Tired boy!

Jackson likes his nap! But when Emma has preschool, I have to push that nap back an hour. One day while eating lunch, Jack fell asleep. I've never had a child do that before. It was pretty funny so I took many, many pictures!

 Must eat nilla wafers

 YAWN!

ASLEEP!

My birthday...lots of pictures!

I had a birthday last week and it was AWESOME!

The day started off just me and my two babies!

Jackson

And Emma 

                   While Emma colored, Jackson made a mess out of anything he could get his hands on

                                We started off the day listening to the Disney channel on Pandora!

 That got me in the mood to watch Peter Pan. So after Jackson went down for a nap, Emma and I snuggled together to watch it!

 "Poor Nana!"

                      After the movie, I put a bunch of new games and books on my kindle. We read and read and read, then Emma played some of the new games.

                                         Jackson woke up and is just oh so sweet in this picture!

                                                   Sweet picture of mommy and baby boy!

                                      He decided he wanted to do his hair with Emma's hair dryer.

                                                      Pretty Princess Emma played dress-up!

        I tried to get another picture of me and Jackson. He just reaches for the camera, but it's so cute!

                           After lunch, I turned on more Pandora. This time, Keith Urban radio!

                              Packages came and Emma loved to pop all the filler stuff! It was fun, loud, but fun!

                     Then this kid came home from school. I missed him so I was happy to see him.

                   Within 5 minutes, this handsome guy came home too! With a BIG box for ME!
                                                       (Awesome canisters for my kitchen.)

                                            My family sat on the couch to relax and I took their picture!

                                                                      Ethan read!

                                                                Emma drew on a balloon!

                                                    Mike and Jackson played and snuggled!

We got a babysitter so I could go to dinner to my favorite resturant, Los Hermanos,with some of my favorite people.

(I had so much fun, I forgot to take pictures.)

Goings on

I have a ton of fun pictures and don't want to do a million and a half posts so I'll roll them all into one!

Ethan and best pal, Gavin, have twinner shirts. Star Wars Storm Troopers, and one day, they showed up at school in their twinner shirts. Luckily, they are in first grade so it wasn't embarrassing, it was COOL!

 In an attempt to corral Jackson, I put him, his blanket, his pillow pet, and one of his many monkies in the

laundry basket.

(It didn't work very well!)

Emma had a ROUGH day a couple of weeks ago so I gave her the special red plate and a flute with sparking apple juice for dinner! I think it helped her feel better.

Mike has a customer that sells really cool stuff and one day on a location visit, they had these cool hats for CHEAP, so he bought one of Emma and one for Jackson. (Not quite awesome for a 7 year old, so Ethan didn't get one.)

Jackson LOVES this toy and walks around all day with it and is so stinking cute with it that I have to take as many pictures as my memory card will hold!

Jackson got a new carseat and the kids wanted to play with the box so I let them. They drew on it, and played in it until it fell apart and until kids were getting hurt because kids were being too silly.
The liked to jump on Mike while he was in the box!

 Emma in the silly hat Mike bought me when we were dating!

 Emma and Ethan being....silly...as always!

 Jackson wearing Mike's silly hat that matches the silly hat Mike bought me!

 One of the drawings Ethan drew on the carseat box. It's a ship in the area that says "shipping label"! What a clever kid.

 Emma bought a pretty Rapunzel doll with some money she got for Christmas and here she is!

 Emma has taken up dancing lately and here she is in her pretty dance clothes!

 I just can't get enough of her pretty face, even if this picture is a bit blurry!

 More ballet clothes...so pretty, and silly!



ONE!!

I figured out how to post pictures now!!

Jackson had a GREAT birthday.

He was so excited when he woke up and saw all the balloons all over the house!

 Present time was fun!

Even after Christmas, he still had a time figuring out the whole ripping paper thing!

 He LOVES his new monkey book though

 I can't tell if he loves the stuffed giggly thing or his daddy the most!

 He got a train and likes it, despite what this picture is saying!

 Every birthday, all three kids get a new shirt...to help with no one feeling left out!

The birthday shirts!

 Jackson wasn't quite sure what to think of the cake

 Still a little confused

 All it took was Dad cutting it up and he dug right in!

 Woohoo! Birthday CAKE!!!

 After making a mess of himself, he got cleaned up and put on his new warm jammies and played with his awesome new walking toy, which he LOVES!!!

I am thrilled beyond thinking to have Jackson in our family and that I get to be his mommy. He is so happy, even when he's sick. He'll cough and cough and then SMILE! He smiles through the ear infections too. He lights up a room when he enters it and makes everyone around him smile and be happy, including ME!