Sorry guys, this post has nothing to do with basketball (march madness has to do with basketball, right??) The past month and a half has been such a crazy whirlwind of events, I feel like I've barely had time to catch my breath, let alone sit down and blog :-/ So here I go, be prepared, I'm catching you up on about 7 weeks worth of activities.....I'll start with the big things, then round things out with some pics of day to day happenings :)
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March 1, 2013 was Kaylie's 3rd birthday! Can you believe it? 3!!! Wow. No more babies in our house, so bittersweet! We started the day with birthday donuts, then it was such a gorgeous warm day we met Melissa and the boys down at the beach to celebrate both Mel's and Kaylie's birthday!! Love that we got a pic of the beautiful birthday girls together :)
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One of Kaylie's gifts was an awesome new backyard playhouse from Grandma, Grandpa & Gigi - both kids absolutely LOVE their new playhouse, what fun! Thanks Grandma, Grandpa & Gigi - and thanks Josh (and Dad) for building it!!
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A few days later we celebrated K's birthday at the park with all our family and friends - such a fun time! I tried my hand once again at decorating a cake with fondant - I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Ballet shoes courtesy of the my talented friend, Heather - I wasn't quite ready to tackle ballet slippers yet :)
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From Top-Bottom, L-R: Kaylie (of course), Cole Kamerlander (18mo), Logan
Wilson (3), Miles Turner (3), Carter Jobin (3), AJ Turner (5), Matthew
(5), Callie Kamerlander (4), Jake Patton (5), Cailin Kamerlander (6),
Aiden Antoine (6), Andrew Patton (5), Aliya Martinez (5) - oh what fun!
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Next up, EASTER! Each year the holidays are more and more exciting, I love watching the kids learn, grow, understand and anticipate the special things more and more. I love that they go to a church and preschool that teaches them the true meaning of Easter, what a blessing. Of course, they're still super excited for the fun treats the easter bunny leaves behind :)
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The preschool had a big easter egg hunt for the kids one day - not sure if you can zoom in on M's face or not, but he has such a look of JOY on his face, he LOVED it! Kaylie enjoyed her marshmallows :)
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Easter morning was spent at our house hunting eggs and finding surprises in their baskets, followed that afternoon with a hunt and dinner with the Blands at my parents house :)
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Next big thing......drumroll please.....we are officially on the hunt, the house hunt that is! We kind of just stumbled into it - it's something we've been thinking about for quite some time, ready to get a place of our own, so we got pre-qualified, talked with a few realtors and the hunt began! This is probably the main reason I haven't kept up on the blog - When not at work, with the kids or sleeping, I'm thinking about, dreaming about and planning our future home....we decided after a few crazy weeks to take a week off - hence the time to blog :) While we have a local realtor for North County, we're primarily looking in the Temecula/Murrieta/Menifee area - we have (lots of) family out there, and the price is right. But we'll see what God has in store, we're not closing any doors just yet! Because of this, we've been going out there ALOT more and have gotten to spend more time with our nieces, which is SUCH a blessing! I am so excited to live closer to them and get to see them all more often - the kids LOVE their cousins, aunts and uncles, there ask us to move out there all the time:
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We got to have dinner with Rudy, Brittany and our adorable niece Emma one night :)
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Simone agreed to watch our crazy kiddos for awhile one afternoon so we could view a few homes in peace :) They had a blast with Shiloh!
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Can't leave out my latest cake pop creation - Darth Vader!
He was a challenge and a half, but I'm happy with how they turned out. I also now know how much I need to charge for my services! An actual business plan might be forming....
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Besides the big events above, here are some other fun things that have happened in the past month or so...
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Josh and I started date nights with the kids - at least once a month, if not twice a month, we will each take one of the kids out on a one on one date - Father/Son, Mother/Daughter, and so on :) First time around I took Kaylie withe me to Rubios and Target - yes, it was a special thing for her, she asks me to go to Target all the time :)
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Matthew and Kaylie are growing up so much! One of the many days we took the bike/scooter out for a ride - they have a BLAST!
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Matthew has really gotten the hang of karate, even finished his first session with his white belt! What's even cuter is that he practices with Kaylie at home :)
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Just because - one afternoon on our way out from preschool, M & K took a seat in the gazebo and M says "Hey Kaylie, lets take a picture like we're picking our noses?" Well why not :)
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A few of K's favorite things right now are to "blow bubbles" (dandelions) and to pop the fuschias by our front door (when you squeeze the little buds they pop, she loves it) - our pretty princess :)
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So that's it for now - don't worry, I won't leave you hanging like that again :)
