4th of July Festivities Weekend

Go Big or Go Home

It's not a day event for us..it's a weekend
Pool
Food
BBQ
Sun
Block party
Food
Water Balloon Fight
Pool
Illegal Fireworks
Fire Marshall
Friends Galore
Boxing
Black Eye (Tim that is)
Food
Food
Pool
Food

Pregos...
Party'n like a rock starDaaannnggg...Drop it like it's hotSpiceyDaaannnggg... #2
Boys will be boysAll 3-1/2 of us

3 Fantabulous Years

It's a bit behind, but June 23rd we celebrated our 3 years of marriage. Actually not quite "celebrated". With our Pops' hospital stays, and my ADAN sickness (All Day And Night...thanks Tracy), we didn't have much celebrating. But as I look at this freakin amazing man I married, I laugh at all our fun times.

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

The End of a Chapter

As I ended this year of teaching...year 3...it was a bitter sweet feeling.

I am ending a chapter in my life that I loved, to start our next chapter that I am so excited about.

I feel very lucky to be able to be home when the baby is here, but I sure will miss 3 great years of my dream as a teacher. This year was an exceptional group of kids. I already miss them!

Is It Legal To Look This Cute?

I have the cutest nephew...Caden!
I spent some time with him this week..in between morning, noon, and night sickness

Enough with hospital trips!

We have really experienced some crazy hospital trips lately.

1st Me:

We had a scare a few weeks ago with the baby and they told us to go to the ER. We went at 4:00AM on Friday and after 6 hours they told us we lost the baby and to go to my doctor on Monday. We spent the whole weekend coping woth it and trying to move forward. WE went in on Monday (my the way this was the first Doc visit) and he told us everyting was great and the baby looked right on schedule! Are you kidding me?! That ER Doc has lost it!!! Afraid to believe it, we were so excited and couldn't believe what we had just experienced!

2nd MY Dad:

Friday, June 12th my Dad went to ER for some serious stomach pain and he was really sick...and I mean he was sicker than a dog to go to the hospital. He thought he would be out later that day....oh was he wrong. That Sunday he went into emergency exploratory surgery on his stomach. He came out a few hours later with 1 foot of his intestines removed and a 12 inch incision down his stomach, even through his belly button! I think it looks like he had an attack with mountain lions. Sound bad? Well it really just began. He spend 9 full days in the hospital with tubes connected all over him. He had nothing the entire hospital stay except 300 calories per day of IV! Holy Moly! My mom slept in a chair or on the hospital floor every night to be with him! We were finally able to make it down to be with him that Wednesday. Everyday he got a little better. He could walk a few more steps and speak a bit longer each day. All we wanted was for him to be home for Father's Day. He got out of the hospital on Saturday and on Father's Day a group of people brought an amazing dinner for our WHOLE family! Poor Pop's had to just watch us eat because he still wasn't able to eat anything not liquid.

He's still not close to recovered or able to go back to work, but he can finally eat food after 14 days! Shoot, I can't even make it an hour without eating!

Despite all this, I had some great time to visit with my Dad. He was able to see how many people he has really impacted and truly care for him. I always knew he touched so many lives, but I think he got a glimpse that he's not just an ordinary person, he's extrodinary!

Oh best part...all this may have come from reusing a water bottle!!! Seriously!

3rd Tim's Dad:

In the middle of my Dad's desperate attempt for attention..haha...Tim's Dad had to go the the hospital for an Angiogram and most likely he was going to have an angioplasty at the same time. Although there was a 15% chance that he had a false postiive on his heart tests and that once they go into the heart, everything would look fine. This fun adventure was on our 3 year anniversary. I am so grateful we had work off to be there for both Dad's during this. We spent most the day at the hospital and crazy enough...he was the 15%. When they went into the heart, it looked great and no angioplasty needed to be done. Amazing! He even got to go home that night!

Needless to say we have had some serious scares lately, but all with good results. Our baby is great, my Dad didn't end up having Crohne's Disease and Tim's Dad's heart was fine! What great blessings! But let's just all lay low on the hospital trip please.

Oh Baby!

So if you haven't heard the news...here it is...Achilles is going to be a big brother. No, it's not hairy this time, well, wait maybe it will be. As I spend my days now on a long, daily date with the porcelain god, I think about how this better be worth it.

As many of you know,we thought this may never come...but it's really happening and we are so excited for January 30th to come! That's right...January 30th, Timney (get it?) will be here ("it" better be on time!).

Oh and by the way this wasn't posted earlier because the porcelain god has taken up all my time recently.

Coronado Island

My parents were awesome and got a place right on the beach to camp on Coronado Island during our spring break. We had a great time! The first night Tim, me, mom and Dad took a bike ride into the town for some delicious dinner. It was perfect weather and we had a blast, until my dad's bike quickly started falling apart and we had a 4 mile ride back. It left us with great laughs and fun memories. The next night Camie and the girls and Grandma and Grandpa Lingy came out for a bbq. We had quite an adventure into San Diego, trying to take public transportation to my dad's work. In the mean time I had a broken foot and my mom thought it was a good idea to wear heels for the big adventure. Needless to say we were ready to be back laying on the sand. This trip made for an awesome spring break!!!

San Francisco

We had a day trip planned to SF, and that morning broke my foot. So, we postponed it to the next week and drug our friends Jeff and Eliza along. We thought we'd try the BART...bad idea. We spent almost the whole day trying to get there. But, once we did we had a blast. We ate dinner in Little Italy and took the trolley through the town. We walked SO much, this of course is before I officially knew I had a broken foot, but I was trooper. What an awesome day with friends!

Another wedding

So we had another excuse to go down south. We were able to go to one of Tim's closest high school buddy, Ed's wedding. It was awesome to be able to see some old friends, who we so dearly miss.

Robert and Tim (I've know Robert since kindergarten)


Little Buddy and me
Tim and Eric (the hair was a dare...quite creepy!)

Snow Fun

We took a day and drove up toward the snow. We didn't need to drive far. I had my nice warm waterproof snowboarding clothes...but poor Tim. He was such a sport. He had jeans and regular shoes on. I was kind enough to give him my clothes, after all, I was really hot. He never complained, but was excited to head toward the dry, heated car for the "picnic" I made.


Regardless of how cold he was, we had a blast. We made a snowman, sled down on a snowboard, and tossed some snowballs each other.

The aftermath of the snowball fight mixed with sleet

A White Christmas in So Cal

We spent Christmas in So Cal with the families. We went the Sunday before Christmas and the festivities quickly began.

Candy Trains with London and Jaydon

On Monday I made candy trains with the little girls and Mom.
That night we went to a beautiful dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Lingy's. Camie and the girls, Mom and Dad, Jared, D and Caden all join us. We celebrated Diana, Jared and Dad's birthdays. Grandma made a beautiful dinner and really cool cakes. She is so talented.

On Tuesday we had a Fondue Party with Tim's family. We had so much fun trying everything out.

White Trash Trailer Park Gingerbread House

Wednesday...Christmas Eve we had a nice dinner with Tim's traditional fried chicken at his parents house with the family. After, we headed to Jared's new place for our gingerbread contest. Jared and D did the North Pole, our serious competition. Grandpa Lingy did the Northridge Earthquake, unexpected of course. Grandma Lingy did a traditional look. Then there's my mom, the most competetive of all...Venice. But nothing topped our, the White Trash Trailer Park.

We won this year and already have our plan for next year's competition.
Gingerbread contest with the fam

Then it came my favorite time...Christmas morning. We started at my Mom and Dad's in the morning with everyone. After that we headed to Tim's parents for the rest of the day. We had a blast with all the family..and a LOT of food...AGAIN!

Caden and JaredTim and BrandynMom makes the best Christmas breakfast..every year!We Love Christmas Morning!He is so spoiled!

So moral of the story...
Get to the gym BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER a So Cal Christmas Trip