Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Princess is growing up

Ok, here is Annabelle. Truly she was a baby the last time I posted a picture of her. Annabelle is a crack up. She is so sweet and lovable, she wants hugs and eskimo kisses, I love her in my face just being close. She screams for me as soon as she wakes up, I hear a "MOM!" until I go get her. She has these eyes she gives me like she is glaring at me. She can say just about anything you ask her to say but if Gabe asks her a question the answer is always "no." He teases her and says, "Annabelle, do you want to go to Disneyland?" She says "no." It's pretty cute. She loves her Jacey and asks for him all day, "where Jacey?" "cool" (school) "where daddy?" "cool." She is almost 2 and very determined. She tells me "no" and loves to grab who ever she can by the finger and show them what she's doin. We're in the transition of no binkey and some days it becomes a huge problem. I tried chopping off the end of one and she took one look at it and threw it. She's too smart for that trick. She loves to be outside and playing with the boys. Since the weather has warmed up our life has changed. We are all a lot happier to have the freedom of the backyard, trampoline, dirt, fresh air! I love being home and being able to give these kids what I've got. They are truly special.








EASTER CHICKS




Baby chicks. . .again. My mom is a pushover for her grandchildren. We are already being force fed eggs and now she just got 12 more chickens so the grandkids could have some fun. I have to say i’m pretty happy about it. It really is an adventure that our kids are lucky to have. The chances are good that a few of them will get killed off by the loving hands that maul them!



Annabelle left the chicks before I could get a good picture of her. Instead she was loving on Mitty the Kitty (who by the way is expected to have kitties in about 3 months if anyone is interested)





DURBY TIME

OUR SWEET NEIGHBOR LOVES, LIVES, BREATHES SCOUTING. SO NEEDLESS TO SAY HE TEACHES THE 7 YEAR OLD TIGER CUBS THAT ARE NOT CHURCH AFFILIATED SO IT IS ALL HIM. GABE ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT AND I AM SO GLAD THAT HE GETS TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS JUST FOR HIM. LAST WEEK WAS THE PINEWOOD DURBY AND IT WAS HELD IN THE CLEGG’S BASEMENT. MIKE MADE A PRETTY SWEET CARE THAT GABE BRILLIANTLY PUT HIS OWN TOUCH ON BY ADDING LEGOS FOR CARGO. THE KIDS HAD SO MUCH FUN AND GABE EVEN CAME IN FIRST A FEW TIMES (WHEW, THANK GOODNESS). HERE ARE A FEW PICS OF THE SPECIAL NIGHT! GO GABEY.










Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Mike has been busy working on a project at our house! We moved in almost 7 years ago and we did a lot of work on the house then but left a LOT of work to be done later. Well finally "later" came and we have almost completed "project #1" our basement bathroom. Too bad no one goes down there, we should have started on our master bath. Oh well, I'm glad to have something new to look at! Now just a few more years and I might get a new laundry room!




Thursday, September 23, 2010


So, I've just been looking at peoples blogs for a quick peak and thinking, "that was really fun when I use to share my life with you friends that care. . ." Life has carried me away as usual and here I am months later with no updates. Am I a bad girlfriend or what?
Well, School has started. Gabe is in first grade and loving it. Jace is in preschool at Hillcrest and loving it. They ride the bus home together and think that is so cool. Annabelle, well she is just about as perfect as ever. Except she doesn't sleep like the boys did so I'm forced to be awake at early morning hours when I would rather be sleeping.
Mike the big school boy loves school, he is learning a lot and running a lot. People ask me if I am happy about it and all I can say is it would be selfish of me to not be. No I don't want my husband to get hurt but this is his dream and I will support him in it. Big Mike the peace officer. So what has taken me away, well besides the every day busy life, piano lessons, soccer, school, room mom, bla bla bla. The things that take us all away, I'm just learning how to put it all together. Now I can say I've sad hello to the blog world.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Happy Birthday to my princess. One year went by way too fast but I do have to say I spent it well with her in my arms 90% of the time! This baby girl is such a joy. She is very VERY loved. I love her content personality, her giggles, her peak a boo's, her smile, her pats, HER.

Sometimes I feel like this too.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

This little Piggie!

My baby has piggies!

A sneak peak


We were lucky to spend spring break in C A L I F O R N I A thanks to Aunt Terri and clan. To Jace, It was "far far away" He also thought aunt terri's house was called "California" so when we would leave for a day trip he would say on the way back, "We're going back to California!" To Gabe Aunt Terri's house was "The trip." "we're going back to the trip"
Like I said, sneak peak of our trip. We had so much fun having Easter with family. We visited Sequoia and Yosemite. Funny that we left the snow for the sun and drove to the mountains where the snow was! We had a blast hanging out with our family. Jace and Robbie had so much fun following each other around, it was sad to say good buy but we will do it again.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Princess Annabelle is 9 months old



Today we had Annabelle's 9 month check up
She must be starving, she weighed in at 21 1/2 pounds!
Do you think she'll be tall? She is off the charts at a whopping 30 inches!
She is Crawling, pulling herself up, eating everything (except pistachio pudding)
She's a happy happy girl.
GOTA LOVE MY PRINCESS A!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

what a memorable day

What does St. Patrick's day remind me of? ECUADOR and this little guy that I fell in love with. 9 years ago I got on a plane with 15 other strangers who soon became my friends. It was March 16th, we spent the first night in the nicest hotel in Quito, the next morning we flew into Cuenca and that is where my story is told. . .
(drinking green milk with my first meal at mi casa).
I am so grateful to my heavenly father that I got to go and learn a love like no other, the love of a mother, before I ever had children of my own.
I was still very immature but selfless service does a lot for a persons soul. I know I left being a better person and I know I made a difference in children's lives. This is just one of those children that I loved. (he was my baby) There were 19 babies in the cuna and at least 30 girls in the other orphanage. Isn't he beautiful? He is 10 years old now. . . One day in heaven I hope I get to meet him again.
Vicente Gabriel Born aprox. October 2, 2000
Pictures weren't allowed so I had to sneak in the bathroom with a disposable camera to get this picture of my baby.

Can you imagine dropping your child off at an orphanage?

I witnessed one mother doing so, at least she had the dignity to bring the baby in instead of ringing the bell and running. She looked so heart broken. 3rd world countries bring quite different circumstances than what we have here. I'm glad to be an American.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Seriously

I wish to Squish!

I want to play tea

Every day we have a tea party. Jace is learning how to properly hold his tea cup. He has learned that we don't drink bad tea, but mommy tea is ok. In fact for our party he gets us water and it usually comes out of the bathroom sink. Yesterday he served us "bubble water." I made him promise he didn't put soap in it, but there was definitely a faint soapy taste. So all you girls come on over. Jace is a great host, and we can talk about rainbows and puppy dogs!

Jacersarus is FOUR!

My little Jacer is 4. I can't believe how fast the time really goes by.
I literally stink at this blogging thing. I can't get the pictures in order but at least the invitation is the first pic. Saturday we have an amazing family who joined us at thanksgiving point for a great dinosaur experience. Then on Monday Jace celebrated with his neighborhood friends. Thanks to My mom, Dana and Mindy I pulled it off. I think I forgot that 15 little people are a lot of work and a game takes about 5 minutes max before we lose interest. I also didn't realize that there is a HUGE difference between a 6 year old and a 4 year old, especially when the game is tug of war! Jace had a great day and I want to thank all of you for enjoying it with him.