Loose Tooth

After a little bit of wiggling and a lot of bribing with ice cream and one quick yank by daddy Blake lost his very first tooth yesterday 02/05/2011. He was so excited to have finally lost his tooth. I suspect he'll be losing another one in the next couple of weeks because the tooth next to the one he just lost is pretty wiggly.

Ironically one of Blake's best friends Isela lost her same exact tooth on the same exact day as Blake only hours earlier then him...it's like they made a loose tooth pact!

So here are some pictures of our toothless Blaker's and the money he got from the tooth fairy!

Fabulous, Flirty and turning Thirty

This year was my "Golden Birthday" which is when your age is the same number as the day of your birthday...so this year I celebrated 30 years on January 30th!!!
To celebrate the occasion I had planned a trip to Vegas with Ryan and 6 of our closest friends/family....but before we left they decided to surprise me first! The weekend before my birthday my sister Jenny, Kelli and Ryan threw a big surprise party for me at Jenny's club house. They had the place decorated so cute with pink, black and white (my favorite colors) they had pictures of me dated all the way back from when I was a little girl until current...and they had gotten me the most amazing cake...then to top it all off they invited all of my very close and dear friends to help me celebrate this milestone of a birthday. I must admit I was a little weary about turning 30 but being surrounded by all the wonderful people in my life made me realize that I had nothing to fear...I'm in a great place in my life, sure there are things I would have liked to have accomplished before reaching this ripe age, but I was reminded that I've experienced a lot of wonderful things thus far ...I have two beautiful children and the most amazing Husband, a good job and I've lived...I've failed and I've succeeded and I've met a lot of inspiring people along the way, so I came to the conclusion....bring on the next 30 years!!!

The weekend of my actual birthday we boarded a plane Vegas bound, along with Jenny, Kenny, Kelli, Jamie, Candee and Jessica. We went for 3 days and we stayed at the Luxor Hotel and Casino. We had a blast... The first day we hung out at the pool, and did some perusing along the strip at night we rode the roller coaster at NyNy and saw the Chris Angel Believe show which was pretty good if you ask me. The second night which was my actual birthday we went to the different hotels and checked out the shopping at Ceasars Palace and the Venetian, Ryan bought me a cute Guess purse for my birthday and Jenny got me the matching wallet we caught a bus over to Fremont Street (Old Las Vegas) where we enjoyed the canopy show, as well as all the crazy people. After a couple of hours we headed back to the main strip and Ryan treated me to dinner at Margarita Ville. We ended our evening throwing a few bets at the casino and watching the water show at the Bellagio. It was a Great way to celebrate my birthday and I'm so glad I had my friends there to celebrate it with me.

So I'll leave my post with this Quote: “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!” ~Bill McKenna

New Years Eve

I can't think of a better way to bring in the new year than to celebrate it with these crazy people!!!!

Happy New Year!!!! 2011 is going to be GREAT...I just know it!!

Christmas 2010

Geesh I see I fell a little bit behind on my blog...so let me catch you up!

The Holidays were gracious to our family this year. We celebrated Christmas Eve with the Burke side of the family so we took the little ones to see Yogi Bear at the movie theater which was then followed by the traditional Christmas Dinner at Ryan's Nanny and Granddad's house and then the opening of presents at his parents house. The kids as well as Ryan and I were spoiled, we got so many great toys and gifts and the kids always enjoy the special visit from Santa (although, Blake caught onto Santa this year...he recognized all the similarities Santa had with Great Granddad) none the less he still appreciated the gesture behind it.

Christmas Day was spent with the Pelan side of the family and was celebrated at our house this year. The kids woke up pretty early and opened up their presents from Santa Claus while I made breakfast and Ryan assembled all their new toys. We prepared a delicious Ham dinner and opened presents with my side of the family...and again we were all very spoiled with wonderful gifts, I swear we could open our own toy store with all of the toys the kids got.

It was a wonderful Christmas Celebration filled with so many blessings, we are so greatful for our families.