Audrey & 'ruby'

Audrey is freshly four. Oh my lanta-four is SO fun! Her imagination is exploding. Making barbies talk to one another and her new little 'friend' has appeared a few times. She pretends the 'bee' from one of the cartoons she enjoys is real and plays with her. She sometimes can be found pushing 'ruby' on the swing or even asking to help 'ruby' with something. My heart explodes. She is just so sweet. 

Mom life

Sandbox

Tea

Painted toes

Content playing toddler

This is a day of perfection! 

(I even finished my WHOLE cup of tea)

That moment

That moment you take your kids out for sushi 

You know they love it

They start eating

You start eating 

You're all chatting 

You're all enjoying each other

Then out of the corner of your eye you see your two year old is pounding back tuna and salmon rolls to the extrem

You giggle to yourself

Then the horror

The absolute horror

VOMIT everywhere 

Raw sushi and rice vomit 

EVERYWHERE

The table

The floor

His shirt

His pants 

His plate

The chair 

What do you do?

I acted like I was 12 and burst our laugh/crying. (He wasn't choking I'm not heartless) he triggered his gag reflex by making his mouth to full (something he's been known to do at home...never in public). It was a stress laugh. As I'm dabbing the unnatural amount of vomit up with teeny tiny napkins I realize that I'm going to need a hundred.

Brent and Audrey stared open mouthed while I cleaned, laughed, cried. Beckham just repeated 'I barf mama' over and over.

It was Father's Day.

I conquered the monumental public barf solo. Biggest Father's Day gift I could give Brent.

LOL

Cry-out-loud 

Audrey's 4th Birthday Party

I threw Audrey a 'nautical' birthday party. Everything was blue and red with sailboats and anchors!!! 

We had pony rides, bunnies, chickens, kittens and more for all the kids to experience. Most of Audrey's friends don't get to see animals regularly so it was a hoot! Everyone had a blast! 

We also had a bouncy castle that beckham staked out for most of the time. 

When he wasn't in the bouncy castle he was in the 'treasure hunting station' we had a baby pool filled with dirt were kids could hunt for rings, jewels, and candy necklaces.

Audrey on the other hand was in everything and 100% in her element being the center of attention.

Audrey is just like mommy, loves attention haha especially on her birthday!

Daddy stayed home from work to make pancakes for all our little friends. What a great daddy! He for sure is wrapped around his princesses pinky in the most beautiful way!!

Mommy & Audrey also had matching nautical dresses-we are just that cool hehe!

Audrey's 4th Birthday Party

I threw Audrey a 'nautical' birthday party. Everything was blue and red with sailboats and anchors!!! 

We had pony rides, bunnies, chickens, kittens and more for all the kids to experience. Most of Audrey's friends don't get to see animals regularly so it was a hoot! Everyone had a blast! 

We also had a bouncy castle that beckham staked out for most of the time. 

When he wasn't in the bouncy castle he was in the 'treasure hunting station' we had a baby pool filled with dirt were kids could hunt for rings, jewels, and candy necklaces.

Audrey on the other hand was in everything and 100% in her element being the center of attention.

Audrey is just like mommy, loves attention haha especially on her birthday!

Daddy stayed home from work to make pancakes for all our little friends. What a great daddy! He for sure is wrapped around his princesses pinky in the most beautiful way!!

Mommy & Audrey also had matching nautical dresses-we are just that cool hehe!

Beckhams first theatre experience

We took the kids to see Rio2 today in theatre. It was a hoot. Both kids rocked it! Beckham had to pee twice but besides that sat through the whole thing. He giggled at the silly part. He also insisted we hold hands the whole time. I obliged of course. 

Baby food jar sailboats

So I saw something similar on Pinterest. I thought how do I make something similar without spending a fortune? You see all the ones I saw were in a special kind of glass. I didn't want to go out and but all new glasses just for something I wanted to use for my daughters birthday party. Also what toddler needs that much jello.

'Lightbulb moment' 

Everyone has baby food jars!

I used 'shish kabob sticks' & paper and of course satsuma or mandarin oranges. I think it turned out perfect!

Perfect fit for or 'nautical party!'

(I used my meat thermometer to make the holes in the oranges to make less mess) 

Brent's 30th Part 2-a thank you

To all who contributed to the book I owe you a huge thank you. You're all the best and I owe the success of this book to you. We just have the best friends and family! 

For those that don't know. I made a photobook for Brent that had notes from all his closest friends, family, friends from the past and mentors. 

He was absolutely blown away by everyone's kind kind kind words. Operation show my hubby what an incredible man he is to not only me and my babies but how he blesses everyone he knows was a success!

Brent's 30th Part 1

So Brent's turning 30 this week. (June 11). I decided to throw him a surprise party! Just his best buds and their wives. Since we have friends from all places in life they don't all necessarily know each other. I thought bowling would make the fact that no one knew each other less akward. So I paid for everyone's bowling, pizza and pop! We had twenty people so it was a perfect number for mingling and competing spirit.

Everyone showed up at 6:30pm.

Brent showed up at 6:45pm. 

Brent was totally clueless when I left home around 3:30pm so I thought that I actually achieved success this time. I had fibbed to him and told him we were going on a double date with Matt and Marsha and that Marsha wanted to go shopping with me beforehand so he would drive out and meet us with Matt. You have to understand I'm a sweaty jittery darty eyed liar. -I.cant.believe.I.succeeded! It helped that I wasn't with him on the drive there. I really havnt been able to keep a surprise properly....ever!

So...Brent landed up picking Matt up instead of Matt picking up Brent. Well Matt had a friend at his house helping him Reno. As they left the guy shouted- 'enjoy the party tonight guys'. Brent just stayed quiet. At that point he knew or at least supremely suspected. 

When he walked in-he was slightly flushed. It was clear the cat was out of the bag. He was taken aback seeing all his best buds! It was a great reunion as Brent's been working so much he hasn't seen many of them often this past year. 

We bowled. I mostly tried to just make sure I bowled better then Brent. I succeeded. I offered the ultimate winner a free dessert. Matt one of his best buds was the champ! 

After the bowling we went to cactus club for dessert. It was a hoot. Everyone had mingled enough by then to totally just relax and enjoy. It was smooth and wonderful. Fun was had by all!!!

These moments

These sleepy cuddles make every hard mama moment worth it. It rejuvenates my soul seeing that droopy mouthed baby on my shoulder. My days of sleepy cuddles are numbered. Beckham has blessed me being the best second and final child I could have imagined. He has given me more cuddles, smooches and taken his time with everything. He will always be my sweet baby. 

Whisked Away

Brent doesn't do it often but when he does he does so so so good.

I had a ROUGH mommy week a couple weeks ago. I don't seem to have them often but when I do. Wowzers. 

He wisked me swag for a night at Tulalip. Compliments of grandma and grandpa babysitting! 

Rest

Chit chat

Snuggles 

Shopping

Yummie food

Chit chat

Tire shopping 

And some good long walks.

It's amazing what 24 hours does for the soul!

It was also our 9 year dating anniversary.

Don't worry Brent had no idea. We don't celebrate it. I'm just a nut and remember those types of things!