BT's birthday mexican fiesta!

I love to go big with BT's b-day every year. It's the one time of year that I get to really spoil him and he deserves it!! This year we had a mexican themed party...BT LOVES mexican food:) Nana and I made home made green enchiladas and chocolate peanut butter cake. I took 2 days off work...ha! Pretty sure that pregnancy had something to do with my slow pace. We have such amazing friends and family who came to celebrate and they all made BT feel so special. The day ended with Preston covering himself head to toe in baby powder(his own little way of celebrating).
The Prep(I love Presto's face as he was "helping" daddy:



Senorita Tees with the birthday boy

Grandma and Grandpa Tees supplied us with sombreros(no fiesta is complete without them!)

Phia felt like a princess in her "fiesta dress"(as she called it)

Sophia turned to Nana and Marta and said "we're taking a picture together ok?"

The highlight for Sophia was the gift that Avery brought her. Avery gathered different things from her room and brought them for Sophia...so sweet!

Miss Kelly Stevens brought a beautiful salad!!

Phia and Avery brushing up on their mexican entertaining skills...ariba!!

This is Everett. He's real happy and adorable like this:)

Presto with his godpapa!

The other very cool Tees kids:)


Sophia was over the moon about seeing her cousin!

Of course this was a party for Daddy but I HAD to do a little something for the kids too. I just loved these pinatas. You pull the ribbons rather than swing a bat(my kind of pinata!!)Needless to say the kids were in heaven!


Senorita y Senor Petchenick:)

We love this family! Ally and I are "room mommy's" at the kids school:) So fun!

The beautiful abuelitas!

One of my favorite moments...these boys were too cute interacting with each other!

Our amigos:)



Let them eat cake:)!!



And the grand finale! Our little Presto left alone in his room a little too long and this is what happens. A baby powder party!! Head to toe, in his mouth and his room completely covered. He was VERY proud of himself(as he should be!!)

Last trip as a family of 4! San Diego adventures...

We woke up Saturday morning to a message from the Petchenick's saying "lets go to San Diego!". So we booked a room and got on the road! We of course packed a lot into 2 days but it was well worth it! Saturday we went to Sea World and both kids LOVED the Shamu show. Sophia kept yelling "THIS IS SOOOO AWESOME!!". The Petchenick's are even more ambitious than us and want to see everything which we LOVE!! We saw so many exibits, the walrus, the polar bears, the penguins, and the white beluga whales! We didn't get the kids to bed until after 9 so they slept like logs. Sunday after we all hit up Starbucks of course, we were off to the zoo! Preston is at a much better age than the last trip to SD and really loved seeing the animals but his favorite thing the entire trip was watching the double decker tour bus at the zoo! He was in awe! We also fed the giraffes this time at the zoo which was awesome. Again, we saw soooo many animals and Phia has a new pose that can be seen below in many pictures:)

Who do you ask for help when you don't know which way to go? SOPHIA!!

Miss Sophia requests braids in her hair everyday now. Thankfully I know how to do them or I'd be in trouble:)

This was the highlight for Preston. He was SOOO excited to see Elmo. He calls him "Melmo". His eyes lit up!

No bribing here for smiles...the kids were so giddy!

Time to watch Shamu! Our enthusiastic Sophia couldn't stop saying how amazing she thought it was:)



Phia cheered like she was at a sporting event with lots of "wohoooo's"!

Hi handsome:)

Cotton candy love

Ally takes the best family pictures!

The white beluga whales were so cool and we just made it in time for their feeding:)

Our little snow princess in her white puffer!

Annnnndddd here's "the pose"! This was her signature pose the entire trip!

I heart this picture:) xo

Yay for the mommy's!!

Phia with the "twin boys" as she calls them. Literally she'll yell out "hey twin boys!"

There's daddy!

Another variation of "the pose"

Hugest turtle EVER!!

And yet another variation ha!

This girl loves to get her picture taken:)

After a very long day at Sea World, the kids were messy messy so they took baths! Presto loves him some bath time!


And we packed up the luggage and headed out! We LOVED our hotel and had a huge suite so the kiddies had their own room:)

Even at the zoo, "the pose" was not forgotten. Phia with the meerkat:)

Presto beating on the drum in the playground...


The kiddies loved the petting zoo at the Children's Zoo.

Mommy and her monkey's!

Presto's new obsession is cars. He has one(or multiple) in his hands a LOT of the time:)

Preston loved the sea otters and was chasing them back and forth!

I love this picture. Preston loved this bus so much and daddy was so patient and let him explore the bus for at least an hour. Such an amazing daddy:)!!

Preston staring at the bus:)

We had no idea you could feed the giraffe's but we do now thanks to Jason and Ally:) We got our 3 cookies and held them out. The kids weren't scared and seemed to love it!





The boys and their munchkins...

Presto did so well without a nap. Poor guy finally gave it and put his head down:)