Adorable little faces

These faces are so adorable!!!

Happy Anniversary!!!

This January my parents celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary! It was the first year that we didn't have a large event going on, so my parents took this opportunity to renew their vows. They renewed their vows on a Thursday morning during 8:30am mass and it was beautiful! We didn't all make it to the mass, but we were all able to meet up for a lovely breakfast.

My parents have been a wonderful example of marriage! I'm not going to say they are perfect or that they never fight (because I would be lying) but I will say that after 32 years of marriage my dad still grabs my mom's rear-end (I didn't feel right saying butt) and my mom still blushes .... that is love!! 

Family Day

Every now and then I get really overwhelmed and decide we need a day off! On this particular day I decided the zoo would be the perfect escape, so we packed up and headed to the zoo. I honestly didn't think Little Man Cub would remember it much since we hadn't been in a year, but he totally remembered!! He literally squealed with excitement when he saw the penguins and kept asking for the bears. So adorable :)

Man Cub found the bears :)

Tiger/Lion Feeding!

Poor tired DH

 We were so lucky to have Uncle Jt and Auntie Jessica join us. I am pretty sure both the boys have a huge crush on thier auntie ;)

  

2012 in review

I'm running really late, but I don't want to miss out on my yearly review :)

2012 was a crazy year, but when you think about it when do you ever say life was relaxing? On one hand I feel like I hardly accomplished anything and on the other hand I have no idea how we did so much in so little time!  

1. We started the year off with Chunky Monkey's baptism and a wonderful family party afterwards!

2. DH went on two awesome guy days!! The first was a monster truck rally with my dad and all the guys and the second was the annual Raider's game tailgate for my brothers birthday. It was hard having him gone for a whole day, but I know that he had a great time and he needed the guy bonding :)

3. Family zoo trip!!! We love the zoo, so much that we bought a year pass to the local petting zoo. We used it so often that I lost track of how many times we went. 

4. DH got to play indoor football with his brothers and bother-in-laws again!! This was such an awesome activity for DH to participate in. It was one game a week, usually in the evening, and all of us wives and kids would come cheer on our dads/husbands!

5. I hosted my very first holiday!! We had DH whole family over for Easter dinner and an Easter Egg hunt. I was a little nervous, but it was wonderful and we will definitely host again this year :)

6. Went to the beach a lot. This doesn't sound that hard, but this meant that I packed up, drove, and watched a 3 and almost 1 year old all day .... it was exhausting!! and a ton of fun.

7. Caught Whooping Cough :( this one was a bit scary, but we were diagnosed early and the boys recovered pretty quickly. Chunky Monkey had a rough time and got a secondary infection (bronchitis), as well as having a tendency to catch every single cold going around. We are all healthy now and praying we stay that way!

8. Discovered the Farmer's Market .. we are obsessed and go every week!

9. Got all dressed up for Peter's cousin's Wedding ... we were all dressed nice so this picture needs to be blogged!!!!

10. Said goodbye to our faithful 1976 Cadillac Coup De Ville, DH and Man Cub were out for a drive when it caught on fire :( it ended up with a very fun trip to the junk yard, but a sad fair well to a much loved car!

11. We went to DisneyLand!!!! I have been wanting to take the boys forever ... well since they were born :) Man Cub was the perfect age, he loved everything. It was wonderful to see how magical it was through his eyes! 

12. DH works every Christmas so we started the tradition of celebrating the 12 days of Christmas. This ended up being so much fun and really spread out the Christmas fun, especially since the boys spent the last half of December sick. They were much better at a bunch of small celebrations instead of one giant overwhelming celebration :)

And that ends our crazy year!!

Christmas Books

I know this is a little boring, but I am really enjoying looking back at our book list from the library :) So here are our Christmas books ...

The favorites were definitely Under the Star by Jane Yolen and How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. Under the Star is an adorable counting book that Man Cub loved counting along with and How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? ...well it has dinosaurs :) 

Chunky Monkey is One!!

I have been MIA lately!! Life truly got the better of me :) we have been keeping busy, but one of the most exciting things that happened while I was on a blog break was Chunky Monkey turned one. He has been such a wonderfully little guy! In his first year of life he had a series of colds, whooping cough, and bronchitis, but through it all he has stayed such a happy cheerful little guy. Here is a little round up of the last year ...