Friends

This past weekend J.R. and I met with Kendra and Audrey at the Springs Preserve for a play date. I have known Kendra since we've been in Vegas and luckily we got pregnant around the same time. Audrey was born exactly 2 months to the day before J.R.

Needless to say they've been playing together since birth. I realized this weekend that I take for granted the special relationship between J.R. and Audrey. J.R. gets so excited when I tell him we have a play date with Audrey. I can't tell him until the day of the play date otherwise he'll tell me nonstop that he wants to see Audrey. They have done so many fun things together over the last 2 years. J.R. follows Audrey around like a puppy dog, it's so adorable.

Another little girl and her mother joined us for our play date at the Springs Preserve. We kept having to push J.R. and Audrey to include their new friend. I think J.R. and Audrey have their own language. They play so well together, it's effortless. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends, both J.R. and myself. It's exciting to think J.R. and Audrey could very easily be life long friends.

Here's some pictures of their fun time together last weekend.

It's been a long time...

I have been so busy, probably the busiest I have ever been. Work has been consuming my all my time. I take every day from 5pm to 8pm off to spend with J.R. but after he goes to bed around 8pm I'm back to work ... this too shall pass!

J.R. has been such a good boy. He's growing up so fast. I've missed posting for a few week so I've missed noteing the adorable conversations we've been having.

A few weeks ago he had a kickball tournament at school. My grandpa was in town so J.R. had a huge audience (Tony, Grandpa, Scott and myself). It turned out to be more of a soccer game with tackling. J.R. has a favorite friend as school Gavril. Watching them play was adorable, you can see how much they enjoy each other.

We had 2 birthday parties this last weekend, 2 girls from J.R.'s school. We played putt putt golf and went to a park and had snow cones, cotton candy and played in a jump house. It was great to see J.R. interact with all his classmates. You can see who his favorites are... J.R. is definitely not a wall flower..  he's in the middle of everything and everyone!

Here are some pictures over the last few weeks!

Happy to be home with my boys!

UGH, that's all I have to say. I'm exhausted but super happy to be home with my family. After being around 100 plus sales reps and hearing them complain about their family; specifically their spouses I feel so lucky with my spouse and family.

My friend Sandi came over to help Tony with J.R. all weekend while I was at headquarters. It sounds like they were on the go all day! They went to a movie, out to eat and played hockey. Tony told me that J.R. found some older boys on the ice that took the time to play and teach J.R. things. Once J.R. was with his "friends" he told his dad, "go away"!

This morning J.R. was telling me about his friend Gavril at school. I think that's his new best friend.. he replaced LoLo from Karens. This morning J.R. introduced me to Gavril and they went right to playing having dinosaur fights. His teacher said they spend the entire day together and play really well together.

Here's a picture of J.R. Monday morning with his new glasses I got him while I was in the airport in Boston. Blue Sponge Bob Square Pants glasses... last night he sang the entire Sponge Bob song before going to bed!

Here are some pictures Sandi sent me while I was away at Headquarters.

J.R. enjoying Sandi's birthday cake!



Pray for my boys!

I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow for training at headquarters and will not be back until 10pm Sunday night.... so pray for my boys!

This last week we were busy doing lots of fun things with J.R. Here's a few pictures.. enjoy!

Watching Sponge Bob before a nap.

Driving for the first time by himself... well kind of...

Getting a little help...

Don't get too excited.... still not potty trained... still not interested!

Auntie Ju Ju

This 4th of July weekend J.R.'s Auntie Ju Ju came to visit. J.R. was happy to have "new blood" in the house. He followed her everywhere. They enjoyed the swimming pool and going out to eat together. Here's a picture of them at Yard House, one of J.R.'s favorite spots. He kept hiding under the table from the BEAR! He was really sad when she went home. He keeps asking for her and saying he wants to go to Iowa to stay with his Auntie Ju Ju!

Last night J.R. did NOT like the fireworks. All our neighbors were outside setting off their own fireworks. Earlier in the day J.R. played with snaps, those things you throw to the ground and they make a popping sound. He really liked those but once the bigger fireworks went off he was not too happy. He ran to me, said he was scared and tried to claw his way into my chest. Then he asked for his daddy. He kept yelling he wanted to go home and he wanted to get out of there! He wanted to go inside. J.R. was fine once he went inside. He didn't even want to go out on our master balcony to watch the "far away" fire works.

This morning I asked J.R. if he liked the fireworks. He said, "no, maybe next year when I'm a big boy. I'll be a big boy and go to work like you mommy."

Funny Things.

The last few nights as I'm walking out his bedroom door after putting him in his crib J.R. will say, "now you go in your bed mama, okay".

Tony was playing with J.R. the other day while J.R. was home sick. J.R. wanted to play "football" with Tony. Tony said he could play for a little bit then had to go to work. After about 10 minutes of playing out of no where J.R. says, "Daddy, one more time then you go to work, okay?"

Cool Dude!

I need to preface: This is NOT Patrick Swayze from 1980...