Before I sat down to write this I looked at everyone's blog and see that there is no one healthy out there. I am happy to say we are all healthy, I am sure not for long. There isn't anyone that I know that doesn't have someone in their family that is sick. I keep thinking to myself to hurry up get to the food store, refill the perscriptions, stock up on the cold medicines, return movies and library books. Once one of us gets it that means were all in the house for about 3 weeks til it passes through us all.
Before I forget I have a prayer request. There is a women who's son that is 14, and he will be undergoing his 4th open heart surgery. As many of us our mothers we can only imagine the pain and worry this mother is experiencing. If you could please keep them and their families in your prayers. His name is Dylan. Thank you.
On to our past week. It was a very busy week. Getting ready for Traci's baby shower, tyler had two birthday parties, both at pump it up. After one of his parties he spent the night and they were up til 2am. I don't know the last time I saw 2 am. They had a blast though.
Traci's shower was great. We had a great turn out, so many of her family and friends were able to share this special day with her. Here are a few pictures of the day.Don't knock the slideshow its my first one:)

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Superbowl Sunday

We had so much fun superbowl Sunday. We had some friends over and a ton of food. So my favorite part of the superbowl are the commercials. Of course I did not get to see very many but my favorite was the talking stain. The kids all played so nicely together. Except tyler was a little upset because God told Tyler he was to play with everyone the only problem was that girls didn't get that same message. They wanted nothing to do with the boys, poor tyler:) .

John made his homemade chocolate cake. So amazing, thank you john for making that.

D.J. and Jordan

Tyler and Andy

Jen and Nanita TRYING to take a picture

Laughing at Julie who is trying to take the picture and is knovked over by a child on a toy.

Carson and his Auntie.

Enjoying our wonderful dessert.

What a great day!

EXCITING NEWS EVERYONE

Guess what band is getting back together?!? NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK baby. I am so excited and need to find someone to go the concert with me. I was the biggest new kids fan. Come on ladies ( and John) who's with me, who wants to go:-)

Bowling Fun

On Friday night we took the boys bowling for the first time, and they loved it. Chase is very good at bowling on the wii. In fact, I can't beat him. He will bowl anywhere from a 180-200. They had no idea where we were taking them. They thought we were just going to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa. They were so excited, they had their own balls, and shoes.
I was shocked at the price. What happened to when shoes were a dollar, now they are $4.00. I just aged my self there. ( I can say that now being thirty :-)

Grandma was there too she helped chase Carson, Thank you Grandma!!

Carson even tried to bowl with the boys. Anything the boys do Carson wants to do.

Here's the men competing. Don't tell Greg but chase almost beat him :-)

Then there was Traci and me just sitting around looking pretty, pretty tired :)

As most of you all know Traci and Steve are expecting their first baby girl in March (20 th). So here is a belly shot.

Fun in the snow

First I must send out a big thank you to all who made my 30th the best birthday yet. Thank you for the cards with such loving words, the gifts, the lunches, the coffees (and breakfast sandwiches) , the dinners, the flowers, the surprises. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I love each and everyone of you so much.

Oh, and before I forget Chris got me a PINK BEACH CRUISER ( its a bike) and the cutest bike ever. I will post pictures of it, and me on it. Soon, I promise.

So this past weekend we got away with some of our good friends, the Wiggins, which is always a treat. We went up to Shaver Lake to play in the snow.

Snowball fight between Chris, Adrian, Tyler , William, and Chase.

Chase and Will eating snow. This was Chase's favorite part, all the snow he could eat. :)

Heather and Aubrey, are they not one of the most beautiful mother and daughters ever.

We had a great time, losing only one sled to the water. Chris and Adrian did a great job catching everyone before we landed in the water. I saved one of the best pictures for last, I promised Aubrey I'd post it. So this is for you Aub!

I AM TURNING 30 TODAY ( the 10th) Up until about an hour ago I was sad that I was turning 30. I decided to go through my old pictures of my life up to this point. I have made A LOT of mistakes but you know what if I had it to do all over again I wouldn't change a thing. I love who I am and where I am and I wouldn't be those things if I hadn't.

So as I looked back I was filled with so much joy at all the blessings in my life. Friends, family, the things I have gotten to do and I am ONLY 30. I still have so much living to do and I have already done so much. I just want to share with you some of my highlights in my life.

Where do i begin? I married an amazing man who continues to love on me in ways that blow my mind. Chris loves to surprise me. He has had a limo waiting for me to take me to dinner on my birthday, taken just the two of us to Hawaii, threw me a surprise party for my 29th birthday with my good friends, the list goes on and on. He is an amazing father and husband. thank you Chris for all you do for me. Thank you for your hard work and devotion to our family. Here are some of my favorite pics of us.

Look Chris with hair. Remember those days?



Here is one and only one pic of me pregnant. As much as being pregnant was a blessing I am glad those days are behind me:)

I have three busy boys that fill my life with more love and laughter than I ever imagined. They just love on me in ways that just melt my heart.

My favorite place on earth is Pismo Beach. Here is a picture of the boys and me one morning we got up early and went down to beach to collect sand dollars. It was so early , we were still in our pjs :)

Being on the beach with all my boys (that includes Chris) is considered my perfect day.

Family and friends, what would I do without them.
Thank you all for all your love and support through the years, even when it wasn't easy. I love you all so much. ( my niece Hailey is not pictured, i couldn't find one :( love you Hailey girl )

FRIENDS................. I have some of the best friends a girl could ask for, old and new.
I don't have pictures of all of you that have touched my life in such a special way. Here are a few and if your reading this and there is not one of you i am so sorry please don't feel your not important to me because you are. I may not have one of the two of us ( we need to do something about that) or couldn't find one.

One of the scariest things I have gone through in all my thirty years was when Carson was born. All I could do was pray and trust in God. God gave our family an amazing strength and we got through it. We were told just a couple of months ago that the hole in his heart has closed. PRAISE GOD!

So as you can see I have nothing to be sad about, only thankful. Thiry is not so bad . In fact I can't wait for the next thirty years. Thank you all for blessing my life. It's been an amazing journey and I can't wait to see whats next.

I am so sorry its been so hard "to keep up with the jones' " Any of you that have wondered why they didn't receive a Christmas card its because we didn't send one. I am so sorry. I don't know about anyone else but this Christmas season Nanita has been exhausted. I always have two trees up, my pretty one and the boys. All we have is the boys tree up. They did a beautiful job decorating it.


I only made one kind of Christmas cookie. Well I think you get the point. I am going to let this be my way of telling you that I hope you all had an amazing Christmas. If your reading this then know how blessed we feel to have your friendship and we love you all and hope to get together soon. If your a family member ( I am sorry) know how lucky we are to have so many people who love us. We love you all so much and treasure our time with each of you.

Let me recap the year for you especially for my family and friends back east. I miss you all deeply.

TYLER- Tyler began kindergarten this fall :( We received an amazing teacher, Mrs lamb. We are truly thankful for her. Its been so neat watching him grow he is beginning to spell and read words. Most days he enjoys school, he has lots of friends and even his little girlfriend. He played soccer this fall and was really good. ( I guess I am a little biased) I definitely think he got his daddy's abilities in soccer. Thankfully not mine. ( right mom?)
He has brought so much joy to our family. He has a heart that is so big and caring, he often brings tears to my eyes. His smile and the twinkle in his eyes is enough to make your heart melt.

CHASE- Chase began preschool this year. He did great, not one day of tears. He also has two great teachers, Mrs Jackie and Mrs. Ruth. He continues to amaze us how much he is learning and loves to learn. When Tyler does homework he loves to join in. He has made a friend that he just loves. His name is Tanner and loves having play dates with him. He as well played soccer. This age is so fun to watch, they all just run together. He as well brings amazing joy to our family. He has such spunk. He has the funniest facial expressions. He enjoys trying to take care of Carson, although Carson wants no part of that.

CARSON- Well Carson's biggest news for the year is that the hole in his heart has closed. Praise God!!! Thank you all for your prayers for him. His biggest achievement you ask. HE IS FINALLY WALKING and crying is less and less everyday. He took his first steps at 17 months. He did not play soccer this, but he was boys' biggest fan. I must tell you though that he would walk around the field kicking a soccer ball. He was at all of their games cheering on the side lines. This little man brings a lot of laughter to our family. He is going to be our clown for sure. When he doesn't want to do something he lets you know for sure. He is beginning to talk, not a huge vocabulary but he is saying some things and mimics what you ask him to. He is already trying to join in with the boys. Loves to try and wrestle with them. There is nothing that they do that he definitely doesn't try to do.

CHRIS- I think the most exciting thing that happened to chris this year is I am not pregnant and we didn't have a baby. Our boys are our biggest blessing in life, but were done. ( for now) He continues to sell realestate, and still loving it. i must thank you all for your support whether it was through buying or selling your house through Chris ,or even if you referred someone.
Chris has begun a new adventure in life. If any of you know Chris you that he has a very entrapeneur kind of mind. I am glad he is able to this do this. He and a friend are putting out a new magazine called HRN, home refferal network. keep your eyes open for it. Or give him a call and let him tell you about. We are all so proud of him.
I am so thankful to Chris, he works so hard so that I can stay home and eat bon bons, and watch my soaps:) Seriously, he does amazing job providing for our family so I can do what I want and thats to be home with our three little boys. Chris is still enjoying playing basketball, and is still quite good. He had fun helping coach tyler's soccer team.