Thursday, July 31, 2008
Rock Star Brothers 8:39 PM

I did this awhile ago, but I'm not sure why I never posted it, so here is another digital scrapbook page I did:


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The Bachelorette Party 8:34 PM

We took Erica out last Saturday night for her Bachelorette Party. My little sister is getting married on Oct 4. We are so excited for her and Ira. Here are a few pictures from the night!

erica's bachelorette party

Rasberry Kamakazi shots and yep, I did one! My first shot in about 3 years!!
cheers

Even Mom did one!!
even the mother of the bride went out!

I love my sisters!!
sisters!

And here I am with one of my best friends, Mary. We were posing in front of Bubs, because back in the days before kids, we used to love hanging out there!
robin and mary in front of BUBS!

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Colin's Baptism 8:27 PM

Colin was baptized into the Catholic Church on Saturday, July 26. His Godparents are his Aunt Jen and Uncle Jeff. Unfortunately they could not be here for the baptism, so my parents stood in for them. The ceremony was beautiful. Here are a few pictures from the day. I'm hoping if anyone else has pictures I can get copies of them, since I didn't get to take many being in the ceremony myself.

God Bless Colin

baby in white

Robin, Juan, Colin

The baptism

getting baptized

Deacon Rick did a special blessing for me, the mother, with all the other mother's there as my support, it was awesome!
blessing the mothers

And also a blessing for Juan as the father:
blessing the fathers

and here's sort of a family picture:
family take 2

And here is a picture of Colin from later in the day that I LOVE:
little sailor

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Just like his brother... 8:23 PM

The other night I was about to feed Colin, but needed to go get a diaper or something. So I put him on the couch to wait for me and when I came back this is what I saw:

he found his thumb

i think he was really hungry

so funny

It was so cute, he was sucking his thumb so hard....must have been hungry!

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COUSINS!! 8:15 PM

Brandon, Colin, Kylie and Kira...Cousins by chance, friends by choice!!

COUSINS!!!

and the proud grandmother of these 4 cuties:
Nemah and her four grandchildren

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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Vegas, Baby! 8:41 PM

My parents got a time-share in Vegas at a resort called The Cancun. So, this past week, our family, mom and dad, and Rachel and her family all met in vegas for 3 days. It was awesome! We spent most of the time at the really awesome pool at the resort. The weather was great! 104 degrees and up the whole time! HOT, but we loved it! The pool had some awesome water slides that we went down, a bunch of jacuzzis and it was just really fun for us and the kids. We did hit the strip one afternoon, but it was really hot and not much to do for the kids, but it was cool anyways. Thanks mom and dad for a great trip!

Here are a few pics of our trip!

Here is half of the pool at night...it was the view looking down from our parents room:
the view from our parents room, down to the pool

Juan gambles a dollar and wins $1.25, and then loses it! We were big spenders!!
juan won $1.25!

The M&M factory...you walk in there and the smell of chocolate is AWESOME!!
the girls at the M&M factory
Brandon and the red M&M

Rachel and Allen went to get a pic with these two Elvis' and then the big blue Elivs MADE Allen give them a tip! How rude!
This picture cost Allen a dollar

In front of the Bellagio...
in front of the Bellagio

The bathtub in the hotel room was seriously HUGE, we could have fit a few more people in there!
The bathtub in the hotel was HUGE!

It's always fun to see Brandon and Kira together as they are only 10 weeks apart in age.
Brandon and Kira

Rachel's first time holding Colin...and isn't Kylie such a pretty model???
Aunt Rachel, Colin and cousin Kylie

There are more pictures at webshots...Enjoy!

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Sesame Street Live 8:29 PM

They had a free Sesame Street show for military families on base last week. My mom and I took Brandon and Colin. Brandon got all decked out in his Elmo shirt and we had a good time. They gave out all kinds of free stuff: stickers, postcards, books, DVDs, a light up Elmo toy, etc. It was awesome!

going to Sesame Street Live

Sesame Street Live on Base

He loved the toy they gave him!
Brandon had a good time

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Elmo sleeps in Brandon's crib 8:27 PM

So this is what we saw on the monitor the other day and it freaked us out. At first glance it looks like elmo is sleeping in Brandon's crib!!

elmo's in brandon's crib

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Friday, July 11, 2008
Colin's 2 month check-up 1:48 PM

Colin had his two month check up yesterday.

He weighs 12lbs (50th percentile)
Height: 21.5lbs (5th percentile)...we are destined to have two short kids!

Everything else was right on target. He is doing great.

He had to get 6 immunizations (1 oral and 3 shots)...he did great with the shots, it was funny though because he screamed for a second, which made brandon cry. So Colin stops crying after like 10 seconds and Brandon continues to cry for like 5 minutes...go figure.

Unfortunately Colin had a really bad reaction to the shots and last night was screaming for an hour straight with a swollen leg, poor baby. It's a long story but he's MUCH better today!

I love him sooooo much!

(and brandon of course)

(and juan of course, too!)

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The pacifier game 11:28 AM

Brandon loves to play with Colin's pacifier when it's in his mouth. He usually tries to pull it out and put it back in for him. Yesterday I saw him just playing with the handle and Colin was SOUND asleep the entire time. I was really surprised Brandon didn't wake him up. Check out the video...



someone tell me how colin did not wake up for this!

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Backyard Water Park 11:24 AM

We bought Brandon this cool water park thing for our backyard since it's so hot here and a lot of the times I can't take him to the pool since I have Colin too. Colin stays inside and I can still hear him while Brandon plays outside. Anyways, this thing is SOOOOOOOo cool. It has a giraffe that sprays water under the neck, an elephant that sprays water from it's trunk and a cool alligator pool that sprays water also. Then there is Brandon's pool that we also fill up. So fun!

Brandon's own water park!

so fun!

i love this!

swim you later, alligator!

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4th of july 11:20 AM

Our camera decided it wanted to only take 3 pictures on the 4th of july, but at least they turned out pretty good. i have to get the rest of the pictures from that day from my mom's camera. we went to the fair for the day and had a great time! brandon even went into the petting zoo and pet a bunch of animals. he loved it!
Happy belated 4th of july!

4th of july

happy 4th

the boys

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got it! 11:19 AM

OK, so here's the big smile i've been waiting to catch!

big smile

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