My heart is full

Ben is at work for a couple of hours... Grant is in bed, Jackson is at the neighbors, and Lincoln is also in bed.

    I am not sure what to do with this quiet house except reflect ba

ck on the last 9 months.  With tear filled eyes and my brain about 50 % returned to normal I can actually think to express myself.  I wouldn't normally use my blog as a source to let my feelings out but there are so many people that have been so so helpful that I feel I need to say it here.  So here it goes. This pregnancy was the longest, most emotional, and guilt filled that I 

have ever experienced, I will say that I tried really hard to make it not known to most people but along the way I think I hurt some peoples feelings because I was really whats the word.... tried to hide, I am not sure why, but all I wanted to do was turn off my phone and hide. I have some really wonderful friends here in Cali who are so awesome!  I truly do think of all of you as my family since we don't have any around. I want all of my friends and family know that I so much appreciated your phone calls of concern and words of encouragement.  Although in the end I have the most beautiful and precious baby, I owe all of you a Great Big THANK YOU! 

We are in Love......

with this sweet guy.  He is such a good sleeper and only wakes up once in the middle of the night.  He has had his days and night figured out since the minute he was born.  He is very patient and rarely cries.  And he loves to snuggle!  

Boys, boys, boys

We are having the time of our life!!!! We love this little guy so so much!

He's here!!!

We are so so happy and excited to announce that our sweet little Lincoln is finally here!!! He was born on July 18th at 12:25 am he weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz. and is 20 inches long.  Jackson and Grant can't get enough of him and are the sweetest big brothers.  We are home and enjoying our family time together.

Lincoln's corner

This is what happens when you live in a 2 bedroom house and there are going to be 5 people living in it.

The baby gets a corner in your bedroom.

(thanks to Katie and Melissa for the decorations, I think it turned out adorable)

What do you do when...

Your feet look like elephant feet and it is really hot in your house???

You sit in a nice cool pool, and hope then swelling goes down.

Pamper the mommy shower

My wonderful friends Katie and Melissa threw me a "Pamper the Mommy Shower" and man O man was it fun!!!! I think everyone should have one of these, I got so spoiled by all of my cute friends everyone was so thoughtful and it was so nice to finally have a second to focus on our new addition little Lincoln.  (Katie I am so  that I didn't get a picture of us:(  Thanks again you lovely girls I had a blast!

Fathers day

We had such a nice relaxing Fathers day, I think it should have actually been Mothers day by how relaxing it was.  Ben was such a great help keeping the kids entertained, feeding them and letting me take naps, he has been such a great dad especially with this long long pregnancy. We took the kids to the park later on to get out their wiggles and got some great pictures! I hope all of you had a wonderful day to!

Activities of the week

Some of these are out of order but at least you all get to see what we did this week...

We went on a double date with our friends Melissa and Q to Benihanas and then made our way up to Hollywood to see Melissa's brothers band preform we had so much fun!


Jackson had a week long celebration for preschool graduation, this picture was on Graduation day, we are so very proud of him he is such a sweet boy and he learned so much over the past 2 years thanks to his wonderful teachers Ms. Gina and Ms. Laurie.

Ben's mom came to help for the week since I feel like I am going to explode, she was so sweet and helped me redo to boys room, we made our way to Ikea and found this cute tent for the boys, they love it so much and I am so happy their room is finally organized.
This is Grant on the last day of celebration our pizza and pool party, he was  little timid to go and play with all the big kids, but he was sure happy just to watch and see what was going on.

Jackson's cute little drawing
Jackson and Grammy went to the beach while I relaxed and Grant had a nap.


Jackson at Graduation, walking to get his diploma.... so so cute!!!!


Jackson and his buddy Mason.  
Jackson and Ms. Gina
Jackson Kayla and Sascha

We went bowling one day with school, it was so cute to see all the kids act like adults playing their own game of bowling.
Then we headed to the Sea Side Lagoon, we had so much fun I never wanted to leave it was so relaxing and the boys played for hours.

What a crazy week!!!! I am so tired so I think I will sleep all weekend.