Sonny Turns 3!!!

Sonny had a Cars themed birthday party! He wanted a cars cake and cars jumpy house so that's what he got. Since he's only turning 3 (which feels like he should be turning 4) he doesn't have any friends yet...so it was just family. He got lots of great presents and had a great time with his sister in the jumpy house all day! :)

He got this cars book from Papa Mike and Gramma Sush along with a coloring book!

He got this cool Cars laptop from Uncle Chris!

Fun in the jumpy house!

Alexya's best friend, Sara stopped by to drop off a gift for Sonny. Sonny has a major crush on Sara and it was so cute seeing his reaction to her surprise visit!...already having crushes on his sister's friends! :)

Thank you everyone for your calls, cards and gifts! Sonny had a great birthday!! He's already planning his next one...seriously!

They are both wearing Sonny's new jammas...crazy how close in size they are!

Candice's 30th!

We didn't make it to the party, but we went to the dinner which was great! We got to see everyone dressed up in their 20's attire and Sonny was a little nervous with everyone except Papa Mike. Alexya was in heaven!!!

more x-mas 2011

New jammies from Papa Mike and Grama Sush! Sonny's Woody jammas are way faded now since I wash them whenever I can get them off him...then he puts them right back on!

My Chica pretending to drink her coffee and looking like a cutie pie! love. She is getting very good at her school work, spelling reading and math now. I'm just glad she's so into it because it makes it fun for me to teach her! I also started volunteering once a week at her school to do PE and it is SO much fun!

Kenobi + Gia = Love

Grandma reading bedtime stories...well, everyone reading stories to Grandma at bedtime. ;)

Riley and Alexya playing horses...ahhhh memories...

Chris, Riley, Sonny and Alexya...and Kenobi.

Look out! Jedi Santino is ready to battle.

Aunt Erica picking up the kids and running around with them...I don't know who had more fun, the kids or her.

...his 1st motorcyle.

Gabbi!!!!

Christmas Morning Madness!

Click This! to see Alexya's Christmas Song!

If you click the Title of this post it will take you to my website that has the video of Alexya singing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" in her Kindergarten Christmas Show!

Merry Christmas!!!

Our beautiful Christmas Kids! They wanted to try on their new holiday outfits...since we were decorating the Christmas Tree (obviously, duh! isn't that what you're supposed to do??!! ;)) LOL!

Alexya (5yrs) and Santino (one month away from 3yrs)

A handsome Santino!

Our Christmas Tree! (professionally decorated and ornaments donated by Mimi!)...actually, now that I'm looking at this picture closely...I don't think it was finished yet! I'll put up a finished pic ASAP!

Alexya's Kindergarten class and 2 other Kindergarten classes had a Christmas Song evening at her school. All the little munchkins got on stage and performed classic Christmas songs for Parents and Family. Alexya was practicing for 3 weeks (running around the Christmas tree singing her songs). I asked her the night of the show if she wanted to practice and she said, "no mom, I already know all the words." She had the cutest expression on her face as she proudly belted out all the words. I think her voice was one of the loudest actually! I'm trying to put up a video I took... hopefully I'll figure it out cause it's really cute!

Thank you for the beautiful dress Papa Mike & Grandma Sush!

Thank you for the beautiful coat Aunt Stacy & Cousin Riley!

Thank you for coming & the beautiful shoes (you can't see) Mimi & Papa!

After the show....A very proud-of-herself and beautiful Alexya! :)

Alexya Turns 5!

Happy Thanksgiving from Alexya & Santino!

Alexya had a Birthday Party at our house this year (since we finally have a house big enough to have people over) and we invited girls from her Kindergarten class to come. We ended up having about 10 girls from her class come over to celebrate her turning 5, Toy Story Style! She wanted a Toy Story (Jessie) Jumpy house-which we had for the whole day! Sonny and Lexy were out jumping starting at 10am in the freezing cold....having so much fun!

We had a Toy Story (Jessie) Birthday Cake (I couldn't find one anywhere...so I just ordered a plain/simple cake from Safeway and bought the little Toy Story figures at the Disney Store and put them on top. It was sooooo good! You can see the girls eating outside on the deck (including little Zoey who was keeping up with all the big girls!--love love love her!)

love love love cake!

Present Time!!!!

Ok, so present time started out very organized with all the presents on a small table behind Alexya and all her friends sitting well-mannered on the couches watching her......

.....and then.....

present time turned into a football huddle of girls slowly, but steadily closing in on Alexya as she furiously opened presents as fast as possible! If she was too slow, the present would be opened by helpful hands, not too far away. It was insanely intense, but magically, there were no fights or crying and everyone got an individual "thank you" and hug from Alexya. :)

After all the jumping, and presents and cake, the girls returned to the jumpy house for a game of "Alexya Says" and she had them all obeying her orders before heading home.

Overall, it was crazy with all the girls and parents, but it went fast and was organized so it was alot of fun! Robert asked if we could wait a "long time" before having another party like this one. I told him sure...he has a whole year until the next one! ;)

Oh, and by the way, if you're reading this and wondering why you didn't get a Christmas Card from us this year...it's because I just can't do them this year. Even with all the fun and distractions and moving forward with life, I just can't send out a card with my family's picture on it because it feels like someone is missing.

We love and miss you Francisco and you are with us in our hearts at Christmas and always. xoxo

Happy Halloween 2011!

Halloween was so great this year because we finally LIVE in the neighborhood that we always go trick-or-treating in!!! We got to have fun in a totally decorated, safe, fun neighborhood and meet our new neighbors at the same time. Alexya actually found out that we live 4 houses down from a girl in her class and so of course we ended up all trick-or-treating together! We also found out that another classmate (a boy) lives across the street and one house over. It's so great that we get to live close to her new friends. :)

Alexya (Jessie), Sonny (Woody) & Kara (Cinderella)

Trick-or-Treating Cousins!

I dressed up as "Jessie's Mommy" :)

The kids fingerpainted their pumpkins. Alexya went for the rainbow/smiley face approach....Sonny went for the black all over style....does this mean anything???? You tell me. ;)

Happy with his art work!

I LOVE this picture! (can you tell they're related? LOL!)