Happy 1st Birthday!

Here You are on your birthday, waiting to enter into the world.

Then you arrived, and it was love at first sight.

You were so small! Monny and Daddy had forgotten what it was like to hold someone so small.

Mommy rubbed off all your hair in an attempt to get rid of cradle cap. You like like a little old man here. But still cute!

Then you started to get bigger...

and Bigger...(you crawled too early for mommy!

Christmas came

and went...January six months

THen you were standing

and crusiong around holding on to everything

discovered candy on Easter

then Disneyland

and walking at 10 months!

Suddenly you weren't my baby anymore

You say its my birthday?

No wait.. its not my birthday...it's Adrian's. His birthday is on Saturday mine is not for another month. So in honor of his big day he got ME a present. OK OK its an early birthday present. I got a new lens for my camera. A macro lens! here are the few odds and ends from playing with it today.

A cute picture of my girl! Those eyes just kill me!

 

The Flowers growing on my back step

Lily picked some...i swear I washed her dirty little hands after we were done playing outside.

Flowers from my front yard

and...

this speck was hanging on my screen door. I guess it wasn't really a speck.

So these are the puppies!

We have seriously been considering getting a puppy. I have been swearing to anyone who has asked me in the last couple months that we ARE NOT getting a dog. And if we were it WOULD NOT be a PUPPY.I have said that we cannot posibly have the time for a puppy, they are TOO much work, more work than an infant even.

   That being said, my mom has a litter or Border Collie Puppies. They are cute and cuddly, look like little panda bears, and in general are pretty smart and easy to train. Adrian saw them when were over at my parnets and suggested that we could get one. So I have been weighing the pros and the cons and even with all the cons I think We are REALLY going to get one.

I love my kids

They make me smile and laugh so much. We did a suprise photo shoot for Fathers day so I could give Adrian new pictures of the kids and me to take to work. Here are a few of my favorites.

Why I Love Summer

Climbing Trees

Running through the grass and warm sun

Posing for mommy"s camera

Walking in your bare feet

Sidewalk Chalk

Pictures Anyone?

So my Sister-in-law Nicole, and my niece Addie, came over to play with us last week. I got out my camera to capture a few images of the afternoon. I tried a couple of group shots...

And then decided that individuals might come out better.

My Lily

"Diddle"

And Addeline. So I think I might have a future in Soccer portraits...

P.S. If you want me to practice taking pictures of your kids. I would love too. I'm trying to learn how to use my camera and am looking for test subjects.

May has been busy!

First it was my Moms birthday:

 

Then I went off to Washington DC with the nurses union for a conference, where I did some picketing at a local hospital, marched on Washington to the capitol in a rally for nurses and healthcare reform. We were then treated and various stages in the three days I was there to speakers like the U.S. Secretary of Labor, the president of the ALFO-CIO, Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, and Bernie Sanders (the socialist.) Wow did I ever feel like a fish out of water.

Then my little brother-in-law had his First Communion. It was mostly in Spanish and I had to keep asking Adrian what was going on. He said "I don't know. I haven't been Catholic in a really long time!" One of Adrian's uncles came up from Mexico and he made 50 llbs of Carnitas in the traditional way.

Ryan turned 10 months:

Then Scott and Aunt Pat had Birthdays. Grandpa had a birthday, and finally William graduated High school from my old Alma Mater CHS. TEN YEARS after I did. Oh and he graduated in the top 10% of his class and received a four year $32,000 scholarship to Southern Virginia University. Awesome! Well that about sums it up!

Happy Mother's Day

It's been a busy weekend. My mom turned the big 5-0 and it was also mothers day weekend. I have to say that I love my mom. We sometimes have our differences, (like all mothers and daughters do) but I have learned everything I know about faith,honesty,perseverance, love and most of all how to be a Mother. Thanks Mom for all that you do.

Disneyland!

We to snuck away to the magical Kingdom on a family adventure. I have to say the kids were real troopers. They did amazing even when we spent all day in the Park and they napped in their strollers. We had so much fun! The best part was watching Lily meet the charchters . She thought they were so real. She had an autograph book that had all the princessess on it. She would show each princess her picture! It was really cute. The parades were amazing too. Lily and Ryan would wave at all of their "friends!" We are ready to go back again already!