Mothers Day 2013

Lucy and Diego made me the mother I am today. Every day they make me a better person, mother, and listener. Thank you guys. I hope to be everything you need and more. Mama Loves you

A Spring Day

some of my favorites...

WILD SPRANG BREAK 2013

My favorite part about Spring Break: How several friends and my husband all said,"Your pictures look like you guys are having a blast." In reality, my children swapped stomach bugs and it was a super cold week where winter coats were not optional. Pooping Cold.
Heck yea I'm doing it again.
Diego learned a TON and we got to see and get real close to the wild horses on the island. Lucy had a blast and I had help from an awesome sister. Not to mention we stayed at Frontier Town during off peak season rates and had some really good food.
There were hot donuts, is all I'm saying.
We're back to the scheduled programming now and of course it almost climbed to 90 today. Looking back at these pictures, we really did have a good time. I have fond memories of this place, our good friends and family that joined us and overall successful solo mama trip away from home. D completed his first National Parks Junior Ranger program and is already asking where else we can get more badges at...Shenandoah here we come.

bought me 10 minutes

peeking, originally uploaded by Texas Gravy.

2013 Pinewood Derby

2nd place!

First off, let me start off by giving D and myself huge props.

We got that car done!

I was worried about it weighing too little or too much or it just being all wrong for that matter.

In the end, I didn't have a lot to worry about because all was right after a little help from youtube and the internet. His car looked great and it had his M for Mach or Mario (depending on his mood). The races went by quickly and before I knew it, he was in 2nd place.

I'm very proud of the work he put into his car and how happy he is to share his trophy with everyone we've seen since. 

I have to point out though, that the best part of the day for me was him running up to me after he had received his trophy to say,"Mommy! Papa will be so proud of me!" We miss and talk about papa a lot lately and as his deployments gets closer its moments like this that I know he loves and misses him as much as I do. Keeping papa at the forefront of our thoughts and conversations in moments like these are important to me because even though he can't be there in person we know he's there with us in spirit always. Hooray for 2nd place!

Squirrels!

We spent most of last weekend sick :/ It sucked pretty bad. We did lots of inside things which can only lead to really wanting to go outside.

I've had this squirrel feeder kit a friend had given us for some time and D pulled it out and announced that it was time to make it.

Outside we went, we hammered and stuck an apple in there.

The apple was chewed up by the next morning.

We have some corn for them next, hoping to help them out this winter :)

Come on squirrels, you know you're hungry.

Derby Car

"I want my car to be blue, with an M and some stickers."

Lucy @ 23 months

She's almost two.
She can say lots of things.
My favorites are: Please, Thank You, More, Good Night, I love you, Good Morning, Uh-Oh, and Diego!
Almost 2 is pretty fun.

SHNOW

There was something so quiet about her, she watched her brother, took a step, and then another; finally, she busted out laughing and ran. She lost her footing and walked instead. "Running in this is no good," she thought. 

"SHNOW,"that's how she says it.

My favorite Christmas Memory/These were still on my SD card :)

Its a thing he and I did at Christmas, our Angel Chimes. I loved it.

Snow!

Finally! We haven't seen snow since 2006 (the last time we lived here).
This was D's first time he got to play in it and he was super happy.
There's about 2 1/2 inches on the ground and we had such a great time outside.
Unfortunately, Lucy was sleeping so, we'll have to get her out tomorrow and make a snowman!

Christmas 2012

Our Christmas consisted of: Feeding Babies..

weapons...

lounging...

presents...

cute babies opening presents for the first time ever...

mom and her new lens

legos...

testing of the weps...

and our traditional Festivus dinner. Navidad 2012: Success.

Diego is 7

His birthday crept up on me this year...

We had a lot going, and it all went by so fast! His dad was out to sea but I was determined to make it a memorable and full of special memories day. It started with dinner with friends, holiday school program, cupcakes at school, holiday hospital party, special breakfast with presents, balloons and ended with one awesome weekend with family. Lucy was having a blast in the midst of it all and really enjoys going to MD lately. Somewhere during the bustle of it all I took several moments to reflect on 7. 7 is  awesome. 7 is 21 months chemo free. 7 is on the honor roll. 7 is doing great in Cub scouts. 7 is downright amazing.

Shoes! A short story

My internets were down for a moment there, and then I just got caught up in a busy life of little kids and special weekends...another Nablopomo gets away!

But, with T being home for the weekend, I got a very late but very special birthday present that I am in love with...