A Huricane hit Rancho Santa Margarita

They have named it Huricane Emelia.

The lake by our house....

is so beautiful and Emelia loves going there to see all the ducks. Emelia always quacks at the ducks. I started walking in the mornings (Mon, Wed, Fri), to kick start my weight loss. I walk there from my house which is about 1/4 of a mile and then it is exactly one mile around the lake. The first day I walked around 3 times. Today I was on a time crunch, with Emelia having Gymnastics this morning and a play date at the park after wards so I only went around once. On my way back home since I only went around once I decided to jog a bit. Yeah parts of my body jiggled that shouldn't. Ha ha ha ha.....So Friday it is back to 3 miles.

Don't my little ducklings look adorable all bundled up!

another Milestone Monday with nothing in between.

Emelia Throwing up gang signs after she ate her cupcake. :)

Sweet little Jude

Well we are here again....another Monday to report on the kiddo's progress and our lives. Maybe I should rename these posts Weekly update Wednesdays and do them on Wednesday's.

Jude seems to be getting chunkier and chunkier everyday. He is LOVING his rice cereal and yesterday he tried pears mixed with blueberries. He seemed to really enjoy it. I have also discovered that he is ticklish on his hands. It is crazy I know. I was wiping his hands the other day with a wipey and he just busted out laughing. He is definitely my happy boy.

Emelia is my CRAZY girl. She is always climbing, screaming, throwing, jumping, dancing, tumbling you name it she is doing it. She is one hyper active child. That is why she is in Gymnastics once a week.

Me: I started back at work last Tuesday. Oh Joy..... Actually it isn't too bad. It is nice to get out of the house and have some of ME time.... Well Ingardia Bos. Produce Time. Apparently they have been cooking gourmet meals at lunch time in our conference room kitchen. They never cooked like that when I was working. How nice would that have been when I was prego. So on my first day back they had a full spread pasta and meatballs...compliments of Maria. She is awesome!!! I told them that if I knew they were cooking like this I would have been back months ago.

Jarrod worked late so Emelia and I decided to have Pancakes for dinner

Jarrod has been super busy and has been coming home really late. We miss him here at home. It was nice to have a family time yesterday. We decided to have a picnic at the park. We set up and started eating. Come to find out not the best idea. There were fies everywhere. We quickly packed the food up and decided to save it for later. We played at the park for a while then came home and had a picnic on the floor in the family room. It was nice not having to share my salad with the flies.

At the Park

Milestone Monday

(This is how Jude likes to sleep with his head thrown back, his back arched and on his side....Doesn't seem comfortable to me.)

Jude... my precious little boy is getting so big. On Friday we went to his 4 month well-check apt.

Here are his stats:

Weight: 16 lbs 14 oz. (76%)
Height: 26" (76%)
Head cir.: 16.5" (45%)

He did so well. He had to get two shots and one oral vaccine. "The DUDE" is a tough little guy. He didn't really cry either I was really impressed. We just love Jude and Emelia's pediatrician. He is awesome and has a baby girl 3 weeks younger than Jude. He said that whenever we come in he has the song "Hey Jude" stuck in his head all day. He was really happy with Jude's progress, and said we could start him on rice cereal if we wanted. So we decided to give it a try yesterday. He seemed to really like it, but I think he may have been too hungry because he started getting flustered. I seemed like I just couldn't feed him fast enough. We plan to try again today. We are hoping that once Emelia sees her brother eating then she will want to eat too.

Emelia..... is still one silly little girl and makes me laugh all the time. She is such a little girly girl and loves her nails being polished and her face painted. She wants to wear her tutu all the time and even wore it to the park the other day. Here are some silly pictures of Emmy.

Emelia brushing daddy's hair with a whisk, and wearing mommy's sunglasses.


Feeding Jude and giving me her infamous "Cheese Smile"


Emelia being sweet like sugar.

The kitchen is done!

And it is AMAZING! We are so shocked at how much bigger it is. Taking out the drop ceiling made a huge difference. When they finished on Thursday I went in the kitchen and just screamed becuase I have been wanting this new kitchen for so long. I just keep looking at it because I can't believe it is in our house. I LOVE it! They still need to come back and do a few small touches here and there but over all it is done. I just need my valence and my ceramic pig. For some reason I have always wanted one of those ceramic pigs that holds the chalkboard and I can write what we are having for dinner on it. :)

Yesterday my mom came over at about 9:30 a.m. to help me put everything back and to clean up the dust scattered throughout the house. We ended at 4:00 p.m. What a job that was. My mom did soooo much! THANK YOU MOM!!! I don't think I could have gotten it done by myself.

So I am sure you are dying to see the pictures. SO here they are.

5 Years ago today......

On September 6th 2003 I was in Savannah, Georgia marrying the love of my life. We were all set to get married on Tybee Island, next to the beautiful ocean in front of the lighthouse, but a storm decided to crash the wedding that I had been planning for a year. All the preparations for a beach wedding gone to waste. Tables, chairs, flower petals, water bottles, an arch, butterflies to be released, and 2 trolley buses to take our guests to and from the reception site to the beach. Then to throw more chaos into the mix we had no DJ. The DJ I booked and paid in FULL (I will never make a mistake like that again) decided to not return any of my calls and never showed up. So two hours before the wedding we scrambled around and found a really good local DJ. He even D.J.'s on a local radio station there in Savannah (so he was somewhat famous ;)). But hey....Things don't always go as planned. Nothing bothered me at that point, my main objective was to get married to this wonderful man that I had been in love with since the moment I saw him. It really didn't matter where.....right?

So our wonderful friends and family all gathered upstairs Garibaldi's Restaurant. Vicki a dear friend of Jarrod's parents and our wedding coordinator transformed the reception site So we were able to have the ceremony there. They did such a beautiful job.

At about 7:00 p.m. I waited patiently at the bottom of the stairs, not nervous at all and grinning from ear to ear. We heard Cannon D being played by the musicians. I took my dad's arm and he took his little girls arm and made it up the stairs. It was probably the only day in my life that I felt truly like a princess. It was the most beautiful wedding I had ever seen. Our friends and family there with smiles and tears going down there faces. It was all just so exciting. I could see Jarrod at the front of the room, and my heart melted. It was the most beautiful and intimate wedding, that most of our friends and family had been to. Everyone was so impressed with how calm we both were and that we just rolled with the punches. I was just so happy to be marrying my soul mate.

So now we are here 5 years later, 9 years total together with two wonderful kids and we couldn't be happier!!! What can anyone ask for more! I have WONDERFUL LIFE!

Our First Dance

Milestone Monday

My friend Tammy does this on her blog so I thought I would adopt it too. Thanks for the great idea Tammy!

Jude: Turned 4 months old yesterday. I am in amazement how fast he is growing. He LOVES to scream at the top of his lungs. When he came out there should have been a warning tag stuck to him that said "WARNING I SCREAM" He is staying awake a lot longer these days and smiles at everyone who looks at him.

Last Tuesday He was plagued with a massive rash all over his body. We couldn't figure out what from. At first I thought it could be the bug spray I lightly patted on him while we were camping, or the herbal teething tablets. So we went to the doctors and they told me to give him Benadryl. He took it for two days and then it was gone. A few days later we went to seaworld. The heat brought the rash back out. There had to be another reason why he was breaking out. So I started thinking. Last week when I was doing laundry. I accidentally left the lid on the washer open, so the clothes were soaking in the water for a few hours. Then I stuck them in the dryer. At that point I didn't know they turned the gas off in my house so the wet clothes were spinning around and around wet for a good two hours. They finally turned the gas back on I dried the clothes and put them away. All the while I smelled the muggy scent of mold. At that point I should have just re-washed everything. Nope I didn't. So that is what I think has caused him to break out. I re-washed all the clothes that he had left in his drawers. I hope the mystery has been solved. (Jude's rash)

Emelia: Is 2 years & 3 months old. She is a sponge right now. Picking up everything that we say. She says things or words that I didn't even know she knew. Like she told me something was very sharp the other day. I was impressed. I guess it is little things like that, that I love. She is starting to get a little defiant. She has started not wanting to take bath's (which she used to love) and telling people bye. We will be working on time outs very soon. We have also determined that she is very artistic and LOVES drawing like mommy. She will sit for hours coloring her artwork. In her coloring book she will go from page to page coloring one thing. Yesterday she focused on coloring all the ponies eyes. She does really well too. She doesn't quite stay in the lines but she knows she is supposed too. We are working on our grandparents day project. It is turning out beautiful.

We went to seaworld last week with her Grand Daddy, Mimi and Daddy. Emelia just loved to see all the sea life. She really liked the sharks and penguins, because she kept talking about them. We tried the dolphin show and Shamu show. Emelia isn't keen on large crowds and gets really scared. She didn't want to sit through the show and kept saying "Back" she wanted to go back to the stroller. We have to work on that with her. She loved the bay of play. What a great addition to Seaworld that was. It is a fun area for the kids. We rode two of the rides.