Beach, Pink Eye, B's tooth, Splash Zone and just some dang cute pics

I'm not gonna say it this time....ok, I am....I'm playing catch up once again. I feel like, no wait, I do say that every time I post something on our blog. Alright here it goes...the first few pics are from when we went to the beach with Rey's family, like a month ago. Unfortunately Rey was working, so it was just me with the kiddos. Then Emree got pink eye. Ugh, that was horrible, I felt so bad for her. It actually got to the point that she couldn't even open her eyes. I have never had a kid get pink eye, so it was kinda freaky for me to get her out of bed one morning to see her with her eyes swollen shut and green and yellow stuff coming out of them. Now moving on....Braxton woke up one morning and he ran into our room saying that he had a loose tooth. I was like WHAT??? No, I do not have a kid old enough to be losing a tooth. Oh, it made me so sad. Sorry, but I'm going to have a total mom moment right now, but I was thinking oh my gosh this was like the very first tooth my first little boy ever had and I thought about how excited I was to see that first tooth come through and now he's loosing it. My little Braxton is just growing up so fast I cant believe he is going to be 6 in a few months. Crazy! So his tooth ended up falling out while he was brushing his teeth. No blood, no drama with pulling it out or anything, and I was really happy for that. I couldn't believe how tiny it was, ah, so cute. Ok on to the next thing. We went today, with my mom, to the Splash Zone once again and I snapped a few pics of the kids there and riding home in the car. They were being so sweet with each other in the car. We had a blast! Last but not least are just a few random pics of the kids and of Rey with his little princess. Emree was being just so adorable with Rey one night, she certainly loves her Daddy. I love these pics because they really show off her personality. She truly is the happiest, attention-loving little girl ever!

I think this picture looks funny...It looks like Gavin is on Braxton's head.

Ryan (Rey's bro) buried the kids in the sand and made them each whatever they asked for. Clarke was a spider and Hudsen a mermaid and Gav wanted to be a transformer, but I didn't get the finished shot.

Eating cake at my brother Scott's house.

Even though she had pink eye, she was still trying to be happy.

Love those chubby legs and arms, sometimes I just have to bite on them.

Cute boy!

Oh I love these boys. They really are best buds.

They posed like this on their own and asked me to take another picture.

Do you like Emree's messy face? You would never guess by the pics that they were exhausted.

Ok Emmers just has some crazy curly hair, and even though I do it all cute in the morning...by the end of the day this is what it looks like.

This is absolutely our favorite pic of this girl. This shows off her fun personality that she always has. She does this face all the time when she is playing around. We love it!

Busy Having Fun

Ok, so I am horrible at keeping up with my blog lately. We have been SO super busy these last couple of weeks, but I do have to say it has all been fun. First off we took a family vacation to San Diego and did the whole Sea World thing, which was a total blast! We stayed in this really nice hotel called Humphrey's Half Moon Inn and Suites (it was on Shelter Island). We totally recommend it, it is a great hotel if you're bringing the whole fam. Very kid friendly. So we went to Sea World two days in a row because we loved it so much. They have really changed it from the last time I went as a kid. There is just so much to do there. After a few days in San Diego we headed up to Las Vegas to visit with Rey's family, and for his little sister's baby shower. That was WAY fun. Unfortunately I couldn't find my camera while we were in LV so I don't have any pics of that. Then we came home after a few days there and then I had my cousin Ginny and her 2 kids come down from Utah to visit. I'm really close with her and dont get to see her all that often, so that was a treat. We went to the beach, shopping, more shopping, went swimming...basically just did something fun every day that she was here. SO, we are all very exhausted now, and of course my kids after everything had to get sick, but I'm just thankful that none of them got sick during all the fun outings.

First day at Sea World

Braxton going on the first ride...he was so excited.

Gavin with Daddy on the Elmo ride,

Emree trying to wait patiently while her brothers went on rides.

Starting to get fussy...

Gavin looking at Shamu before the show.

B giving a tough guy face with his new sword.

Looking at the Polar Bears. Or as Gav would say "Pony Bears".

Daddy at holding Emree at the last show we went too. Oh, such a long day.

Braxton's favorite thing about Sea World was getting wet. He went on this one ride that you get soaked on like 3 times. All of us also got drenched by the dolphins and the dolphin show.

Gav just being cute.

They even had a little play place for babies. It was awesome to sit and let Emree out of the stroller for a while and play. She loved it.

Gavin and Hadley playing.

Miss Hadley Ann

Our little fish that never comes out of the water when we go to the beach.

In our backyard playing in the Emree's little pool we got her.

I love how the boys all had to be touching Emree in this picture. So Sweet.

Cute kids

This little girl just loves to have water splash up into her face.

Hudsen or Dora?

I wasn't going to post this but after thinking about it, its just too cute not to. So today I took the kids to the park (again). While we were there, there was a Hispanic family having a big birthday party. Ok so this little girl from the party comes up to Gavin and me while we were eating a snack and asked if she could have some cheez its. Of course we gave her some and then she ran off to play. Well as she was running away Gavin asked me "Oh was that Hudsen?" For those of you who don't know who Hudsen is, shes Gavin's cousin. So anyways I told him "No bud, Hudsen's at her house" then he said...."Oh ya, I know...thats Dora". I laughed so hard!!! I just thought it was so cute and funny. I know I just posted a bunch of funny stuff that Gavin has said lately, but this one was the best!

Here's a picture of Hudsen and Gav this past Thanksgiving. Gavin loves her so much!

Fun at the Circus

We went to the Circus on Monday and we had a blast!! We got to spend some time just with the boys and we were able to leave Emree with my parents. Rey got the boys so pumped up for it that when we got there, they just couldn't even hide how excited they were. We did face painting, pony rides , and bought them cotton candy and light up swords. They were in heaven, and we were too, watching the smiles on their faces. I love seeing my kids enjoy fun things and doing stuff they have never done before. It was pretty expensive and I'm not quite sure the show itself was worth the money, but the memories we made were priceless. Don't get me wrong, some of the performances were very impressive and I thought they were really good, but Rey was expecting a little more for the amount of money. The boys loved it and we had a GREAT time, so that was the best part of it all.

The boys were just so excited. I love how they're posing in this pic!

The pony rides were the first thing we did when we got there. Gavin did not like it at all at first.

Braxton LOVED it! cute boy.

Now, he was starting to kinda like it. Still not too sure about the idea.

Then at the end of the ride they posed for the camera.

Face painting was next...Gav choose to be a tiger.

Look at that sweet face. I love that boy, he held so still.

The end result...you cant tell in the pic but his nose had black glitter all over it and so did the stripes. They did a really good job.

B's turn now :)

He choose the clown. He was all into the clowns that night.

The cutest clown you will ever see!

Waiting for the show to start.

Rey took the boys inside the ring before the show began, and they let the kids do some fun things in the ring.

I wish Gavin would have had his eyes open...bummer.

My 3 boys

Watching the magic show.

My happy Clown

My growling tiger

Conversations with my 3 year old

Okay, so I had a few interesting/funny conversations today with Gavin and I just wanted to share. He's so cute and is getting so big so fast, where did my baby boy go? Gavin is one who keeps us laughing all the time, you never know what he's gonna say next. I think when hes older he's going to be the one who is the "class clown". He loves to have people laughing at the funny things he does and says. So here are a few conversations I had with him today...

1) Me: "Gavin do you have poop?" After I thought that I had caught a whiff of something nasty.

Gav: "Almost, I trying uh push it out...it's stuck" (Yes, I know my 3 year old should be potty trained...we're working on it though, its a slow process with this guy.)

2) Me: "Hey Buddy lets go outside and play"
Gav:"No mommy its too windy outside"

Me: "No its not dude, come on lets go play"

Gav:"Oh did uh wind go to sleep?" (uh is the word he uses in place of the words , the, to

and a)

Me: "Yup the wind went to sleep, now lets go"

Gav: "But uh huge bald eagle will get me" (I have NO idea where that came from)

Me: "No buddy there are no bald eagles outside, so come on!"

Gav: :"Okay." (So now we walk outside and he feels a gust of wind go by) "Mommy you woke up the wind"

3) Me: (A little later on, Gav had pooped yet again) "Gavin come here so I can change you...Buddy you stink, how come you have so much poop?"

Gav: "Mommy, its not poop.....Its Crap" (I laughed so hard at that one)

4) As we were driving home from Target, it was dark outside and Gav doesn't like the dark and the car made a weird noise....

Gav: "Mommy what was dat sound?"

Me: "I don't know, I think it was the car"

Gav: "No mom, it was a scary wood pecker"

5) Gav: "Mom I did two toots....like dis, beep beep." (I could tell he was very proud of the way it sounded...he is ALL boy)

Me: "Wow, good job buddy"

Oh how I love this sweet little boy. He really does keep us laughing and smiling with all of the off the wall things he says. He definitely has my heart and is one of the most loving, sweet little boys you will ever meet,

My Superman

This is My Superman!! Rey doesn't know that I am writing this post about him, because if he did...he wouldn't want me to do it and he would probably feel embarrassed. Like I have said before, I use this post as a journal for our family so I want to record some of the feelings I have been having over the last couple of days. As most of you know Rey and I were in a car accident on Sat. and we were very blessed that neither one of us were seriously injured. I was not wearing my seat belt (I know, I know...I have gotten many lectures and have learned my lesson) so I ended up with a concussion, a sprained neck, a broken thumb and index finger and a badly bruised knee. Nothing too serious, it could have been a lot worse, but I was blessed that my airbag deployed and protected me somewhat. Anyways, I wanted this post to be about my wonderful husband that I am so grateful for. He is my angel. The second he knew I got hurt he was right by my side the entire time, he never left me. He was so concerned about me and wanted me to be out of pain. These past couple of days since the accident Rey has had to do everything around here. Not once has he complained about anything. He's been changing all the diapers, taking care of all my needs, doing all of the bathing, taking care of all the insurance stuff, cleaning, playing with the kids, and remaining calm the entire time. Poor guy, these are supposed to be his days off and all they have been is nothing but work. I could have never asked for anyone better. Rey is my rock, and he is a wonderful husband and father. I don't know what I would do without him. Thanks baby for being my Superman, I love you!!

3 of our most favorite people in the WHOLE world!!

This was taken on Sunday. Rey had just gotton done wrestling with them and they all layed down by each other just long anough for me to snap this. We love them so much and are so grateful for what they each bring into our family.

(Like how Gavin spilled red juice on his white church shirt? Thats a 3 year old for ya)