And we're moving to....

Colorado Springs, CO

We are REALLY excited to be going to Colorado. We can't wait to be closer to family (and Target, Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Cafe Rio, etc)...he he!

Colorado here we come! Summer 2012!

Birthdays

Tia's Birthday - October

She was SUPER excited about her cake - can you tell?!

My friend Tricia made the cake...she's AWESOME isn't she!

Tia had been asking for a PURPLE, TINKER BELL cake for months....it COULD NOT have been more perfect!

Shane was in the states for work, so we invited a few friends over to help us eat the yummy cake! Thanks everyone!

Jayden's Birthday - December

Jayden wanted a Mario Brothers b.day this year.

Tricia made another AMAZING cake! It was PERFECT!!!

What am I going to do without her next year???

Jayden didn't want us to cut the cake because he was so excited about it!

After a little convincing he let us dig in and eat :)..SO SO YUMMY!

Shane and I made Lollipop Sugar Cookies for Jayden to take to school.

Found this idea at: http://www.theidearoom.net/2010/01/play-dough-lollipop-cookies.html

Jayden and our neighbor Brinkley share the same birthday, so they did a treat swap after school.

Instead of doing "friend birthday parties" this year...we took the kids to Tokyo Disney Sea & Disney Land.

Tokyo Disney Sea

Jayden's 1st "scary" ride. He DIDN'T like it, but we are proud of him for trying. He and Shane are hiding behind the chipmunks.

Our favorite "apple juice" popsicles.

Us and our Disney shirts :)

Oh how we LOVE popcorn at Disneyland. Strawberry Chocolate & Carmel are our 2 favorites.

Tia's favorite ride (Flounder's Flying Fish Coaster).

DisneyLand

It was SO FUN having the kids tall enough this year to ride EXCITING rides. We had the BEST time we've ever had at Disneyland.

Star Tours

Captain EO...Michael Jackson lives on :)

Grand Circuit Raceway

She's such a serious driver - love it!

Cute boy!

Space Mountain

Not their favorite ride :/

We also took the kids on Thunder Mountain and they actually liked that one.

More YUMMY apple & orange juice popsicles.

I borrowed my friend Shelby's Minnie ears so that I could "fit in" with all the Japanese...he he! All the girls wear them here.

Happy Birthday cutie pies! We sure love you guys!

Grandpa & Grandma gave the kids some money so that they could each buy something while at Disneyland. Tia chose this Tangled barbie doll and Jayden chose to save his money so that he could buy himself a Nintendo DS...which he was finally able to do after 9 months of saving.

Baby #3

I meant to post this in October...ooops!

I'm pregnant!

Due: March 22nd, 2012

It's a ....

The kids couldn't come with us to the ultrasound, so this is how we told them what we were having. It was so fun!

Side profile

Face and arm

Foot

We are really excited to have another little one in our family!

Halloween 2011

I know I'm a little late on this one, but I need to post this for journaling sake. Happy Late Halloween :)!

(Shane was in the States for work-we sure missed him)

Since Shane was gone I opted out and "carved" pumpkins the easy way :)

The kids loved it!

Thanks to the blogging world...for our Culture Club activity in October (with 6 Japanese ladies) we made these fun Halloween jars.

Tia's Preschool - the REAL plan now

So....it turns out that our base canceled their Preschool program....BIG BUMMER! Tia's Preschool back up plan (see last post) ended up being the main plan. There are 4 kids in our class and the 4 moms rotate from week to week. I didn't think I'd like it at first, but I actually REALLY like it and so does Tia!

Why I like it:

* We've kept it super simple

(ABC's, Numbers, Colors, Shapes, & any thing else

that comes up-Holidays, 5 senses, etc.), so it's really fun and easy to plan for.

* I get a 3 week break before I teach again

* It's FREE

* Tia LOVES it!

* I love working with the 3 other moms & the kids

* It's fun to teach again (it's been 6 years since I taught school)

* It makes me feel like a good mom :)

So, even though I'm super bummed that the original Preschool plan was ruined...I'm actually really loving it this way.

Halloween Crafts

Our "Mummy Families"

(Samuel, Tia, & Chloe--Briley was sick this day)

Skeletons (thanks Alisha for the super cute skeleton heads).