Catching up...

Been keeping busy growing a baby, taking care of 2 kiddos, a dog and working full time! Need I say more! :)
We've been having fun too, playing in the yard on warm days, exploring the natural history museum, having dance parties, shopping for the baby(girls night out) and going to baseball games (boys night out)! Oh and we started dog training classes, gonna have a super dog in no time- right?!

Mother/Son day, super fun at the natural history museum - an ice age great white shark - measuring 30-50 feet!

First 3-D movie at the natural history museum - Sea Rex!

18 weeks along!

Can you say, "OH yeah dance party!"

Sprinkler time!

Jakob getting honored at school for being a "Pillar of Respect and Responsibility, so proud of my boy!

Jakob's first Padres game! 

Happy Mommies Day

Had a wonderful day! Woke up at 6:30, with voices in the hallway, but then was allowed to sleep in until 8:45, that is unheard of! Thanks to Daddy! I was given breakfast in bed, doughnuts, pancakes and eggs - (what more could a pregnant lady want) oh my! Jakob joined me in bed to eat, luckily he did, all I could fit in my tummy was a doughnut and 1 small pancake - he helped with the rest. He got a big kick out of sitting in bed with me! Sarah had already downed her doughnut, wasn't too keen on sitting while we ate. I was given some of the sweetest gifts and a beautiful starfish necklace from my most amazing hubby!

Spent the afternoon with the in-laws and the nephews, we BBQ'd, managed 4 kiddo nerf gun chaos, and then treated ourselves to chocolate and the Carlsbad Chocolate Bar- YUMMY!

                                                  My sweet little blue bird gift from Sarah!

                                            Sweetest note from my sweet boy!

And our newest gift! Sweet baby girl Watson!!

Feeling very loved and so lucky to be a mommy to these amazing kiddos!

Happy Spring!

To celebrate the coming of spring we took a trip to the Safari Wild Animal Park and saw the butterflies!
The kids got up close and personal with them!

Oh, and Sarah got her face painted for the first time, I was so proud of how long she stayed so still for the woman painting her face!

Here, she is with a Blue Morpho butterfly on her finger, it's too bad the butterfly didn't open it's wings, they were fluorescent blue!
Here's my big man with a super cute butterfly that he was so determined to pick up off the ground, and he did!

Baby Watson #3 update

Well, it's really happening, there is an actual baby in there! 12 weeks 4 days along to be exact! The nausea is subsiding during the day, still not feeling well in the afternoon/evenings but still a lot better - the last 6 weeks have not been great by any stretch of the means. Meanwhile this little person is just kicking back in the uterus!! Literally this baby had it's hands up by it's head, can't see them here. Can't wait to meet you little person!! Jakob and Sarah both gasped at this picture, I think it's finally real for them too!

Oh the changes and catching up to do!

It's been so long since I updated this blog, Wow time flies!

Where to start...

Sarah turned the BIG 4 and had a super fun super hero party, we had 20 kids, yes 20 kids in our house, thank GOD the rain stopped that morning and we were able to have a bounce house!

We played pin the tail on the super donkey, freeze dance and pass the cryptonite. We made superhero capes and ate a wonder woman cake that Grandma K. so amazingly made for Sarah!

Sarah and her super friends!
Sarah's home made cape
The BIG 4
Wonder Woman cake - or Super Sarah cake!


Let's see, well we also got a dog - Kona - a little shepherd mutt doggie that was rescued from the streets of Fresno! She is a puppy with lots of puppy energy, the kids ADORE her. I over heard Jakob one day laying on the floor with her saying, "Kona you are my best buddy."


Let's see what else, well one more big change in our lives, I'm 10.5 weeks pregnant! Yep, we found out on Sarah's 4th bday and were in a state of shock, but now a state of excitement. I've been quite sick and sleepy (therefore no blog posts in the evenings) but it is subsiding slowly!


Hoping to see baby Watson 3 arrive around Sept. 29th! The kids are pretty excited, well Sarah sure is, all I hear about every single day is how babies grow and how much stuff we need to get for the baby, "Mommy babies grow in the tummy... don't lay on your tummy you'll squish the baby...we will need to buy diapers and toys...I will share my clothes with the baby...when I get bigger I will grow a baby too...etc." On Valentine's day Sarah said, "Mommy you don't have to get Daddy something, you already got him something special, your baby." So sweet. I think this is a dream come true for her, a real life baby coming to our family!

Catching up

Christmas flew by, it was such a great one! The kids both really BELIEVE this year, without question. This year Santa left foot prints and cookie crumbs in our house too!
We were lucky enough to have Nana and Papa come and stay with us and witness the excitement, joy and chaos that is Christmas morning!
It all started at 5:51 am (this is the before picture)
Almost after - about 6:08 a.m. - just the Santa gifts opened
Jakob was on the good list this year and got the skateboard he asked for!
Somehow this one made it on the good list too! She got her (free wheeled scoota) 3 wheeled scooter that she asked for.
Putting the presents to good use - 9 am
Sunset on Christmas day!
The ladies!
Nana and Papa got us Twister, super fun, just not as big as I remember it! Nana and Jakob just starting their Twister challenge!
Santa brought us the Michael Jackson Wii game, also a great game for the family - Mark was roped into playing it, didn't want to be beaten by his daughter!! Good times!
All in all a wonderful holiday!!

Tis the season

We tried something new this year, we went to cut down our own tree. You would think we would've done this when we lived in the northwest, where all the trees are gorgeous, but we didn't. And I think after this year, we might end up with an artificial as in years past! The tree was a difficult decision and it's kind of a charlie brown tree, kinda bare on one side but needed a trim on another, and is a pain in the rear to get straight - but, it's unique and oh my goodness our house smells amazing - so there is that! We'll just see what the after Christmas sales hold in the way of artificial trees. I think the kids could go either way, I know they enjoyed the hunt (for awhile) but I think we would enjoy putting one together just as much. They love the decorating that's for sure.

Here we are hiking up to find a tree! Funny that there are palms in the background, so southern California.
Sarah had a knack for finding very interesting trees.

Silly kiddos (so done with me trying to get a nice picture of the two of them).
Tired and sitting in the shade. By this time we had walked every square inch of this farm to really pick a good one. They were done and would've been just as happy with a bush by now.

After getting the tree we made one of a few trips that day to Lowe's to pick out Christmas lights for our new house! Mark worked tirelessly getting them up on the house, I didn't work that hard, just threw them around the palm, which we fixed today. I think for our first go at hanging lights, it's pretty ok! Our tree is in the walkway, getting ready to be brought into the house.

Finally decorating, the kids were so excited. They had to wait to decorate until we could get a new bulb on the lights for the tree, a whole strand was out. Thank goodness for nice neighbors!
Sarah got to put the angel on for the first time - very exciting!

We ended the weekend with a surprise trip to the Del Mar race track for their Holiday of Lights show. You get to drive on the horse track and see a TON of light displays. We had the kids in their pj's in the car, guessing the whole time where they were going - we stumped them until we drove in. It was fantastic, and their faces on the kids were priceless. Sarah sat on my lap in the front and Jakob helped Mark drive around the track - very exciting. I know I will hold this as a favorite holiday memory, hopefully they will too.