welcome back to me

I can't remember the last time I made a blog post and to be quite honest I had no intention of continuing to blog just for the mere fact that I'm lazy about it. However, alot has happened since my last post and I'm regretting I haven't kept up on blogging about everything for memories sake. So I am attempting to pick it back up again. I don't even want to think about catching up on on whereabouts till now cause lets be honest, the only important thing is the new addition to our family, baby boy Talis. He was a suprise through and through ( it was a suprise to us when we found out I was prego and then being the suprise lovers we are we decided not to find out the sex, which we highly recommend :)  ) He arrived a week before his due date of July 18th so on July 10th at 1:58 am at 8 lb 14 oz our sweet T came to be with us and we couldn't have been more estatic. Fast forward 3 months later (to the day exactly) and we are parents to this charming little three month old boy. Being a mom and dad to him has been incredible.

i'm still here.

well my resolution to be better at blogging didn't last long but at least it hasn't been too long...right? we just got home from mexico and oh boy was it nice to soak up the sun and relax with good friends and fun. it was a well needed weekend trip.

lately i find myself getting into a lot of things i never thought i'd be interested in which is crafting and cooking. these things are way too domesticated for my personality, or so i thought, but i guess when you get married it's only a matter of time before you start to become domesticated. (in my case it's taken about a year and a half) i've been slowly getting into crafting and cooking and i'm suprising myself everyday with each new thing i take on. for example, yesterday i cooked homemade sweet potato fries, these cheddar puff things, and caramel cupcakes. needless to say my husband came home to a random assortment of food but was grateful nonetheless. so i may not be living up to my resolution to blog but it's because i'm suprising myself by being attempting to be domestic.

my laptop doesn't like me

I had typed up this long post and then my stupid computer shutdown all of a sudden to update something, super frustrating. so the condensed version goes a little something like this:

The Vegas trip was really fun this weekend. The reception was SO cute and my cousin Josh looked so happy with his new wife Carlie. Not to mention DJ and I won 20 bucks playing roulette! Which I'm thinking is starting to become a tradition for us when we go to Vegas because we played roulette there last time and have been wanting to play it ever since. (This is probabaly why gambling is bad for you, ooops!)

 My best friend Mataya found out where her husband will be playing football. The Pittas will be in Maryland  and while this means Taya won't be close by so that we can play (yes i still use the word play like i'm 7 years old) I will have to settle for talking on the phone :)

 This weekend we might go camping. I'm crossing my fingers that it actually ends up happening though. I've been wanting to go camping for quite sometime now and anybody that knows me knows that once i set my mind on something i won't stop (or be annoying about it) until it happens.

why do I even have a blog?

I haven't updated our blog nor even been on blogspot in so long that I am wondering why I even have a blog. To update you all on what's happened since the last post which I don't know how long ago was I've tried to compile it all in one short list. So here is goes:

1. Went to Hawaii for our family reuion. It was DJ's first trip and we had so much fun.

2. Our dogs are bigger and crazier and funner then ever

3. School for me has ended, started back up again, and now with the end of semester approaching will soon be ending again.

4. We had an awesome Christmas and me and DJ enjoyed spoiling eachother this year. We threw a Christmas party for friends and had a blast.

5. We've made 2 Vegas trips and will make one again this weekend for my cousin's wedding

6. Got in a car accident that totaled my car and resulted in me having to get surgery :(

7. Me and DJ have started to get into hiking and go every weekend we are able to.

8. Have attended numerous weddings of friends and family and everytime we are in the sealing room I remember the day I was married to my sweetheart :)

9. DJ and his dad put in nice new baseboard, chair railing, and detailing all downstairs and in our bedroom and it looks amazing. We've painted and started to decorate our master but it's been a slow process so we aren't quite done yet

10. We have been put into nursery and we love our calling

This list doesn't do us justice for all the stuff we've been up to this past year but it's the jist of it I guess. From here on out I am going to be a better blogger! hopefully.... :)

A glimpse at our family photo at the end of the year 2009 :)

Hiking pictures from hiking Dutchman's Trail and Peralta
Pictures from our Hawaii trip.....oh I wish we could have just stayed there !

Our Christmas picture that was on our Christmas card (the one with us in footies) and me getting to makeout with Santa (my sexy husband) at our Christmas party. Notice Nicole Letner in the background looking at her finger? She just got proposed to :) Congrats Ryan and Nicole who got married last weekend!