Blogging on the back burner

  Since summer has hit I don't think I have picked up my laptop to blog. Blogging has not been on my to do list.. We have spent several days at the water park which is super fun. We have had lots of play dates and playing in our back yard time. So far I have managed to keep the girls and myself pretty busy.
    I have enjoyed not having much of a schedule and flying by the seat of my pants.. I know that Jazi sure has been missing school. She talks about it often, and just yesterday I was thinking how in the world did it happen but she is going into pre-k in Sept.! The girls and I are squeezing in all the time we can in these last two weeks with Jas. YES I said it two weeks!! I starting to feel very sad about this. I have hide it away until I absolutely have no choice other than to think of it. I have found someone to help with the girls this summer thank goodness cause this momma is gonna have some hard times ahead.
    I look forward to all of fun days this summer just wish Jas could be here to enjoy them with us. I am now making a commitment to blog a little more, I always feel a little better afterwards. That is as soon as I finish my Grey's trilogy books! Yes I said it.. I am completely into these books and cant seem to put them down! And will prob be waiting in line when the movie comes out. It has taken me about a week to finish the first and second one and now I am on the third book. I am just saying this better have a happy ending!!!  Until next time.. I hope everyone is having a happy summer with lots of swimming!

Look who's One!

  I find it quiet unreal that Juliana Grace is a year old. I think I have been putting this blog off because I really don't want to sit down and to really think about how fast this year has gone bye. Jas created a slideshow of her first year. I have to say I am glad he did it cause I probably would of been in tears. Her birthday party was a blast and over within a snap of a finger.
    I really can go on all day about how she has made my heart full. I love this little girl so much, her smiles back at me lets me know she gets it. She is turning into to a big girl. I say this because she is 23lbs. She is a chunk and eats like crazy. She has 8teeth and just cut her top molars. I broke her from her bottle at 10 1/2 months. Crazy I know, but it was so easy she loves her sippy cup. I am sure the paci will be a diff story she loves that thing. A few weeks ago she started standing on her own with out holding onto anything. She took four steps the other day.. I am very ready for her to walk before daddy has to leave. All the milestones just make me sad really.. I block a lot of things out because I see her growing so fast. And I look at Jaz and think in no time Juliana will be there. I just hope as a mom and I am sure we all do that I don't look past a single thing.
    Her birthday party was fun.. I wanted to keep it simple. But of course it never ends up that way. I have to say I was a little sad when I didn't get a single cake smash pic. Not because I wasn't waiting patiently behind the camera. Because she could of cared less! We were so happy our family and friends came to celebrate thia time with us. Still on my fireplace the two tissue ball and a banner that says I am one. I just cant seem to take them down. I don't want my baby to be one. She has grown up so fast.. and when people tell you it goes by fast that is a under statement. But I sure do love watching her develop her own personality completely different than Jazlyn. I think I have said this before she is gonna be our heart stealer. Cause I know one thing she has sure stole ours.
     

Taco Pizza

 Many of you saw this picture on face book and asked for the recipie. However I found it looking around on pintrest of course. This is so easy and so yummy!
 
You will need
-Pizza crust ( I got the pillsbury crust)
-I can refried beans
-Hamburger meat with taco mix
-lettuce
-tomato
-cheese
Add what ever else topping you would like.

1st I cooked the taco meat. I then got the crust ready and spread a layer of beans down. added the taco meat and the toppings. I cooked for the time it called for on the crust (I had to cook mine a little longer to make sure it was not gooey) I LOVED it. Defiantly something I could eat often.  
 Happy taco pizza eating!!!

Three

Jazi Claire turned three on April 15h. It really is hard to believe that three years went by that fast. She sure has made it a great three years thats for sure. The first present she got was a swing set that daddy spent a couple of days working on. She loves it. We then finished celebrating her birthday at chuck e cheese in fort smith with family and friends. She enjoyed chuck e cheese alot. After giving her a swing set we wanted to keep everything pretty small and simple. We did get some present to open there which at the time she cared nothing about :) Since her actually birthday was on Sunday we brought her bike that we got her to my parents. Jas put that together sat night so sunday morning she would wake up to it.  She walked up to it and said a bicycle! Got on it and said wheres my helmet? haha Only Jaz.  She had a great birthday party and lots of good presents.
    It only took her all of a couple of days to get the bike riding down. She is very proud of that. So was mommy and daddy. She really enjoys her sand box. She says all the time we are at the beach. Wishful thinking I guess. Even though she has not been to a beach yet.
            On a different note.. three seems it will be a tough age for Jazi.. as if a light switch went off and now she doesn't have to listen. I guess that is part of it right. So it may get a little trying around our house for a little while but I am sure the best has yet to come with her. She keeps us on our toes. It is just liked I blinked and now she is three. So happy birthday to my baby girl.. even though when I call her that she says I am not a baby I am Jazi Claire! She is a one of kind that is for sure, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Jazi carrying Josie around. I remember not long ago Josie being bigger than Jaz!

                               

Chuck E Cheese fun with Grammy and Grandpa

This is my absolute fav picture!

This pic show so much love between the two of them!

Jazi seeing her bike for the first time. She was so excited!    

Plastic eggs

  After a full week of easter I think it is safe to say I am sick of seeing plastic eggs. The sunday before last we had a easter get together at my parents it was kinda last minuite. Luckily the family got together since we weren't able to make it down for easter. We had fajatias that my parents made and of course it was good. Jazi got to color easter eggs and hunt them not just once but I think three times. She had a ton of fun and got her easter basket from the bunny at my parents house.
   The following week consisted of two more egg hunts between school and play group. So if you think that is alot of candy for a three year old. Most has been hidden away in a bag. This year was a fun year to watch her hunt for the eggs, I got some cute pictures of her hunting.
   Our easter weekend was fun.. Especially for Jas since he worked non stop. He re did the flower beds our front which has been an on going project for a year. It finally looks complete now. After that we picked out Jazi swing set for her birthday. He laid all the pieces out to get a head start the next day. The funny thing is she was more interested in the turtle sand box than the swing set. Sunday of course the easter bunny stopped by our house for the girls.. they were loaded up with goodies. Jas got right to work.. as Jazi told him "daddy you have more work to do". If you cant tell by now she is the boss! He only took a short break for lunch, which lead to us finding out to our tv was broke. So he spent the entire day on the swing set on sunday and was done by dinner time. Jazi was thrilled, today she called it her park. It just made me smile.
     In the mist of all this my poor Juliana has a double ear infection so she kept us up all night friday night.  Between the walk in clinic and kroger she and I spent the entire morning there. While jazi and daddy worked.
    Not to mention the cherry on top of Jas busy weekend was.. the new tv we bought as he is getting ready to hang it up on the mount on the wall discovers the screen is cracked! So I took the tv back and of course that was the last of the one we wanted so I had to pick another one without Jas I had no idea what I was doing. Finally the house is put back together front yard back and even the inside.
     Jas is playing milatry this week so me and the girls are doing the norm. We wont be far behind him though.. Our miss Jazi Claire birthday party is this weekend. My baby girl is going to be three. I wonder where does time go? I mean really I remember just finding out when I was pregnant with her. She is such a joy in our lives and has blessed us! I could go on all day about that girl. I am sure I will have tons of pics of her on her bday.
    I did however snap a ton of pics of easter and Jazi playing on her swing set that I will share!!

Hope everyone had a happy easter and hope I find NO more plastic eggs!!!

Simple life

        Tonight after cooking dinner for the first time in seriously almost a week we decided some ice cream sounded good. Since the girls and I spent all day in the house we were all happy to get for a little bit. Jazi was begging to wear her rain boots of course cause it had rained all day.. she had a pair of shorts and a tank top on. Real cute look on her.. but I am sure I would get some crazy looks if I thought I could wear that out. Of course she has a major love for ice cream but the main thing about our 30min out of the house was her getting to jump in water puddles. As she is doing this I am snapping a few pictures.. I am thinking to myself what a simple life. I wish I could see a water puddle sometimes and just go jump in it and splash water all over me with out any worries, not really.. but the joy that this brought to her made me smile. So maybe we should smile more about the simple things in life and look at our life's like a three year old looks at a water puddle with rain boots on!

Branson

   This past weekend we took a mini vacation to Branson as a family of four. It was a little interesting with a 10month old and a 3yr old. We probably couldn't of been in the car any longer than 3 hours.. thank goodness for dvd players in cars! We left on Friday after lunch, took us about 3 hours to get there. We were able to check in our room and had 30 min. to spare before the dixie stamped. Jazi of course was just thrilled to see as she calls them the yehaws! It was a very cute show of course the girls started to get a little restless towards the end. But all in all Friday was a good day. Jazi told us on the way back to the room "I had a good day" Just loved hearing her say this. 

           Saturday we had lunch and did some shopping which is of course is interesting with two little girls who don't know the true meaning of shopping quiet yet :) Since my birthday was a few days prior to this I was lucky to get to go to the Coach outlet, which by the way I was crazy for always paying full price for before. After a long day of dragging the girls around and the hubby, we went back to the room so they could nap. They all three took a little nap while mommy snook away for a little while. All four of us being in the same room was a little trying at times. So that is why it was a short vacation, not sure we could of all survived a week. That evening we went to the fish house which was a restaurant on the the river next to the bass pro shop. Jazi loved getting to see the fish, well she was pretty scared of the fish tank we sat next to at dinner. She has become quiet the chicken lately telling me she is scared of everything. But at the pass pro shop she liked the fish there and the bambi's. We walked the Branson landing which is super nice by the way.. cute little water show that Jazi and Juliana enjoyed. Oh I did forget to mention as we passed the go cart track on the way to eat she said I wanna go there. And on the way back it was closed so we told her we promised we would go tomorrow. I didn't think she would really ride to be honest. 

     Sunday morning we got up and packed and got ready to check out of the room. As we are doing this Jazi keeps saying "I like my room". I think she had a fun time staying in the room. So as we promised we headed to the go cart tracks first. We asked her if she wanted to ride and of course she said YES. So her and daddy rode the bumper boats first.. she thought she was going to get to swim. She did enjoy that. But not as much as the go carts. I thought Jas would have to go slow because she would be a little scared. Wrong.. she loved it. I could tell each time they passed me by the look on her face she was having a blast. That is when I knew it wouldn't matter where we went for vacation she will always have fun. We then took her to the disney store and few others that we had missed on sat. she picked a bambi out of all the princess stuff she hasn't put him down since. We headed back home after lunch and both the girls slept most of the way. 

      I feel very lucky to be able to treat our girls to this vacation. This is something we dont do often but something we need to make a habit out of.  Jason isn't far out from being deployed once again.. so I am glad we got to do a small get away before all the chaos begins. I am looking forward to a vacation for me and him when he gets back :) 

spending time with momma while Jazi got to  ride

Just look at that face!