JPT's 36th B-day...

"Happy Birthday Mommy" sign handmade by Sophia and Preston with their hands and feet!

My birthday dinner with BT and Bentley

This year was a 4 day celebration:) Thursday night Brian and I headed to Santa Barbara for the night and stayed at the Bacara with baby Bentley. We enjoyed a nice relaxing dinner and ordered in room service for breakfast. We spent Friday strolling around SB and bought mama a new iphone! Saturday night we went to Cafe Firenze with Jason, Ally, Rob, and Kelly for an awesome birthday dinner! This restaurant is our favorite and it's becoming a tradition to host all our celebrations there. Sophia kept talking about having a "party for mommy" and kept asking when my "party" was so on Sunday BT bought a mini pinata and Nana baked a cake and we had a party with noise makers and party hats!! Sophia was in heaven and was so happy to sing Happy Birthday to mommy. The kids made me an awesome sign with Leyla using their hand and foot prints. It was a whirlwind 4 day birthday celebration and I especially enjoyed all the family time.

Happy Mommy and 4 week old Bentley bear in Santa Barbara

Our little bug enjoying the hotel room

Sigh...the grounds were beautiful!

A perfect, relaxing breakfast on our balcony

Daddy and his smallest monkey


Cafe Firenze time...
Kell and Rob!

Ally and Jason

Happy B-day to me:)

The birthday crew!

Our family "party":
Daddy got us a pinata and since it was raining we did it in the garage:)

Daddy even got us some party hats which Presto couldn't quite figure out:)

Make a wish...

Enjoying pinata candy:)


Daddy decorating the party table...

Bentley Owen is 1 month!

In some ways it feels like he's been part of our family forever and yet we can't believe he's already a month old! He's getting better with sleeping. On average he sleeps 4.5 hours at night before I have to feed him...he's given us a few 6 hour stints but it's usually 4.5 which isn't bad. We think he may have some sort of reflux but hoping he'll just grow out of it. He's starting to hold up his head which is super cute b/c he's so teeny tiny:)

Gingerbread houses with The Gordon's!

We started the Holiday season off early this year and decorated gingerbread houses with the Gordon's in November! Soooo much fun! Phia spent most of the time hiding and eating the candy so she clearly enjoyed herself. We all had a blast!

The kids are clearly excited!!!

Look at how happy Jack is!!




Look at happy Jack!!

Bentley boo boo 3 weeks

We are settling in as a family of 5(sounds sooo weird). Still trying to establish a routine which is a lot to expect with a 3 week old but we're still trying!! Bentley still sleeps 22-23 hours/day so it's tricky trying to feed him but he's gaining weight so that's all that counts! I've been keeping busy with Sophia's school events. We're planning the annual Casino Royale fundraising party in December along with creating a class project for Sophia's class. We're doing a flower pot and it will be bid on at the fundraiser in Dec. Bentley comes along with me to the school and hangs in his stroller while I take care of biz!

Mama kisses. You can see he's still a tad "yellow" but it's much better!

Birthday parties!

We've had 3 birthday parties in 3 weeks and have taken a lot of pictures( I'm real behind!). The first was Giselle's 3rd bday and this one was actually right before I delivered! It was a circus theme and the kids had a BLAST!! The next was Gabriella's 5th bday party, Jen and Tommy's daughter. Bentley was 2 weeks old and it was at Scooter's Jungle and the kids bounced themselves silly!! The third was Carter's birthday this past weekend and it was his "Firstgiving" and we had a full Thanksgiving feast!! The kids get so excited for these parties and we love seeing all our friends kids so excited too:)

Giselle's birthday(all I got was the kids in their b-day outfits...Phia looks so grown up!!)



Gabriella's bday:









Carteroni's Firstgiving
Presto loves him some bounce house!

Look at all the details!! Amazing:)

Phia and the b-day boy!

Cupcake heaven!

Mmmm "ahh juuu" as Presto calls it!

Gobble Gobble:)

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa and more Bentley!

Grandma and Grandpa came for a visit last weekend! We ate pizza and watched Bentley sleep...ha! Sophia and Presto had a blast with their grandparents as usual and we can't wait to see them again soon!




Peek-a-boo I'm awake!!

Newborn yawns are the BEST!!

Our biggest monkey's relaxing

Proud mama of 3!


Mama's lookin' a lil' sleepy...