As Mothers Day approaches!

This was a few days after Mothers Day last year. Only 4 weeks to go in this pic but I went 5 weeks instead:)!

The very Beginning..... 1999....

Well it has been a painful 6 months with no camera. Zach has upgraded our mac to all the adobe CS4 software and let me tell you I can not wait to edit some new stuff!!!!!! So I'm taking a step backwards on my blog. I know a little different. When my new camera gets here I will be hopefully posting newer pics like crazy.

So here it is our official Wedding photo's or at least some... We met at my going away for the Navy party, I was having at a girlfriends house(yes I was enlisted into the Navy)! How I got out of that one I don't know. Zach and I met and instantly connected. Our biggest connection was music and we spent the night outside talking about music while a house party was going on inside... Zach and I both hung out with a crazy bunch. My friends were protective and so were Zach's.... We all had a lot of fun. There was major drama with my girlfriends and always some Desert brawl. Never the less I kept dating him. For we were young and in love and only the Ages of 19 and 20. We got engaged after a year of dating(man the proposal story would be funny for here but long). Here now almost 10 years later with 3 children 3 beautiful boys. Who would of thought of something so great. I can say that marriage has been the hardest decision of my life and I had no idea what I was getting into!!!! For it is an unbelievable amount of work and effort. It is a trial of our faith, love,joy,pain and incredible amount of changes with each other, our kids and the world around us! What marriage has really taught me is how you can love someone unconditionally. Now I haven't always loved unconditionally but the reasons when I haven't give me a real reason to to try harder, to pass less judgment and simply be the best person you can be for that somebody. I would love to go deeper then that but Zach would not like that, lol!

Wow, the next biggest decision was becoming a Mother..Oh Whammy!!!!!! I love it so much!!!

My first tooth that you can't see

Keynan got his first tooth today. He loves food so I'm sure he is going to love to eat food with teeth! The boys get a kick out of taking a bath with baby K. Of course this is a day the twins are not playing outside. They seriously get filthy within the first ten minutes.

A fun Easter Activity!

Well after not being able to upload some more photo's I will try to explain what the kids and I did. We made cards for Grandma & Grandpa Anderson for Easter. We also made more for other friends and family but these were for Far away Grandma as the boys would say.
I traced an oval out of one of Keynan shape toys. Then we decorated their paper eggs with glitter and markers. The next day I cut out the eggs and had the kids glue them on the card. I had the artist(Zach) in the house help depict a tomb and Angel. I used the egg to be a cover over the tomb. As the kids glued on the eggs I read scriptures from Matthew 28. I also picked their favorite verse from the passage and wrote it on a separate piece of paper, then I cut it out and had them glue it on the back. Sorry no before and after pics.... I don't want to rotate them all right now and the Imac needs an update... Hope you can see how cute the cards are!

Osos Flaco Lake Road

We love to take the kids fishing here now that they are older. When they were smaller we used to load them up with toys in their tonka trucks and let them run for a mile or two. This area is a remote beach that has a mile long board walk which then leads to a sand trail with beautiful wild life. Of course the trail saves the best for last and dumps you right out to the ocean. This is the remote beach that they filmed Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3. It is located off the Pacific Coast Highway(1) and is just past the town Guadalupe.

Bitter Creek Railroad

Here is one of our favorite places to take the kids. This is a great place to go and usually is free unless they are doing a fundraiser. You can view the website at http://www.bittercreekwesternrr.org/ here you can find the schedule of when the train runs. The railroad is located on the Mesa in Arroyo Grande. It just so happens it is down the street from Grandma's house so we get to go frequently. It is about a 10 or 15 min train ride. You also can ride it over and over again. We like to pack lunches and spend the day there. There are picnic tables and bathrooms so that makes it nice for us parents:).