mikes.birthday.

Thinking back to when I was growing up and my own birthdays, I would always wake up the day of my birthday and my bedroom and the entryway to my bedroom would be decorated with crepe paper and balloons, every single year. It didn't matter how old I got, 10, 14, 19 years old. It always made me feel so special, waking up to the first thing you see - balloons and crepe paper. How could you not smile waking up to that? Every year birthdays were always a big deal in our house. At the end of the day depending on whose birthday it was, it always ended with a great family dinner and the best part - a delicious birthday cake with candles to blow out and everyone singing out of tune the happy birthday song. It was the best! I loved birthdays at my house.

So when it was Mike's birthday today I continued the tradition that my own parents started with me and while Mike slept in, Jack and I got up and decorated with crepe paper and party hats...after decorating and learning it was daddy's special day, poor Jack he couldn't take it anymore, he just had to go wake up his daddy! So Jack and I put on our party hats and woke daddy up, Jack jumping up and down on the bed, I probably would of joined him if I wasn't hugely pregnant at this time but it was so cute to see how excited Jack was to celebrate his daddy's birthday. We started off the morning with made homemade french toast with strawberries topped whipped cream and it was delicious!

To celebrate, we went up to Park City and bummed around and had a good time. Just finished a delicious dinner and an even yummier birthday dessert. Mike's request was cheesecake and strawberries!

Happy Birthday sweetie!! Jack, Baby #2 and I love you SO much!!

best.buds

Going home was great, on Saturday we drove over to San Francisco with my parents and spent the day in the city going to my little nephew Nate's birthday party and after the party we came back to my brothers house. There is this gorgeous park down the street from my brothers house, it just goes on and on and on with so much to see and do...so we took Jack and Nate there to play. These photos are from our time at the park.

This was the last photo of the day...can you tell by Mike's face?

This was the cutest thing ever, Jack had something wrong with his zipper so Nate said "i can fix it" and he bent down and started helping Jack...you should of seen these two. It was adorable!

This photo, how cute are these two together?

My niece Abby and I in the above photo....we had a great time, seeing Jack and Nate together pulled at my heart strings as it always does. Every single time we leave Nate, Jack has such a hard time and I'm so not kidding. This time, he woke up the first morning we got back around 5am and walked out of his room crying and convulsing saying "I go see Nate. I go see Nate. Ma, pleaseeee, I go see Nate, my friend Nate, where is my friend Nate." It just was so sad that I started crying and Mike was trying to soothe him, he repeated and repeated it for 10 minutes, just sobbing....it was awful to see how much he missed him. They really are such best little buds. Some day...someday.....that is what is in my heart....someday.

spa. day.

today my best friend amaya came over with her two little ones. Jordiss and Jack got into the hot tub and had a great time playing around. it's always so good to see close friends you grew up with and we had a great morning visiting and catching up. it's always so good to be home.

sunshine here we come. hopefully.

so excited, tomorrow morning we leave to see my family. we are staying with my parents but heading over to beautiful san francisco for my nephew's 4th birthday as well. can't wait!! lots of photos when I return!

here is one I took a few weeks ago. Jack wanted to go fishing. so we went and found a creek and he fished with his stick. it was so much fun. that is one of Jack's favorite things to do, is to get outside, play and run around and get dirty. just like any other little boy.

mommy + Jack conversation

here is how it went:

mommy: "Jack did you have a BIG day today?"

(he tried out a new daycare + Nanny Maria both came today)

Jack: "Yes! Mommy went work and I cry."

(as he pouts his lip and looks down and takes his fingers and runs them down his face like tears)

mommy: "You cried. Jack?"

Jack: "yes, ma. I cry, you go to work. no more work."

Just as I am about to well up in tears myself, he says....

Jack: "no more work ma. I take ma's work and throw it in the trash, ma so now no more work for Ma"

Ohhh, how I hugged him tight and laughed. I love this age.

pregnancy.

3 months from today is my due date. Why do they say pregnancy is 9 months when in fact it's 10 months? I'm 4 days shy of being 7 months pregnant. here are some pathetic photos for those of you that have asked what I look like. It's very hard to take photos of yourself. I'm going to have to have Mike take some for me so that maybe you can actually see my face.

xo

I call this one barefoot + pregnant + blue toes

happy. valentines. day

after Jack woke up from his nap today we made some yummy valentines cookies. cooking with Jack is always messy but more importantly it is so much fun! who cares about the mess, we can always clean that up later!

*remember, click on the photo anywhere to make it bigger*

we hope you guys had a great valentines day...Mike surprised me with an overnight babysitter with Grandma and he took me to a great dinner at the wild grape bistro and then we went and saw "blindside" with Sandra Bullock. It was a great movie!! and the food was to die for at the restaurant. so delicious!! if you ever get a chance go! I can't express how nice it was to come home and know that we could both sleep in!! What a treat!!

he also surprised me with tulips!