Ferris Wheel Time!

For the passed year Sophia has been asking to

go on the Ferris Wheel at daddy's work!

Ok well who knew that it's only open Fri-Sun? No me!

So finally we made it a point to meet daddy for

lunch at his work on a Friday so we could

take Miss. Sophia on the Ferris Wheel and she LOVED

every minute of it...her first words from

the very top overlooking Irvine were

"mommy this is a lot like Disneyland!"

Happy 1st Birthday Noah!

Happy birthday so, we can't believe it's your 1st b-day already
bounce house fun!

Mamika & Noah

Noah just having the best time ever in the bounce house

sweet Sophia

Blake playing in the bounce house

Cousins...Noah 1yr, Gabriel 5 months

George & Stacy...check out my tattoo

Sophia & Breck

playing at the park

Baby Gabriel

Papika, Daddy-O & Noah...3 generations

"who's ready to break open my monkey pinata?"

line the kiddos up...

Sophia is going to show us all how it's done...

Jack the professional baseball player

silly daddy-o

Maru & Michelle

Time for some birthday cake

Happy Birthday to MEEEEEE

I LOVE cake

so precious...my favorite picture

opening my presents in my new USC jersey, Daddy is so proud!

I had the best birthday ever!

Our handsome, strong, brave, wild yet very wise son

happy birthday to you! We can't believe you

are 1 year old already, i feel like i gave birth

to you yesterday! You have shown us already what

and wonderful little personality you have and

we are enjoying everyday single day with you

and all our new adventures as a family!

We love you Noah, Happy Birthday!

The Night before

getting ready to try sugar for the 1st time
"yummy...you guy's have been holding out on me"

oh sooooo HAPPY!!!!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!

So the night before Noah turned one we did

a small family birthday celebration at home for him

(before his big party the next day)...let's just say

little Noah loves yummy sweets like his mommy & sister!!

Sophia's 1st day of Preschool!

her outfit picked out the night before
morning pictures with daddy ..."1st day of school"

our baby girl is growing so fast

Mamika (grandma) came over to watch Noah so I could take Sophia to school

SO Excited and SO ready!

signing my baby into school...sniff, sniff

we feel so fortunate that Sophia and her buddy George are in the same class!

too cute

no problems adjusting for Sophia...for me...that's questionable...sniff

fun, fun, fun

Stacy and I dropping off our babies...they grow up too fast!

Today was Sophia's first day of school and she lucked out

with the BEST teacher ever, Ms. Apin and with a few friends in her class

too! So happy that George, Hayley, Quinn and Caden are all in her class!

We are so proud of you Sophia and you did an excellent job today

adjusting to preschool, we look forward to great things

ahead at SC Pres!