babylove

julian henry 5.26.2010

 one of my very best friends, de ann, had my baby the other week.;) he is such a beautiful, little boy with the sweetest expressions and the cutest name. i adore him and his mama. i pray he makes his mother proud and grows up to be a british comedian.;)

easy-lee ;)

sooo sad....

one of my very dearest girlfriends is leaving me for indiana! i'm so mad at kevin for getting a job and making money for his family.;) i suppose i will try and be happy for lea that she gets to retire at 27.  i will miss you and joshy too much, lea! i loved saturday and will miss those like nobody's business.;)  i'm so glad we got one last "put your back in to it" before you left, although we ain't what we used to be....oh, college girls!;) i love you and will miss you so much!!=(

"way to go id-a-ho!"

{downtown boise}

{bardenay}

{<3 long drives}

{i don't know why but i loved this little tree. it was all alone and a little ratted  looking on some far back dirt rode.}

{the great valley;)}

my mama flew out here on wednesday and i was able to go up to idaho on thursday and see markus in action. he has worked at this company for 6-ish years and this is the first time i have seen for myself what his days are like. i'm so glad i was able to go (thanks mom!=)) the drive up was so gorgeous and therapeutic, driving fast, singing my heart out to ingrid and screaming my head off to aerosmith with no one complaining about how loud i listen to my music.;)  i spent most of the day with mark watching him work minus a few hours when i snuck out to go to anthropologie and of course, toys r us.;)  we were able to see a little of downtown boise and then we headed to twin falls and drove around looking at all the beautiful scenery. it was so relaxing and idaho amazes me with its beauty every time i go.

holding hands and plugging noses

max finally had his field trip to wheeler farm (now i am left with only having to hear about toy story 3 all day.) we've been a hundred times but i suppose it's more fun when you get to go on a bus.=) i loved how surprised max was to drive by all the places we drive by everyday. "mom, i can't believe i just saw smith's!" 

he was ready to go 20 minutes after we got there.;)

[my angel baby]

[the precious, little baby pigs]

[my group, such cuteness]

[just beautiful]

gladiator=)

[my little graduate! aka little kalani;)]

                                

[beautiful babies]

[mad's little paper said he wants to be a doctor when he grows up. i asked him why he never told me that he said, "i was just gonna grow up and surprise you."=)]

[thanks for coming sitakes!]

[<3 these 2]

"i'm only happy when it rains".....or snows=)

that's not necessarily true but i LOVE all the rain we've had lately and it was very cool to wake up to snow this morning. yes, snow at the end of may! mad woke me up this morning wearing his snow gloves.=) the boys loved it but this fL girl can officially say she is ready for it to be warm.

"i can see a rainbow"

so, max had his 1st grade program last week and he did so wonderful!! he actually participated this time, recited the poems, sang all the songs. he was so precious, i totally cried! of course, i did not think to clear off my memory card before it so we only got like a minute of his program.=(  i made him sing one of the songs tonight so y'all could see the cuteness. of course, mad had to be a part of it too (he's got a little bit of his auntie timmy in him.;) jk!!) <3

::my pretty baby::

::does this surprise anyone?=)::

rotten tooth fairy ☆

yes, she is a very rotten tooth fairy. sometimes she forgets to come or maybe it's raining where she lives and she can't fly with wet wings.;) there are many reasons she may have to skip a night (or two) and then make up for it with 5 bucks and a note apologizing.  it happens more than it should. waking up to max's tears at the sight of a tooth still under his pillow, the "tooth fairy" waking up in panic mode at 3 a.m. and having to dig through the closet to find the pixie dust and not to mention write a very tiny note. and i don't foresee it  ending anytime real soon. ("i don't just think santa is real, i know he is!" i guess you could say it's in his blood. that, parker=)) thankfully maxer is very forgiving of little fairies.;)

"i'm just gonna need a little break."

[max in action]

[elliott and max...2 peas in the very same pod.;)]

[my lovelys<3]

[such cute, little snots]

another year of max in soccer. do i really need to elaborate?  he does love that it is at his school on saturdays and that he is with elliott. he could do without the actual playing. =)

he's a rocket man!

::mad's rocket, "bread toast"..weirdo;)::

::waiting oh, so patiently::

::mad shooting off his rocket::

::cutie pies, alastair and rowan::

::love my pretty baby::

"you don't know nan..." or "girl dat's juvenile!" (i couldn't decide;))

okay, i'm sorry. here i go again.  i guess i am just feeling very sentimental about all the wonderful people in my life that i love so dearly and that love me unconditionally. maybe it has something to do with madden being into the land before time again, we all know how that movie can get to you.=) but i have just been thinking a lot about my beautiful, little, colombian/puerto rican best friend, (who thinks she is italian;)) diane, aka my nana. i could not ask for a more genuine, devoted friend. she is the type of friend that will take out her earrings for you if she needs to;) or step in for you when you're not at your strongest.  she is the type of friend that is willing to stay a few hours late at work b/c she spent 3 hours on the phone with you instead of doing what she was suppose to. the type of friend that will always answer your texts even if they come at 3 a.m. (although, that one works both ways.;)) nana is one of the strongest people I will ever know. i can only hope that some of her strength will rub off on me. I hope she doesn’t mind me telling you all this but I just want everyone else to know how strong and amazing she really is. I met nan our freshman year of high school and we instantly became the very best of friends. I am forever grateful that we did then so that I could be there to see firsthand just how amazing she really is. diane’s mom had lou gehrig’s disease and it was in the later stages in high school. she went through so much with her mom and everything it took to take care of her, I can’t even begin to imagine what she felt. i just know of the sacrifice on her part bc she was soo devoted to her mommy. nana’s mommy passed away the summer of our junior year. i was spending that summer in utah with family and it still makes me cry every time i think about not being there for her. a few years after that her beautiful sister, Jennifer, passed away too. these two things would probably break me forever but diane has such a strength and an infectious love for life and the world and is always the optimist.  after high school crazy nan up and decided she was moving to nyc where she still lives, by herself, in an apartment in Brooklyn. she ain’t scared of nothin!! i have always been so amazed by people that have had unbelievably hard things happen to them in their lives but still turn out to be amazing people. diane is definitely on my list of “the most wonderful people I have met.” nana is soooo wise beyond her years. she has the most incredible judge of character, it's almost witch like. i rarely listen to her and sometimes she doesn't even listen to herself but she is ALWAYS right on. it's crazy!! she knows what i am really feeling or thinking even before i do. "randa, you don't even really feel that way. when are you going to realize that?"=) And is never afraid to disagree with me (even when I’m only calling to vent and the only thing I need or want her to do is agree with me!) or tell me I am being a fool. she does it in the nicest way, I love that about her.;) thank you, nan for being you and for always being there to put my crazy in check.;) I love you with all my heart.<3

{I changed my #1 and 2 songs to ones that remind me of you. can we just change fifteen to twenty eight??;) and they didn’t have “spilled perfume” or you know that would have been my #1. xxox!}

because it's easier than calling everyone=)

so, i found out this morning that max's school is 99% sure that they are going to go to a traditional school year this next school year. i guess it was on the news last night that the jordan school district picked like 8 schools to go traditional and they were one of them. i have stopped watching the news so i did not find out until this morning.  the office said they won't know "for sure, for sure" until june 8th but it is pretty much set. i'm not sure how i feel about it, i liked the year round. i need those breaks and we all know how much maxer "needs a break!"=)

"you tell me?"

the cuteness that is my little lovers....

(thanks for the hats, bushong! the boys love them! and i love you being mark's friend.)

"mom, i love your hair curvy (curly), you look a lot of pretty."- sweet madden

max was playing the wii at elliot's house and was frustrated no one was obeying him while playing the mario game. he said, "this is why i work alone!!"

max called home sick from school yesterday. it went like this...me: "what's wrong babe?" max: "i'm sick." me: "max, you only have 2 hours left. what hurts?" max: "my head is really hurting and if that's not good enough i feel like i'm gonna throw up too." i, of course, had to get him. he, of course, was just fine.=)

max to mad, "you're the best singer there's ever been!"

chiccy to mad, "mad! you are lookin sharp!" mad to chic about 10 mins later, "chacha, you are spiky."=)

max loves icarly! he sent an email to the girl on the show. he wouldn't let me read it.=)

i told mad this morning that his friend, brooks, was probablynot going to be at school today b/c he got his new little sister last night. mad said, "can i?" "can you what?" "can i get one of those little sisters?" =) probably not anytime too soon madden pickle.

madden asked me when i was going to turn 20.=) he can make your day that boy.

and that is all i can remember right now people! i'll add more later.

"makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah"

"i got a nikon camera, i love to take a photograph..." yes, it's true. mark got me another camera for mother's day. it's just what i wanted, one that is small enough to fit in my purse but big enough to take a decent picture. thanks johnny husband!! ;) and thank you for all the other stuff too. i was spoiled rotten.  thank you sisters for babysitting! it's fine that i celebrate mother's day minus the reasons that i get to celebrate mother's day.;) besides, we had to do it a day early anyway since mark left sunday. i spent the real day with my babies....and everyone else. thanks jake for making dinner. it was amazing!!

and God bless kurt. ;)

{it's sad b/c it's true.=)}

{from max=) it's him and i playing spongebob monopoly, me giving him a bath and him on the computer while i watch tv with a towel on my head. i think we need to get out more.;)}

"hey mama(s)..."

to my beautiful mom:  thank you for all of your preaching (i think. ;)) thank you for all of the free sessions. thank you for letting me pretend to be sick so i wouldn't have to go to school and then taking me shopping. thank you for letting me stay home from school when i was nervous i wouldn't make the cheerleading squad=) or when i hated my new haircut. thank you for always making dessert and thank you for giving me genes that allow me to eat biscuits and chocolate gravy waaayyy too much and not be too obese. thank you for trying to teach us that beauty is on the inside and the outside only needs masacara and lipgloss.;)  thank you for always speaking your mind. thank you for telling me when i'm wrong but loving me regardless. thank you for trying to teach us to be compassionate of others, it's worked for the most part. thank you for flying out here at the drop of a hat. thank you for raising my children whenever you're around and giving me a break. thank you for telling mad stories and trying everything to get max to try new foods. thank you for all of it. i love my mama!!

for my other mom.=) thank you for treating me and loving me like i was your own daughter. thank you for  cleaning, organizing and doing everything to move us to our new house after i had madden. thank you for being our own personal nurse that we can call any hour of the day and night for even the silliest questions. thank you for raising an amazing son. thank you for saving everything from mark's childhood, the boys can't believe their dad played baseball and football too.=) thank you for giving the very best gifts and for EVERY occasion.=) thank you for always being there to help. i love you so much!

"and i'll send it along with love from me to you"

i know that this weekend is mother's day but i woke up this morning feeling very sentimental about my daddy (just call me brenda.;))  

*my sweet, wonderful dad who is the most generous person i know. the man that gave our couches away one summer when the rest of us were in utah b/c someone needed them and we weren't using them.;) the man who, in my lifetime, has never traded a car in but given them away to friends, neighbors or employees who were struggling. and with 7 kids that was quite a few cars.=)

*my sweet, wonderful dad who taught me at very young age a love for music. some of my first memories were listening to the beatles and simon & garfunkel in the car with my dad. and him quizzing us on who sang what song.=)

*my sweet, wonderful dad who has never wanted us to go with out the "necessities" of life such as laptops, cameras, camcorders, shopping trips for his girls, powerwheels and "new" ds's (for his grandkids), and of course eating out.=) 

*my sweet wonderful dad who always slips money in your purse when he drops you off at the airport even if you don't need it.

*my sweet, wonderful dad who would go out on christmas eve and buy a horse for his daughter that he thought was having a hard time. the man who would take me to the rodeos when i was going through my cowgirl stage. and to get a blue nehi and reese's cup after tae kwon do even though i was the reason every one had to do extra push ups.

*my sweet, wonderful dad who has most of the time been so proud of all of us and who sometimes can't stop himself from bragging about his kids and grandkids.=)

and then we'll snuggle

in my old age i have discovered that i am pretty decent at snowboarding. not amazing, but much better than i was the last time i tried ohhh....9-ish years a go. (it's true lee! you'll be shocked and awed.) i must give credit to my marvelous teacher who endured my endless whining about how much my legs burned and a pretty wicked crash at one time (which was so my fault, sorry about the whiplash, chan!=)) i also give a little credit to all of my days spent at the beach instead of class in high school.;) i now know what the crazy obsession is all about and can't wait for winter again!

(okay, so i know my arms look like i'm surfing and the look on my face is ridiculous, but look at those knees.;))

  (thanks chan, for my past and future snowboarding trips! <3 my girlfriend.)

big, tall fun guy

7 things i love about marcus gaylan....

1. he rocked it this past week at work. #1 in the entire company (i'm not sure how he pulled that off this week but somehow he did.)
2. he is the most loyal person i have ever known and probably ever will.  even when i am beyond wrong he is always on my side, defending me. even when he looks like a crazy person.;)
3. he always gives me a massage when he gets home from work even though he is the 6'4" man that has been scrunched up on a plane for 7 hours.
4.  he taught madden how to snap. mad is so proud of himself, he shows EVERYONE. =)
5. he is a wonderful man and i have never had more respect for him as a person or as my husband than i do right now.
6. he is the kind of man that will buy 3 packs of oreos.=)
need i say more? ok I will! when i was pregnant with max, i told mark i felt like oreos one night. he went to the store and bought 3 packs b/c he wasn't sure how "hungry" i would be. and that is why i gained 75lbs that pregnancy!
and
7. he can beat world nine...and for that we are ALL thankful!!

"i need someone older and wiser..."

"brett favre is not a good source on brett favre."

-some guy on espn

mark didn't think that was that funny but for some reason i did. maybe it's because i can relate with ol' brett. ;)

oh happy day!

happy birthday sadie rose halaki'umata!

a girl after my own heart.<3 we share a love of rompers, lasagna, and little house. and you have never heard a cuter voice in all your life. 

{the after party activity}

{madden's painting for sadie, he named it "minto." he painted one for himself named "pinto." so precious!}