settled in

we are finally settled into our house. moving is so exciting, but mostly so exhausting. because i apparently didn't do my research, i didn't know that the gas bill was a separate bill. i didn't figure out until a saturday that we didn't have hot water, so i had to wait until monday to call, and then wait until friday to get it turned on. may i just say that i absolutely hate cold showers, and i had 6 horrible days of cold showers. i took laundry over to neighbors houses, bathed my kids at my brothers, and even heated up water on the stove and put it in the bath. so that was a little rough. we didnt get out internet hooked up for about a week and a half, so that was also painful....for me....but i know, its not a necessity.

now we are enjoying being us 4 again, and it is really fun. the first couple of days berkeley kept saying that she wanted to go home, but she is slowly realizing that this is now home. she also got really excited when we put her bed in her room. she was so shocked that it was here.

i absolutely love my neighborhood. i love the way it looks. the park is about 100 yards away, and we have gone i think every single day at least once. the people are amazingly friendly, and i already feel like i know so many people. there are tons of kids around that are berkeley's age, so i am so excited for that! so i guess what i am trying to say is that we are very content and very happy!

.this week.

• we decided to move


• beckham got his tubes put in


• my mom came to town


• i packed up our things and took them to our new house by myself...back and forth twice a day


• the diamond from my wedding ring fell out and I had no idea where


• we had my sister in law haylie's wedding at the house


• i cleaned and organized my house like crazy


• berkeley had her last week at her preschool


• my mom found my diamond on the driveway while hosing it off....i still cant believe it!


• we made 3 trips to the storage unit


• we moved in!

i'm tired.......

too much

too much of this....

can lead to this...

my weekend

my weekend started with berkeley turning 3. i'm so glad this finally came. i swear she has been 2 forever. we had a 'cousins only' birthday party which was the perfect amount of kids. if there were anymore, it would have turned to just terribleness. we played elephun and the fish catching game, opened presents, and ate cake. she was smiling the whole entire time and got overwhelmed a few times as well. friday night at the last minute i went to the jason mraz/b-52's concert with my niece rilee and her friend mckenzie. i'm not going to lie...i love hanging out with these 15 year olds. it reminds me of how much fun you have with your friends at that age and how carefree life is at that age. the best part of the night was after the concert we decided to go on the light rail considering none of us had ever ridden it. after taking a while to figure out how to buy a ticket we got on it and rode for like 4 miles, then got off, then rode right back to where we started. it was so random and so fun. i am definitely a fan of the light rail system. then saturday morning todd's aunt came over with TONS of peaches and we made lots of peach jam. as well as all of our activities, todd's sister heidi has been in town staying here so we have had a lot of fun playing with her and her 2 boys. i love seeing berkeley play with oscar. they love playing together and they have definitely been getting into mischief together!

the party girl


all the kiddos

the peach jam...we made so many bottles!

mckenzie and rilee, with jason in the backround

the ever amazing light rail station

rilee and her 'antique' i mean 'vintage' bag circa 1994

representing the 'm' for mesa

all the cousins in their jammies having a pajama party

i don't know what to talk about!!!!!

since nothing monumental has been happening, i guess i will write the small things that have been happening...

• beckham will be getting tubes soon....poor thing. he's only 6 months! i'm sorry for the bad genetics that i passed onto him!
• i swear my body is falling apart from playing soccer once a week. i play on monday nights, and i don't feel better until monday morning. both my hips ache and both my knees ache, and i end up with random bruises all over my body, but i love it too much to quit.
• berkeley is loving school. we do "homework" every day and she is grasping on so well.
• berkeley now knows all the sounds to the letters as well as identifying all of the numbers and letters. my little smart cookie.
• beckham can now sit up and it has made him so much happier.
• todd's in school....every day....every night....every weekend....nothing new with that.
• i have been getting together with friends a lot again and i absolutely love it. it makes me happy.
• berkeley is in dance and gymnastics. maybe a little hard core.... not a big deal.
• berkeley turns 3 on friday. its about time. i feel like she has been 2 forever. i'm sick of saying shes 2 when people always think shes like 4.
• i have started renting the mad men series and i love it. it entertains me at night when todd is gone.
• i watched my brother sean's kids last week...all 6 of them. it was really fun. besides the constant cleaning from the two 2 year olds, it was a blast hanging out with the older kids. the best was being the 25 and older adult for my 15 year old niece to drive with her permit. it wasn't bad until she almost ran over a dog and freaked out.

that's it.....simple, yet great.

my heart is melting

is it over already?

i feel like the luckiest girl alive.

my amazing mom took us to newport for one last hoorah of the summer.

it was just us 3 and my mom in a little house fairly close to the water. i was so unbelievably spoiled the entire time. my mom would wake up with the kids at 6:30 every morning and take them on a walk and let me sleep in until 9 EVERY day...it was bliss.

then she would watch beckham in the afternoons at the house while me and berkeley would enjoy the beach baby-less and have an extra great time.

she took us to ice cream.

bought our dinners.

and gave us all of her love and attention.

i guess i just loved it so much because i had my mom all to myself. it was fun to not have to share her with 6 other siblings and 20 grand kids for once.

as for the beach time....berkeley was so unbelievably funny. for most of the days it was just me and her. she would get lonely and start looking for friends on the beach. so she found lots of "friends"

i mean strangers... to play with and build sandcastles with.

she loved to go in the water and jump over the waves, and declare if they were a baby one or a daddy one.

we had such a great time and i miss the beach so much already.
thank you to my mother who i am so grateful to.

today berkeley started her first day of school. i am so excited for her because im pretty sure going to school is her calling in life. she is such a learner and will enjoy every second of it.

she had a great first day.

inner turmoil

either im a bad mom, really selfish, or i am taking full advantage of the best thing ever....

i get to leave the 110 degree heat and go to the 80 degree heavenly newport beach tomorrow for another week of pure bliss....

im a bad mom because berkeley will miss her first day of school ever because i want to go to the beach...we are also missing her preschool orientation... selfish...

and then there is beckham who still has an ear infection in one ear and swimmers ear in the other....bad mom. i know.

but....its a beach house for a week...just me, my kiddos, and my mom.

that's my justification.

i don't feel so bad anymore.

our [stay]cation

6 years. that number makes me feel so old! although marriage is a great thing, its not perfect. i am very happy in my marriage but i am also glad that we have challenges. i am glad that i still get excited when todd comes home every day, and i am glad that we still cant agree on where we will go to dinner. i am glad that he is a good dad, and i am glad that he thinks having a baby is the hardest thing on earth. i am glad i have a partner to play tennis with, compete with, hang out with, parent with, go on dates with, eat with, watch my tv shows with, fight with, and that loves me back. i love you hub.

to celebrate these insane 6 years we went to the W hotel in scottsdale for 24 hours. todds sister brooke watched the kids for us which in itself is a great anniversary gift! we went to the mall and had dinner and shopped a little, then came back and hung out at the pool for a while. then we slept in, again.....the best ever!..... and went back to the pool for a few more hours of relaxing. may i just say that this hotel is fabulous! I absolutely love the decor and vibe that it has. i was so mad i forgot my camera because i wanted to take pictures of every single decor detail. it was a great stay-cation and i think we need to do it every year.

the cool lounge that i was in love with
poolside at the end of the day....thats why i look so fabulous
a different view of the amazing pool area
blurry because it was taken from my phone

my gimpy

poor berkeley fell out of her bed saturday night. she woke up hurting so badly she couldn't walk! i didn't realize she couldn't walk until we were almost ready for church....and if i wake up and get ready for church, i am GOING to church! so we had to carry her to and from the car and to and from the seats. after church i took her to urgent care to see if it was broken. 2 1/2 hours later....ugghh..... we found out nothing severe was wrong, so they gave us a mini ace bandage and sent us home. that day she was so depressed and not herself. either i would carry her from one place to another, or she would crawl. it was really sad to see. you could see her spirits getting down, poor thing! by mid day on monday she started taking baby steps, and by tuesday morning she was walking, but with a limp. today she is still limping, so she just needs to tough it out a little more. poor thing...who knew falling out of a bed would be so dangerous!