The Festival of Lights.....

Tuachan has their Festival of lights going on from now until Christmas, it is so beautiful and so much fun for the kids i would definitely recommend you to take your little ones to see all the lights, music, train rides, horse and carriage rides, and yes even Santa is there! they keep it pretty cheep and you get a lot for what you pay. If you show up and do a horse and carriage ride you will even see me, im doing the photographs for the carriage rides....you pay $15 for a family, and $10 a couple and you get a holiday photo in the carriage to go with it. so come out and make sure you stop and say hi to me!!

Our TuRkEy day......

Well another holiday down and gone, now Christmas is really coming fast...yikes.
We eat so much food this year, we went to my Nana's house and she always makes the BEST food, then we headed over to nicks parents house for more food. This year i made the desserts...and i would have to say they were yummy...i made scratch pumpkin eggnog pie, pumpkin pie squares, chocolate pudding pie, and chocolate eggnog pie...they were so good!! this year i found the vanilla spice eggnog and I'm so addicted to it already, i can feel the pounds of Christmas already beginning..yuk.
we had a good year and kaylin had so much fun playing with all the kids this time.
Well now its time to start Christmas shopping...and no i wont be going shopping at 4 am this year, I'm staying in bed nice and warm with no crazy rude stupid people around me!!!
Here's a cute Turkey day poem
May your stuffing be tasty...
May your turkey be plump...
May your potato's and gravy never have a lump.
May your yams be delicious
and your pies take the prize,
and may your Thanksgiving Dinner
stay off your thighs!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mommy & Kaylins Getaway.....

This weekend i took kaylin (and my mom went) down to vegas to see my sister becky who flew up there from texas to watch her husband do the fireman competition. well she had all day sunday to hang out so we went down to do a quick visit. I decieded that i wanted to for sure take kaylin to the "shark reef" at mandalaybay hotel, i took nick there for valentines day like a year before we got married and i knew kaylin would just love it! HE DID! Daddy is so sad he couldn't be there to watch all of kaylins reactions (which were so funny) daddy had to go back to colorado for work for a almost two weeks this time so he couldn't go with us.
we walked in and the first thing is the croc, when kaylin finally noticed it he was kinda scared to go up to the glass, he thought it was going to get him, the croc was right up next to the glass too. then we walked through the fish tanks and saw lots of great big fish kaylin was so excited that everywhere he looked there were fish fish and more fish!
Then once we got to the tunnel where you walk through and the fish and sharks are all around you, kaylin walked in a little and was like "wow fishy's" and then i said kaylin look up...and he started to scream, he got a little scared for a second until he saw that the shark and fish were still in a tank and not going to get him, after that second of panic he loved the tunnel and we stayed in it for a long time.
Then we got the pond thing were you can touch the sting rays but of course kaylin didn't want to stick his hand in and touch so he just layed down and watched them all swim by him and barry themselfs in the sand.
we came to the end and its like your in a sunkin ship so they put glass in the floor so you can see the fish swim under you, well kaylin went to walk acrossed it and scream again couse he thought he was going to fall in so aunt becky had to walk over it to show him it was ok.
After the shark reef we went to cesars palace and went shopping and i mean shopping for about 6 hours, ya i was all shopped out...strangly! we found the great BIG toy story and kaylin was in heaven we had to cover all three floors and kaylin just went from toy to toy, he loved all the stuffed animales which were pretty cool i would say, he played on their great big floor piano he ran acrossed it for awhile making music. Then we came to the train station on the 3rd floor and he was in heaven...its the pictures of me and him by the big table thing, they had a whole train railway set up in it and he just loved it! He wasnt leaving the store empty handed so we found him a wood block train that he can take apart and rebuild he played with it all night at the hotel.
then we ate at The CheeseCake Factory, yummy yummy yummy, they had such good desert!
Anyways, i had such a good time and i have some sweet memories with kaylin, i love taking him everywhere i can he is such a great good kid, he never gave me an ounce of trouble and never does, not the drive down nor back, he never cried once, seriously we got blessed to have such a good boy, i know iam kinda bragging right now but you would be so shocked if you ever went anywere with him, he's perfect every time!















yes this is the jack sparrow doll i want santa to bring me!!

My abercombie boyfriend...shhhhh dont tell nick, its a secret!










(beware this is kinda graffic, but it is too funny not to share it with you and i want it for my book when i print this out)

We were walking out of Mandalaybay hotel and they have this wall of all these body parts, i.e. legs, arms, head and butt, and yes boobs, so my sister wanted a pictures by them and kaylin wanted to go with her so she took him and as soon as she stood next to the boobies kaylin grabbed one and said "mine oh mine" yes really this is no joke....so there were lots of people by us and the wall so becky moved cause these other people wanted to take pictures by it and kaylin got so mad that the people were by it he got his mad face on and said "no mine, mine, mine nooooo that mine" and the people took forever so finally they moved and kaylin went back over there and got this BIG smile on his face and put his arm around one and said "oh mine" and every one around just busted up laughing and one lady said "wow that is such a male instinked, and he already has it" and another said "yip he's definitly a male" and lots of other funny comments. i know lots of you out there may think iam a bad mom for letting my boy go by boobs but i really had no idea he was going to do any of that cause he doesnt see that on tv or from us (i didnt think anyways, but i will be for sure watching more carfully what he sees) i sent nick a picture of him doing that to his cell and said "like father like son" "see what your boy had picked up on so now you know we have to be more carful around him in our jestures"..
sorry this was long but i had to remember these moments!


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Our Halloween........

Here are a few pictures of me and kaylin going out trick or treating...this was the first year he went out house to house, the first house was funny cause they were sitting out side passing out their candy and they were all dressed up and kaylin wasn't sure if he wanted to go up to them, he kept looking at me to make sure it was ok. After about 3 house's he got the hang of it and just ran up and knocked on the doors with out his mommy 8(
We had so much fun but we missed our daddy being able to walk around with us but there is always next year! and kaylin even said "trick treat" is was so freakin cute!

Thoughts of Thankfulness......

Today i was sitting around just relaxing looking at some old pictures of kaylin when he was born, I was just thinking as i looked at them how lucky we are to even have him here & healthy with us today. Sometimes i get so caught up in wondering why we haven't gotten pregnant and had another baby yet that i forget what a great miracle we have with us each day. when i started thinking about that i realized that i haven't given much gratitude where it is due for awhile, i just been so caught up in trying for another that we haven't looked at the bigger picture lately of exactly how lucky we are to even have one. we are so lucky to have kaylin with us and if he is the only child i could ever have i would be so thankful for just that. I know that nick and i will have more kids but i just wanted to get this off my chest and put it in writing so when I'm down i can look back and read this, not to mention this is the month of THANKFULNESS right so that also got me thinking and made me want to post something and since kaylin is my life and I'm most thankful for him i posted about him!
I will tell you why we are so lucky to have him since some of you may not know, i will tell you the short version: When we went in for our 4 month appointment my Dr. told us that he had a two vessel cord which is also called SUA (which affects between 0.5% and 7% of pregnancies, it occurs in fewer than 1% of cords) which mean in short that his cord only had one vessel and one artery and one vein, so he would not be getting very much blood, oxygen, and nutrition and he would have to be monitored very close for the rest of the time. He was checked by the specialist every week for fluid count, measurements, weight and any anomalies-which they categorize into these 3 sections: Heart Anomalies, Malformations of the Central Nervous System and Gastrointestinal Tract Abnormalities. Lucky they never found anything in any of the three sections. but it was only a 10% chance that he wouldn't have anything abnormal with him. anyways to skip to the end nick and i wanted to bank his cord blood just in case something did come up and he would have the very best treatment with his one stem cells from his cord, so we took the package to the hospital and the Dr. got it all ready to remove the blood as soon as kaylin was out (they do it before the cord is cut) and the Dr. looked at us as he had the needle in the cord and said "I'm really sorry but i just cant even get a drop of blood out of his cord, there is just nothing in it to get out". he told us after that if the specialist wouldn't have made me go up and get induced right away when he did that one more day maybe hours and kaylin would not have made it (2/3 of SUA babies die before birth). They told us right before they sent us to be induced that kaylin would be just about 4 lbs and would probably have to stay in the hospital for a bit, but he came out 5 lbs and 2 oz and didnt even have to stay in the hospital longer then me, we took him home the next day with us!
Sorry that was still kinda long but that really is the short version, so now you get why we are so very lucky to have him with us healthy and all!!!
WE LOVE YOU KAYLIN!

Tagged.......

I was tagged to post the fourth picture on my computer so here it is....its kaylin last September (2007), when i finally gave into him and let him lick the cake mix of the beaters, he was in heaven and seriously he licked it clean as a whistle!!!
Now i tag....jenna, rayni, and stacy!!