Birthday Boy!!

Today, is my sweet sweet baby boy's birthday. He was born at 5:45am, one year ago, today. I never thought I'd see this day so soon. It feels like just a few months have passed since I brought my boy into this world. In a little less than 2 months, I will also have a 5 year old. Where does the time go?! ):

Happy first birthday, to my gorgeous gorgeous little ham, Noah. Mommy and daddy love you, and hope you had a great birthday, because you will have a great one every year :)

birthday preparations!

The birthday boy and his big brother!

Noah's personal little cake :D

Just getting started! He was peeling the sprinkles off and eating them first.

He plopped the whole cake over, lol.

That's more like it.

"Okay mom, I'm done being messy!"

..maybe not. 

End of the night.. matching PJ's!

I helped Cody make Noah a card after dinner (at IHOP!). He was SO excited to give it to him. It reads "Happy birthday Noah" on the front, and "i love you!" on the inside :)

Weekend trip with my hubby (kid-free!)

Well, this past week, my in laws were in. My brother-in-law and soon to be sister-in-law got hubby and I a night in a downtown bed and breakfast while they were in, so that we could have a mini vacay by just ourselves. Lord knows how much we needed that. I really really do love my kids dearly, but it gets really hard never ever getting a break, since we don't have anyone to watch them, especially that we trust.

On Fridays, Nate has a half day at work, so we ate lunch when he got home, and were on our way. We stopped at the bed and breakfast before the movie we planned to see started (21 jump street).

Walking up to the bed and breakfast!

Checking in!

After we checked in, we started walking downtown. We got to our movie ~30 minutes early, so we got some ice cream. I got birthday cake. I love anything cookie/ cake flavored.

We got some popcorn, and soda's, and headed into our movie (after taking cheesy photobooth pictures) We saw 21 jump street, and it was HILARIOUS. I loved it. (Okay, and maybe Channing Tatum, just a little ;P)

After our movie, we were getting kind of freaked out with the beggars and little gangs down there, and I just wasn't comfortable walking around there at night, and still having to walk back to our room, so while there was still a little daylight, we walked back and got our car, and drove around downtown a bit, deciding what we wanted for dinner. 

We decided on trying out the local casino buffet. It was alaskan snow crab night, so it was 25.00 a person. I was very very disappointed. I hardly ate a thing. I had 2 salads and 2 pieces of thin, crappy pizza. 

casino

We drove around for quite a bit after diner, and decided to go back to our room, have some shots, and relax. I had 3 shots, and laid down, and fell asleep very shortly after, lol.

The next morning wasn't super eventful, my allergies were driving me NUTS, so I was absolutely miserable. We planned to take the train up to Santa Fe, get food, and then come back. We never get to ride on the train alone, and we wanted to enjoy the relaxation of it, lol. We did go get food, and came back to do eggs with the kiddos :)

Pictures!!

Hello!

I've been trying to think of blog posts for what seems like forever. I need to just blog, and not think so much of a good post.

Things are well. My in-laws flew in on Friday, which is always nice to have the company. I was supposed to have a maternity photo shoot at 1 that day, but, once again.. I had another person cancel on me. We ended up going to the location with the family, anyways, and walked around. It was at old town. (pictures later, I'm on my laptop, which is awful for editing and uploading photos).

Nate had to go get his Genghis bowl, his very last one, so me, my in-laws, Cody, and Noah went to chick fil a for lunch. I started learning to read a crochet pattern. I got nearly to the end of a hat & wasn't happy with the way it looked, so I ended up unravelling the whole thing. Woops. I did get the hang of it though, so I've been looking at tons of patterns. (I did end up making a SUPER cute owl hat, though ;D)

Saturday, Nate had his final weigh in for the health contest he is doing, and afterwards, we went to Santa Ana Star casino, and went to their buffet. I was definitely impressed, and happy with the selection and quality of the food, which isn't common with me and buffets.

Monday, Nate took off work, and we went up to Santa Fe. It ended up being cold, and windy. Sigh. We went to the mall, got Noah a few outfits, and headed off to lunch. The place we really wanted to go was closed until dinner (5:30, and it was only 3:30 when we got there). So, we headed to Horseman's Haven Cafe, where Nate had went with his work before, and got lunch there. I got green chile, and it was ridiculously hot, almost ridiculous to eat. We headed home after, and just relaxed.

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