47 Mosquito bites...on one little body

Today Zac received a call from Daycare telling us that Alexander had several red bumps all over his body. The teacher said they look like bug bites, I get to daycare to pick him up and sure enough our little one has mosquito bites all over the top of his body. In fact...47 mosquito bites. Yes, we counted them...marked them to make sure that we don't add to the mess tonight.
We have no idea where he got all the bites from, this morning I did see one mosquito bite on his back but it was one...and now it's 47!
Poor little thing...even his little eye got one... :(


Then his front and face had quite a few (It looks like we don't feed him, but I promise we do)

Alexander wanted to take a picture of me, anything to make the little one happy

Okay...that and donuts...

Here is a picture of his back side and our pen markings so we know if he get's new ones.

4th of July

We don't have a lot of long weekends, so we had to make the most of it. We headed up north to Flagstaff to cool off and it was well worth it.

Flagstaff was having "Art in the Park" and they had these jumpy things... Alexander had a blast.

Yes, he was sooooo HAPPY.

This was a type of drum...rather interesting.

Zac taking an action shot, not my best shot.

Alexander is unhappy because we made him come see the art, and he wanted to stay jumping

Well, it's not the best picture...but you see the shirt I got Alexander when I had to go to Quantico for training.

Happy again...

In heaven...

Here is my cute husband, and our pad for the fireworks.

More jumping things...this had water

Watching fireworks in Cottonwood, they were awesome and it was nice and cool!

My smart, husband! He's an A student!

My wonderful husband went back to school, and he had to take two classes for summer semester for official acceptance into ASU. It wasn't easy as he had to do two classes in one month. He worked so hard and had to read quite a bit. He was off dish duty for the month, as I wanted him to focus on school. It's been quite some time since he's been in school and I know he was nervous, but I knew it would all come back to him.

My wonderful husband received his grades and he got two A's...yes that is right I am married to an A student and I am sooooo proud of him. Where can I find one of those bummer stickers that says "My husband is an A student at ASU". We will be putting that on the back of Tyrone! :)

And while I am writing let me just say this....

Education is so important, I was taught by my parents that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you have your education. I know Zac was taught the same thing, but sometimes when we are young we think we know better than our parents. Zac gave up school due to his desire to give all he had into his band, Miso. He is very musically talented but as life has it's way with us he was blessed with little Alexander, which changed his life. Music and school had to take the back seat, his first responsibility was to get a full time job that would give him and Alexander insurance. Since getting married we have talked about education. I feel like it isn't so much what you study as it is that you feel that accomplishment and pride that come from putting in the time and effort. I remember walking across the stage receiving my diploma and it's a great feeling of accomplishment. I feel that Zac deserves to know what that feeling is like. He can accomplish anything, as he has both his Father's intelligence and his mother's thought process. He is going to succeed in school, he deserves to feel that accomplishment in his life.

Here is Zac and his band, Miso playing on Halloween. He loves his kind of music...I would just like to understand it. :)

Father's Day for Zac

Happy Father's Day to the Father who truely deserves this day. A Father that stepped up to his responsibility of being a Father and gave the word true meaning. I fell in love with this man for this very reason.
WE LOVE YOU DADDY!

His favorite gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A true family

Our family

Bowling and just silly photos

Alexander has been begging us to go bowling quite a while and finally one day we said...okay we are going.

I love this photo, Alexander loves his Dad more than anything

My man showing us how to do it. :)

Getting a little help

Look at that form

How the lovely faces my husband and child can make

He is so cute and full of life...the energy never stops!

Playing with a bubble machine that Alexander got for his birthday

Daddy playing with the bubble maching, yes...can you see what he is trying to make it look like with the bubbles. Yes, a farting machine...that's my husband. :)

My lovely man making dinner. He's so cute!

A Birthday Party for Alexander and a Concussion for Mommy

Alexander was having his first "real" Birthday party with friends and I wanted it to be special. My Mom always made our Birthday parties special and I just wanted the same for him. I also knew that Alexander was old enough to have memories of this Birthday. We rented out our Club House and knowing how crazy Saturday (the day of the party was going to be) I decided to head over and start decorating on Friday Night.
So Alexander and I started putting up the streamers...after that it all goes blank. Why? Well apparently I decided to fall off the chair, hit my head, and not remember anything else except little pieces of memory here and there. I remember seeing the phone fly out of my hand. The next memory is locking up the club house, and the last memory I have is standing in front of our blue couch. After that it all goes blank.
After talking to Zac, Alexander, and Marilyn my friend who was on the phone with I think it went something like this.
I fell, Alexander gave me the phone and I told Marilyn that I just hit my head and I feel weird. I told her I wanted to go home but I couldn't remember where I live. She kept asking me questions but I kept telling her "it was ok". Then I make it home and Marilyn calls me back she could tell that something was really wrong and asked me what Zac's phone number was. She called Zac and then he called me. I just was crying and it sounded a little crazy. He then called the neighbors who came over to check on me and then they called 911. I got a ride in the ambulence and made it right in to the emergency room while many had to wait in line. The next memory I have is being in the hospital with Zac next to me in the hall. The Doctor came to release us but I couldn't tell you what he said. We then made it home and I was asleep in my bed. I kept asking a million questions and Zac said it was as if I had short term memory asking the same question over and over again. I guess he got a taste of what life is going to be like with me when I am 90 years old.
After the CAT scan the Doctor told us I had a concussion, he said that the fall is wiped from my memory, and that my brain was going to keep trying to put it together but would stop after a little bit. Well it finally has slowed down, but our minds are interesting thing. It just keeps trying to put the puzzle pieces together and it's hard. It's like having a headache on top of a headache.
However, THE BIRTHDAY MUST GO ON...AND IT DID! Thanks to my wonderful husband and amazing sister Amber Alexander got a wonderful Birthday and I was able to feel like I did not fail as a mother.


The decor and chairs ready for musical chairs.

The Birthday Boy ready for the party to start.

The Transformer pinata

Amber helping in the kitchen

The games have started, Musical Chairs

We had a relay game where they were in teams ran down the room put on clothes took them off and tagged the next team. It was pretty funny, but everyone had a good time.

The Birthday boy dressed and ready to tag the next person

Cameron (his friend from school)

Zoe (from Church)

Aiden (from church)

Ready to take down the pinata

He's ready to take it down

The pinata that was made of steal... :)

Still trying to take it down

Owen (Sharron's grandson, best friend at play group)

Yes, we are still trying to take down the Transformer Pinata

Daddy, finally stepped in to break the Transformer!

Isabella came and joined the party after she woke up from her nap. Just in time to grab the candy.

Bags are full!

Present time...

He got some great gifts!

The Transformer cake! I know that my sister's would put me to shame as I did not make the cake but I guess I should be happy since I fell on my head.

Yes, I am standing and did my job of presenting the cake.

The Birthday Boy, is really 5 years old...he's growing so fast!

The Water balloon toss...it was a huge success and these two cute girls won!

Warming up on the cement

The water slide came together, and cooled everyone off. To bad we didn't have better success keeping it down.

The party ended off this and Tammy, Greg, and Emma were kind enough to stick around to help clean up. The party was a success and Mommy went home to take some strong meds to keep her asleep the rest of the evening. :) Daddy did a great job!