Mateo's bday invites

As we all know, I am a crazy person when it comes to birthday parties. I love the details and the planning. Well here we are again. Mateo's 5th birthday is creeping up on me. I have had the idea in my head for months, well really probably since his last birthday. And here I was thinking I had all this time and now we're almost there.

Well I have been searching for ideas, shopping, planning etc etc for a few weeks. I have so many fun ideas planned I hope they all work out. Only problem is, this won't be a 2 hour party...so I hope his guests are ready to have a GOOD time.

Here we are in the beginning stages and I have all ready made two boo boos. One, i forgot to add one key word in something I ordered, so my mistake and I have to reorder. I'm sure I will use the wrong ones at some point for another party (as I know there are many in my future).

Boo boo #2 ( now you have to realize, I spent most of our vacation (at night) working on the invitation with an incredibly patient lady). So here we are at home, final invite received, I send them to Costco...all is going well, and when Jeff picks them up.... WRONG DATE! Ugghhh, I uploaded the wrong ones!! So now, I have the envelopes ready, part of the invite ready and on hold for the second part as it was too late to have them reprinted today. I guess the postives to that are 1)costco will take the "wrong" ones back, so no $$ wasted, only time and 2) I am still pretty ahead of the game in timing for sending them out.

But I must say, this is one of the funnest parties I have planned so far. I can't wait for the kids to enjoy themselves and see how it all turns out. Lots of fun stuff, surprises, treats and more!!

I mean who doesn't love the CIRCUS!!

And with all this said, I will still be scrambling the last few days before~~

Disappointed

So it seems our t-ball season has come to an end. Unfortunately it ended the same way it started ~ a little disappointing~!

The 1st 2 games were cancelled due to rain, uncontrollabe, I understand.

Our team was VERY disorganized, unfortuanately as a result of our coaches. I know, not nice to say, but true. We managed to have practice every day of the week, including Saturday. No set practice days. Never new when practice was for the week until a few days before. Hard to plan for in general, not to mention when you work nights.

I believe primarily, due to all this, our team wasn't very "tuned" in. An unfortunate thing for the few who really wanted to play. One being my Mateo. We missed one game (due to it being a make up and we were out of town). Still mangaged to make it to the disorganized practices. Again, you could tell how disorganized our team was once we were on the field and watching the other teams. One of our coaches managed to miss more games than us.

And I guess the icing on the cake, Again due to uncontrollable circumstances we missed our final game due to rain ( I know, who'd of thunk, rain in June). Not to mention that it was my snack turn and I made baseball brownies that I now have in my freezer. Well we were told make-ups would most likely be the following Saturday (this upcoming Sat) and we agreed to cut our vacation short so Mateo would not miss his final game and the pizza party where their awards would be passed out.

Well I did say the season ended in disappointment as well ~ the make-up game was tonight, Wednesday, and he missed it all!
I didn't tell him, lucky enough he probably won't remember to ask (watch him prove me wrong). And yes, yes, I know, it was all due to weather....but really, a WEDNESDAY night??
Sigh, we can only hope next season is better, especially since he loved it so much and was one of the few who actually loved to play the game let alone get distracted in the dirt!

Woo Hoo~ Our Summer Vacation officially begins~~

Today is day one of our "summer vacation" (not from school, but for our family). The original plan had been to go to Hawaii, but after a lot of thought and some sadness on my part, we are choosing to wait until next summer! Marco will actually be able to enjoy it more and better all around for all of us ~ so we went with another plan.
We have many "trips" planned this summer but this is our 1st. Our trip to San Diego (a former home and love for me) and Legoland. Mateo has been counting down the days.
Our ride down actually went pretty quickly, but Marco didn't enjoy it too much. And yes, notice the pup in the picture. I guess he's part of the family right??

This is how we roll on a road trip :-))

One of my all time fave places to eat!

Yum... fresh tortillas

Mateo had to have a picture of these balloons

What I call, Marco's "chillaxin" pose

I found these super cute chairs in the grocery store here buying snacks and Mateo was so happy

I'd say Mateo is "chillaxin" here too


Now off to tons of fun this week!! Who's more excited? the boys? or me??

Derek's 8th Birthday Party

Derek had his bday party at Chuck E Cheese. What kid doesn't love that. Fun for the boys, but exhuasting for mommy and daddy!! Marco's getting an early jump start and loved it! We can't wait to spend time with them this summer while both the boys are out of school!!