Our California Adventures

We are now a week into the trip. We started out last Wednesday and stayed the night in Reno at the Sands Hotel. The kids loved being on the 15th floor and looking out the window at the cars below. The next day we headed to Manteca to stay with my brother Jeff and his wife. After visitig them, we took off to Madera and stayed with the Gaufins for a few days. I got to go to church in Madera where I grew up and got to see old friends (Gina who is Prego with twins and Jennifer Underwood who is recently engaged)After church we headed to the coast to see my grandparents. We stopped by grandparents Davis then headed to the ranch to stay for about a week. These are a few of the pictures that we have taken so far.

Nick at a park in Manteca


Bailey and Nick with Grandpa Davis and Great Grandparents Davis


Bailey playing in the creek at Grandpa Parsons Ranch



Her favorite horse, Zinger

Happy 1st Birthday, Nick

My baby boy turned one yesterday. He is WALKING, talking and growing so fast. He had his 12 month checkup yesterday morning and he has an ear infection and a cold, but here are his stats.

weight- 18 lbs- only the 2nd percentile....which means we need to feed this boy! He has to stay on Pediasure until he gets his weight up.

height- 31 inches- 93rd precentile- so he is tall and skinny

head- 30th percentile- just below average in the size of his head.

And here are some highlights from his special day.

NOt so happy with his cupcake


A little happier


Yummy!




Happy Birthday my little buddy!


Big sister watching Nick as he opened presents

Cali, Vegas, Utah...a much needed vacation

We are taking a much needed vacation next month. Starting out we will be heading to Madera and Fresno, then spend a week at the coast with both sets of grandparents then heading to visit my brother in Las Vegas and rounding out the trip with almost a full week in Utah. It has been a year since we have gone anywhere, and I am so excited to get out and travel. What fun it will be to see old friends and family! I can't wait!

My modeling career

ok, so I am a bit embarassed by this, but I guess I should be proud that I was asked. A girl I know asked me to be a model for her plus size clothing online store. At first I was flattered but still nervous to do something that I never, in my wildest imagination, thought I would do. During the shoot I was very uncomfortable doing this, especially next to the size 2 models, but it was an experience that I will always remember and something that I can laugh at~ Me a model~too funny!

Here is the link if you are curious to see more, but I am not extremely happy with some of my pictures- I think they look terrible!
www.novaeclothing.com

A fun little playdate

I have a hard time being cooped up in the house all the time during teh cold winter months, so we have a weekly playgroup that I take the kids to. It is nice to get the kids out and get some exercise.

Miss Bailey is 3!

It has been 3 years since I had this precious girl. We were supposed to have a few friends over Friday morning to play with Bailey, but it ended up being a full on birthday party. It was pretty hectic with 10 little kids under the age of 5, but we did it and Bailey had so much fun. We had a bowling game, a treasure hunt, a fruit toss, then the kids got to make their own pizza. Baileys birthday is today so we just had the family sing to her and she got her pink heart-shaped cake! Happy Birthday Bailey, We love you!



Waiting for her friends to arrive


Bowling with the other kids. Her BFF Abi has the ball.


Another mommy helping with ring around the rosie- I'm grateful for all the mommies who helped me!


waiting patiently for their pizza to finish cooking- the boys were at a seperate table!


Bailey and Abi love opening the presents



Look at all the pink! I love it!



Bailys "real" birthday where she got her yummy heart cake



Nick enjoying more than anyone...and he chowed his cake down in no time!

January... fun (and no fun)

I feel like it has been awhile since I posted, so here is a little blurp of our January. First, we have all been sick, sicker and sickest...starting with stomach flu, strep throat, colds, another round of stomach flu (and yep, more throwing up)back to a cold, pink eye and now another form of flu with fever and chills, but no throwing up. We have all been sick one after another since December started. I hope this is the last round because we have ALL been feeling pretty crummy! But, we have found a few days in between where we feel better, so we make sure to really go out and have blast while we are feeling good!


We took the kids to Pojos and they had fun playing games and going on rides (PoJos is a mix between Chuck e Cheese and Johns Incredible Pizza(in Fresno)




My freind Ashleigh and I took the kids to a new play area called Jabbers. They had fun playing in the giant playhouse, riding bikes along a track, going shopping at the Farmer's Marker with their own carts, and relaxing by teh BBQ (which is what Bailey is doing in the picture below) and just being silly!


In the cool kitchen of the playhouse


Ashleigh's twins, Kylie and Carson