Caleb's Birthday Weekend

The weather was in the high seventies on Saturday for the celebration of Caleb's birthday. We had family come and enjoyed a wonderful brunch in the morn and Indian food in the evening for dinner. The kids jumped in the jumpy house, went on the slip n' slide, and ran through the sprinklers. Caleb dove into his cake like we thought he would. He will eat any of you under the table.
A side note....Christian bought some Peeps, the candy, and Tyler kept calling them Cheepy Birds...and we had no idea of what he was wanting to eat. So, now we call them Cheepy Birds.....oh kids.
Auntie Kelley is coming tonight for a few days and we are very excited.
Thanks for all of you who made the effort to spend the weekend with us and for all of your hard work...it was truly a blessing to have help and have all of the love that surrounded us that weekend.

The First Haircut...snip, snip....

Just like big bro Tyler, Caleb went to Supercuts today and got his hair cut. He didn't have as much hair as Tyler. He sat in Daddy's lap and enjoyed looking at himself in the mirror. He is still getting mistaken for a girl. Even though he has on camo jackets, blue shirts...ya know, boy clothes. Christian swears that it's the gingham red check grocery cart cover that he sits in. I bought it when we didn't know the gender of Tyler....thinking that red check is gender neutral. Well, Christian thinks that the cover is the culprit not his face. He was wearing some sailor red overalls and got called a girl....those are now in a box. So, he just needs to realize that Caleb's long eyelashes might give the people the idea that he's a girl. I look at him and see boy. So, that's our issue with the good ol' cover and Caleb's mistaken identity. More to come.....I hope not!

Folsom Zoo...Caleb's Birthday

Today we went to the Folsom City Zoo with our dear friends the Turners and Pavanos. My boys represented the men, as our friends have two daughters each. Tyler mostly ran around the zoo very quickly and was having more fun playing with his friends than admiring the animals. Caleb stayed in the stroller for most of the zoo festivities. Tyler truly enjoyed all of the random chickens and peacocks that ran around the facility. After snacks and more animals, we went to the park and had a picnic and play time. A great time was had by all....more festivities ensued as Caleb turned ONE!

How blessed we are....

I am sitting here staring at the computer screen in a quiet house. Both of the youngest Belleza boys are asleep. I do at times forget how blessed I am and how much I take it for granted. Thank you for being who you are in my life. I feel so happy that I am able to keep in touch with so many of my dear ones in my life.
Now, I just gotta get Christian to get into this blog thing...totally unrelated and random.

We love this weather

It has been absolutely beautiful up here lately! We've enjoyed several days in the seventies. The boys have been out and about in the front yard. Caleb is still crawling and so I have him in the walker. It will be nice when he begins to walk. We are in the put everything in your mouth stage. Though he's taken several steps, he's not interested in walking. Tyler is being his big self. He really enjoys feeding the ducks at the local park. We walk, or try to, several times a week and then play. Caleb turns one tomorrow and so we'll be getting his hair cut! So exciting. Kaitlin and Mike had a baby on Monday. Yes, a boy this time! Josiah Michael James.

What???? Snow???

Well folks, it snowed last week here! It only snows about once a year here, but we got about six inches. The boys all loved the snow. It was truly beautiful and just so surreal. I took some pics for our first winter snowfall in the country. Our ride home from my brother's home was exciting. We drove slowly and just as we entered our street, a huge tree branch had fallen in front of us. We were stuck. Cars began to pile around us and the manly country men got chain saws and sawed the tree down. Then, we came home and had no power. Luckily I had some new candles. We went to bed except for Christian who plugged in his laptop in his car to work. So dedicated. My mom said, that we really pulled out the stops for her during her visit.