San Diego - our kid free trip!

One of the benefits of the being a military spouse is being able to join my hubby when he is flying local! I took two different mini-vacations haha one three day trip WITHOUT kids and the second three day trip with the kids. The trip without the kiddos was such a blessing for Mike and I, we were able to spend the first evening together, we went out to dinner with his crew and the second day we were able to spend entirely together roaming around San Diego!

“Save the Kiss,” the waterfront statue of the iconic photo taken of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square as they celebrated the end of World War II in 1945

He took me on a Hornblower tour to view all of the US Navy ships on the harbor, we saw dolphins playing in the water and sea lions lounging :) pretty cool!

It's been a while

It's been a while since I have logged onto my blog to post. It's been very busy around here since I have taken my two little ones out of public school and began to homeschool them in addition to my oldest son. I love homeschooling, and doing three different grade levels is quiet the task (4th, 5th, and 7th) :) I've been focusing on getting their routine down and could not justify taking the time out of the day to blog haha I don't even Facebook! However, we have the routine down now and I can take an hour or so to update this thing for our family to see what we have been up to. Below are so random pictures I took within the last couple of weeks...Just for fun

He's so cute in Mikes Hat!

My handsome greenbean

 

Apple Blossom from our yard

One of our princesses

My guys

After just posting my previous post this evening I wanted to add a quick cute picture of my guys today, I bought Mike an axe for Christmas, I wasn't sure if this would be equal to him buying me workout clothes but turns out he liked it! YAY! Anyways, he put it to work on a tree that was in the way of the tree house we are building for the kids.

For the record he did buy me the Brazilian Bum lift workout video but ONLY because I really want to keep active and try it out since I have heard great things! If I hadn't asked for it I would wonder about that one haha!

 

And here's our mutt tonight enjoying her spoiled life on our couch

 

 

 

God is SO GOOD!

Finally some free time to post :) Christmas has kept us so busy like MANY others! I am so thankful for my family and friends, but I do need to say I mostly thankful for my father in heaven! I can't help but think of what life would be if Jesus hadn't come. As it is we are so undeserving of his love and  very unworthy of him having died on that cross for us, willingly! I can speak for myself and say what a wretch I am and how rotten my heart can be... Oh I am so thankful our God is so loving and forgiving and so full of grace!

Thank you Jesus!!

 

 

 

Schatten turned 1

Yesterday Schatten turned one! And yip, we were celebrating my bears birthday on the same day.

My bears birthday party

I haven't posted in about a week! We have been busy preparing for my sons birthday party, he is turning 11 next week but since his birthday day is a day before Christmas Eve his birthday is overlooked because people are so busy as it is preparing for Christmas! So this year we wanted to do it early and make it special.

Since he has been into the cowboy stuff lately we decided to do a cowboy Christmas theme. It was supposed to be set up outside but the wind was just crazy, blowing at about 50 mph! so we had to improvise and used the garage (and of course inside the house). It was fun though, we threw straw all over the floor of the garage haha.

*In the midst of greeting guests, we somehow forgot to takes pictures up until it was time to open presents!

Uncle Edward and great Aunt Nonie

Bears dad 

Grandma and Grandpa Ruiz

 

His sister gave him a bear :)

His brother spent a deal of time refurbishing an old skateboard for him

Thanks PaPa Rick!

Score!!!! He wanted one so bad, thanks Grandma and Grandpa Ruiz!

Score again!

Oh My Goodness!

From Dad

LOL!

Nolan scored also from Grandpa and Grandpa Ruiz and dad

Trying out the new board

Brothers

A snowy Saturday

Finally a snow day that ALL the kids can enjoy! Except maybe on of the boys, he wanted nothing to do with it and was pretty upset that we asked him to come out for a picture, poor kid!

*Bummer the pictures came out a little blurry but the lens kept fogging up.

 

Guess who didn't want to be outside?

She loves my heated blanket

Apple pie and ice cream, mmmm