Our little T-ball player

We are so excited to be embarking on a whole new world of sports and activities for the boys. This is such a blast! I told my Aunt Denise how excited we were & she said this was her fam's first year not doing baseball....they had 16 straight years with their 4 boys! Jimmy & I spent many evenings in Denton at her boys' games while we were dating....day dreaming about our own children. :) Elijah is playing at the same field that Jimmy & his siblings played many years of baseball...how cute is that!

A few March pictures

Elijah dancing...just another happy morning in the Perez house :) Both boys dancing Boys ready for their Easter egg hunt

Elijah's first school report

We had our first parent/teacher meeting yesterday at Elijah's preschool. His teacher is pretty shy so during drop off/pick up time there really isn't time to chat & they only do one meeting a year so I was really anxious to hear what she had to say. He got excellent on every part of his assessment!! He can write his name, knows all letters, sounds, numbers, shapes, colors, days of the week, knows the class prayer & class missionaries. He is ready to begin reading so we are going to start working on that. So she reaffirmed what we already thought...he's smart! :) Yea! We are really proud of the behavior part of the assessment too being that he is a boy & 4, they can get a little wild. She said that he loves to tell his ideas/stories (oh yeah he told my burned turkey Thanksgiving story including the fire dept coming to our house & everything!) Here are a few of her comments: "Does well listening without interrupting" "Leads others in great playtime activities & comes up with creative play ideas" "Very well at demonstrating self control, respectful, & courteous" "He is very much a class leader, the others look to his lead, he is kind to others and doesn't exclude them from play (apparently some of the other kids will tell each other they don't want to play with a specific kid) :( He does so well with all aspects of class, has fun things to offer and loves to create projects." She couldn't believe his drawings, she pulled out pictures that she had saved from the beginning of the year & compared them with his latest and it is incredible. He draws our minivan, dad's scions from work, our house & everything is full of details. These pictures are easily identifiable, let's just say much better than I can do! We have this report in writing so we'll definitely have to save this! Not one negative mark. We took him to Magic Time Machine last night for his report & had a great time. Our waiter was Denis the Menace, which he had no idea who that was, just thought the way he acted was weird. Luckily a pirate kept walking by and a clown lady that made him a dinosaur out of balloons so he ended up thinking the place was cool.

Issac is 2!

Just a few shots from his party on Saturday! I can't believe how time flies, he's not our baby anymore. He is just so cute & lovable, still cuddles in our laps and gives great hugs and kisses. After prayers at bedtime, he says "night night, love you" as we walk out. He does have his little stinker moments but that is to be expected...aren't the 2's supposed to be terrible? He & Elijah really have a great time together, they still share a room and it is the best thing. They love it! They talk & frequently laugh, it's just them being brothers and my wish is that they will grow up very close.

Pictures from the last couple weeks.....

My brown eyed boy! The boys went to a birthday party at the bowling alley last weekend, it was their first time and they had a lot of fun.

Thanking God for my Valentine!

I am so blessed to have a sweet & caring husband. He brought home a dozen roses, Olive Garden to go & a bottle of wine. The best gift of all came in my card when he said that he loves that our marriage keeps getting better. That would have been enough for me. I feel the same way too, we are going on 6 yrs and it gets better every day. Love you honey! :)

Future Couple

Emma & Isaac My dear friend Jennifer & I both have our older boys in the same preschool so we have started switching out with the younger ones so that each of us get a break for a few hours a week. It is the cutest thing to have these kids together, they get along so well and really love each other. You can actually get more done at home the day you have the both of them because they play so well together.

Rodeo Week at Elijah's school

Goodbye January....Hello February!!

This past month has been really rough. With the funeral, the whole family being ill, a health scare with my Dad, January seemed to go on and on. I am so excited about a new month and I love February! The 14th is Valentine's and I know it is a played up holiday but I really do love it, I love red & pink, the sweet cards, candy, the whole bit. Although I do have a husband that is sweet the whole year through so I am pretty lucky. :) The 26th is my birthday and I still love birthdays! I have a few friends that don't like them anymore because of their age but it doesn't bother me. I will be 29 this year, just one more year before I hit the big 30, WOW! PS...keep it on the down low but Jimmy turns 30 this year, October 1st is going to be awesome! Here are a couple pics I got of the boys last night at bedtime in their Spiderman pj's. Isaac doesn't like to be told what to do...it wasn't that hard...."Look at Mommy and smile!"

Finally on the mend!

Thank you to everyone for the prayers, phone calls and emails wishing us to get better, we finally are! Surprisingly everyone survived Mommy not getting off the couch for a few days, I ended up with strep too!

Update...the Perez house is quarantined.

After I wrote my last blog on Monday night I was feeling hopeful that we were almost through the woods but I soon realized not yet! Both of the boys were up almost that whole night, once an hour. Tuesday morning, Elijah had another symptom that I won't go into detail, just gross, you get the drift. Then he says his ear hurts so off to the doctor we go. Isaac was checked for flu, it came back negative. Elijah had an ear infection so off to the pharmacy for our one antibiotic. I dropped it off, we had lunch and then went back to do our grocery shopping. The pharmacy was backed up....imagine that! While we are making our way through the store, I am hit with the worst case of chills and body aches I have ever had. We were out of groceries at home so I had to persevere! Get home, put the boys down for a nap, unload groceries & then hop in bed. 30 minutes later Jimmy walks in (early from work) with fever, aches, sore throat...the whole bit. If you know Jimmy at all then you know he had to feel terrible. He never takes a sick day. We had just talked at lunch and we were both fine. Crazy! We both laid around all night and then called the dr. this morning. They could see us both at 10:15. Thanks to my sister-in-law Karin for advising me that it sounded like the flu so go get swabbed quick so you can get on Tamiflu. So basically....Jimmy has strep throat, Elijah has an ear infection, & Isaac & I have the flu! I tested negative for the flu but the Dr. said I was classic case and that the test doesn't catch all strings so she said Isaac had the same string of the flu that I had. Off we went to drop off 5 prescriptions!!! We are in bad shape!

Please no more fever!

Things around the Perez house had been pretty chaotic. We spent the majority of last week taking it slow, resting and letting everything that we had just been through sink in. Then out of no where, Elijah wakes up from his nap on Friday afternoon running fever. When he runs fever, you know it, he won't get off the couch. We have been stuck at home ever since...it just won't go away! He doesn't have any other symptoms and I have heard way too many times "It's just a virus, it just has to run its course" for me to rush to the Dr. Poor kid, he didn't want to sleep in his bed last night, he said we were too far away. We convinced him we would hear him over the monitor if he needed us but then I woke up in the middle of the night & he was asleep next to our bed with his pillow & blanket. Guess he had the last word. It made its way over to Isaac today, he woke up from his nap with fever! We watched cousin Brandon today while Mommy had to work so if Brandon can escape our house without running fever then he has a pretty good immune system. Just a couple pics of the kids coloring & painting (while the fever was broken)! I'm not sure of Elijah's new facial expression & hand gesture for photos...???

We miss you Dima.

Our hearts are broken as we have lost our 16 yr. old cousin Dima, who was like a little brother to us. He passed away Wednesday morning due to a brain aneurysm. But we have hope and know that he is with Christ and we will see him again. Visitation is at 5pm today at Simplicity Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held at Eagles Nest Christian Fellowship tomorrow at 1:00 P.M. Interment will follow at Resurrection Cemetery. Click here for the obituary and click here for the scholarship fund that Jimmy is working on. Please keep our family in your prayers.

Morgan Faith

Our dear cousin's, Justin & Sara are in town from Tennessee and came by last night to visit. Their little girl, Morgan is too cute for words. I adore her! She is the happiest little girl I have ever met, it doesn't matter what time it is, she is content and smiling all the time. For instance these pictures were taken around 11pm! *Note....Isaac isn't in the pictures....he is 4 months older than Morgan and there is no way he could have been up, he would be a nightmare. In the last pic, she is watching Elijah box on the WII.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, we sure did!

Christmas was great this year, it really is the best when we can see both sides of the family during the holidays. My adorable cousin, Lindsay got married on the 22nd in Dallas so we stayed over and spent Christmas Eve with my family in Garland and came back home to SA late that night. Jimmy had told me that he hadn't had a chance to shop so not to expect any Christmas gifts from him. Just as we are pulling up to our house late Christmas Eve night he said I didn't get a chance to wrap your present so I guess I'll give it to you now. :0 The garage door opens and there is a mini-van backed in staring at me! He is so sneaky and wonderful! Oh so generous and the best husband ever! So I am officially a minivan MOM, guess it's time to get Elijah signed up for soccer! Santa dropped off a WII for our family and it is so much fun!! I beat Jimmy the other night at bowling and he wasn't too happy about it, I told him it was the first and probably only time I will ever beat him at any game so he shouldn't be too disappointed.

My thanksgiving story...

is pretty funny, I haven't been able to blog about it yet so stay tuned....it's coming soon!

Kids & Bath time

Thank you to the pediatrician that was on the Today show this morning....she said 3 baths a week for Toddlers & Older children is plenty! WOOHOO! If you are a mom, you know what bath time is like, I have never been a parent that bathes every night and now I have back up for it, instead of feeling guilty or lazy for it! Even more so she said water dries out their skin. Here's a link: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=2e541162-0289-4cf0-8bfe-730889cd4ac7

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well I must be growing up....we are hosting Thanksgiving this year! You have no idea how excited I am about this, I love to cook and have everyone over! I will be making my very first turkey, using Kidd Kraddick's recipe....my favorite radio dj & trying my hand at chocolate pies for the first time. It's a Burt family tradition that I am carrying on. Wish me luck! :)

Happy Halloween

Elijah aka "football player" & Isaac aka "race car driver"

Pumpkin Patch

Here are a few shots from our family's first visit to a pumpkin patch. It was a lot of fun.