Happy 1st Birthday (Party) Tank man (Titus Landen)

A Big thanks to all of you who came out in the HORRID heat today! Titus had a blast, and We hope you all did as well!!
For those of you that missed out here is a sneak peak at the Party!

First we enjoyed some chow while the Kiddos swam





The kids also played in the Tank *a big hit if I do say so*


We were suppose to have a water balloon fight over here with the forts but well the balloons didnt work out so hot... some of you got splattered with them though :)


Then we did the Pinatas, we had this really cool little tank pinata that broke before we even got around to it grrr good thing we had a back up


Layla and her big guns broke it open for all to enjoy :) Thanks Layla



Then it was Cake time Man did Titus really enjoy His cake!



Londyn joined in since it looked so yummy and Im pretty sure she was in Cake Heaven... :) I Think most of you enjoyed the cake... at least I didnt get any complaints





The babies were covered in this dark green frosting from head to toe so they got hosed off :) (they loved every minute of it dont worry!)



Then it was Time for Colleen to come out and give rides on her pony cart.. poor kiss did so good! :) Thanks Colleen and Kiss for being so great! we love you!






Titus with his Grandma and Great Grandma

At some point in the day Bills Family pulled Titus aside to give him Lacey (I'm sure that is no where near the right spelling sorry) basically for all you non Asians like me who had no idea what this was, its red envelopes with money in them :)





and all day long we had boards with my sisters pictures on it, we asked everyone to write little hellos to them since they couldn't be here and it was a ARMY party :) gotta represent and support our troops

Titus wishing his Tetes where here to party with him

from there we did some more swimming and hanging out






after the party was winding down we went in and opened gifts.. Thanks everyone for the awesome presents!!!





enjoying some of his fun NOSIEY toys :)



The End




hope you guys all had FUN with us!! Thanks again for coming out! and a Special BIG BIG thanks to our other Family The Toroks! we love you guys and are so grateful for your love and support with everything!!

The making of a Army (tank) party

Lots of prep work went into Titus first birthday party ;) Because everything had to be PERFECT! or maybe Mommy and Daddy are just anal crazy people! either way it was alot of fun getting things ready
First the invites had to be made (forgive me if your invite didn't entirely look like this, I ran out of time to make more tanks)


Then there was the making of the tank and the ammo boxes





Then making of the cake






Hope to see you all at the party! :)

Titus boy's 1st birthday pictures

Denise was ever so kind to come out and take some "army" pictures of my boy for me, to include in his birthday invite.... she took over 600 pictures so it was so hard to narrow down for the actual pictures to be used.... anyways here are some more... I still cant believe my baby is turning one.

riding the bikes....

leisurely stroll... - B

Catch up time

Boy have I neglected this blog! I have obviously been home from Oregon for a few weeks, and haven't once logged in here to update..... the past two weeks I have been in serious lazy mode.... not wanting to do ANYTHING! Its not like Oregon was so crazy that I came home so tired.... I mean it was alot of time at the park, and being a single mom of a 10 month old sucks! and missing Bill & Bradyn really sucked!
btw my girls did ok?! they placed in the 20's somewhere out of 50 teams, we should have and could have easily placed higher but our girls were tired and just didn't play well at all the last game! I was ok with us going out, because lindsey and I got in the car and drove up to Seattle to visit the Haddocks. it was a great day and a half (Thanks Bambee!!!) I think getting home and knowing my responsibilities as a coach and all my nights at the park are done put me into "summer lazy" mode I dunno.... but now its crunch time!
I have a ton to get done this next week, Titus Big Party is coming up on Sunday, which Im happy to report I have finally gotten around to begin planning for this :) I really hope its great! alot of you have asked why were having his party so early, and the answer to this, almost every year since I was like 13ish?! I have gone on vacation with my second family (the toroks) to Lake Powell... since Bill and I have been together we have gone together its probably our favorite time of the year.... Lake Powell is amazing and family time is always needed, and well, rest, and play, always fun! so we will be out on the Lake on his actual birthday.. He will probably for the rest of his life spend his actual birthday out on the lake. so hopefully he loves the lake as much as we do! obviously last year we didn't get to go as we were a little busy having a baby, so this will be his first trip out there.

when it comes to the party, Im one of those crazy moms who always take on way to much and go overboard. even if the kids are to young to remember.. those of you that came to Bradyns 1st birthday party may remember..... and now that its Titus turn I have to do the same for him as I did Bradyn LOL I know I know they wont know... but I still have to do this! Im just praying you all will show up and have an awesome time! I know Titus will, he has fun in whatever he is doing these days....
Titus has just started to come out of his shell. it has taken awhile. we are starting to see who Titus is going to be... he loves to laugh and just have a good time... he hates to be picked on and will scream louder then you think if your doing something to him he feels you shouldn't be. He is a mama's boy :) but very obedient.... well a heck of alot more then Bradyn was at this age HAHA. Titus still is toothless, someday the kid will grow a few teeth. it doesn't seem to slow him down he can eat just about anything you put in front of him. :) I still cant believe he is going to be one years old in less than amonth. (9-11)
I promise Im going to work hard at keeping us up to date here in blog land. but there is no way Im going to be able and go back the past two weeks so lets pretend well that Im not behind or that those two weeks don't exist :)
Thanks babe for taking over while I was gone :)

SupeR SweeT SaturdaY!

Well it is Saturday and it is going to be Bradyn and I first full day of fun. We woke up at my parent's house and we promptly set up the basketball court in the front driveway. Well of course we lowered the rim because we wanted to act like NBA All-Stars. Bradyn ran around and threw the ball with all his might. With a little help he got up there and scored a shot! So 12p.m. rolls around and its hotter then desert springs. We had planned to hit the beach, just Bradyn and I. We get down to Brookhurst and PCH, parked the Sequoia and hooked up the trailer to my MTN. bike. off we went to Huntington Beach pier. BOY was the boardwalk crazy busy. There were so many people wandering around not paying attention to the bikes passing by, causing me to slow down repeatedly as I ranted off "get outta the way" or "not a good place to stand, you know". I just kept pushing and pushing and zig zagging around as Bradyn was in the back checking things out while saying "whooaahh ..weeeeee....whoooaahh. Faster daddy!" We ended up by the pier and locked up the bike and trailer and headed to shore. Bradyn immediatly headed for the wet sand and started to make some castles.
After hanging out at huntington we got back on the bike, dodged more tourists, checked out the dog beach and then went all the way back to newport pier to have some late lunch.
On the pier we checked out bat rays and some other weird fish that the locals had caught off the pier. After riding around for a good 6 hours we finally packed it up around 8 p.m. and went to Z pizza in Chino Hills. It was a great day of fun in the sun with Bradyn and I and can't wait for all of the family to go back again! -B

Family Friday

Well finally its Friday and I picked up Bradyn from the house and took him swimming at the local pool. Poor papa thought he was going to have Bradyn for the rest of day (but he was at doctors so his loss!) We swam for like 2 hours and just horsed around. Bradyn is getting so brave and jumping in the deep end with his floaties on. We found floaties at Big 5 sporting goods after searching everywhere for them most of the week. $2.50! Well then we carted off to my brother's work at Kragen in Westminister and got to eat KFC in the back as my brother was shutting down the store at 9 p.m. Bradyn got to run around the closed store and check out the cool toys that they had there. He wanted to buy all of them of course, but I told him that the cash register was shut down; for reals! We then ended up at my Parent's house in Westminister. After a few hugs and drinks of juice and water, we set up the bed in the adjoining room from Keith's. We then played playstation 3 - NBA basketball 2008 - until 1:30 a.m. Bradyn was hyper all night and jumped all over Keith and his bed until he crashed hard at 12:30 a.m. Bradyn and I jumped into the bed and then I realize - THUD. The bed was hard as a rock, no joke. Boy was that uncomfortable. Only at my parents. We woke up in the morning and did some basketball dunks before heading off to the beach
- B