T-BALL Season again!

So I think I have mentioned this before but Brock started his T-ball again for his second season. He has had three games so far and I couldn't be prouder of the little guy. Every Wednesday we have practice from 5:30 to 6:30 and then Saturday games. Looking back from last season to this season, there is a huge improvement. He is still on the 3 to 4 year old team so of course being one of the oldest and having prior experience he does stand out a little. Next season he will be moving up to the 5 and 6 years league.

Brock is definitely the clown of the team. He loves to make everyone laugh by being silly and a little obnoxious but hey he's still young. He is one of the leaders where he wants all eyes on him. LOL We are hoping that when Uncle Arek and Aunt Shelby and the muchkins come to visist they will be able to see him play, thats what he is getting really excited for. After each game he counts down to how many more he has till they get to watch. He just loves an audience. My Mom and Chad have been able to make every game and of course Alyvia and I, and then last week my father in law made a surprise visist to the ball field and that just made Brock play all the more better.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures!!!

Rollerblading!

Brock is always into trying new things. So our neighbors have three boys, i know I've mentioned them before, and anyways the oldest is always rollerblading. Sherry had two pairs of Rollerblades so we put them on and of course Brock wanted to learn how. Lucky for us their youngest Talon had a pair that were size adjustable. Brock put them on and I helped him blade around the street. It was so much fun and absolutely hilarious! Now I know what one of his presents will be for Christmas and I think I'll get myself a pair too. I haven't been on Rollerblades in over 5 years so of course I had to get used to it again but its like riding a bike.

Welcome to our family :)

We have added a new member to our family. On Thursday September 24, 2009 James, the kids, and I headed on down to Lied Animal Shelter to scout out what type of dogs we could adopt. Now we did prepare the kids that it was a huge possibility that we may not be taking home a dog that day. Lied had over 150 dogs available for adoption and we walked from corridor to corridor taking a peek at everyone. I think we were there for about two hours just looking. James and I narrowed it down to 3 dogs that really caught our eye but in the end there was just one that picked us. Canon is a Shepherd Mix with we think boxer; he is about 5 months old so I gave him a birthday of April1, 2009. On his history it said he was found wandering the streets so he was very obviously a stray. Before we adopted him, one of the workers brought him out to us and he was just perfect with the kids, didn't bark one, didn't jump on them, was just real mellow, and then he came over to me and put his front paws on the shoulders and just rested his head on me like he was giving me a hug. I was completely sold and so was James. One thing that was truly rewarding is Lied is a kill shelter so we very well saved his life.

I do believe that he was once a pet to someone because he is potty trained and is crate trained. Canon is very spoiled with his new doggie bed, and his treats that the kids give him. I believe that this was the final touch for our family. Hope you like our pictures too!!

Neighboorhood Fun

The one thing that we love the most about where we live is all the kids that are around here. Our next door neighbor has three boys ages 3,8, and 9. Our other neighbor that lives across the street three houses down has two little girls ages 15 months and 4 years old. There is also a ton of other kids that live on the other two streets in our neighborhood. So needless to stay we are never bored when out side. Talon (the 3 year old next door) has this powered Car that Alyvia just loves to ride in. She can't reach the pedal so if those two are getting along that day Talon will usually give her a ride. It is just precious. Here are also some random pictures of the kids from the past month. Also I have added a few pictures from when the kids and I went to the Exploration Park in Mountains Edge. It was one of the last days it was in the 100's here.

Brock absolutely loves to dress up in his many different costumes!

She always finds something to amuse herself with... who ever said kids need toys never had a box to play with :)

This is called the Green Machine that cousin Zarek has, Alyvia likes to imagine herself as a big girl!

Brother and Sister sitting together... this is rare they are both way to busy to sit down for very long.

This is the most common thing Alyvia does... she is constantly on the phone talking to whomever will listen.

Sunset Park

So first off I haven't posted in a while because my camera had malfunctioned and luckily it is under warranty so off to Canon it went to be fixed! I just got it back and was finally able to upload all my pictures from September. So I'll keep all my posts short since I have a few I want to write. :)

James and I took the kids to Sunset Park a few weeks ago to feed the ducks. We assumed there would just be few ducks around, but no I think we had just about every duck and pigeon within a mile radius surrounding us. It was a blast, Brock loved feeding them and Alyvia just stayed in James' arm the whole time watching. She didn't like how some of the pigeons would get so close to her.

Nickelback Concert!!

So James and I are not known to go to concerts ever. It always costs so much money and I know I can use that money for something else. Well, last April my mom called me and told me that Nickelback was going to be coming to Las Vegas in September and wanted to know if James and I wanted to go with her and Chad. So of course the first thing I told her was no. But then the more I thought about it the more I started to talk myself into going. I mean we hardly ever do anything for our selves and I could justify it as a joint present to ourselves. So I went ahead and splurged and bought us tickets. Now mind you less then a week later I was laid off from work.

Finally September comes and James and I are getting so excited for this concert. We had our babysitter all lined up "Nana" and we were ready. Mom and Chad picked us up so we only had to take one car and we headed towards the MGM Grand Hotel. When we got there it was getting pretty crowded but we made our way through security bought some drinks and found our seats. Our seats were four rows from the floor and just left of the center. They were perfect!!! There were three other bands that played first; Saving Abel, Papa Roach, and Hinder. I knew exactly two songs from each band but James knew almost all of them of course. We all agreed that Papa Roach was the best out of all of them. Then Nickelback finally made their appearance and wow did they blow us away. They played for two hours straight and it was an amazing concert. We were standing for the entire thing and man was my back hurting by the time it was all done. It was such a cool experience for me because I had only been to two concerts before and they were nothing like this.

I was so happy that James and I got to go to this and thanks mom for letting us know about it. We did take a few pictures with James i-phone since no one thought to bring an actual camera but you get the general idea.