Happy Birthday Aaron!!

My baby boy turned 2 today!!! It's hard to believe!! We had a lot of fun celebrating this weekend. We had a fireworks birthday party with the family - complete with popping fireworks on Saturday night.

Here are some picture highlights of the event!

Aaron got a lot of fun presents!!



My little yankee doodle!!



His fireworks cupcakes!!


The funniest picture of all!!


Happy birthday Aaron!! Mommy loves you very much!

She's Growing Fast!

It's hard to believe that she is 10 weeks old! She is growing so fast! She had her 2 month check up last week and weighed in at 12 lb 3 oz and was 23 1/4 inches long! She is in the 95%!!

She is starting to smile a lot and is laughing in her sleep! We haven't gotten her to laugh while she is awake but it is only a matter of time!

She is a very quiet baby and doesn't "talk" much. I have been trying to get her to talk to me. Well yesterday we came home from church and all wanted to take a nap. I mean everyone but Alyssa wanted to take a nap. So I decided that I would just put her on the bed with me and she could just watch me sleep :-) Well she decided to start talking to me. It was the sweetest thing and for some reason I didn't mind that it cut my nap time short :-)

Aaron will be turning 2 next Monday believe it or not!! We decided that as he gets older he is going to want to have a party with all his friends so we are going to have to do birthdays the weekend after the 4th to avoid the holiday weekend...BUT...since he is still young and is not into the friend thing quite yet we are going to take advantage of having his birthday celebration on the 4th!! He is going to have a fireworks birthday party with his family!! Mommy is going to have a busy week getting ready for that!

My Little singer! Seth loves to sing! His favorite song right now is The B-I-B-L-E. He sings it all the time. Last night on the way home from church though he started singing "Who Let The Dogs Out". I really don't know where he heard that song! He was also singing I'll Fly Away with his Daddy yesterday!

Have a great week!

She's 2 Months Old & Other Pictures

It's hard to believe that 2 months ago today I was in a lot of pain fixing to welcome our baby girl into the world! This pic was taken today at the library.



Other Photos
When I had my diaper bag camera out today getting the pictures off of it from the library outing I noticed some "missed" pictures on the camera.

These were taken during our trip to the movies last week!!



These were actually taken by Granny when her and PaPa took the boys to dinner a few Friday nights ago. She saw the camera in the bag and took advantage of some cute moments! I had forgotten that she told me that she took pictures until I saw them on the camera today.

The boys were enjoying an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen.

Mommy has been in the kitchen

Mommy has been in the kitchen!!!

Several people have been wanting me to post some of my recipes so here are two that I did tonight! Both of these are very easy recipes and work well with busy households!

Breakfast Tequitos
Basically this is a breakfast casserole that is wrapped in a tortilla. By doing via a breakfast casserole makes the prep work for preparing these much much easier!

Ingredients:
12 eggs
1 lb ground sausage
1/3 cup milk
12 tablespoons water
cheese
20 flour tortillas
wax paper

Brown your sausage. Grease the bottom of a 13x9 casserole dish. Cover the bottom with your sausage and then top that with cheese. In a large bowl beat the eggs and then stir in the water and milk. Pour that over the sausage and cheese. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until the eggs are set.

After you remove it from the oven cut the casserole into 12 pieces. Place a piece of the casserole on a tortilla and roll up and wrap in wax paper. Put the tequitos in the freezer.

When you are ready to enjoy a tequito just pop one in the microwave for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes and voila! A quick easy breakfast!!














Chicken Alfredo Pasta
You don't have to be a cook at all to be able to make this yummy dinner!

Ingredients:
12 oz of your favorite type of pasta (my fav is penne but they were out of it at the store the other day so I got bowtie)
4 cooked chicken breasts, cubed
16 oz frozen spinach, cooked (I steam my in microwave)
1 jar of your favorite prepared alfredo sauce (you could make your own but that would not make this a quick easy meal)
4 Roma tomatoes chopped
grated Parmesan cheese

Prepare your pasta according to package directions. Heat your alfredo sauce. Mix everything together!

I served it with Pilsbury Garlic Twists - yummy!!

A Fun Family Treat

We had a fun family treat the other night! I thought I would share it in case anyone else is needing an idea for a fun family treat!!

Chocolate Pudding Sundae


Make a batch of chocolate pudding according to box directions. After you pour the pudding into the individual bowls top with a handful of cocoa krispies and top with a cherry!! As you can see from the faces below it was a hit!

My Little Helpers

My boys have become such little helpers!! I wish they would never grow out of this but unfortunately I know that is probably not going to be the case...but as long as they don't know that it is work they will keep helping and I will try to keep that up as long as I possibly can :-)

Here are some videos of them helping around the house.

Helping with the laundry:



Helping with the dishes:

Helping clean my room:

Helping in the bathroom:

Is Alyssa a month old already?!?

Oh my gosh!! Has almost 6 weeks past already?!? That is just too hard to believe!! It feels like we just brought her home yesterday!! Alyssa is doing GREAT!!! She is settling into this family perfectly!! Her brothers just adore her and want to hold and kiss her all the time. Aaron will come up to her and go "baby sweet".

We are settling into our routine. Actually adjusting from 2 to 3 children has not been near as hard as it was adjusting from 1 to 2 children. And it helps that she is such an easy baby!! She doesn't hardly ever cry. Nights have not been too bad...she started off having her days and nights mixed up (but that is completely understandable considering she spent 8 days in the NICU where it was constant lighting 24 hours a day...how would she know the difference between day and night) but she is getting better with that.

I have gotten my laptop back and am hoping that will help me to be able to make more regular blog posts :-) I know everyone wants to see pictures.

Seth has been enjoying playing his computer preschool games and is having a blast with them. I am excited about starting pre-k with him in the fall...you will need to check out our homeschool blog for posts on that!

And believe it or not Aaron will be 2 in July!! I am trying to figure out what we are going to do for his birthday. I am thinking we may take him to the Aquarium...he loves the fish. I would LOVE to take him to the zoo but it is just going to be too hot. I really think I want to take him somewhere instead of doing a party at the house this year. That made it so easy for Seth's birthday this year and I think we need to just keep that up :-) He will have plenty of birthdays to invite his friends out to the house for a party. Of course I will keep you updated on what I decide!!

Here are some pics for everyone. These were taken on Sunday!! Enjoy and I will talk to you again soon - I promise :-)!