KEIRA WALKING

We've been on vacation in Lake Tahoe this week and yesterday Keira started walking she took 5 whole steps all on her own! Stay tuned for vacation pics! :0)

Swimming

Today I decided it was time to try out our new places kiddie pool that they have. It was perfect! The whole thing is only a foot deep and the kids had so much fun! So glad we went!

Disneyland!!

Last week Kevin and I decided that we needed to go to Disneyland! (we have passes and hadn't gone in a while) It was so much fun, the kids loved it and this was actually the first time I didn't take one picture! :0( But then on our way home my brother had called me so I called him back and we ended up going to Disneyland again the next day! I know crazy huh! But it was so much fun and we watched Fantasmic and I loved it! The only bad thing was that I lost my camera and my phone... but with my luck my phone was still on the ride and my camera was turned into lost and found! Thank God the world is still a good place, at least at Disneyland! Here's a few pics that I caught before I lost the camera...

WE'VE MOVED... again!!!!

So I was going to catch up on posts, but there is just too much that has gone by, and it'll take me way too much time to get all the photos together, so I'll just say what we've been up to recently. Kevin finally got a job with CARE Ambulance company in Orange County, which we are so excited for! He really likes his job and the hours he has been working actually have been working out good for us. (He's been working from 3:30 PM  to 12:30 AM. ) And our biggest news is that we just moved into our own place. Still stuck out in Rancho Cucamonga, but I've come to terms that we will probably be here forever so I'm dealing. But our new place is pretty cool, I actually used to live in the complex where we are with my friend Becky after cosmetology, it's really nice to have our own place and our own things again! I've been able to cook a lot which I love and hopefully start sewing again this week! yay!!! The absolutely awsome thing about our apartment complex is that we have 2 parks in here with us! The kids want to go like everyday, I try to go as much as possible but mostly Colby's therapists take him and Kaylee... so glad we have it near by!

BUGABU ...baby bling and more...

I recently have started a blog with all my creations and am hoping to keep up to date with it. And maybe that will help me keep up to date with this one as well. I started editing pictures to put up here at the family blog so hopefully I will be getting to that soon. We just moved, and Kevin started a new job... so you'll hear about all that soon! oh and here is the new blog address http://bugabubycate.blogspot.com/

A Night at Disneyland

This past Thursday Kevin and I decided to take the kids to Disneyland after Colby's therapy session was over. It was a ton of fun since we hadn't been in over a month! The kids really liked all the Christmas decorations. I think Colby's favorite ride was Small World, he sang the song almost the whole ride! It was so cute. We were going to make that our last ride of the night (since Colby had school the next day) but then Colby said, "Mommy we need to go on the Alice ride!" So I told him that would be our last ride. But right after we got off the Alice ride he said he wanted to go on the Pin-cho-cio ride... but he had peed his pants so that was not happening. All in all it was a ton of fun and I hope we get to go back before the holiday decor goes down.

Keira's Three Months!

I can't believe that Keira is already 3 months old! It feels like she was born yesterday! I am so glad that she is with us, she is just this little bundle of joy that completely brightens our days!! She is so adorable and so cute! Too cute sometimes!!! We love her to pieces!

FAMILY PICTURES

Finally I got to get our family pictures done. I haven't done this since Kaylee's first Birthday, and she will soon be turning three!! So needless to say that I was sooooo excited! And they turned out fabulous! Thank you to Mollie Jane Photography ! Here is just some of our pics, and hopefully if you are reading this you'll probably get one in your Christmas card. (Oh, and in case you might think I don't have your address, please leave it for me! :0)

Keira's Growing

Keira is getting so big already! She started smiling a few weeks ago, and it just melts your heart!

(Sorry if the picture is blurry... it's from my phone)

Firefighters

In case you didn't know, Kevin is trying to be a Firefighter or a Paramedic, something in that area. My Aunt had contacted someone who she knew that worked at a station out here, so we took the kids to an open house they had. It was fun and quite interesting. We got to see them put out a fire and the station was beautiful! The kids enjoyed it.

Kaylee the Chef

Recently Kaylee has been obsessed with cooking. Anytime she sees you by the counter she pushes the chair over and wants to help you. I got my mom to let her help make some cookies a few weeks back, it was so cute! :0)

P.S. My sister made the adorable apron... thanks Heather, she loves it!

The Buchanan's Came to Visit

Last month my sister and her two kids came to visit my mom, which meant us too! We all had a ton of fun! Colby loved playing with Ian, I wish we lived closer to each other because they get a long so well, and Ian is a good example for Colby. While they were here we went to Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo. I'm so glad to have gotten to spend time with them. Here a couple of pictures of our two trips!

Uncle Rendal and the boys.

Picture with Cinderella

The crazy kids waiting for Nemo... no one was staring or anything! LOL!

With Snow White! (Funny story, there was a "little" man working there with Snow White, and all the kids around us were scared of him, but not my daughter. She kept saying "He's small, he's small!!!" Good thing he wasn't offended!

Ian with the cute Gorilla (Colby's favorite part)

Kaylee with the Polar Bear!

UFC 104

Sorry, but I'm still trying to catch up on my bloggin'. So a few weekends ago Kevin and I started re-watching How I Met Your Mother, and the kids started getting all crazy screaming and so forth. So we decided to turn it off (it was on the computer) and deal with them. I actually got the privilege to calm them down while Kevin got on the internet. He decided to look up some stuff on twitter and saw if he posted his information he could win 2 tickets to the UFC fight which was in a couple of hours. He felt his phone buzz in his pocket and thought no way could this be the tickets... But, it was!!! My husband won two tickets, and not any old tickets... luxury sweet tickets at the Staples Center!!! Of course I have to be breast feeding, and couldn't go, so he took my brother Josh. I was super jealous! Oh yeah, and he got to hang out with a fighter too! UGGG!! :0)

Pumpkin Patch

This year I decided that we should try out a new pumpkin patch. I got an e-mail about the Irvine Park Pumpkin Patch and it was awesome! There was so much for the kids to do, and half of it was free! (Which is always good in my book!) The kids had a ton of fun, it was really great!

Our little family!

Me and my Girls!

Face Painting was a big hit! My little butterfly

Colby loved being a Tiger!

Auntie Krista and Colby!

Disneyland

We finally got back our Disneyland passes thanks to our friends!!! We got them back in September and hope to use them as much as possible!!

Happy Birthday Colby!

My baby boy turned 4 years old! I can't believe it! He's getting sooo big. We took him to his favorite place on earth... the San Diego Zoo!!!! He just loves, loves animals and is extremely obsessed with them, which is sometimes good and sometimes a little extreme but we deal with it. Kevin's parents, Krista and Matt, Nana and Papa, Grandma, Aunt Becky, Jenny and the kids, and our friend Kelly and Braylin all came to join us. It was a fun day for Colby!

CATCH UP WITH KEIRA

So I have totally been slacking off with blogging, but I'm all caught up on my shows! I guess that is the sacrifice I have made... TV shows before blogging... I need to re-think that.

Anyways, I need to update about our new addition in the family. On September 2nd, I went into the hospital to get induced with Keira. It was a super hectic time, since Kevin was in his final days of his EMT course. Luckily I was in labor all night, and then finally delivered Keira around 12:00 p.m. just before Kevin had to get back to Long Beach for his last test! Keira was perfect at 8lbs. 8oz. and 21 3/4 in. long (my smallest baby). ((that day I had an ultrasound and the tech told me she was only 6lbs. what the heck did he know???)) I was able to spend 3 days total in the hospital which was new for me... and quite nice to spend time with just Keira. She has been a super good baby the past 2 months - already sleeping through the night, and is mostly happy! This probably means she is going to be a crazy toddler just like her sister! Oh well, toddlers sleep right?! Well, here's a few pictures of her when she was newer...

Penny's Sleeping Spots

Since we've moved in with my parents, every time Penny finds a new spot to sleep we always rearrange thing and screw her spot up. This time I left my drawers of fabric open, and what do ya know Penny tried out a new spot... this one didn't last long! Poor Penny, but I don't want her hair all over my fabric!!! She looked so cute and comfy!!

GOOD BYE EMMA...

Yesterday was the last day of babysitting Emma! :0( I'm so sad, she was such a good baby and so fun to watch! It really helped me get a little prepared for having 3 kids.... although your own is always different. I also spent my last few day putting together a quilt for her. We will all miss our big girl Emma!

Don't mind my messed up hair and no make-up!!

(I spent my whole day finishing the quilt below)

**Kaylee & Emma**

Colby & his favorite friend Emma!!

He was super attached to her... we'll see what happens when he starts asking where she is!

Emma and her quilt!!

Kevin said it was a ninja star quilt!! I guess it kind of does look like that.

Finished Baby Quilt

I spent most of yesturday and today trying to get together a quilt for a friend's baby shower tonight. I luckily finished in the nick of time! Thank God! It turned out pretty goood, I just wish that I would have taken a better picture of it, oh well. Here is the pics if your interested.

Up top is the back,

and down below is the front.

I went to 5 different fabric stores to find this fabric, it was worth the searching...

itsn't it so cute!???