Happy 5th Birthday Maverick Thomas

Today my baby boy turns 5.

Maverick Thomas, you light up my life.  I love everything about you: Your kisses, your snoring, your hound sniffing, and your desire to be a lap dog at 140lbs.   

Hope you have a wonderful birthday baby boy!!

Happy 4th Birthday Charleigh Grace

I can't believe my first born, my sweetpea, Charleigh Grace, is 4 years old today.  To say she is the light of my life is a true understatement.  I first laid eyes on Charleigh as she was sound asleep in her cubical at the mall pet store.  Yes, I asked the sales woman, "how much was that doggie in the window?".  I came home and told Josh that I found my dog and that we needed to bring her home tonight!  (little back story...he wanted a boxer, but said if it was a Red Female Bloodhound I can have one because I wanted a black/tan boy).  You never know how an animal is going to react to you when they put you in the little room to play with them, but she came right to me and gave me tons of kisses and the twinkle in her eye melted my heart (and Josh's too) and so we brought her home.

Charleigh Grace, you are my everything.  You came into my life on one of my darkest days and gave me hope that I can love unconditionally and that everything was going to be okay.  You may never know how much you mean to me, but know no matter what you do: the chewing, houdini antics, escaping to visit the neighbors unannounced, twice, scratching at the back door, and just your plain ol' attitude, I will always love you. I am and will be forever indebted to you for giving me your unconditional love at the time that I needed it the most.  You knew exactly when I needed that slobbery kiss, time to cuddle, and laughter in my life.

So Charleigh Grace, today we celebrate you. I hope you had a wonderful relaxing birthday spent inside sleeping on the nice warm couch (don't get to used to it because come tomorrow, Daddy will make you get off) and enjoyed your dinner and bone.

...I Love you Sweet Pea...

Happy Birthday Steve!

Josh and I were lucky enough to be invited to one of our favorite places to celebrate on of our favorite person's Birthday.  Here goes the family tree, Steve is Josh's cousin Elissa's Fiance (that wasn't as bad as I thought) 

Anyways....

For Steve's birthday we went to Dodger Stadium to spend some time in the sun and watch baseball.  This was also Miss. K's first baseball game, so it made it that much more fun.  We ate Dodger dogs, drank some beer, got a little tan, and watched an amazing game. Dodgers were down 3-2, bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, tying run on 2nd, winning run on 1st. Tony Gwynn Jr. hits a single to right....first one scores and here comes the winning run!

Exciting right?! Ok you may not be a Dodger fan or care, but all in all we had a great time and looking forward to our next game.

Happy 3rd Birthday Maverick Thomas

My little boy turned 3 today and I can't believe it!  It seems like yesterday I found the ad in the Paper for bloodhound puppies and talked Josh into going to "just look".  Little did he know we would be bringing home the 6 week old 17 lb. runt of the litter.  The second I laid eyes on "Peanut" (as his breeders referred to him) I knew he was coming home with me.

Maverick came right to me and laid in my lap and gave me tons and tons of slobbery kisses and fell asleep.  He has not changed since that day.  At approx. 130 lbs. today Maverick still thinks he is a lap dog and loves to lick you.  He is a total Mommy's Boy and a Lover!

:::My little lover boy::

Silhouette

As you know I am big into scrapbooking and card making.  I had purchased the Cricut Imagine a few months back, but decided that there were a few things that I didn't like about it, so I ended up sending it back to HSN before my 30 days were up.  Don't get me wrong it was an excellent machine, but I wanted something different.  After doing more research and talking with fellow scrapbookers my 2nd mom Tina raved about her Silhouette.  Now it has the same functions as the Imagine, but different such as:
    A) super light weight
    B) portable
    C) buy the die cuts offline and don't have to worry about storing the cartridges

I made my first card off of it today and love it!  Josh doesn't understand why I have craft room yet I insist on transporting my items downstairs and working off of the dining room table.  I say "It's old habit and the table is huge!"  So my next project I will do in my scrapbook room because he is threatening to make it into a gym...yikes!

:::The creative mess:::

:::Dinosaur Birthday Card:::

Happy 4th Birthday!

Today one of my favorite little people turned 4, Mr. Tanner aka this generation Dennis the Menace.  We consider him and the rest of the clan family.  It is hard to believe that he is already 4 years old.  I remember the early morning phone call that he made is debut into the world. Holding him when he was just hours old in my arms and feeling so lucky to be a part of his life. Hope you had a Dino-mite 4th Birthday buddy!  Aurbery

:::Birthday Boy:::

"Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner, its my Birthday!"

:::My dad telling him to wash his teeth off after eating gummy bears.  I consider it job security ;) :::

:::Aurbery, look mine mouth is blue!:::