BLESSED!

We blessed this little bundle-O-love on sept 30th.

excuse me while i reflect on the fact that i've wanted my whole life to have moments like this..

i would never claim my life is perfect by any stretch.

but its at times like this:

 when family and friends show up in love and support,

when your husband gives your littlest one a blessing and cries because the spirit is real!

when you realize that despite all your flaws for some reason this is your life and you don't know how you got so gosh darn lucky.

its times like this that it feels perfect.

even if just for one day. 

i'm so thankful for a Heavenly Father who would bless ME with all of this.

even when things are NOT perfect its my own little piece of Heaven.

So, to all of my family and friends, young and old, you are what makes life worth living. you make the hard moments in life bearable and the sweet moments even sweeter. you make me realize what it means to be truly blessed and you give a face to happiness. you make me so proud to introduce two boys into a family that will care for them and love them unconditionally. you make me want to be a better mom, wife, friend, sister, aunt, grand-daughter and daughter.

 So thank you for making life feel a little bit closer to perfect! 

i love you all. 

is there anything...?

 is there anything more depressing then how fast your kids grow up.

and how long each day seems all at the same time?

this is mac at 2 months and 3 months.

what the, what!! 

its going bye WAY WAY too fast!!

is there anything more ridiculous then the technology capabilities of a 2 year old.

i find it somewhat disturbing that he can unlock my phone, go to his little section of games, click on the app and start playing or find and scroll through the 100s of pictures on my phone and play a video when he comes across one. 

i guess really there is no one else to blame but myself, since i am the one thats let him play with my phone.
 regardless.... its still a bit ridiculous!

 is there anything more awesome then cousins? 

some of my best memories were made with my cousins and i know its not gonna be any different for my little guys, they are the youngest of the bunch on arrons side and the oldest of the bunch on my side so either way they are surrounded by awesomeness! 

is there anything sweeter then the love of a great-grandma.

this is my sweet grandma , she is crazy in love with my boys. 

she is like some sort of baby whisperer and can calm a crying babe pretty much instantly.

i am so grateful that she is able to be part of their lives, and mine.

 is there anything better then how easily entertained a two year old is?

gabe stacked those paper towels up and knocked them over for a good hour. he was cracking himself up...and me for that matter. 

thank you costco!

 and bubbles, come on people, is this not the most hated and loved invention of all time. hated because "bubbos" are messy, but loved because they NEVER get tired of them.  hated because... they NEVER get tired of them. and loved because they are a great bribery tool. 

i could go on, but i wont.

 is there anything more adorable then babies in PJ's? 

or watching a big brother fall completely in love with his little brother?

i cant help but smile seeing the pure joy on gabes face, he loves mac so much. i worried that gabe might try to throw mac down the stairs {like he did my dyson vacuum and really anything else he can pick up} when he realized after a few weeks that little macadoo wasn't going anywhere, but it has been just the opposite. he adores him. he wants to kiss him and hug him and pat him and feed him and share EVERYTHING with him. he wont go to bed at night without giving baby a kiss and then insisting that mom and dad give baby a kiss too. 

he is such a little lover!

I cant get enough of either of them, cuz really....

there is nothing better then being a mom!

shoop ba-doop

"here i go, here i go, here i go again, girls whats my weakness? Men

Okay then

chillin', chillin', mindin' my business......"

since anybody who's anybody should be able to finish the rest of this song, i'll stop there!

{ if you can't you missed out on a very important part of pop culture in the 90's }

meet gabe and his best buddy wes.

i know, i know, i've posted gazillions of pictures of these to little monkeys but, 

"here i go, here i go, here i go again" 

{haha i'm funny}

this is gabe at 1 month and wes at 4 months.

the color difference, not so prominent at that point in time. 

But now...

 you know why a classic hit like SHOOP by "salt n pepa" might come to mind when posting pics of these two little dudes.

 They could not be more different and yet still BFF's.

and i'm not talking about their skin color.

wes is the cleanest kid i have ever met and well, you've all seen the pictures of gabe.

he still doesn't understand that ketchup is not a hair styling product.

It has been one of my favorite things to watch these two grow up together. They have gone from no interaction to parallel play and now they full on have conversations in gibberish, incorporating some actual words at times.

They fight and then laugh at each other.

 They share popcorn and crayons, two of the most important things in life wouldn't you say.

and they share a lot of firsts together. 

Gabes first Movie was Rio.
 he did a good job for the most part, until the TUB of popcorn ran out and his 32oz sprite was sucked bone dry. (i know, mother of the year) 

then he got a bit too antsy and we had to ditch out 20 minutes early so as not to disturb the other paying customers.

 i wish life was always as easy as two little two year olds make it seem. 

fight, get over it, move on. 

there are way too many fun times to be had to get hung up on the little things. 

Gabes first sleep over. 

let me just say these pictures are going to be priceless when he is of dating age and trying to push the limits of his 8:00 curfew or acting like he knows more then his wise mama. i will use these as blackmail until he is 30 and gets married and moves out of my house. 

i will have these at my fingertips at all times ready to whip out if he tries to move away from me too early!

because, to quote the wise woman self named "pepa"

"this boy is my weakness" 

"shoop shoop ba-doop"

seasons come and seasons go

i was driving down the road with the music blasting, i was of course harmonizing perfectly along to the song..we are young, { i had to ask my much cooler brother who even sang this song..FUN if your wondering. thats the name of the band} Ironic i should be singing along to this song, because i ask you, can it really only be 3 years ago that i could have told you who sang all the songs in casey kasems top 40? { is he even still alive? }

i was headed out for some much needed girl time with my dear friend and as we were chatting and catching up over some delicious CPK the topic was 90% about our kiddos and 10% about our...oh yes kiddos.

we then attempted to be even cooler and did some shopping, which ended in purchases for the kids.

before we sound totally pathetic we did both score some new digs for ourselves but not before we duly noted that we were buying a size bigger then the last time we went shopping together.

3 YEARS AGO!!!

WHAT?!!!

has it really only been 3 years since we were cool and hip and didnt look at the girls in H&M wearing fedoras and leg warmers on their arms and judge them out of spite for looking well rested and ready to stay up way past our bedtime? 

 Yep only 3 years and 5 kids ago, between the 2 of us. WOW.

and then my dear friend passed some words of wisdom on to me that her wise mother gave her.

"its not YOUR season"

Its THEIR season. 

the little men in our lives that we both desperately wanted and both had moments when we didn't know if it would happen for us.

and we thank our lucky stars everyday that it has, even though the only thing missing is a big top and we could open our very own circus. 

       

 So as the night wore on we found ourselves at Starbucks sipping on a tall skinny vanilla steamer, which made us cooler just being there and being able to order something with so many syllables. we gushed over pictures of each others kids and embraced the fact that this is not "our season" but another season that we love just as much. 

and just to point out that we still got it, we shut the club down yo!

 and by club i mean starbucks and by shut it down, i mean they close at 10, so they kicked us out!

it was way past our bed time anyway!