Ellianna's 3rd Birthday

I am way to tired to move all of these around so have at them the way they are...but all I got to say about Ellianna's birthday is spoiled!!! She also got the only thing she had asked for a Princess bike and a scooter!! She loves them both and was also excited to get other awesome presents from her aunts and Grandparents! The scooter was from Nana and Papa and they scored big with that one! She has been asking for it for months now and they had bought it all the way back a Christmas! All in all they have had some really great birthday's! Oh I almost forgot we also made ellianna close her eyes so that daddy could bring in the bike so that is what she is doing!

Birthday Highlights!

Joey was really fun for his birthday this year all he wanted was a bike! So that is what he got, we took him to the store and let him try them out to see what fit him better and decided to get the bigger one so that it will last longer! He loved it! He also got so really great gifts from the famliy! Lucky kiddo if you ask me! 4 so far is way better then 3 was for us any way I love that he is understanding more and listens better then he was I really enjoy this stage with him!





We made Joey close his eyes so daddy could bring in the bike!

Mother's Day

So I know I am way behind in my blogging and I need to catch up a little so these are from mothers day! My kids made the pictures in their preschool class and I just thought they were so fun!! The teachers put them in their paper wrapping a little to soon so one of them got stuck but it is still adorable just the same.
Then the other ones are posted because Joey wrote them all by himself! We didn't even have to help him spell out his name. Joe did write down love and mom and he copied those ones but I was one proud mama that day!

Post Register!!

Sorry I didn't get anything up here yesterday about this picture. My computer is dying a slow and painful death at this point! But any way this was in The Post Register on Wed. so proud of my little man and soccer! He will listen to anything that the coach says as you can see from him looking straight at him! It was a fun little article about the kiddos playing soccer at a young age!

I know I know...a little behind!

Don't forget to look at the other post below!

Few Random

Ellianna fell asleep literally standing up watching a movie and that is how she fell on the floor! And the one of Bria is just of her being adorable when we were waiting for Joey and Ellianna at preschool. It has been really weird for her to be by herself even though it is only an hour! And it has been really weird as a mom to only have one a lot of the time. There are still some days I am babysitting and have one more which she enjoys alot!

These two on the step are from Ellianna and Joey's first day of Preschool! Joey cracks me up cause when he got to school and they gave him a name tag it said Joseph, "That is not my name, my name is spelled J_o_e_y" I had taught him how to spell his name and he wouldn't settle with the fact that it was his full name on the name tag they changed it for him!

Our little Soccer Man.

Joey had his first soccer practice last night. It didn't go as well as we had hoped but pray that over the next few weeks he will be more involved! It is kinda a rough time 5:30 at night which is really late for him to be doing stuff, but any way he loved that there was a coach and that he got to dress up like his dad! But it is parents involvment because of the age so every child has to have a parent to be their partner for the exercises. They are learning some drills and things like that right now I am not sure if they will actually get into a game or not but at least it is getting him started! I can't believe he is old enough to be doing stuff like this but we was really excited that he could get out and do something different!

Working out his stretches. So cute to watch this! Sorry about the sound in the background...Ellianna was watching a movie in the car cause she has had a fever of 103+ for almost a week now and I was just letting her rest in the car.

Announcing....BABY #4!

Our little family is excited to announce for those of you who do not know that we are expecting a baby Sept 1oth!!!! We are so excited and the kids have been really fun this time getting it more now that they are older! We had our ultrasound today and I am not going to tell you what we are having you all get to guess!!! And I will post it in a week what we are having!

Easter Egg Hunt for the 6th Time!

It was really funny to see how excited they still were after having already done it 5 times before!

I haven't posted much latley but thought I would post the cute pics from Easter Sunday we had a beautiful day and the kids had a blast hunting for ages on Sat. over and over and over!
Joey was to busy to wait 5 seconds his sister would have beat him to the eggs.

Elli was also to busy looking for eggs to let me take her picture! She is busy looking around me to try and see some more by the door.

Such a little cheese ball!!

Loss....

One of my dear friends lost her husband a couple of days ago in Afghanistan, I have not been able to deal with this very well. It has been a long time since i have seen either one of the regretfully but it has really hit home for me that this war is not over and that there are still people real people losing their lives so that we can be safe here on our own soil. I want to just tell all of you how greatful I am for their service and all that they do for us. Over the past couple of days I have tried very hard to cherish every moment that I have with my family...even with all the messes and the what seem to be unimportant conversations, they are important to me and that is what matters I can still have the silly conversation about nothing with my husband and there are so many military husbands and wifes that can't, and will never be able to have that again with their spouse or a mother who can't talk to her child again in this life.Every litte thing such as calling Joe from the grocery store, just to see if there was anything else he need has seemed so very important to me, even when the kids were blowing bubbles in their milk and it was spilling over to the floor I just tried to enjoy it because you never know how short this earthly life is. I am so very greatful to know that we are an eternal family and we will be together forever and wish that I could bring that to all of the people who have lost loved ones and share with them the joy it brings into your life to know that you will be with them again! I am kinda of rambling but I just wanted to put it in writing how greatful I am for the ultimate sacrfice that FRANKIE TONER has made with his life and for the sacrifice Brooke made when she sent her husband off to war. My prayers are with you and may God be with you in this time of need!
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/mar/29/westlake-football-champ-killed/

New hair cuts!!

I got a little bug in my butt the other night after bath-time and decided to take a chance at cutting the girls hair. Last time we did that with Joey it was a disaster, I didn't touch his this time I am waiting to take him in to the salon to get his done. Elli loved it and wanted her hair cute again the next morning too. So funny.

I cut about 3 inchs off the back of Elli's hair and LOVE how cute it looks on her! It looks so so much better then it did!

Bria I cut some bangs and think it looks so much better, but she does have a calic that I didn't know was there until after I was done so one side looks shorter, but isn't.

My 3 have arrived!

It may have taken a little while but all 3 of my craft it forwards have spoken. Please send me your address in the comments section and I will delate it before it gets posted but I want it to be a surprise when you get it so pass it along and sometime in the next year(lol) you will get a surprise gift made by me...guess I better figure out how to make something crafty. Thanks for playing!!!!!

Birthday Bash!

So everyone needs to check out the birthday bash that is happening this week!

Craft it Forward!

The first three people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog. The first 3 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!
Who's in?

Daddy love!

Sledding for the first time!

PLEASE READ THIS!!!

PLEASE READ THIS AND PASS IT ON I PULLED IT OFF OF A
FRIENDS BLOG CAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE HEARD.
Recently someone had to have their 5-year old German Shepherd dog put down due to liver failure. The dog was completely healthy until a few weeks ago, so they had a necropsy done to see what the cause was. The liver levels were unbelievable, as if the dog had ingested poison of some kind. The dog is kept inside, and when he's outside, someone's with him, so the idea of him getting into something unknown washard to believe. My neighbor started going through all the items in the house. When he got to the Swiffer Wetjet, he noticed, in very tiny print, a warning which stated 'may be harmful to small children and animals.' He called the company to ask what the contents of the cleaning agent are and was astounded to find out that antifreeze is one of the ingredients (actually, he was told it's a compound which is one moleculeaway from antifreeze). Therefore, just by the dog walking on the floor cleaned with the solution, then licking its own paws, it ingested enough of the solution to destroy its liver.Soon after his dog's death, his housekeepers' two cats also died of liver failure. They both used the Swiffer Wetjet for quick cleanups on their floors. Necropsies weren't done on the cats, so they couldn't file a lawsuit, but he asked that we spread the word to as many people as possible so they don't lose their animals. This is equally harmful to babies and small children that play on thefloor a lot and put their fingers in their mouths a lot.PLEASE, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT HAVE BABIES, SMALL CHILDREN OR OWN A PET;TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW! YOU MAY NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN OR PETS BUT SOME OF YOU HAVE FRIENDS OR FAMILY WITH PETS AND ALSO FAMILIES WITH GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

Oldies!!

So Joe down loaded a bunch of picture from the card that is in his phone and up came these little gems I just can't believe that this little man is going to be 4 this year. I am having some real issues with that one. Cause not only does it mean that he is getting older but it mean that I am getting older and not just by a little bit it seems to be jumping a couple years at a time now not just one year at a time anymore. And to be honest i don't remember much of ever having one child! Cause if I remember correctly(and I know I do) I was pregnant with Ellianna in this pic with Joey. You can tell my children didn't have patience in getting here they wanted to be here now! But I wouldn't change any of it for anything I LOVE having my kids so close together!
Joey and I at Duxbury beach his first time to Mass.

What a big eyed stud muffin....good thing he grew into the ears huh!

Daddy was playin with him and I think this was one of my favorites!

HAPPY BIG 17!!!