Happy Birthday to me.....

I'm back!

My laptop decided to die on me one day, so I've been computer-less for the last few months. I finally got a new HP laptop which I love. I'm going to try to get better about updating our blog, because I know that many years from now, I'll enjoy reading all the fun/craziness in our lives ;)

SO.....I turned the big 35 last weekend.......UGH! The day started out great....Dennis got the boys and let me sleep in. I woke up to a dozen roses, breakfast, and Dennis and the boys were making pink cupcakes! Oh.....and I got 2 cards. One card was a "You're 5" Lightening McQueen card. I guess Conner insisted on getting me that card, and Dad hates to say no :) It was cute! And I got an I-owe-u iphone, which we are going to get soon - SUPER excited about that.

My parents, sister, Justin and Kaitlyn came over for brunch which was great. Then Dennis and I took off and my parents watched the boys. I just wanted to chill and relax.....so we went to the club, lounged by the pool and read magazines....it was perfect. We ended the day with a delicious dinner at Cosmo Cafe downtown.......bye bye early thirties, I'll miss you ;) !!

Easter Fun

We had such a fun time over Easter, Conner is a great age to really get into it. He went on 5 easter egg hunts.......such a deprived little boy, he is. He had one at pre-school, one at the MOMS club party, one at our Clubhouse, one with Nanny and one on Easter at Michelle's house. He had this thing down pat by the 5th hunt. All he wanted was jelly beans and chocolate. He would even stop hunting for eggs, and just sit down to throw down a much candy as he could, until mean mommy would stop him. I noticed on the 5th hunt, he would see me, and walk the other way becuase he was scared I would take his candy away! I just didn't want him to barf, I really did have good intentions ;)

Logan had fun too, but clearly had no clue what was going on. He started to walk a few days before Easter, so that has been

really cute to see. He loves to walk around and pat his big belly, it's hilarious. Conner continues to taunt him, and loves to get Logan "in trouble". The latest episode between the two boys was yesterday. I was in the kitchen, and the boys were "playing", when I heard Logan start screaming (frequent noise in our house). I'm not sure exactly what transpired, but most of the day, Logan's right eye looked hurt. He was squinting, and it was red, and you could tell the poor little guy was in pain. I took them to the doctor in the afternoon, and turned out he had a "corneal abrasion"......which is basically a scratch in his cornea. We got some medicine on it right away, and he seems much better today. The eye heals itself pretty quickly, so luckily, it's nothing major. Jury's out on exactly how this happened, but I have a feeling, it was a cute little blonde 3 year old that had SOMETHING to do with it ;) !!

Logan's Baptism

I may be the worst blogger ever. If I have free time, I seem to find myself laying on the couch watching trashy TV (like The Bachelor, Rock of Love, Real Housewives.....you get the picture)! The past month has been really busy, but lots of fun. This past weekend was a big one for us, our little baby was baptised! Since the Catholic church we belong to is in the process of being built, we had the actual baptism ceremony at the Priest's house. Uncle Tony of course performed the baptism, and he did an exceptional job...as always. Logan wore Conner's hand-me-down, totally pimped out white tuxedo. It is seriously CLASSIC!! My mom walked in, saw Logan, and said "where is the Mariachi Band"?? If you saw this tux, it's an honest question. The thing was so tight on him, that we almost had to cut the sleeves. His wrists are getting so chunky we could barely get the sleeves past 'em. I clearly wanted him to wear this really bad ;)

Oh, and during the Ceremony, big bro Conner was quite antsy to put it lightly. He was doing sprints up and down the priests house, and wasn't very quiet about it. Oh well, what do you expect for a 3 year old! Logan's godparents are Aunt Mary Kate and Uncle Tom.....what a lucky little guy!

Post baptism we had a little party at our house. The kids had a blast destroying the house and loading up on juice and cake ;)

I took a similar picture of Logan in his outfit, as we did with Conner about 2 years ago for Conner's baptism.......crazy how much they look alike at this age!

CONNER - 10 MONTHS.......................... LOGAN 11 MONTHS

Conner's 3rd BD!

After the craziness of the holidays this year, we decided to celebrate Conner's 3rd BD in more of a low-key fashion (while we can get away with it!). We packed up the boys and drove up to the Nut Tree in Vacaville. Even though it has been completely renovated, it still brought back so many memories for me. I use to go with my family and my Grandpa growing up, and have so many fond memories of.........riding the train, eating those huge-yummy gingerbread cookies, eating pineapple dipped in marshmallow sauce, and just spending quality time with my Grandpa. I'm so glad we decided to go because it closed down for good about a week after we went!

We spent the morning there and OH MY, it was FREEZING. I think there was about 2 other families braving the cold with us, but we still had tons of fun. Conner's favorite ride was the Nut Tree train, but he also enjoyed the little airplane ride, the bumper cars with Dad, and driving the little dump-trucks. Logan enjoyed watching his brother run around, but I think he just wanted to defrost....he was a trooper though!

After the rides, we had lunch at our favorite pizza place that we used to eat at all the time on Union Street in SF, Amici's. Dennis and I were loving it, and our picky little 3 year old, wouldn't even eat it! Are you kidding me? I had made a back-up PB&J, so he enjoyed that on the ride home :)

That night, we had over our good friends and next door neighbors, Linda-James-Jack-Nathan for some cupcakes. It was really cute, we all sang to Conner and he really enjoyed blowing out his candles and powering through 2 cupcakes. I think we all had an even better time than the kids enjoying several glasses of mommy-juice and daddy-juice ;) It was the perfect ending to a great day!

Sickies!

WOW......what a night. It started at 1:30am with Dennis and Logan getting hit pretty hard with the stomach flu. Then after being up with both of them all night long, Conner woke up this morning with the same thing. Seriously, this is not really happening?! Needless to say, we are all if our PJ's, doing tons of laundry, and just being sick & very tired.

However, this made it ALL worth it. Conner loves rubbing his head in Logan's stomach, and as you can see, it absolutely cracks Logan up. I SO love it when they play like this together, it is THE best!!

I'm already looking forward to bedtime and it's only noon.......good times ;)

Holidays 2008

I can't believe Christmas has already come and gone....seriously?!?!

Now that Conner "gets" the whole concept of

Christmas, it makes it so much fun. He loved talking about Santa and all the presents that Santa was going to bring him, but ironically he would not come within 50 feet of the man!

We took the boys on the Polar Express Train Ride in Sacramento (very cool), and we tried to get them to sit on Santa's lap before the ride. Conner literally starting shaking, he was sooooo scared. So we pretty much gave up on any cute photo opportunities after that episode! The Polar Express was great, they decorate the whole train very Holiday-ish, and they give everyone hot chocolate & cookies when you board. There are dancers, and the train takes us to the North Pole where we meet up with Santa. It pretty much follows the book, and Conner had a great time. Logan seemed to enjoy himself too, as always, he goes with the flow.

I was so bummed, the ONE photo opportunity I did get with Santa and Conner failed miserably. We were on the train, and Santa stopped to take a picture with Dennis and Conner......I had about 2 seconds (he was pretty busy), and completely cut Conner out of the picture. So please enjoy this pic of Dennis & the big man.....classic ;)

We had Sara, Justin, Kaitlyn, mom and dad over to our house for x-mas eve. A great night full of good food (thanks Sara/Mom!), and fun. I think Conner's favorite gift of the night was a Dirt Devil Vacuum that my sister got him. He is obsessed with Vacuums (does not take after his Dad), so we are training him at an early age ;) !

We drove to Novato on x-mas day and had a lots of fun with the McGuire clan. The boys had a blast playing with the cousins......all 7 of them were there. Conner got tons of CARS goodies and Thomas stuff which are his current obsessions. Logan had a great time too and got TONS of attention (a nice change for him).....! Now I have to stop procrastinating and put away all the presents, clean up after Christmas, and take down decorations. We'll be putting them back up before we know it ;)

Looking forward to a happy and HEALTHY 2009!!!

We had a great Thanksgiving with our family. Dennis and I hosted it, and had a whopping 17 people at our place. It was a day filled with lots of yummy food and fun. Dennis' parents came the night before to help out with the boys, which was huge! Conner was super excited to see them, and pretty much didn't leave grandpa's side. I think he was thrilled to talk to someone else besides me! Conner and Logan had a great time with their cousins Kaitlyn, Ashlinn and Katie. Justin made a celebrity appearance in his CHP car and uniform, which was a major hit for the kids. Conner pretty much worships him, knowing that he drives a 'police car' AND flies in airplane (little does Conner know, he'll never step foot in that puddle jumper...hehehe) !! Justin did get to stay for dinner, which worked out great.

We had a fun and relaxing 4 day weekend, it was SO nice to have Dennis around that long. After we got the house back in order after Thanksgiving, we took a trip to Davis to go to the Arboretum. It was so fun, and Conner had such a good time. He chased ducks, scared lots of chipmunks and frightened many horses......but had a great time doing it! He pretty much ran the entire time, well over an hour. He was worked, to say the least! Then we finished the day with Woodstock's pizza to-go (Chico/Davis memories, minus the 12-pack prior to eating it!).

We finished up the weekend with attempting to take pictures of the boys for our Christmas cards. Let's just say 1292 pictures later.......it was quite the challenge to get them to look and if they even did that at the same time, ask them to smile too! Logan just wanted to crawl and eat grass and Conner wouldn't put his crackers and cheese down (that was our attempt to bribe him to smile!). Needless to say, we may go with individual pics this year ;)