Here are the much asked for belly shots...here I am at 25 weeks.

(photos by my hubby Brad :)

This will probably be the last of preggo posts :) From here on out I just torpedo... haha!

Happy Birthday Kammy!

We love you!

what a blessing you are in our lives!

You are the BEST big sister

You are the BEST singer

Your are the BEST snuggler

You are the BEST little helper

the list goes on...

Some funny things said by Kammy (those who know her know this is definitely a daily thing)

*At dinner the other night (yes, she is a girl and she burps...sorry if you don't like that ;) she let out a nice burp and looked at Brad and I and said "You recognize that!" while jerking her head side to side. What?! haha!

*Yesterday, she said "mom, I can help you clean...cuz that's what friends are for, they help each other out!" Awww

What do you think?

...the hair of course

I am kind of liking this...

different colors of shirts...PURPLE...ewwww, I hated it before, now I own a purple shirt!

Eye shadow...fun stuff

Red lips! ohhhhh yeah!

And I can wash my hair every other day now (don't ask why...)

it's late I know, just finished my nightly session of editing ;)

Check out this super cute family!

Click ME.

The kids are sleeping...

Our tree is up...

Cheese balls are made and chillin' in the fridge...

Our turkey is soaking in a fabulous brine ;)

I'm exhausted and going to bed!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody else feel like this??

(Photo by my daughter Kammy :)

So this is me....CRAZY! all the way until January, then I have a break for a month...and it's back to

well...see pic again ;)tax season, Oh, and Beckett will arrive!

I have lots of pics to edit, Kammy's party to plan and then host, Thanksgiving, all the Christmas festivities, New Years....AHHHHH I LOVE IT!!!

I love the music, the lights, the FOOD, I love gifts (giving of course;) wearing sweaters, drinking hot chocolate at least every other night, the FOOD, socks, slippers, my kids faces when they see the lights and gifts under the tree, I love decorating, I love picking out my tree and watching it be cut down, I love snuggling with Brad...or Budha ;)I love being with my family and all the family get togethers, I love being able to turn on our fireplace, I love baking all the yummy holiday essential goodies, the FOOD...you get the point! But through it all, I am definitely crazy but in a silly way I guess cuz Tis the Season! Enjoy everyone! I look forward to seeing it all unfold on all of your blogs!!

My new fave pic:

See it bigger HERE.

IT'S A...........................................

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Nah, jk!!! It's a....................

BOY!!!!!

We are sooo excited! I must be honest everything inside me thought it would be a girl! (and most of you thought so too, 21 for girl and only 8 for boy...I love surprises!!!)Brad thought it was a girl until when we were in Disneyland he had a dream that it was boy and he had green eyes and we named him Dax.

The name we have picked out is Beckett James, we have the "james" thing going on in our little family

(Bradley James, Jameson, and now this one will also have James in there)

Kammy was pretty disappointed she REALLY wanted a baby sister, but she is "ok" now :)

Thanks for playing the guessing game with us!! Here is another: Brad is kind of liking the whole Dax thing, so just out of curiosity I put a poll up to see which name you all prefer :)

(we will probably choose Beckett because we both really like it, but Dax isn't so bad either)

Today is the big day!

I am soooo excited!

expect a post this evening with the results....

BOY??? or GIRL???

(*don't worry, I will make a few phone calls)

Oh Man...What a weekend!

It all starts Friday morning (Halloween)...

Jameson wakes up at 8:30 so we give him his morning dose of milk and lay him back down (he was still tired)

Our friend Deveren comes over with his daughter Bailey, super cutie, around 11ish I think. Yes, J is still in bed! So noon comes around and J is still sleeping, I decided to go up and make sure he was still breathing....open door, oooh what's that smell??? I see his tummy go up and down...wwhhheewwww...he's breathing! OK, now back to the smell

Puke

Oh man, so I decided to wake him up and pull him out of his curdled milk jammies and crib and stick him into the tub. BUMMER! How could he be sick?? It's Halloween!!

So we thought maybe it was just the milk, the date was fine on it, but you never know. He spit up a little bit one other time during the day, but nothing else. Towards the evening he seemed fine, he had energy, he was laughing and playing with everyone.

So we go on with our trick-or-treating plans. My parents, aunt and uncle, Les and Teddy, Dev and his two siblings, Bailey, Trisha, Fred, and Hannah (another super cutie) all come over for dinner, some good laughs, and trick-or-treating.

Brad and Fred dressed up EMO!!! HILARIOUS!!! Brad in skinny jeans...you had to be there! Black painted finger nails, eye make-up, the hair, the clothes, the pink skull belt buckle!

Good stuff! Kammy had a blast! She decided to be Cinderella because she was Tinker Bell in Disneyland. Then we came back to the house for a break, and she decided to be Jasmine the second time around. I didn't get very many pics of the kids, but the ones I did are on my other camera and the battery is dead :( Jameson liked it too, he would slowly shyly walk up to the door, get his piece of candy and wave goodbye saying "do do" (thank you)

Saturday morning I went to a friends baby shower. When I got home Brad told me that Jameson had puked again. Of course it was all over our nice shag rug in our family room! We had given him more milk that morning of course, so we only gave him diluted juice after that. Now fast forward to 2am (technically Sunday) Brad and I are on a mouse hunt...literally! We have mice! EEK!!! Pest control came out Halloween morning and set a bunch of sticky traps in our garage and a few under my bathroom sink because they had chewed there way in and pooped all over my stuff while we were in Disneyland! Well, we caught 8 just that day!!! Anyways, I'm getting side-tracked...we were watching t.v. and Brad saw one come in our house through the fireplace! We freaked out (mainly me) and we were frantically searching for it until after 2am!! The only thing that stopped us was Kammy walking down the stairs covered in puke! She was sick! Ughhhhh

I gave her a bath and put her in some clean jammies while Brad pulled all her sheets and stuff off her bed (it was EVERYWHERE) so by the time we all got in bed it was close to 4am! Oh man! Our poor Kammy was puking every five minutes in a giant white bowl in our bed. Then 6am rolls around and I make a mad dash for the toilet...yep, my turn! So me and kammy puked ALL DAY Sunday. Poor Jameson and Brad! I must say though, Brad was awesome! He was so much help! He knows that I am such a baby when it comes to puking and he was with me every time, rubbing my back, holding my hair, getting me water! I love you babe! Thank you!

BUT, we are all feeling much better and crossing our fingers that Brad won't get it now!

We're back!

Just Because...

...She's cute!!!

And we can't wait to go to Disneyland!!!

IN THREE DAYS WE WILL BE THERE!

Jameson got a haircut!

He is almost 17 months old and this was his first!
So we kissed his "fuzz" goodbye...

He was soooo good, he sat on Brad the whole time and didn't budge!

TA-DA!!!

I realize I didn't get one of the freakin' back, but it looks like the sides...nice and short.

It's cute though because even though it's short, it still waves! Thanks to their daddy both the kids were blessed with curls ;)

Hey Guys...

Go to the right side of our page and vote on what you think the little peanut in my tummy is going to be! We have an ultrasound November 6th!

Ready, Go!

I saw this here and thought it was neat.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 4 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Guess I'm the klepto now huh Laura :)

Watching Oprah really has my heart in pieces lately.
Have any of you seen the Oprah puppy mill shows?

It just reminds me of how precious these little guys are:

How could you not love a face like that?!

Or that

With baby number three on the way we are also considering adopting puppy #3!!
Are we crazy!??
(stupid question...YES DUH)
but with so many dogs out there in need of homes, we can't justify NOT rescuing one
so we'll see...

Here is Guinness bringing sexy back...

Now he's loving the camera

And Budha was giving me attitude!


I love our dogs! They truly are a part of our family!

Heck...I get more snuggle time with Budha than I do with Brad ;)

*If anybody has been thinking of getting a dog/puppy and could give it a good home,
check out the rescue and spca websites!

Here we are in ghetto-ville a few weeks ago. We went to meet up with tons of people we went to high school with at a sushi restaurant...

Can we ask...WHAT IS EVERYONE OBSESSED WITH SUSHI FOR?????

YUCK!
OK, it's not terrible, but please...
we've tried three times and just don't get the point!
Brad thinks it's just the "in" thing to do...but,
Everyone says it's the restaurant you go to that makes all the difference.
so please tell us, we might give it one more shot...


WHERE IS THE BEST SUSHI JOINT???

Family Holiday Card Mini Sessions

So my Grammie went back home to Massachusetts yesterday :(

We are going to miss her!

We had lots of fun while she was here. We went and did things that even

Brad and I hadn't done before.

We went to South Lake Tahoe and had lots of fun.

Jameson wasn't too sure of the beach and I don't blame him...

That sand was like walking on sand paper!

Talk about a free pedi...

Check out this awesome restaurant we had dinner at! A bit pricey, but at least it was worth it!

The food was AWESOME...except the chowder

And look at this view

It was located right on top of the water!

And here is Kammy with Grammie

(that was a fun one...tongue twister)

Awwww...sweetness! Jameson munching on some Chee"toes" on the way home
And here are some pics from our Half Moon Bay/ San Fran trip (minus the San Fran pics :)


The beach was of course gorgeous!!!

A little chilly, but hey...

Gotta love this one!

And another pretty place to eat...but the food was not as pretty...

It was OK...


Oh yeah, and can't forget this one...


Yes, Brad put the apostraphe in the wrong spot


But you get the point........

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SURPRISE!!!!


We wanted you all to be just as shocked as we were!!!

(this was not planned :)


We figured...#3 we need to spruce it up somehow...





DID IT WORK????

UPDATED

OK, OK, Ok, ok...

I KNOW I have been slackin in the post department

And...

I apologize!!!!

But I have my reasons. My Grammie is here all the way from Massachusetts! She is staying with us until Aug. 23rd

The kids LOVE her!

Not to mention I have been busy with some photo shoots

SEE.

And the craziness of our summer continues...Sigghhhh

I will update my personal blog when I can but until then

Keep checking my photo blog for new posts!!

So, I'll leave you with a picture of my sweet Kammy!

Jameson will have his turn next time (hey...Kammy models for me)

Random Post

Yes, this is EXACTLY what it looks like!

A light in our backyard with bird poop all around it...in a seemingly perfect little circle....

I thought that was so weird!

(Hey...good aim right?)