Back to School 2012

Jay Boo, I can't believe your in kindergarten, little buddy! 

Olivia, 7th grade.  She was not being very cooperative.  Apparently she was more interested in getting to school and seeing her friends than the photo session I had planned.

Zach-amo.  1st grade.  Yah hoo for a different teacher this time around! 
Love you kids, have a great year!  MUAH!

Happy 13th Birthday Olivia!

WHOA!  It's been like forever since I have blogged.  This hiatus was for many reasons...I am not as great of a picture taker as I used to be, I was hoping that being on blog strike would get me a new camera, AND my computer has been super weird since blogger changed it's format.    Unfortunately in the mean time, Zane lost my old phone that had like a year's worth of pics on it.  So, yah that sucks.  Thankfully we just had our computer tuned up and I am ready to blog a little again.  You know, for my fans sake.  All three of you!  :)

So, this was Olivia's birthday party back in September.  I am not much of a birthday party thrower because all 5 of our birthdays are boom, boom, boom, boom and boom.  She talked me into this little low budget movie night. 

I am so thrilled and amazed how sweet Olivia's friends are.  Really couldn't ask for nicer girl's.  And they seemed to sweet to each other. 

I can't believe that right before my eyes my baby girl is turning into a young women.  I will admit as I reflect on the last year my "eyes are sweating" a bit.  If you really know that won't shock you at all. My eyes sweat all of the time.  I love you so much Olivia.  I am so thankful I get to have a daughter.  I am so thankful she is my little bestie! 

Happy 5th Birthday Jacob!

Happy Birthday Jacob!  I found the perfect gift for you!  Love You So Much! 

My Baby is a KINDERGARTNER!!!!

I can't believe my baby is in kindergarten.  Where has the time gone?

Things are very quiet at home with all the kiddos in school. Sometimes too quiet.

I hope you have a great year, little buddy!  Love You!

(The bandaid on Jakes thumb is from meet the teacher night.  In his excitiment, he slammed his thumb in the car door when we got to the school.  His thumb nail fell of a few weeks later.  EWWW!  )

Happy 7th Birthday Zach!

For Zach's birthday he had a special request...French Toast from the Hospital Cafeteria.  That was easy! (and payroll deductable!)  He also picked to have cash rather then gifts so he can get EXACTLY what he wanted!  It was fun seeing him budget his money to get his favorite things!

Happy Birthday Little buddy!  Love You!  You make my life so fun!

Summer Fun!

Look who got to be a SUPER AWESOME swimmer this year.  Jacob!  Yay hooo!  All of my kids swim.  I can now rest easy! 

DJ Zach mixin' it up!  AKA Mom's favorite Dance move that Zach does.  Last week when Zach was pouting he said "Well then I am never going to do your favorite dance move again, Mom!" Still laughing!

Awwww.  Love them!

Best Buddies

I LOVE how they LOVE to play together. So thankful my boys get along so well.

He L-O-V-E-S San Diego's Silver Man!

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2012

The Thing's Mom's Do...

I can't believe my baby is this old. Oh, how time flies!
Jacob and Mrs. Ramos. I am really going to miss her. She really cared about Jacob. It was so sweet as she said a final goodbye to Jacob she told him she loved him. She says she is going to go visit him in kindergarten. How sweet. That made my eyeballs sweat a little.

Jacob's last preschool dance party .
I can't believe how fast my kids are growing up. My baby. A preschool graduate. UNBELIEVEABLE!

A am a little relieved this year is over. It has been the roughest of my life so far. Having Zach in half day morning kindergarten and Jake in half day afternoon preschool has been, well, challenging. This coupled with working nights has made this year absolutly chaotic. Many days when I shoulda been sleeping I would have to peel myself out of bed after 2 hours, go pick up Zach, get Jake from the babysitter, take them home and quickly get Jake fed and ready for school, take Jake to school, take Zach to co-op and try to get another hour or two of sleep before I have to do the pick up. There were so many days this year that I had to make myself function on 3-4 hours of sleep. My body no likey this at all. This explains why I keep getting sick.

This sleep deprivation I am sure is making me craky. It has also made me have several close calls driving home from work. I know I was being watched over on many of my drives home. It is miraculous to me that I survived without injuring myself or anyone else.

To rub salt into my sleep deprived wounds a co-worker of mine took some ridiculous pictures of me falling asleep whilst charting (I haven't seem them but I hear they are hysterical) and showed them to pretty much all of my co-workers. There is no feeling like the one you get when everyone is laughing at you. If I was in a better, more rested frame of mind I might have been able to laugh with everyone. But I am not well rested. I would like all of the people that got a good chuckle at that to try functioning on my schedule for one week. We will see who is laughing then.

Next year, oh gloriuos next year. All three kids in full day school. My immune system is going to like this!

Thank You Pinterest!

Thanks to Pinterest I may never need to be creative again!

Olivia wrote a nice thank you note to each of her teachers telling them that they taught her so much and how each one was a positive influence in her life. Love her!

The best of them. And the worst.

But not the very worst. Those must be burned.

All of my kiddos cousins.

The originals.

The cousins. With Jake smiling.

Um, this must be totally photo-shopped. Unless there is a halo of light surrounding my boys? Wonder what was wrong with the background in the original? WEIRD!

I like to call this one "ABS OF STEEL".
I don't blame you little buddy. If my tummy was this flat I would do the very same thing in our family photos.

I think Jake is about to puke in this picture. I asked him why he made this face and he said he is about to fall.

I hate family pictures. After looking at these I hate them all of the more. There was 350 pictures on the disk. There is an unusual small amount of pictures of my family. I think most of them didn't even make the cut to make it to the disk. The three of my family that made the cut, well, I find them all atrocious. Maybe someday I will cherish these pics. Maybe when I am fatter and older I just may find them completely awesome.

Maybe.