Aden's 3rd Birthday

This weekend we celebrated Aden's 3rd birthday! I can't believe that I have been a Mommy for three whole years. Here are a few pictures from his little dinner celebration...

Happy birthday to you....

Sweet boy!

Aden and Chase, "What could it be?!"

First race car

Playdoh is always fun :)

I left Aden fall asleep in our bed after his party. I cuddled with him, and he said "Mommy" about 50 times. I think he was just too tired to talk to me, but wanted to say something. Finally he said, "backward Mommy"....and he was asleep....so silly! I love my three year old :)

My Two Year Old...

....is almost a three year old. Today is his last day being two, and I have such mixed feelings! I love the fact that he is growing up, and we can do so many fun things together. He will walk next to me in Target now and never wander off ;) That's a big step! Here are some fun pictures from this past week...

Baking cookies with Mommy today

Checking out his first birthday card that came in the mail

"It's 7 AM Mommy, can we let the dogs in??"

At our cousin's wedding...my fav!

Seussical the Musical

This weekend is the last weekend of Suessical at COD. I'm so excited to start another run of shows (4 this weekend-yikes!) I'd love it if all of my mommy friends and their kiddos could come see it. We are going to bring Aden this weekend and see if he can sit through it. Here are the show times...

Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm, 8pm
Sunday 2pm

I'd say that you would need to get there at least 30 minutes early. The house opens 30 prior minutes to curtain and the tickets are first come, first serve. It's held at the Pollack Theater on COD's campus. Hope to see everyone there...happy Friday :)

BLESSED

God put a couple of people in my life that blessed me so very much! The wonderful Holly suggested that I take my hard drive video camera to someone who might be able to recover movies from it, even though I had already deleted them. Brilliant idea! I took it to Dave Petrie at SCC. On Sunday he called me to his office and he had pulled 24 GB from it! He clicked open one of the video clips and his screen was full of my newborn Ava, under a warmer, getting some extra oxegyn in the hospital. All I could do was sit on the floor and cry! He was able to recover everything I had ever recorded on our video camera. I am so overwhemled with God and how He always takes care of our family. Thank you Holly and Dave, words cannot express how grateful I am for what you have done for me, for the memories you have helped to save!

Sad Monday

It's been a rough week for us. On monday, our house was broken into about 10 minutes after the kids and I left to run a few errands. They stole my laptop that was in the kitchen. Unfortunately, all of the kid's baby photos and all of our home movies were stored on it, and now it's gone. I have been crying on and off for the past four days. It's like someone came into our home and took our box of pictures. I'd appreciate prayers of peace for myself. I've actually been quite suprised at how upset this has made me. I lost about 9 thousand photos and 3 years of home movies. The cops were unable to find any finger prints. I'm still hoping that it will turn up at a pawnshop or on Craigslist. If any of you happen to have pictures of my kids, I would really appreciate a copy of whatever you have, as we are now left trying to get our memories back...

Brave Momma

Yesterday Scott and I had a scheduling conflict (we pretty much have one everyday) so I had one of my girlfriends come over and spend the entire day with my kiddos while I was at a hugh and long rehearsal. I think that I have left them with Holly once (thank you my love!), and other than that, they are only left with our family. Yes, in case you haven't already noticed, I am one of THOSE mommies. Scott and I have tried very hard to only let family watch them. I know that eventually I will have to find a babysitter to help us out. Anyway, while I fretted about their well being all day, they were having a blast with Miss Shawna, laughing, playing, eating, napping ECT. I came home to find Aden cuddled in her lap and he even hugged her goodbye. Everyone was happy and perfectly content, and my house was clean too! I guess trusting my babies to someone else wasn't so bad after all :)

Busy Busy

This week the chaos begins! My show (Suessical the Musical) is opening in less than 2 weeks, so yesterday we started our daily full run rehearsal schedule. Scott is also in the midst of his v-ball tryout week with PDHS....SO we both have to be gone at some point for around 4 or 5 hours everyday, who wants to come over and play with my kids?! :)  

Scott could really use some prayer right now. He was just informed by the district that his principle has put him outside of his credential (AGAIN) with this year's teaching assignment. Basically the district could transfer him to ANY school within DSUSD. He's taught middle school for 14 years, and in a week and a half, he could be teaching Kindergarten! We think that this might be a blessing in disguise. His principle has never given him priority when scheduling each year, and Scott has been at JGMS since it opened. God has a plan, we're just along for the ride. A change like this could be the best thing for Scott right now....to be continued!