Peach Picking!

We decided to head out to the peach orchard this morning to go peach picking with the kids. This was a hit--Trey picked so many peaches and kept counting them all and putting them in his bag--Boston literally ate his way through the orchard eating about 5 while we were still picking, and Lola just loved being outside and also got to experience her 1st peach:) Mark also got quite into this whole thing as well lol. We picked a grand total of 14 pounds!! Of course there was a festival going on across from the orchard so we went there to grab some lunch and let the kids ride the ponies.

1st up was some homemade peach cobbler--Paula Dean Style--YUMMY!!!!!

Next up is some jam, and then I think we will also try grilling them with dinner this week!!!

Toy Story on Ice

A few months back a bunch of our friends bought tickets to all take our kids to Toy Story on Ice--it was AWESOME and the boys were in AWE!! The seats were pretty low so it kept their attention the full 2 hours! We were suppose to kidnap Daddy from work for a little bit to join us, but of course it was a busy week so he couldn't go so we kidnapped Poppie from his work instead:) I highly recommend the show if your looking for something to do...

The Army men were for sure the FAVORITE act
The effects/stunts even impressed me:)

Trey & Presley




Boston stood like this 80% of the time in awe
Those were all Jazzercise Barbies lol
See those slushies--50.00 for those 4--I am dead serious:)

New Years Eve...

This pretty much sums up our New Years Night:) Mac & Cheese dinner for the boys & then I built that little train track city and we played for quite awhile:) It was extremely laid back and after the boys went to bed by 8 Mark went and picked us up dinner and we ate in peace, drank champagne, and watched a movie all while being in pajamas--it was perfection! Honestly as I sit here and ponder about the upcoming year all I can think about is buying our new house & going on our little trip to NY in April:)--I CAN NOT wait to move and I think pinterest has made it worse than it would have been lol...seriously I have so many home projects because of pinterest that I want to start on, but I will try to live "in the moment" until we get those keys this year:) Happy New Years!!

Family Photos 2011

So I have had this "idea" in my head for awhile, and decided since I was not pregnant and didn't have a newborn to deal with this would be the year to try it out--I wanted to set up a king size wrought iron bed outside and read to the boys and have a pillow fight lol. Luckily I married the most amazing man ever who lets me ONLY use the creative side of my brain and not the logical (at least that is what he tells me lol)so he was down for my set up! Of course the day we had scheduled for months it started to rain on us as we drove to our {1st destination} so midway we turned around and had the photographer turn around to head out to another part of the valley to {location #2} well it just so happened that was Indian land which we did not find out til my bed was practically all set up and the Indian police showed up lol so I made a call to Ocotillo Golf course, which thankfully I give them enough business that they were down with being my {location #3} so down came the bed again and off to Ocotillo it was where Mark and the fabulous photographer re-put the bed together right on the course in front of a lake! Luckily we had just bought Rio the movie so this whole time the boys watched it 2x back to back lol and really didn't make a peep! I have to say that it was all worth it because I LOVE the pictures and can not wait to pick some and put them on canvas and hang them up in a cluster in our new house!!! So here are some of them, but there were just too many to pick from to put them all up--thanks again Radiant Photography--I am lucky enough to work with this amazing team on my weddings, and I just can not tell you how AMAZING their pictures are!!!
Love him!!!
{LOVE} this one of Trey and Mark
The boys reading The very Quiet Cricket
Pillow fight time



And {LOVE} this one of Bosty and Mark






Love his sweet face in this picture--he is still my baby lol
another favorite!
Reading Peter Pan--this is one of my FAVORITES!!!

feathers were EVERYWHERE lol