Conrad`s 11!!!!!!!!

I can hardly believe it myself, we have an 11 year old, what!!! It just does not seem possible, it feels like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital. We love him so very much and even though watching him grow isn't always easy for me and not to mention the older he gets the more obstacles we face, but Im trying to do my best to embrace every moment.

So now that he is a big 11 year old he decided that he wanted to go hang out at the mall with some of his buddies. He got this idea from his 15 year old uncle that he adores. When conrad goes to stay over at his grandmas house his uncle brings him along to his hang outs, and you guessed it they go to the mall and well conrad thinks it is the coolest thing. So after the mall they came home ate pizza, hung out and watched videos on vine, played basketball and just had a blast until after midnight, and then mikie had to put the smack down on the highly sugared up boys and then it was bed time. Morning came sooner then I thought, they woke up about 6, so I went to the bakery and got them some more sugar lol,  then they played stick ball in the front and hung out till it was time to go home.

Playing some late night b ball

Pizza, soda, and cupcakes, love the simplicity

Laughing at videos, too cute!!!

Cupcake ninjas!!!

There are many perks to this getting older thing, Birthdays seem a lot more simple which I love!!! Its exciting to watch these boys get older and have a blast with each other. And so many more things are wonderful about them getting older, but I still have a difficult time with it. I have to hand over my feelings to God and ask for strength on a daily basis, and know everything will be ok. With all this being said please cherish every moment, even when they are not the most enjoyable. Happy Birthday Conrad, We love you our sweet boy and thank God everyday for Blessing us with you!!!!!

A very Blessed Christmas

Christmas has come and gone, and soon it will be a new year! Im not sure if its just me but time just seems to fly by, and no matter how much I try to embrace every second I find myself and my heart getting kinda sad in ways. Having children has brought so much joy to my life, I know they will grow up but its just going by way too fast. Christmas always seems to remind me that one day they just might not be able to be with us during the holidays when they are grown but why do I have to be thinking that now, crystal slow down and just enjoy the present and the future will come in time and when it does embrace it as it comes.

So our Christmas tends to always be busy, I always do my best to try to keep things fair for our families. So Christmas eve we went to my mom and dads and celebrated with my moms side of the family, we always make it a point to go to Church with my grandma its a very nice tradition that we def try to keep. Unfortunatly mikie had a stomach virus so he was not able to celebrate with us which was very sad because he didnt want to miss out, and everyone was bummed when they discovered he was not coming, my cousins especially, they find mike quite entertaining which he def is.

Christmas morning came, our kids were of course awake at 5am and conrad comes into the room and says mom is it ok if we go out into the living room at 6 and I said sure buddy, not even ten min later he comes back in and says can we just go now and I said yes, I had a feeling that the 6 thing wasn't gonna happen but I thought it was sweet of him. So the kids were of course thrilled with the little they got from us and had thankful hearts for what they received which always brings Peace to my heart. As they played I made them all breakfast and thankfully mikie was better and we soon got ready to go to mikies moms for Christmas dinner.

Off to fairfield we went and had a nice dinner and of course more presents which Im always thankful for but sometimes I feel there is toooooo many presents, the kids would never complain but I think I would be content with no presents and just enjoying family time and maybe doing something great like bringing the kids to a children's hospital and bringing toys to the children there, or to a shelter or to the homeless just something more meaningful. I hope for this in our future I want to teach our kids the importance of love and God is love and He is why we celebrate Christmas and why they are still young I want to make an imprint on their little hearts so that when they become adults they will live their lives selflessly.

After all is said and done we had an amazing Christmas and we are truly Blessed. Our family will always know why we celebrate Christmas, and even though we do santa and presents it will always be first and foremost about Jesus, Happy Birthday Jesus!!!!!

Christmas eve already for bed

cute little mugs we picked up for the kiddos

our sweet doggie with her new toys

Its Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas!

     Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!! I of course love this time of year, the giving and being around loved ones and creating precious moments and of course celebrating Jesus's Birthday!! The weather has been so icy cold the kids keep asking mommy why doesn't it snow here and I say it has happened before maybe before the new year it will again, you never know!


     This morning was breakfast with santa at the kids school, it is something we have been going to ever since Conrad started kindergarten and this is his last year whaaaaaaaaa, such a bitter sweet moment. It was also Mylas first year, well as a student at DH White anyway. I guess if Conrad is not too cool next year he can still come along, man this watching your kids grow up is a lot harder then I thought it was going to be.

      Tonight our town had their annual Christmas tree lighting and boat parade, so we bundled up and headed downtown. Mikie and conrad were off doing boy stuff so I was joined by one of dearest friends and her daughter, my sissy also met up with us. It was very sweet, I love these kinda things its so much fun especially when the weather is somewhat tolerable which tonight it was cold but definitely tolerable.

Conrad and Myla with Santa

Love u my Friend

Oh Christmas tree

Girls waiting for the boat parade to start

Honored to share such a precious moment

My grandmother if i have not said it before i will say it again and again, she is the most amazing woman I know and I will always be thankful that I have been so Blessed to have such a woman to look up to my whole life.

She was nominated for an award for her selflessness and her commitment and dedication for helping others. She truly is an inspiration and when i said to her grandma if anyone deserves this its you and her sweet humble answer was well I don't know about that.

So she invited my sissy and I to join her for the game, and wow!!! I have never been to a pro football game YIKES!!!! I can see how if you are into the the game it would be very exciting, but for me it was soooo much to take in, but the vibes you got from all the cheering and team spirit was pretty awesome, not to mention the most important part getting to see my 90 year old grandmother out on the 50 yard line getting recognized for her selfless giving of her time.

Thank you Grandma for letting me share such a special day with you, I will forever treasure it!

Such a special lady

walking to our seats

waiting to see our grams

A little pre game warm up

gram and some others on the field

Drum line, I wonder if conrads drum teacher is out there on the line today

enjoying the game together

A Vosefski Family Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving one of my most favorite Holidays! This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Vosefski side, sometimes Holidays can be tough well for me anyway because we have to decide between three different places to go. Thankfully all sides of the family understand when we cannot be with them, but my heart always feels bad when we arent with the others.

Mikies dad and girlfriend hosted this years Thanksgiving in their new home, we had alot of fun and more food then you could even imagine. There was the traditional Thanksgiving food and some japanese food, mexican food tons of snacks, pies pies and more pies!

The Vosefski boys of course had to carry on their Gichans dollar poker game. Gichan is Mikies grandfather that he just lost a few weeks ago, he loved to play cards with his boys so I think anytime those boys get together they will keep that tradition alive for their Gichan.

We hope everyone had a Blessed Thanksgiving, Im forever Thankful for this life God has Blessed us with and our amazing family and friends we have it to share with!

I love my hubbys faces lol

Mikies dads Beautiful girfriend Maria, Love her!!!!!

Conrad and Myla with their Bachan

Japanese noodles

Ceviche

Snacks

Uncle Goobie, He is so loveable!

Vosefski boys playing cards

So thankful for these Beautiful Babes

Celebrating 90 years with the most amazing woman

I was Blessed with the opportunity to help host a 90th birthday party for one of the most amazing beautiful woman I know my grandmother. 90 years incredible!!!! she is truly an inspiration, someone I strive to be like everyday of my life. She is one of the most selfless people I know, always giving and always wanting to help out in any way she can. She is always busy helping her Church, and volunteers weekly as a pal at the school, she has taken in people who have needed help and lives with no fear, she loves the Lord with all her heart in return He has Blessed her with one of the biggest hearts. My grandmother lost her husband at a pretty young age, I believe I was about three, she never remarried or ever had a desire to find anyone else. I enjoyed getting to look through all of her old pictures and getting to see her life and the love her and my grandfather shared.  She has been through many trials, has had to say goodbye to alot of people but she keeps going and going strong. She loves to go and see new things, my sister and her family are awesome at bringing her pretty much everywhere they go and they are quite the goers!  My grandmother is the closest woman I know that lives up to the Scripture Proverbs 31:10-31. I love you grandma, thank you for being a true inspiration, I pray that Im half the woman you are so Blessed to have you in my life!

Here are some pictures of the big bash we had for her, I only had pre party pictures unfortunately I was too busy during the party to take pictures but she had a blast visiting with family and friends.

The girls with gram

Such a Beauty

My dad signing her well wishes wall

The beautiful flower wall that amazing melanie did

simple but crafty centerpieces

Mother and daughter having fun

We Love you dad

Cheese

One of her pretty cakes

My crazy brother inlaw, he claims to be grams fave but I beg to differ lol

Myla looses her first tooth

For some reason I get so excited when the kids loose their teeth, especially their first one! I love that jack o lantern look lol. So being a big 5 year old miss Myla is on her way to that look and just in time, fall is here!! After days of her tooth hanging on by a little string it finally came out, which i was glad because i started to fear she would swallow it.  She of course had it all ready for the tooth fairy, but she didn't come Yikes I know but she made up for it the following night, meaning Myla got a bonus!! Here is her Beautiful new smile :)

A very loose tooth

here it is!!!!!