided to wait till the urgent care opened up in the morning.

No cast but I will be in a boot for about 6-8 weeks. :)

Gabi is old! Ezra shopping fun

Gabi celebrated her 100th day of school. Everyone including the teacher dressed up like they were 100 years old!

I was proud of her "wrinkles" but they had to be washed off before lunch because she scared some of the kids. (apparently "old" for kindergarten just means white hair and electric blue eye shadow with a crazy dress.) insert eye roll here....


Ezra and I went to check out the store Garden Ridge and found they still had Christmas stuff for sale and LOTS of trees still left. I went back the next day to get a tree for my mom and everything was cleaned up and GONE. I was shocked.  Anyway check out this cuteness I caught while we were out.

Merry Merry Christmas to you!

Here is a bit of what we were up to during the holidays!

Nutcracker!

We visited Jack's family for Christmas this year.  We were able to see the Nutcracker and Gabi was SO excited. Truth be told I was too, I had never seen it live. It was so beautiful and Gabi was a champ. Got a little sleepy near the end but it was an experience I hope she never forgets!  I already want to go back and see it again!

Beautiful lights on the grounds.

The excitement before the ballet!

A dragon and a fairy

This year the kids were a cute dragon and a beautiful fairy! Enjoy!

Gabi goes to Kindergarten!

I can't believe it, Gabi is going to Kindergarten.

Here is a cute picture we took to remember the special day!

I didn't cry till I got home! LOL