Prestons 1st Party!...

We celebrated my babys 1st birthday today. We had his party at the park down our street and we had a blast!

This is Preston at the beginning of the party...he LOVES pushing that lion around! Today has been a crazy one and because of that preston missed his 2nd nap and by the time the party was starting he was getting cranky. But luckily he wasnt too bad. He ended up having a great time. :)

These are all our friends and family who came to the party! We are so lucky to have so many close people in our lives who we can celebrate lifes greatest moments with. We had a ton of people show up and it was a TON of fun! I wasnt able to get a picture of everyone who came but i tried! When Preston looks back these pictures he better know that he is one very loved little boy!

This is the only picture i got of Prestons birthday banner! Itsnt it cute!?

I love cake pictures! He was so funny digging into that yummy chocolate cake! At first he stuck his fingers in it and studied it for a minute...i dont think he understood why he was allowed to get into something so messy haha! Well spencer gave him a bite and then that cake was done for! He dug in like nobodys business!

He got that cake EVERYWHERE! He even liked off his hands and fingers when i took the cake away! haha boy do I LOVE this sweet boy!

And here are a few of him opening some presents. I cant believe how many toys this little man has. Its crazy how spoiled he is. But it was so sweet of everyone to think of him and bring him something. He loves all of his gifts and im so thankful for so much support. Hes been able to have so much more than what were able to give him.

Well its safe to say that this party was a success and im actually relieved the day is over. I had a ton of fun but it was a LOT of work as well. Im so very thankful for my sister corinne, I couldnt have done it without her. Shes seriously the best sister and friend i could have ever asked for!

Tonight...

Have I told you Preston loves dogs?

Well he does...SO MUCH. Did I also mention that im a mean mom and I dont know if I will EVER buy a dog? I dont mind visiting dogs but theres no way id want or would take care of one. Im glad I have time to think of a great way to say no when this poor little boy asks me for a puppy.

Well tonight we went and played some Wii with Danny and Alyssa...I have to say that me and alyssa pretty much rock at level 1! haha! It was fun...I love hanging out with them.

Is this my son? haha totally doesnt even look like him...funny what gravity will do. He insisted on being upside down and finding Aunt Alyssa!

Okay here is my son! Throwing a fit on the floor...haha given it was past his bedtime.

Wow I have a ton of things to do tomorrow. Family pictures at 8 am and a house to clean and food to cook and a park to decorate for Prestons bday party at 5pm. Thank goodness for my amazing sister who is spending the entire day with me to help me out!! I totally better get some sleep....good night!

A good day...

This morning my adorable little guy woke up and 6:15am. Elena decided since today was her birthday that she wanted to skip our 6:30 walk and sleep in. Well I thought that was a fabulous idea and wanted to do the same. So when preston woke up i gave him some milk, changed his diaper and layed him back down...we slept another 2 hours!!! YAY! And when he woke up he just stayed in his crib happily playing with his feet and swinging his arms around. When i opened the door to go and get him he jumped up as fast as he could with the BIGGEST grin on his face, laughing and jumping around. Boy was he SOO excited to get up! It was the cutest thing i have ever seen. I thought to myself...today is really going to be a GOOD DAY.

Notice Preston is in his big boy seat!! He absolutely LOVES it! I bought it a couple of days ago and i couldnt wait to switch his infant seat out. I thought id be a little sad cause my goodness this boy is growing up too fast but the look on his face when he realized he can now see mommy and see out the window was priceless. Not to mention i love it as well. I hate not seeing him and what hes doing...we bought a little mirror so we could see him but he was getting big enough to reach it and tear it down so it was useless.

Well this morning we drove out to saguaro lake to look around for good picture spots. We were supposed to take our family pics last saturday but it got switched to this saturday, so i had more time to drive out and take a look around. We drove with our windows down and wind blowing on our faces...preston had a huge smile :). We also drove by toys r us...i bought this car seat there and a the next day i found a 20 % off coupon so i took my reciept and the coupon and they refunded me some money! YAY! I ended up saving 25.00 on the seat...i was excited!

Okay so heres a picture of beautiful lake saguaro. I really wanted to take our pictures here because we are lake people...especially spencer...he would live on the lake and wakeboard everyday if he could. So i thought taking a picture at the lake would just fit our family. BUT we are taking our pictures on a saturday morning and i think the lake will be really busy with boaters and i dont want a bunch of boats in the backround. But arent those mountains to die for? Seriously so pretty.

Or I was thinking we could take them down the road from the lake a bit at the river. The trees there are green and big and i think they are really cool looking...we could get closer to the water so we could have that in our shots and the river is still pretty cold so i dont think alot of people will be there. I honestly think they would both turn out really good but i just cant decide which one...So if i could have your guys opinion on which one would help out a TON! So please let me know what you think! Thanks!

Getting the mail...

The other day I took Preston outside with me to go check our mail. We brought Mr.Lion outside so that he could walk himself. He loved every minute of it. One of our neighbors walked out side and as soon as Preston saw him he stopped what he was doing and started waving untill our neighbor waved back. Hes such a cute and funny boy! Once we made it down the driveway to our mailbox he still wanted to go further so we walked down the side walk past a couple of our nieghbors and waved to all the cars driving past us. Then we heard a dog bark and totally lost interest in walking and tried crawling to where the dog was...boy does he love dogs. ( and i dont ever want one....i dont know what well do ). Hes starting to want to copy dog barks...but they dont really sound right...more like a high pitched grunt haha.

We check the mail together now everyday...

P.S. - Prestons Birthday party is next Saturday at 5 pm, we are going to have it at the park down from our house or at our house if weather is bad ( but im sure it will be nice ). I wasnt too sure who to invite since hes so little and doesnt really have "friends" yet, so we invited mostly family but anyone else who would like to join us for some dinner and desert and good company is welcome to come! We would love for our friends to be there! So if youll be in town or already live here and have the day off then then come join us! Just let me know!

Meet Elena...

Me and Preston totally have a new buddy! Me and Elena are both in nursery together and decided to go on walks in the early mornings, at like 6:30 every morning. Its been SO fun. I have really missed being able to have a social life and talk to someone my own age haha. But weve actually been hanging out a couple of days during the week when she gets off from work. It really has been hard to find people to hang with, either they arent married or dont have kids and its hard to find common things to do with me bringing along a baby OR i have a few friends who have kiddos too but its so hard to get our schedules together because things get crazy!  ( Besides my sweet sister who has pretty much been my only friend that hangs out with me! I LOVE her so much! ) Well elena is single and no kiddos but LOVES my preston and loves kids in general. Its actually nice talking about her dating and single life since my life is consumed of diapers and cleaning supplies and what to make for dinner.

Not to mention that Preston really does love her too. He has her wrapped around his little finger and he loves it haha.

Yay for good friends! We love Elena!

Regrets...

Have you ever been so frusterated and had no one to talk to and its just eating at you? Well I do sometimes and guess what i do? I blog about it. Ive realized that its not the best idea or approach to fixing my problems. I just need to vent sometimes and honestly i look back and read what i wrote and it honestly just didnt need to be written for the whole world to see.

I read a quote and scripture today that says " A gracious woman retaineth honour." -proverbs 11:16 and " I feel to invite every woman everwhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass." -unknown.

I think that summerizes exactly what i need to work at and to become. A gracious woman who is constantly trying to be and do her best. So Im starting right now and apoligizing to anyone who might have become offended by what i have written. I honestly never wrote anything that was towards anyone else. I just let my frustrations out and i may have said things wrong. So im sorry and i will be careful on what and how i say things from now on. I love you all.

Weekend in Flagstaff...

Preston LOVES to walk. Though he wont walk on his own haha he just wants to push something to where he wants to go whether it be my kitchen chairs or his toys...but either way HE DOES get where he wants to go. And if he gets stuck or crashes boy does he get upset. He has a little bit of a temper this one does haha.

He also wants to move around in the bathtub and try and drink the water no matter how many times i tell him no and stop him. Im having the hardest time with "no" right now. Hell get in some kind of trouble and ill tell him no and hell look right up at me with the cutest biggest smile and i cant help but smile and laugh, doesnt matter how hard i try and do it, i always cave! And then he smile and laughs and it turns into a game...

Well Flagstaff wasnt all that we hoped it would be but we were able to go and visit my Aunt Merrie and Uncle Heath while we were there...we visited and played games. Their nephew and his wife Rhet and Nicole were there also and they are alot of fun! They have a little girl that is the same age as Heath and Merries and it was so fun to watch them play together...they would even talk to eachother in like a secret language! haha it was adorable! Oh how i wish Preston had someone his age to play with!

Well were home now and Ive been really busy. We have family pictures scheduled for saturday and Im SO excited! We need them badly! Oh and p.s. I found the cutest outfit for my pictures at Designer boutique on higley and queen creek, they have a sale right now for 30% off your entire purchase untill wednesday! I snagged a great deal!