my garden

i've always wanted a garden. i mean i'm a cook and i love fresh veggies from the garden. when we were making our backyard last year we set a place aside for it and said that we would do it this year. and we did. james built a planter for me on the side of the house, perfect sun and shade. and in one day my mom and i had it ready to plant. i have rosemary, thyme, basil, tomatoes, 3 different squash (no zuchini though :(, peppers, strawberries, cucumbers (but they didn't make it) and swiss chard which i found out does awesome out here and is so beautiful. Cullen wanted watermelon and then yesterday he planted his pumpkin seeds that he saved from his pumpkin at halloween. we'll have to see how those do. anyways, it's a cute perfect little garden to make our backyard complete.

sophia's knock knock joke

knock knock
who's there?
olive
olive who?
olive banana going to get your pajamas on

she says it every day and it's so silly you have to laugh.

i can't find it

I asked Cullen a couple of days ago to get his PJs on so that we could go to the Fletchers to watch Biggest Loser season finale. He came down a little more padded than usual. I asked him what he was wearing under his PJs. He said he was wearing his clothes for school for the next day. they were kinda bunched up around the hips but i didn't care if he wanted to wear them. he thought he was being smart that he wouldn't have to change his clothes for school. anyways... we watched BL (go helen) and of course the kids fell asleep. so I carried them all to the car and made it to the house. I woke up cullen and he stumbled into the house. he went pee and was kinda crying about something. i had carried the girls to their room cullen was still standing on the stairs crying. i told him to go to bed and he said... "I can't find it?" so i started to laugh and said do you need me to help you find it? "Yeahhhh" so i got him to his room and then he decided he was too hot in his clothes he started to take them off. he had... underpants, long sleve shirt, shorts, then underpants (this was the bunching) then a long sleve pj shirt and sweat pants.ofcouse you are hot. anyways he was cute.

Lily at 9 months

Lily is 9 months now. wow how time flies! she is still a petite little girl weighing in at 15 and a half lbs, (2nd percentile) she is still growing just fine. she still has rolls on her legs and is as cuddly as can be. She has learned a couple new things the big one is climbing the stairs. she always stayed on the bottom of the step and watched the kids go up. but a couple of days ago she just followed them right up. i found her on the 5th step, and watched her go the rest of the way. now she's quick. She is eatting a ton right now anything we have she wants to try. (that's good) but she is nursing more than normal and I don't like it. i think she is going through a growth spurt. one cute thing that she learned is getting her arms out of her car seat, when i reach to get her out. she's working on some more letters like b and p. still no M. she also waves hello and bye with a little missamerica wave, love it! she likes to just be around cullen and sophia and yell at them when she's around. she's so cute when she dances, I had to share.

James' 31st

James and his 50! So, many people know that james had been losing weight for a wrestling tournament in Vegas. I just wanted to document about it. He started in January and told me that he wanted to wrestle at the national tournament, i mean it's a big deal the winners go on to the usa team. He's told me that he wanted to do it for about 3 years now, and every year i say go ahead, kinda knowing that things get in the way (family, work, and stuff) that it doesn't work out. but this year he was serious and he wanted to get down to the 167 lbs class. i did not think he could do it. that was 50 lbs in 4 months. crazy. But he cut out soda (i know right), then ice cream and worked out every day. Then ate subway for lunch and was looking hotter and hotter. and everyday he would wake up and tell me he lost another pound or 2 in one day. I am happy when i lose a pound a week. anyways, he still thought he didn't look any different. even though he did. and that last week he scared me with eating practically nothing and being super cranky (because he loves food (like me!))but he made it and called me from Vegas saying he was 166. Before people look at me and say "why weren't you there?" the answer was 3 children, vegas, sweaty gym and 10 minutes of wrestling. James got it on video and all he wanted to do was win one match but that wasn't the case. he was going up against guys that were just out of college wrestling and he didn't really know all the rules. He was happy that he went, and he looks awesome. of course he didn't stay that weight, I think he's about 10 lbs more and that's good with me. and if you want to see the difference, check out our pics from christmas... you'll see.
James' 31st. For James' birthday me and the girls surprized him at school with some brownies. too bad his students had already got him donuts for breakfast. we stayed around for a little bit and sophia sang to him... TOOO CUTE! I asked him what else he wanted to do for his big day. we usually go to outback and get his favorite crab legs but Jason took him on a man date a couple says before to Red Lobster... (ps I hate seafood and if I walk into that place the smell of if makes me not good) but i said I would go this year but soooo relieved when Jason wanted to take my place. I usually make him anything he wants for dinner, and I had asked him days before what he wanted. That night he came home and said he wanted pizza and wings. We even had a baby sitter if we wanted to go out to a movie. But he just wanted to stay in a rent a movie. So that's what he did. I was feeling kinda sad that that was his bday. we do that kinda thing almost every friday night. So we had a little ice cream party, with all the fixin's it was fun. Anyways james is 31 now a thirty something. poor him. I plan on staying 30 for a couple more years.