Easter with the Family

This year for Easter we spent it at my parents' house. Of course there was the usual big easter egg hunt for all the kids. Me, Cody, and my mom were in charge of filling the eggs with treats and hiding them all around the yard. We had a big family dinner that everyone enjoyed.

This is us having fun with all the kids. Cody looks so cute in this pic.This is my sister Shelly, Jon, Hallie, Lane, and Cole.

This is my brother Shane, Gage, and Ricky. Gracie jumped in the pic.

This is my sister Shannon, Brian, James, and Kate. For some reason my pic of Sheena and Gracie didn't work :(

This is Gage and Gracie

Lookin' for eggs.

Cole was having fun!

Katie wouldn't pick up any "boy" eggs, she only wanted "girl" eggs.

Ricky and James were the more agressive ones this year.

Hallie is getting so tall!

Grandp's and all the kids

He loves being with all his little ones.

Vinnie Winnie

We have the cutiest little boy ever! His name is Vinnie and he's a Yorkshire Terrier. We got him just after we were married and he makes it so we never have a dull moment at home.

He loves to play with his toys! Any stuff animal in sight instantly becomes his! And Cody can't help but try to win him a toy when we go to the store in the claw machines. This was after a long weekend at grandma's house playing with the kids. He came home and was really tired. So Cody decided he was gonna burry him in his toys! He blends right in!

He never fails to steal our spot on the bed if we move. He loves to have his toys sleep in bed with us and if they get knocked off he has to jump down and get them and put them back on the bed.

And he's a blanket thief!!
He likes to sleep in random places and in odd positions.
Him and dad were taking a nap together, they were playing too hard and needed a break.

He was hiding from dad!

For Halloween this past year we were a pirate family. Vinnie got to dress up like Jack Sparrow! He actually was fine with wearing it for a while.

We used to live in a basement appartment and didn't have any windows. Now that we have our own house he absolutely loves to sit on the back of the couch and look out the windows.

He really is the cutiest dog ever!!!!

Christmas Time

Christmas this year is different due to the fact that we have our own house! I can't wait to wake up Christmas morning in our own bed! I'm very excited to see Cody open his presents!

We put our Christmas tree up on my birthday and I'm finally getting around to posting the pics. This is probably the closest we're gonna get to a family picture this year:) Vinnie actually looked at the camera, very rare!

Cody decided he was going to be mean and take pictures of me putting it up, in my pajamas. But at least I still had make up on.

So I got him back!!! He looks cute though and is in a posing position.

Vinnie disappeared while we were decorating and we found him curled up in his blankies on his bed!!!

The finished product!! It looks pretty cute! Do you notice anything different from the pic of me decorating the tree to this pic?? lol
Cody put lights up on our house. He's so cute because he was so excited to decorate our house that he had asked since Halloween when we could put them up. We were the first on the block to have lights up.

This is our cute sign Kasey gave us that we put on our door!

That's it for now, but I'm sure there will be more to come very soon!

Birthday Surprise!

As most of you know it was my birthday a few days ago and Cody had a surprise for me that we all couldn't figure out. I am very excited to announce it was a beautiful PIANO!!

I absolutely love it! It is a beautiful older piano but it is in awesome condition and sounds great!

1st Anniversary Trip - Cozumel!

So I know this was over a year ago, but I thought I'd bring everyone up to speed on the past year or so of our lives. We went to Cozumel, Mexico for our anniversary last June. It was so beautiful. It was Cody's first experience on an airplane and our first time on an actual vacation, other than Las Vegas. We stayed for 10 days and it went by so fast!

This is Ik Kil, a cenote, its like an underground lake. The water was cold and there were little blue fish everywhere!

That's Cody jumping off the steps! I actaully got him in motion!

This is the view from our room. We stayed at the Wyndham All-Inclusive Resort and Spa and it was adults only. The food was good and the beach was beautiful.

This is Chichen Itza, its a Mayan ruin in Mexico. We went there for a day trip. It was so cool to see all the ruins.

Just like my mom, I have to take pictures of all the pretty flowers!

Our pretty sweet Jeep that we rented. It had no AC in 90 degree humid weather. We had it towed because Cody parked it in the wrong spot, but luckily the towing fees there are much cheaper than the US.

Me standing at the top of Punta Sur Light tower at the southern most tip of the island. It was the hottest day, I didn't want to do anything but lay in our room or in the water, but once we got to the top it was beautiful.

This is Bob Marley's Rasta Bar. It was kinda a scary place. Everything there has been signed by people who have visited it. So if you ever go there, remember, mine and Cody's names are in there, on the second floor, look for it :)

Getting Started... For Real This Time

Ok, so I know we're not the best at this whole blog thing since we've had it for over a year now and haven't used it more than the very first time, but I'm trying to get into it now. So forgive me if it takes forever for me to get it right or if i suck at keeping it up.

Not much has occured in the last year, although we do have our own home now which is very nice. Its not that we didn't love living below our best friends before, its just nice to not feel bad if you put holes in the walls while snowboarding down the stairs which we have yet to try in our home. At first Vinnie didn't know what to think of our house, because he could look out the windows, which he's never done before, and the heat vents are on the floor, not the ceiling. He was scared to death of them for the first couple of months. I think he likes it.

I need to get back to work but i will update later.

Just Getting Started

So... we decided to create a blog. It's new to us so it might take us a bit to learn the tricks.