Happy 4th of July

This has been a great week. On Tuesday Brandon and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary.... we decided that since Grady ends up going everywhere with us anyways we would make it a family event and we took Gabe too. We went out to eat at Tahoe Joe's. It was really good but our appetites were not as big as we thought and not only could I barely make a dint in my plate but I had no room for cheesecake either :( After that we went miniure golfing. We had a blast and Brandon and I were both surprised at how well Gabe did. Fourth of July was a busy day for us..... it started down in Rocklin with the Garcia side of the family. We hung out at the pool, teased eachother (especially pops) ate, and had a lot of fun. Then we headed up the hill to Grandma Jan's for a big celebration of a bunch of things.... julies grad party, blakes b-day, jims b-day, and kylee's b-day. We spent more time in the pool and had a big BBQ. It was fun to see family I haven't seen in awhile and hang out with friends. After that we headed to Joel and Raylenes shop to watch the Auburn firework show. Since the shop is right across the street we had perfect seats. The fireworks were better than I expected and it was a great way to end the night... Happy 4th everyone.

BUILD N GROW

LAST WEEKEND STARTED OUT AT THE LOWES BUILD N GROW WHERE GABE GOT TO HANG OUT WITH ALL OF HIS COUSINS. AFTERWARDS WE WENT TO THE WATERPARK TO LET THEM RUN OFF SOME ENERGY. I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW BIG LITTLE BRADLEY IS GETTING.... COREY IS A CHARACTER AND GABE LOOKS UP TO EVERYTHING HE DOES!!! ISABEL IS GETTING SO BIG TOO.... I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE IS 2.... WHEN TIME SEEMS TO GO BY SO SLOW WITH SOMETHINGS (LIKE MY WORK DAY) IT SURE FLIES WITH OTHERS......

Summer Vacation

Summer vacation..... what a journey. it started off picking Brandon up from his guys weekend where he had just backpacked 30 miles through the Yosemite mountains.... I was soooo excited to see him but we still had a long drive ahead of us to Lancaster to visit some family and friends. It seem to take forever... being 7 months pregnant on a road trip is not the funnest thing to do. Lancaster was fun. We got to visit with a lot of close friends we haven't seen in awhile and spent some quality time with Brandon's grandpa.. On Wednesday we had a family day at Zuma beach in Malibu.... it was really great. The only thing that went wrong this day was the traffic afterwards heading to Disneyland because of the 90,000 people that attended the Lakers celebration parade. We went 3 miles in 30 minutes :( Thur. morning was our first day to go to the park, we were all soooo excited until about 2 min after we walk in my mom has a seizure right on main street (one of the scariest days of my life) she is doing fine now but still getting some test done to make sure everything is OK. The rest of the trip went really good. Gabe had a blast.... his favorite rides were Tower of Terror and Space Mountain (Hes crazy, but I was so proud of him for not being scared) We spent 3 days in the park and by the end were soooo tired. It was good to come back home, expect for that we had to go back to work the next day..... oh well vacations can't last forever!




Goofys breakfast is one of my favorites now.... I am still craving their peanut butter and jelly pizza...


Spending some quality time with the Ockerts. It was great to spend time with friends that we haven't seen in awhile....

Gabe and lil Luke became great friends!!!

Gabe got tired of wearing his Mickey ears so mom took a turn

In front of Its a Small World!!!!

Malibu was gorgeous.... I want Gabe to go to Pepperdine :)

This was one of my favorite views....... my boys

Bringing Gabe to the beach was really fun.... it was the first time (that he could really enjoy and remember it) that he got to go a beach..... he loved the waves!!!!

Visiting with Brandon's Grandpa was nice. We don't get to see him very often so it was a special time. We took him out to lunch at his favorite place and got to meet his girlfriend :)

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Celebration

Since last time I blogged there has been a lot if celebrating going on!!! Our youngest neice Isabelle turned 2 and we celebrated at the pool. Gabe always has a blast with his cousins. Unfortunately I forgot my camera for that one. Memorial day we had a big memorial day celebration/engagement celebration for for Jamie and Blake! We had so much fun with a BBQ, swimming, and some talking around the fire in the evening. The day was beautiful. Friday Juliann graduated high school. She was absoulutely gorgeous. Its so hard to believe she is 18! Saturday I got to spend with some of my best friends ever!!! We talked forever and lost track of time..... just like old times. And after that we had a BBQ at home with more friends... Gabe was the life of the party and we all had a blast with Rock Band!!!!

Its been awhile!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my goodness..... so much in my life has changed since last time I blogged. Shortly after my last blog entry I found out I was pregnant. After that I practically fell off the face of the Earth for 4 months. I was soooooooo sick and couldn't function. During this time we also went through a move. We live in Aubrun now and are loving it. We found out at the end of April that we are having another boy. Yay, we are soooo excited and can't wait for him to be here. His name is Grady Brandon ( against a lot of peoples wishes but we love and and thats the important part). I recently found out that my sister and one of my best friends are also pregnant..... my life coulndn't be better :) :) :) Below I will post some pics of some of the times that past that I missed blogging about.

Me about 6 months along with Grady... and Gabey after we planted a garden in our backyard

Both my sister with big things going on in life... Julie off to prom and getting ready to graduate.... and Jamie getting married in July and expecting her first baby. I can't believe my little sisters are growing up.

Spending some time at one of our favorite places.... Aunt Carolyn's Cabin in Truckee.... Gabe loves the waterslide.

Gabe after preschool on Easter day at school & Gabe with Corey and Bradley :)

A family picture of us at the jelly belly factory & Grady's first picture :)