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THANK YOU Anonymous Commenter

2009-05-03T08:42:00.000-07:00

Dear Anonymous,

THANK YOU for the amazing & powerful words you sent to me in regards to my "STRUGGLES" post. I continue to take each day at a time & try to grow stronger & rebuild my heart. I really feel that I am constantly taking 1 step ahead and then falling 2 behind. I am realizing I have much healing ahead of me. I will hold your words near & dear to me always & forever. THANK YOU for taking the time to type me such a beautiful message, as every bit of time is precious.

Thank You, Thank You & Thank You,

Erin

Comment left by an anonymous reader.......

I thought of you and closed my eyes
And prayed to God today
I asked "What makes a Mother?"
And I know I heard Him say “A Mother has a baby
This we know is true”
But, God, can you be a mother
When your baby's not with you?

Yes, you can he replied
With confidence in his voice
I give many women babies
When they leave- it is not their choice
Some I send for a lifetime
And others for the day
And some I send to feel your womb
But there's no need to stay.

I just don't understand this God
I want my baby here

He took a breath
and cleared his throat
And then I saw a tear
I wish I could show you
What your child is doing today
If you could see your child smile
With other children and say
"We go to earth to learn our lessons
of love and life and fear
My mommy loved me so much
I got to come straight here
I feel so lucky to have a Mom who had so much love for me
I learned my lessons very quickly
My Mommy set me free.

I miss my Mommy oh so much
But I visit her each day
When she goes to sleep
On her pillows where I lay
I stroke her hair and kiss her cheek
And whisper in her ear
Mommy don't be sad today
I'm your baby and I am here"

So you see my dear sweet one
Your children are okay
Your babies are here in My home
And this is where they'll stay
They'll wait for you with Me
Until your lessons are through
And on the day you come home
they'll be at the gates for you

So now you see
What makes a Mother
It's the feeling in your heart
It's the love you had so much of Right from the very start
Though some on earth May not realize
Until their time is done
Remember all the love you have
And know that you are
A Special Mom.

STRUGGLES

2009-04-29T13:57:00.000-07:00

I awoke to my alarm buzzing @ 4 am this morning, I lay in bed having no ambition to get up

reason

#1- it's so early

#2-dreading that the day included a baby shower for a friend

So I forced myself out of bed, prepared & packed lunches for my men & started baking my goodies that I committed to bring to the shower. It hit me hard & I wondered "how will I make it through this event" my heart feels like it has been ripped out of me, my soul aches with such pain & I feel so empty inside of me due to the baby I yearned for so badly had been lifted away from us.With these feeling weighing so heavy on my mind I opened my kitchen window to watch the dark light turn into day light. I stood & listened to the birds whistle who nest in my grapefruit tree as I mixed ingredients for my muffins.

At this moment my thoughts were interrupted & Jeff's Grandma Mildred who passed away last year came to mind as I found myself using her baking utensils that I took from her home. Memories brushed my mind as she would have celebrated a birthday yesterday. It was then that I pondered if there is anyone person who believed in the power of prayer it was Mildred. I stopped what I was doing & said out loud

"Mildred if you can hear me, today is going to be extra rough please shower me with a blessing from above and may it pour down over me & give me strength to be emotionally strong". It was then when my mind replayed my goodbye to Jeff. Jeff kissed me goodbye this morning, looked into my eyes & said "honey keep your chin up, call me if you need to talk or just call me anyway, I am here for you & I love you" and kissed me again. I looked to the pretty white & pink blooms that fill my flower garden, stood tall & said "I can do this". Thank you Jeff for being the WIND BENEATH MY WINGS........

Pre-pregnancy I lost 40 pounds & was feeling great. I was lucky to have only gained 10 pounds in my almost 5 months of pregnancy and here is yet another struggle for me. I am having such a hard time jumping back on the band wagon. As I felt that I could have stuck my head into the bowl of cookie dough I prepared this morning and the smell as they baked in the oven made my mouth water. Now don't those look delish?

I have had zero desire to workout. I know what I have do and how hard I worked to loose the weight. What is wrong with me, where is my will? Where is my ambition? As I walked down the hallway I stopped and peaked in on Dylan snuggled under his covers sleeping ever so soundly, during the moment I hoped he was having a sweet dream. He looked so peaceful. I got into the shower with tears in my eyes feeling sad for different reasons. I thought strongly how I would like to loose more weight, I miss feeling so good, making smart food choices & sweating my butt off working out. So I had this vision of how the conversation would go if I were to share my current feelings to my little man Dylan (I would not do this though way to much pressure for a 5 yr old to have to endure) I feel his words would be:

Mom everything will be okay, tomorrow is a new day & I love you to the moon and back with him giving me a big hug & kiss. So having that scene flash through my mind as the hot shower water ran down my face I stood tall and said I can beat this, I can do this, & TOMORROW IS A NEW DAY......

GOSH I LOVE THIS BOY!!!!

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank you ever so much for the men in my life and the love they give to me!

xoxo, Erin

Easter Fun & Bunny Cake

2009-04-13T21:20:00.000-07:00

Dylan was so excited to have his cousin Michael sleep over just before Easter. They had lots of fun playing together. We did an egg hunt & the boys loved eating mushy chocolate. We all had fun coloring eggs. After the egg clean up we loaded up a bowl full of popcorn, grabbed some drinks and watched Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in our tent out in the backyard. The boy's really digged this idea. We snuggled as the wind blew some drifted to dream land and well me I watched my favorite movie to the bitter end. Jeff & I carried the boy's asleep to their beds and called it a good night.

We enjoyed Easter dinner at the Sisco's (my sister Maura's home). The company was fun as always & the dinner was delish. We enjoyed Leg of Lamb w/corn flake potatoes, broccoli rice casserole, asparagus and my home made broccoli bread muffins. Desert was my task, first time ever I attempted a bunny cake & it Rocked. See for yourself it is pictured down below. I started out slow, Jeff joined in & we got creative. Dylan had fun mastering his new bubbles w/some help from his Nana G. Our Easter will go down in the books as GREAT!

Egg coloring

Movie in a tent went well it may have to become a new tradition

Dylan's Loot from the Easter Bunny

My G Q man

Kudos Maura-Beautiful table setting

Appetizer's on the patio

Bubble Fun

My little magician with his bubble wand

My work of art-tell me what u think-should I start a cake decorating business?

Happy Easter!!!!!!!

FEELING OVERWHELMED

2009-03-27T09:14:00.000-07:00

Wishing I was sitting in my chair Without a worry on my mind..............

It most certainly has been a rough few weeks. Having said that I need a little "spring" for some hope. I love spring colors there is just something about them that can make me smile & feel a sense of happiness.

As I dropped Dylan off to school this week we were notified with a letter that his school will be closing the end of this year, which left us quite bummed. We had registered for next year and now that most if not all schools have completed registration and only have wait list spots it is making things hard for us to find the "right" place for Dylan. So as I continue on my emotional roller coaster ride I am hoping things will fall I mean spring into place. :)

Happy Valentine's Day

2009-02-16T09:44:00.000-08:00

Homemade Breakfast fit for my King #1 Delivered to my Valentine by my King #2

As you can see Jeff is enjoying every moment of his surprise breakfast in bed & he stayed in bed till NOON!!!!! Hope you had a wonderful day sweetheart. Thank you for sharing your love with me. You are one special Dude and you are all mine!!!!My beautiful roses that smelled up our entire house

Dylan's valentine loot from Aunt Kelly. He loves getting surprise packages in the mail. Thank you for being so thoughtful Aunt Kelly, we miss you so much......

Some Valentine crafts & goodies Dylan made at school. It is a candy necklace and if you look at his picture really close you will notice a HUGE chuck of hair missing from his bangs. I must say he was not under Mom & Dad's supervision at the time. We learned our lesson with scissors a LONG time ago. Hopefully a lesson learned.... Only time will tell..........

I am back to let you know I can.....

2009-01-17T09:45:00.000-08:00

really blog again.

Woot Woot I am back in business. I have been without a computer for at least a month maybe more. But I will have lots of picture downloading to do and then I will catch up on my posting. So I really really promise I will be back. I will try and get some stuff up by the end of the weekend.
See you all real soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So much to get done.....

2008-12-01T21:17:00.000-08:00

Left out of town right after Thanksgiving. Trying to catch up on laundry, charging the camera battery, trimming the tree, hanging the outside lights and packing away fall decorations. I will post with pictures once my battery allows me. Until then Happy December.

Sooooo Undecided

2008-11-20T14:27:00.000-08:00

What's a girl to do when she doesn't know what she wants? It's so time for a haircut, do I go short? Leave it to grow long? No Bangs? Cute Bangs? Layers? Maybe I should turn to a jeannie in a bottle for some wishes & advice. Does any one have a jeannie I can borrow? I promise I will give it back.

A Mighty Productive Day

2008-11-11T20:13:00.000-08:00

I accomplished........
*Waking Jeff up at 4:30AM for work
*Exercised
*Breakfast for the boys (Dylan & Michael) Babysat my Nephew for the day
*Made a Baked Ziti for tomorrow nights dinner
*Made 4 dozen pumpkin chocolate chip muffins-oh yeah those babies have lots of chips in them

*Cleaned out my Fridge
*Lunch for me & the boys
*Took the boys to the park for 2 hours & visited with my Dad (Photos @ the end of post)
*Played trucks, did puzzles and played outside with boys

*Cooked a DELISH casserole for dinner and some yummy rolls*cleaned the kitchen
*back to the park for Dylan's soccer practice
*kept Michael busy while Dylan practiced & played chit chat catch up with Jeff
*bathed the Dirty Monster boys
*sent my Nephew Michael home-WE LOVED HAVING YOU VISIT WITH US TODAY
*put Dylan to bed
*rubbed Jeffey's shoulder's
* 2 loads of laundry--DONE

*Posted on my blog

**Hubby & child are snoozing away

So having said that I am going to take my shoes off and let my dogs bark it out, read my People Magazine (thanks Mumsy) and thoroughly enjoy the SILENCE. It was a wonderful day ,weather oh so beautiful and good times. I will look forward to tomorrow as it is a new day and every day I am here is a gift which I hope never to take for granted.

Such cuties!!!!

Nighty Nite all,

EG----out

Put your hands up.........

2008-11-06T07:48:00.000-08:00

Dylan's phrase for Halloween....."Your under arrest, come with me" and then he would handcuff me. This was my Halloween police officer. Dylan was a bit under the weather so he was not that into it this year. He decided he only wanted to trick-a-treat at houses where he knew the people. I think he had more fun handing the candy out. We will hope for a better time next year.

My darling nephew Michael who was a cute Thomas with sound effects included

I think Fall is FINALLY on it's way to us burned out sun bunnies here is Arizona. Thank Goodness.... I love this time of the year. So very jealous of all the blogs out there that have pictures posted with trees showing their autumn colors. We don't get to experience it here in the desert. The palm trees just refuse to change colors. I cherish the memories of my childhood, the many times of raking piles of autumn leaves and jumping into the pile. So I say to myself "Self" boy those were good ole days!
Happy Fall Everyone

xoxo

Erin

I"M A SLACKER

2008-10-06T09:39:00.000-07:00

Yes, I have been so bad at my blog lately and it is all for good reason. I have been really busy with life in general and I have re-prioritized my life and the computer comes last. If you have e-mailed me & I have not responded, don't be mad I will get back to you. Don't give up on me I will be back with some current post- I promise.

-EG out-

Happy Birthday Dylan

2008-09-11T21:25:00.000-07:00

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY DYLAN..

I hope you have a wonderful year.

You are my world & I would have it no other way.

I love you to the moon and back!

xoxoxox

Mommy

Happy Birthday Jeff

2008-09-05T09:01:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Handsome! We hope for all your wishes to come true. May you have a wonderful day and an awesome year. Wishing you many more b-days to come. You rock our world - You are the BEST. We love you to the moon and back!!!!!!

Hugs & Kisses,
Erin & Dylan

SUMMER BE GONE ..............

2008-08-16T11:44:00.000-07:00

Goodbye summer because.....

1-goodbye heat-hello fresh air
2-goodbye summer bermuda grass- hello winter rye grass
3-goodbye dead flowers-hello alive, colorful flowers
4-goodbye a/c bill- hello open door's & window's
5-goodbye indoor cabin fever- hello play/fun time outside
6-goodbye shorts & capri's- hello jeans & long sleeves

I am wishing the summer to be over. The older I get the less tolerable I am for the summer heat. Summer please go away!!!!!!!!

First Day of School

2008-08-07T18:02:00.000-07:00

Back into the swing of things. Yesterday was the official day. Mom's a day late on posting. Dylan headed off to school like a champ. Let me just say there were many not so happy little campers and he just stood tall and full of smiles. The photo below will show that. He is going full-time this year which means he stays for lunch and he was so excited and loves his scooby doo lunch box. He did so good and was pretty pooped by the end of the day. He really seems happy, which makes a happy Mamma & Daddy. It's all good.

picture is not so great but doesn't change the fact he is a handsome little man

That's my boy on prayer & pledge line full of goodbye smiles & waves
my little school dude

Hopefully all the first days of school ahead are all this smooth..... I can dream can't I?

Oh So Sweet Sunday

2008-08-04T23:15:00.000-07:00

After church we loaded up in the car and Jeff says "Dylan where should we go"? Dylan replies "paradise bakery (for those who know Dylan he loves soup) some yummy soup sounds good to me". Dylan says "Mom that sounds like a good idea right"? So yes you guessed it off to the bakery we head. He loves their fire roasted tomato soup and pasta salad. We enjoyed our lunch, laughed and just cherished each other's company and now it was time to move on. Dylan stops at the door and says "can I throw a penny and make a wish"? I give him 3 pennies to throw into the fountain out front to make 3 special wishes. So this is where the sweet part comes in. He has not fully grasped the concept that he is suppose to keep his wish a secret and therefore Jeff & I try to play like we are not paying attention but it is just way to precious to pass up and so it goes like this. He throws the penny and folds his hands like he is praying and says " God I wish that you could help my Daddy get a good job", my heart melts as it has been quite tough the past couple years. I hand over penny #2, he throws the penny into the fountain and says "God please let us have a baby", my heart double melts as I continue to battle 2nd stage infertility. I hand over penny #3 he throws it into the fountain and says "I wish that I could have a big 4x4 truck to drive, my heart melts a little more. As we drove home I just really thought to myself with happy/sad tears hidden behind my eyeballs gosh how sweet of his little mind. He made sure to include a wish for each of us. Does he see the full picture already at only 4 1/2 yrs old? Family has always been important to me and as I grow older it becomes more & more important to me. I love him to pieces and he is my world. So having said that I only hope that his sweet little heart ALWAYS has a place for us. This is a moment I will cherish forever!

Fun Times w/Good Friends

2008-07-29T13:30:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend we shared some fun time with friends. Our neighbors/walking buddies who moved away had us over for dinner. We had a wonderful ham dinner that was delicious and yummy oreo cookie cheese cake for dessert. Dylan & Aaron are a year apart and miss the dickens out of each other. The boys had so much fun playing together. We spent the night and spent most of Saturday at the park which is just one house away from their home. Dylan LOVED Aaron's john deere truck and we all had a blast with the water gun soakers. Let's just say no body left the park dry that day. Thank you so much Aaron, Deb & Aaron for the wonderful time. Your house is beautiful and cozy and your cooking was out of this world. We look forward to our next gathering. We miss you guys so much!

Aaron on the slide, Dylan climbing the steps and bottom corner is their sweet dog Tucker
Little Aaron, Deb & I
Deb, Aaron & Jeff getting ready to dig in..... Yum

Little Buddy's

Super soaker time

Water boys- on a mission to get more water for their guns.

Dylan "thinks" Santa Claus is going to bring him one of these. Well at least that is what he is hoping for. Little does he know Santa is broke, nothing wrong with dreaming I told him.

California trip

2008-07-23T22:35:00.000-07:00

To see our california trip scroll down. It took me so long to put it together, it was posted under the original date I started on it. Hope you enjoy the photo's

EG out.......

Summer Swim Lessons

2008-07-22T20:04:00.000-07:00

Lessons are almost over.... Dylan has been in lessons for about 5 weeks. He has done awesome and is totally loving the pool and swimming. We have spent lots and lots of nights in the pool. I just wish it was more refreshing. We feel like it's more of a bath than a pool. It is soooooo hot here!

California Vacation & "The Happiest Place on Earth"

2008-07-19T21:10:00.000-07:00

We rented a Beach condo in Oceanside, CA & the front door was about 100 feet from the ocean. How sweet it was. The condo grounds were so beautiful with colorful flowers, waterfalls and even fish ponds where you could feed the fish. We had a fun filled week. Here is a run down of the events we fit in:

*Soaked in the rays on the Beach of course, flew a kite, built sand castle's
*Watched beautiful sunsets, walked the longest & oldest wooden pier almost every night
*Jeff & my Dad played a round of golf in the hills (literally)
*Disney Land- The Happiest Place on Earth
*California Adventures
*Coaster Ride (Train trip) to Old Town San Diego
*Window Shopping (to broke to buy anything) in Carlsbad, this is where we picked up the train
*Whale & Dolphin Boat Ride

The beach was gorgeous, it was cool and the air had moisture. Dylan absolutely loved the ocean. Disney Land was amazing. California adventure was tons of fun. We were so excited to take Dylan, all in all he had fun but was a little overwhelmed and did not like waiting in the long lines & we witnessed a puss face from time to time. Dylan really enjoyed the train ride, it was his first train ride too. Old Towne San Diego was nice to stroll through. We visited the candy shop of course and watched them make salt water taffy. Dylan thought that was cool. We were about a 15 minute walk from the Marina & Harbor so we enjoyed good fish dinners and browsed the shops. We took a boat ride and we were very lucky to see a whale and enjoyed watching the dolphins swim right under the boat. Dylan's first boat ride, he was so excited we left the marina and about 10 minutes into the ocean he crashed and slept the whole time. He was tired I think the week was catching up to him. We walked the beach, flew a kite and watchend some really nice sunsets. We had a blast and were so sad when it ended. Enjoy the photo's

THANK YOU GOVERNMENT SURPLUS CHECK FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!!!

the view from our condo front door

our first nite's sunset

my mom & dad

dylan & I flying our kite

hours after arriving-dylan counld not resist the ocean

kite captain

jeff's beach bod

Our castle that got soaked by a wave

fun in the sand

beach birds

dylan loving the water

golf time

lesson's from Poppy

jeff & dylan feeding the fish

f ish pond on condo property

happy hour- daddy's awesome blender drinks

dinner at the marina

the happiest place on earth

nemo submarine ride

dylan driving Mr daisy(dad)

nana & poppy speed racing

dumbo ride (it's a classic)

thumbs up for soarin over cali

self portrait on soarin over california

dylan's favorite ride

3-d muppet's movie

monster's inc.
chip-n-dale hugging dylan

dylan in ferris wheel
waiting for the train

Carlsbad station

how precious.........

whale sighting

nana chillin on the boat

dad & dylan just before he crashed

me & my boys

What a blast, we had so much fun. WOW I thought I was never going to finish that post!!!!!!

HIDE -N-SEEK

2008-07-17T22:11:00.000-07:00

Okay so we were at the mall walking around passing time. As I started to exit a store Jeff goes flying by me and hides behind a rack.... so I clue in Dylan is looking for him so I let them "play & goof" around. Dylan finds Jeff and then says " I found you Dad, now it is my turn to hide and your turn to seek". How freakin cute is he? The lady next to us said what a precious moment. I could just squeeze him all day every day!

AAAHHHHH.......................

2008-07-10T22:30:00.000-07:00

The sound of rain. I am sitting checking my e-mail and we are getting a storm right now. My window is open and it is pouring rain, I could sit for hours and listen to rain. Two sounds that relax me the most are the sound of rain and sound of waves at the ocean. So I ask myself "SeLf" why do I live in the desert????????????

July 4th in the Cool Pines

2008-07-09T16:48:00.000-07:00

We were smart and escaped the heat and headed up North. We were joined by my Mom, Dad, Sister & her family. As we were driving one view out the window was hazy, cloudy & dark and the other side was clear with the sun setting. It was wierd to say the least and then we hit the storm. It started to thunder then the lightening and then the rain poured down. By the time we hit our cabin it was wet & cool. Just what we were dreaming of. Yes we do look very forward to rain as living in the desert we see so little of that. So the weekend started off on the right foot. We had some time to relax, we cooked up some good meals, we visited the home made ice cream store- Yum... it is so delicious, we played cards and laughed a lot. More memories for our photo books.

The view on the drive up

Dylan & his "Pops" being Goofy

Best Cousin Buds playing trucks on the stairs

Dave the Cook Master Dylan lovin his corn Michael chowin his corn

Nana & Pops taken in some fresh pine air

Patio time & I was in love w/the orange sky

Pop's & his grandboys

Me & my clan

Fun times!!! Jeff, Dylan & I always hate having to say goodbye & know it is back to reality-Oh well unitl next time.

Father's Day Outing

2008-07-08T17:26:00.000-07:00

Jeff & Dylan enjoyed a ride on the big steamboat at Canyon Lake. Dylan was pretty excited and very curious, it was his first real boat ride. They had a nice day, Jeff did say it was hot in the sun.

I just love these boys of mine!!!!!!!

Bird House Hanging

2008-07-07T21:29:00.000-07:00

Family time at our cabin is so enjoyable. We decided a quick and last minute trip (sometimes those are the best ones) and we enjoyed just having some quiet family time. We had a hanging ceremony of our newly hand crafted bird house built by Jeff's younger cousin Jessica who lives in Ohio. She was so sweet to make it and hand carried it on the plane and gave it to us during her visit in March.

THANK YOU THANK YOU JESSICA. It was so sweet & thoughtful of you. We love it and Dylan had fun hanging it.

We strolled the local festival in down town, enjoyed a 4x4 cruise through the Tonto national forest, and ended the day with a mountain walk up & down the hills around our cabin. Dylan just loves being in the mountains. It was a wonderful weekend.

Our mountain house is the perfect place to have fun, hang out with family, invite friends, enjoy & appreciate nature, & most of all create life long memories to fill up our photo books. Looking forward to many many more good times.

SOO MUCH TO CATCH UP ON......

2008-07-07T13:05:00.000-07:00

So since I have fallen behind once again I will have to do catch up and post everyday this week and post things in bits & pieces. I will start off with the d-backs game.

Jeff, Dylan, My Mom & I enjoyed a d-backs game. It was off to a great start until they opened the roof just before the start of the game and the sun was not down and we were in the sun so it was hot & and we were a sweatin. My Mom's hospital that she works at was recognized at the game. It would have been much more fun had the d-backs won.

Jeff with his ralley cap but it did not bring the d-backs luck. Oh just like the saying ya win some and ya lose some and we witnessed a loss. Maybe we will have better luck next time. We had a lot of fun and good laughs. Thanks Mom for getting the tickets.

Happy Father's Day

2008-06-15T10:19:00.000-07:00

My Dad's love never places judgment on me

his love comes unconditional & unselfishly

You have such a contagious smile

and with no doubt you will always go the extra mile

For all the things you do to show how much you care

gives me no doubt that you will always be there

You have taught me the difference between right & wrong

and in becoming a woman, you've taught to always be strong

As with age you can sometimes get crabby

but that will never change your my great Daddy

My son looks up to you in the things you do & say

so please be discrete with what you speak each & everyday :)

Thank you for all you do

and for just being you

Each day as you look in the mirror I pray that you will see

that you absolutely mean the world to me!

I love you Dad & I hope you have a wonderful day.

Written with Love from my heart,

Erin

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY JEFF

"Any man can father a child, but it takes someone very special to be a Dad"- Ann Geddes

This quote holds so much truth.

Jeff you are an amazing DAD

Thank you for the love & devotion you give to our son
I am so proud of you and so lucky to be your loving one.

You have such a soft touch
and Dylan loves you so much

Thank you for all you do
Dylan is so blessed to have you.

Dylan you are one very lucky little boy.

I hope you have a great day.

Love,

Erin

Birthday QUEEN for a Day

2008-04-17T18:12:00.000-07:00

Today I celebrated my 35th birthday-holy crap I am 1/2 way to the BIG 40! It was a great day. I woke up to this beautiful hand crafted banner (pictured below)made & colored by my hubby & son. I enjoyed lunch with Jeff & Dylan and had delicious Chinese food from our favorite hole in the wall restaurant we love. I was showered with e-mails, telephone calls, and mail from family & friends. Down below are some of the wonderful presents I received. Thank you Thank you Thank you all for my awesome Queen day-now back to reality.........Thank you boys for the banner, so sweet & thoughtful of you both-I love you both with all my heart.

Chocolates, watch, beach throw( Summer San Diego getaway :) ), new sandals & Capri's

New shirts & candles

New watch and gift card- Wahoooo get to go shopping.....

New sandals- I got these in brown & black

New silver bracelet

Self Portrait with my new shirt, earrings & necklace from my hubby-you did awesome sweat heart

Dylan took this photo of me when he caught me struggling to take a picture of myself-- he is such the helper.

I so love everything I got thank you for a wonderful day.

Where did March Go?????

2008-04-09T14:29:00.000-07:00

To start the month off I had a wonderful ladies night with my friends I used to work with at the Town of Gilbert (I left 4 1/2 yrs ago). I so enjoy getting together and catching up with them. I so cherish their friendship and the laughter we share whenever we are together. We call ourselves the Ya Ya Sisterhood. They surprised me and showered me with wonderful birthday presents early. I got silver earrings, a silver bracelet, floating spring candles & a summer flip flop candle. You girls are so thoughtful. Thank you for my awesome gifts. You girls rock!!!!!! There are some Ya Ya Sister's missing so hopefully I will see you all at the next gathering.

Eileen, Laurel & MeEileen, Karen & MeEileen, Laurel & Crazy Kranzberg

Eileen, Me & Crazy Karen

March was the month of FAMILY...... Jeff's sister Kelly & her family from Alaksa came for a two week visit. They really enjoyed the sun considering they left snow in Alaska. At this point Jeff's grandmother was not doing well at all. When Kelly arrived at 10:30pm on Saturday evening, Jeff & his sister drove to the west side of town to visit her. They had an emotional visit but sweet visit. Kelly asked her Grandmom were you waiting for me and her response was what took you so long to come here. Needless to say the next day she was pretty out of it and and almost comotosed. They did get to say their goodbyes and we all believe Grandmom hung in there just to say goodbye to Kelly as she was the last family for her to see. She passed away early morning on Thursday March 13th. Her funeral service was beautiful. As the hurse began to drive off and everybody was outside watching Dylan stepped toward the curb and waved his hand high and yelled "Goodbye Grandmom". It was such a precious moment. Later that evening as Jeff's Aunt, Uncle & family from Ohio arrived. Dylan told his cousin "today we said goodbye to my grandmom, we packed her gently in a special box with beautiful flowers and sent her to heaven to be with God and I will see her again someday when I go to heaven". Totally melted my heart. I was in awhhhhh. We miss & love her very much, may you rest in Peace.

Mildred Eva Gerle

Some photos of the family gathering after her service.

St Patty's Day we enjoyed a delicious Corn Beef dinner at my Mom & Dad's house. Food, Music, Dancing and company were all great. "God Bless all in de House"

Got to love that appetizer spot on Jeff's shirt...........

Nana & Dylan dancing to the Irish music

With family in tow Jeff got everybody in at the Oasis Water Park at the resort where he works at. They spent the day poolside & soaking in the sunrays. I was at work and then home I went to get ready for the BIG surprise party.......

Dylan & cousin Jake

Part of the "Gang"

Dylan & cousin Jessica

Kelly & Mumsy Gerle

Next nite was the Big Surprise 60th Birthday Party for Jeff's Mom. She DOES NOT LIKE surprises and that is just what she was SURPRISED. Gotcha Mumsy this one is going down in the books... The evening was really nice. She had lots of family & friends to wish her well & help her to celebrate. We hope you had fun.

Easter was a blurrr- Jeff & I spent 2 1/2 hours at Urgent Care because I was so sick and could not breathe, sleep or stop coughing. Needless to say thank goodness I went I had bronchoitis. They gave me some good cough medicine with codene in it and it knocked me on my a--! I spent the next four days in bed. I felt bad for Dylan but I promise I will make it up next year.

EASTER EGG Coloring @ Nana Gerle's house with all of his cousins & Daddy too.

As I remained in bed & completely useless Jeff & Dylan enjoyed some activities with his visiting family. They had fun playing minature golf, riding the bumper boats, racing the go carts and dinner for his Aunt's b-day at Margarita Ville. Jeff also went to the Sun's game with his Nephew's & brother-in-law. They had some pretty sweet seats and the Sun's won the game.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT TERI!!!!!!

CAN YOU GUESS WHO IS BEHIND THE PARROT MASK..........................................

THAT'S MY PICKLE BOY!!!

Dylan had such a blast with all of his cousins. He misses them all very much and keeps asking us when they will be back to visit. Here are some special times with his cousins.

Wow I thought I was nerver going to finish. Okay now that this post took me almost all day to do, I am never getting that behind again. So for now EG out.

Happy Anniversary Sweetheart

2008-02-27T08:05:00.000-08:00

On this day nine years ago I married the love of my life. Jeff you are my best friend, my partner, my husband and an awesome Daddy. My love & respect for you grows stronger & stronger each day. I truly feel so blessed for our beautiful life together and I could not imagine life without you. Thank you so much for sharing your life with me. I appreciate all you do and I love you with all my heart. Happy Anniversary!!!!!

xoxoxo Always & Forever,

Erin

There are just some things you should not do yourself........

2008-02-26T14:55:00.001-08:00

A NOTE TO ALL THE MEN OUT THERE............

a package of disposable razors.... $5.95

a PROFESSIONAL haircut ...... $12.50

shaving your own neck in the shower......... PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!

Let the professionals do it. In Jeff's case I'm the professional much better huh?
Jeff & I were in stitches over this. I noticed his neck line in the car but I did not tell him until we arrived back home where I could fix it. When I first told him, he did not believe me that it was bad so I said to myself "SELF" take a picture. Well we all know that pictures don't lie. So we laughed & laughed and then together came up with this post. Thanks honey for seeing the humor and having fun with it.

xx,
Erin

Family Fun at the Park

2008-02-25T21:14:00.000-08:00

Nice way to end the weekend, some good family fun and quality time spent all together. We spent a good portion of the day visiting Jeff's grandmom. We are continuing to keep her in our prayers as her days to be with us are limited. After returning from spending time grandmom, we decided to let Dylan run down some energy and we bicycled to the park. We had a blast. The boys built a sand castle and we had fun chasing each other around, playing pirate ship and just being goofy. The sun setting was quite a site.

GOSH I JUST LOVE THIS KID SO MUCH......

I SO LOVE BOTH OF YOU.... YOU ROCK MY WORLD!!!!!

Pretty cool huh?

ME & MY BOYS

Random Shots- self Camera 101

2008-02-20T21:35:00.000-08:00

In the past few days, I have taken it upon myself to play around and try & learn about my camera. Yes I am seriously considering taking a photo class. See what you think.........

Some of my blooming flowers in my garden

I so think this tree is huge you can see the roof line of the house in photo- it's a big oneI so fell in love with the blue sky the other day this is what it looked like at 3 o'clock in the afternoon-it was such a beautiful day
snow cap mountain view heading back to the valley from our cabin

A WEEK AT A GLANCE..... 2/11/08 thru 2/17/08

2008-02-18T07:37:00.000-08:00

Monday- Dylan is always the helper to get the mail and he was especially excited this day. He took the mail out of the box and shouted "Mom a special package it's a yellow envelope- I think it's a Valentine" and he was so right. THANK YOU Aunt Kelly & cousins for the valentine goodies it was so nice & sweet of you. You totally made Dylan's day.

Dylan & his valentine goodies

Dylan working hard on his valentine for school- the school requested one valentine made at home, it was not to be candy or food. So he with the help of mom made a craft. You will be able to tell he had a lot of fun painting he worked so hard and was so serious.

Later that night he worked very hard on tracing his letters and making cards for some special people in his life. Once again very serious at work.

Tuesday- I decided to stop everything and just let the boys (Dylan & my nephew Michael) get some fresh air and play. I decided I was going to sit back, watch & play around with my camera. So I just let them do their own thing and snapped away.

Dylan in some deep thought

Michael cruising the yard

my adventerous sweet boy climbing our grapefruit tree

Michael fertilizing the grass- yes our grass is green- No snow here unlike all you poor folks getting dumped on...... "Want to get Away"

Farmer/Chef Dylan driving his dirt to make mud pies

Wednesday- I made some Valentine treats for the 2 handsome men in my life

Thursday- My beautiful 2 dozen roses from my husband. Jeff & I got to enjoy a nice dinner out at Rigatony's and it was soo good. The place was packed @ 5 o'clock. Way to go Babe making a reservation. We got right in had a nice booth and good service. We really had some good conversation and many laughs. I so love spending time with you Jeff. I love you with all my heart and THANK YOU for loving me.

A huge Thank You to Nana G for watching Dylan so we could have some adult time. Thank you Thank you Thank you. We so appreciate your constant willingness.

After dinner we arrived home and I sent Jeff on a scavenger hunt to find all of his goodies. May sound kinda corney but it was actually really cool & fun. Thanks Jeff for being a total sport. I love ya kiddo.

Friday,Saturday & Sunday- We escaped from reality and went to the cool Pines where our Cabin is and enjoyed some R & R. There was a little snow and just a lot of peace & quiet. We were joined by my Mom, Maura,Dave & Michael.

The boys had a blast building a snow man from very little snow with Uncle Dave. Great job guys. You did an awesome job with what little you had.

Dylan & Michael exploring nature and keeping eachother company

A tired little boy, Dylan slept the entire ride home

It was a really nice, fun filled, gorgeous week.

AHHHHHHHHHH............

2008-02-02T08:11:00.001-08:00

* my house is clean

* laundry is done

* yardwork is finished

*dylan had double ear infections & an upper respiratory infection, he was pretty miserable but is doing better. He has been home all week and all of us including him are looking forward to his return to school on monday :)

*jeff is busy this week @ work :)

*the sun is out, our grass is green and my flowers are blooming, feeling sympathy for everyone who is freezing and getting snow.

What I need to get done:

*walk

*get groceries

*color my hair

*Enjoy the weekend :):):)

Ta Ta for now....
Erin

My Sick Little Boy

2008-01-27T19:21:00.000-08:00

Okay so we are not off to a good start for a new week. My poor little man is having a relapse. Dylan has a horrible dry cough, running nose and he is hot one minute and not so hot the next minute. I just pray he sleeps good tonight. Rest my sweet child......

This stuff has become my new best friend for the past few weeks.

CALGON TAKE ME FAR FAR AWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Short But Sweet

2008-01-27T13:55:00.000-08:00

With just one day since Jeff had to work Sat. night and snow on the ground we took a "quick" trip to our Cabin. It was so relaxing. It was chilly so we had a fire all night long as we all cuddled up and watched some movies. The next morning the boys looked for deer-no luck though. We had a yummy breakfast and then went for a drive and found some snow hills.

Our view of the forest out our front window

Our view from our back door & patio. We look out to the Mogollon Rim. It was so peaceful.

Erin

Fun In The Snow

2008-01-27T13:28:00.000-08:00

Part two of our overnight trip to the mountains. Just about 15 minutes north of our cabin is this awesome snow hill. We had such a blast snow tubing down the hills, throwing snow balls at each other goofing off and just being silly.

Jeff & I both forgot how much fun snow is but at the same time we also forgot it is work but fun work.We were sad to leave but such is life. It was fun while it lasted.

Erin

HOME MADE CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL

2008-01-17T15:43:00.000-08:00

It's been a bit of a blah week.

* Work is SLOW for me

* Work is SLOW for Jeff

* Dylan & Jeff have been sick for the past 2 days (main reason for the chicken soup)

* Jeff's Grandmother has been diagnosed with a mass on her pancreas, we are still waiting for the test results to come back. We are praying everyday for her

*We planned on going up North to our cabin but with Jeff & Dylan sick -no way Jose

*I just can't seem to get motivated to walk daily- Missing my friend/neighbor who was my walking partner and good friend and moved. :(

*Burned out battling adult acne

** Hoping for a better next week.

Erin

OUR LITTLE ROCK STAR

2008-01-06T08:36:00.000-08:00

Dylan just had Jeff & I cracking up. He came into the room and said "hey guys look at me I'm a rock star and I'm jammin". He is such a hoot and yes those are Mommy's boots....... The creative minds little ones have.

Erin

MAKING ROOM FOR 2008

2008-01-04T15:44:00.000-08:00

So this past week has been a little slow. I've had a stiff neck/pinched something for the last few days-blah. So with being blah I figured I would make room for 2008 in the file drawer. So today Dylan & I did a whole lotta shredding. One ? for everyone- where in the heck does all of our junk come from and how do we accumulate so freakin much??????????????

So while we were working hard I asked the same ? to my helper and just how cute is this: Dylan looks up and says " Silly Mom it comes in the mailbox everyday". He always finds a way to make me laugh. Kids are so dang cute and precious!

shredding........

shredding............

and more shredding............
Please don't be shy shout out a comment. Just click on comments and spill your mind.
Happy Friday!
xx
Erin

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S

2007-12-31T21:45:00.000-08:00

OK so in some parts of the world it is official and so therefore that works for me. Tonight Jeff is working and so Dylan & I were partners to celebrate and bring in the new year. Well needless to say my partner could not hang and so therefore I will call it a night as well. No better why to end the year by my son falling asleep on my chest waiting for the ball to fall in New York, carrying him to his bed, kissing his forehead and wishing him sweet dreams. Oh how beautiful life is and more importantly that I realize how lucky and thankful I am to be blessed with such a precious little boy and the joy he brings to my world......

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL & TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.................
May 2008 be good to everyone!

"SWEET DREAMS SON & MAY THEY ALL COME TRUE"

xx
Erin

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY ROSE

2007-12-31T00:44:00.001-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COUSIN MARY ROSE

We hope that you have a great day and a wonderful year. We wish we could help you celebrate and we hope that we get to see you soon. We love and miss you very much. Dylan had so much fun making your poster. Enjoy your special day.

Love from All,
Erin, Jeff & Dylan

HOLIDAY MADNESS & CHEER

2007-12-30T21:20:00.000-08:00

Wow what a hectic several days.

Friday evening 12/21/07 we dropped by to say our goodbye to Nana G as she was leaving to fly to Alaska. My Mom, Jeff & I enjoyed a delicious Italian dinner at Oregano' s followed by The Christmas Carol play at the theatre. It was a nice evening.. Much Thanks to Poppie for keeping Dylan and allowing us a nite out on the town.

Saturday I did some last minute shopping and Dylan & I wrapped some gifts and just had a chill out nite for ourselves as Dad was working.

Sunday I hit early morning Mass and then wore one of my 5 hats and cleaned my parents house for the Holiday dinner on Tuesday. That evening we headed to the west side of town to have Chinese dinner with Jeff's Dad and his side of the Family. We went back to Grandmom G house for dessert and chat time. Dylan had a blast playing with his cousins and running through grandmom's house.

Dinner & Dessert with Dylan's Great Grandmom Gerle

Monday we made sure to practice with Dylan and the broomstick for the his big job @ the Children's Mass on Christmas Eve that evening. We had a somewhat quiet day visited with our neighbors and before we knew it was time for Mass. Dylan was part of the processional and had to carry a wreath on a pole. He did such a great job, we were very proud of him. Needless to say with all the family there to be his audience we took up a whole pew. After mass we headed out with my family for yet another evening of Chinese food. ***If you have not caught on yet it is Family Tradition to eat Chinese food just before Christmas.***** The restaurant was empty and quiet so it was nice & relaxing as Dylan & my nephew Michael were able to be some what free after being strapped (ha ha) down at Church. We headed home jamming to Christmas tunes in the car ran inside and quickly got PJ"S on and put out the goodies for Santa and as a family read a goodnight story to Dylan. Jeff & I stayed up till oh about 1am goofing off and doing some lasssssst minute wrapping- ya know wink** wink***.

Dylan in line getting ready to participate at Christmas Eve Mass

Thumbs up from our wreath holder
Dylan & Poppie eating with chop sticks

The gang at Chinese dinner #2

Santa has to have cookies & milk.............................

Daddy & Dylan drafting their Santa note

Tuesday Jeff woke up first and when I say first I mean first. Blew me over because he never gets up first-had me shocked. We both woke Dylan up and he was excited to see the Christmas tree glowing so beautiful and presents under the tree. So we did the whole present thing and Dylan was so so sweet. He opened his presents with so much excitement and was so sincere and thankful for all that he was given. It actually brought a tear to my eye at how genuine his thank yous were. Jeff decided he was craving for the most complicated breakfast so off to the kitchen we went to make egg's benedict. I must say it turned out well. We then headed to my parent's house for dinner. We had fillet of beef and salmon. Food was great, good company, much laughter and we had a really good time. Mom & Dad thanks for hosting yet another great holiday- you guys both rock.

Our tree @ 1:00 am Christmas Morning..........................................

Dylan & his new big boy bike from Santa

Thank you Great Uncle Danny, Aunt Kathy, Jackie & Mary Rose for the awesome bumper car.... yes it is just like the real ones.

Thank you Aunt Kelly,Uncle Ed,Devin,Colton & Caden for my transformers

Our delicious Egg's Benedict-way to go hon-we rocked

My Mom & I and my Mom's beautiful Christmas tree that houses hundreds of ornaments....

Our American "Poppie"

The Sisco Clan (My Sister Maura,Dave & Michael)

The wee boys

My Mom & Dad and long time friends Dennis & Lynn

For the most part everyone was happy except for "little" Michael

And then.... back to the grind stone.

We hope that all of you and your families had a joyous & Merry Christmas Season.

xx,

Erin

Christmas Gift Suggestions

2007-12-15T08:34:00.000-08:00

SIMPLE & TRUE GIFTS

To your enemy, forgiveness

To an oppenent, tolerance

To a friend, your heart

To a customer, service

To all, charity

To every child, a good example

To yourself, respect

A Future Leader ?????????

2007-12-12T15:28:00.000-08:00

My handsome man was Flag boy last week @ his school. He did a great job holding that flag high and proud. He said to me " MOM I am the leader and everyone must follow me". He is really loving school.
xx
Erin

Sunglasses and all he still looks like a darn good leader.......................

Mountain Time

2007-12-05T15:05:00.001-08:00

We decided after the hard work and the feast we had it sounded great to get away & relax. So we headed up north for the long Thanksgiving weekend with my Mom, Dad, Sister & her family and of course the turkey left overs. It was so beautiful and cold. The Valley has been very warm so it was a treat. We pulled up to our cabin to be greeted by 3 deer chilling out in the open lot right next to our front door. What a way to start a weekend. Seeing wildlife is always so fun. Dylan gets so excited. This lot used to be full of trees but as you can see it is open now due to a fire that almost took our cabin. We had a great visit. You know me always on the go and busy, I did not relax that much. I ended up giving 4 pedicures,1 color & 3 haircuts. We had yet another feast of turkey leftover's on Friday and had a delicious prime rib dinner thanks to my brother-in-law Dave on Saturday evening. Food was muum muum yum. Jeff & Dave cut down our huge mesquite tree that we lost from the fire and then yes Sunday came and we had to come back to reality. I sure do miss the sound of the pines swaying in the wind.

Prime Rib Feast

Michael driving Mr Dylan-they thought they were the bomb 4x4 ing tractor style.

Cutie pies

Our poor tree-one last photo

the boy's taking a breakfrom the out doors

I still have more to come-I'll be baaaack.....

I'M A SLACKER.... So much to catch up on.........

2007-12-05T13:48:00.000-08:00

Where to start...... Thanksgiving we hosted dinner at our house for 11 people. Had a lot of family come & go, at one point I had 20 people in my house. Normally I would be saying I need a bigger house but not this time. It was nice to see everyone in the same room and everybody visiting together. I said to my self "SELF" "the size of the house you live in is not what is important it's the love the fills the home and the comfort your guest feel in your home is what makes it special". It was a beautiful day and I hope that everyone had a good time. We were so glad Devin & Colton could visit-it was so nice to see you both.

The Host's

Table & Flowers

The Turkey Carver's (Jeff & brother-in-law Dave)

THE GUEST

Dylan with his Nana. G

Nana. L & Michael (my nephew)

Erin & Maura w/our boys

Dylan & Devin(my nephew from Alaksa)

Colton (my nephew from Alaska)
Ryan & Brennan(my brother-in-laws)

Ryan, Linda & my Dad

As you can see we were all so stuffed from dinner no one had the energy to take photos after dinner, wish I would have thought to catch one of the crowd of 20. Oh well maybe next year!

I will be back to post more.

Erin

BUBBLE FUN

2007-11-08T16:27:00.000-08:00

Dylan & I making bubble faces during bath time.

Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday-it has been a long week!

:) Erin

Sunday @ the Bowling Alley w/Nana & Poppie

2007-11-06T18:12:00.000-08:00

On Sunday we went bowling with my parents unfortunately Jeff could not be there he had to fix a leaky tiolet at his Mom's house. :( Dylan did really well and had a lot of fun. We made sure they had the bumpers up so no gutter balls. Believe it or not Dylan did really good throwing the ball down the center, but I will say the bumpers helped my Mom & I out only a couple of times. We shared good laughter and had a lot of fun. Enjoy my snaps.

Dylan ready to knock'em down!

Nana patiently awaiting her turn

Dylan had a blast getting our balls for us- He is such a great helper!

Yes Dylan had a split and did a great job bumper free at getting the 2 pins down

Coach Poppie aka: The Peanut Gallary-Thanks Dad for all the Pointers and laughs. Your the bomb!

No lie on my part about my handsome man throwing down the center.

The bowling gang minus Mom.

Thanks Nana & Poppie for a fun day. Hope everyone is having a great week.

Erin

2007-11-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Mom/Nana

Wishing you many many more. We hope you have a great day and awesome year. You are the best in every way. I truely feel blessed & lucky to have such a wonderful Mom. You are my Mother, My Friend & My Hero Thank you for your love, support and all that you do for us.
We love you so much,
xoxoxo
Erin, Jeff & Dylan

Halloween Greetings

2007-10-31T22:35:00.001-07:00

Today was a great day. Jeff & I helped set up the Fall Festival at Dylan's school. He had a great time and created some awesome crafts.

Jeff & Dylan colored the pumpkin picture and painted this amazing Fall picture frame. Great work guys. Mom assisted Dylan in making his awesome fall tree.

Then it was time to master up Pirate Dylan.......

Daddykins(Dylan is pretty stuck on calling Jeff this) doing the beard art.

AArrhhhh AArrhhh Mattie........

Pirate Dylan showing off his work of art-he made his candy bucket.

Momma & her pirate

Check out my bucket of loot........

Swifting through the goods on the floor is a must-boy brings back such awesome memories of being a kid.

"MMMMM Yum Daddykins look at all this candy I have" Exact words out of our little joy.

Happy Halloween to all & to all a spooky night!!!!!

Fun Times @ the Pumpkin Patch

2007-10-26T17:17:00.000-07:00

Some photos of our visit to the Pumpkin Patch. We took Dylan who is 4 & our nephew Michael who is 2 , the boys had a fun time running around with so much to do. Take a peek and don't be afraid to leave a comment-show us some love!!

Dylan & Michael on the tractor ride around the farm. They were both is AAHH. Dylan is very much into cars, machines & really anything you can drive so he really wanted to be driving the tractor but he was cool and settled as a passenger instead. He did ask if he could drive it though.

The boys decorating away. I am still picking up stickers in my house.

Michael climbing on a old playhouse.

Jump Jump Jump-Jump Around Dylan jumping and having a ball in a bouncy house.

The gang minus Daddy on the tractor ride.

Dylan resting on a 400 pound REAL pumpkin

Farmer MichaelFarmer Boy Dylan

We are so glad that Fall is here and the heat is somewhat slowwwwwwly fading away. Happy Autumn to all!

xxoo,
Erin

Family Time @ Our Cabin in Pine

2007-10-22T22:31:00.000-07:00

Wow-nice to get away and escape reality. We went up North for a couple of days. The weather was beautiful and there were a few trees here and there which showed the signs of Fall. We enjoyed quality family time which included walking the mountain, 4x4ing in the forest, Dylan's first attempt at a video game, cuddling together fireside and spotting some wild life. We wish we could have stayed longer but we had a great time. Enjoy our photos.

xx
Jeff, Erin & Dylan

DA DA WE ARE UP & RUNNING

2007-10-18T15:10:00.001-07:00

Finally----We have upgraded our computer into the real world and oh what a difference. So this is my test and badda bing it works. So this is a sun set photo I snapped a few nights ago. Hip Hip Hooray Fall is here and we are stoked. I'll be back soon. Besure to leave a comment anytime you would like.

Smiles :)
Erin

We have a blog-stay tuned

2007-08-20T14:15:00.000-07:00

Yes the Gerle's now have a blog. This I hope will help me to keep all who are interested better informed on the life and happenings in the Gerle household.

I would like to thank my awesome friend Jill for setting this up for us. You rock girl. You truly are my inspiration to better journal our life and cherish the moments that have a way of passing by so fast. Thank you thank you thank you.

So please check us out as often as you would like and I am making a pack to post anything or everything more often then less often.

Be back soon!!! :)

2007-08-15T12:07:00.000-07:00