Birthday Celebrations

On Saturday afternoon we celebrated James' 4th birthday. We had friends and family over for pizza. Here is James playing on the trampoline with his 2 buddies Ethan and Aaron and his sissy. It was a beautiful day out!

Here are the boys eating their pizza. Stephen and Braden are sitting on the couch watching the Longhorns loose. Boooo! Poor Braden just had his wisdom teeth pulled earlier that day. Ouch!

Our friends (and old neighbors) the Wright family came over to help us celebrate!

What's a birthday party without a piñata!? James picked out Scooby Doo and helped me put in every single candy from 4 Halloween candy bags. 

Candy!!!! Score!!!!

James also picked out his Spiderman cake. Uh oh Oma caught him in this picture taking a lick of the frosting.

The birthday boy blowing out his candles!

James was blessed with many cool gifts. He received a lot of his favorite Hot Wheels cars and motorcylces which he's been playing with on the kitchen floor for days now. He also got this really awesome Buzz Lightyear costume Uncle Steve brought over for Aunt Stormy.

Who said boys can't play dress up? James received some birthday money from Oom George and Tante Xenia...after spending some time looking for the perfect toy at Walmart - James picked out this dragon costume to buy with his birthday money. Don't worry we asked him and he definitely said he's a "good dragon". :) Thank you to all who made it such a special 4th birthday for James!

On Sunday night we took Stephen out for a belated birthday dinner since we couldn't on Friday night. We went to Kobe Japanese Steakhouse in San Marcos where they cook in front of you on a teppan table. James and Madeline were really intrigued with the chef.

Mom giving a cheers with her Saki! And Stephen sporting his Viking necklace after a victory that day.

Mmmmmmmmmmm, smells delicious!

We had salmon, shrimp, teriyaki beef and chicken, New York steak and scallops! Yummy!

We really enjoyed the birthday dinner!

After dinner our server came out with 2 ice cream sundaes for Stephen and James, and her and some other servers sang happy birthday. A perfect way to end our birthday celebration weekend! Thanks mom for coming out, joining and treating us!

My Love

 Today is My Love's 33rd birthday. We met and started dating when we were both 17 (pictured above). Hotstuff huh? :) I fell head over heels for him, he was gorgeous, funny and romantic. But I can say I love him more and more each day we're together because of the person he is inside and out - beautiful.

Being together for over 15 years, you can imagine we have a lot of "songs" that have special meaning to us. I even have many songs that Stephen doesn't even know about that remind me of him because of the lyrics. One recent one is from the country duo Sugarland, "Stuck Like Glue". The chorus part makes me think of My Love..."There you go making my heart beat again...There you go making me feel like a kid...There you go pulling me right back in...And I know I’m never letting this go...I’m stuck on you!" (listen below)



Happy Birthday Baby...I love you.

Ready for the weekend

I forgot to share this photo earlier this week. On Monday evening when we took Madeline to her CCD class at Santa Cruz Catholic parish in Buda we drove about 1/4 mile past our church and turned down the road to the historic old Stagecoach park and saw these longhorns grazing in the field. It was pretty cool to see them so close up. But I don't think any of these are as big as Bevo, the Longhorns mascot - have you seen that animal on TV!?
Stephen had a mellow and nice birthday yesterday. Once Madeline got home from school around 3pm we sang him happy birthday and ate his yummy cookie cake.

Of course we had to have a gigantic glass of milk to go with it.

Pure silliness. :)

Madeline lost her 2nd tooth (again at school!) on her Daddy's birthday yesterday. She said she was just coloring at her school desk and touched the tooth with her tongue and it fell out!

Weekend plans: unpack/decorate James room, finish border in Madeline's room, possibly paint our master bedroom, and princess party on Saturday for James' girlfriend Kayla (our old neighbors), hosting a jewelry party on Sunday afternoon and James' pizza birthday party on Sunday evening!

Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Birthday Baby!

And by "Baby" I'm talking about my stud muffin husband! :) Today he turns 32. It's hard to believe we met and started dating 1 month before his high school graduation at the age of 17. We look so young in this photo...now we're in our 30's, married for 7 years, have 2 children and are getting gray hair! Ah! God truly blessed and enriched my life with this wonderful man. I am so happy to be his wife. Though his jokes have gotten old over the past 15 years, his sense of humor is still so very attracting and always brings me back to one of the reasons why I fell for him. He has been such an awesome father to our children. Truly adults and kids hone in on him because he's such a like able guy. I just wanted to say these few things about him on this special day, well because I want the world to know how very much I love him. Happy Birthday Baby!
I stayed up past midnight decorating with some balloons and streamers, it's a tradition in our family to do this for the birthday person the night before their birthday. When he gets home around 3am this morning, it should put a nice smile on his gorgeous face.

His big gift this year was our trip to Boston and tickets to the Red Sox game. The kids and I still got him a few small things including a new Fighting Irish baseball cap, his favorite cereal and favorite candy. We also got him a chocolate chip cookie cake, frosted with a football field. The kids drew him a picture as well as birthday posters.

The Father of my Children :)

Take this survey and share it with your friends:

What is your baby's name?

Madeline & James

Was your baby named after anyone?

No both first names were ones we decided on together.

What is your baby's dads name?

Stephen

How long were the 2 of you together when you got pregnant?

Married for 10 months but together already for almost 8 years.

How many kids do you have together?

2 beautiful children.

Is He a good dad?

"Good" is an understatement, he's a fantastic dad! He's the most loving, giving, funniest dad ever! :)

How often do you talk?

Well daily of course! ;)

Does your baby's dad have a girlfriend or wife?

Um a wife...and that would be ME!!! Yes you all can be envious. :)

Is he involved in your child's life?

Well he runs "daddy daycare" 5 mornings a week...so yes he is very involved. He has a very special bond with both our daughter and son.

Are you guys still together?

Together forever and ever! :) Been together for over 13 years now, married for 6 of those.

Do you love your child's father?

Under God, there is no one else in this world I love more. God blessed me with a loving man who has made an unbelievable husband and father.

Was he there for the birth of your child?

Right by my side, literally...with one arm bracing me behind my back and his other arm supporting my leg he was such a rock and a trooper.

Do his parents like you?

Yes, I know they love me and I love them. :)

Whens the last time you saw him?

It's been too long...8 hours ago. He's been working 3rd shift lately and I miss going to bed with him and having our pillow talk.

How old is your child?

James is 2 and Madeline turns 5 next month! :)

"It's Dada's Birthday!" :-)

I've celebrated 13 years of birthdays with Stephen. In the earlier years I would like to throw parties for both him and Robyn since they were a day apart. Many of them such memorable parties like their surprise 21st and their 70's themed party. I'm bummed that we live so far from Robyn that I can no longer throw them a party together. :-(

Our hands under the deep blue sea somewhere off the coast in Fiji. May 2002
On this special day I just wanted to take a moment to write about my man. He is such a loving husband, he's always a gentleman even after all these years, God truly blessed me with an amazing man. He's also such an awesome and FUN father. Before we had kids of our own, Stephen was usually labeled the favorite or most fun uncle...maybe cause he was the youngest in his family so he seemed "cooler" to the kids and more "hip and fun". Well he's definitely still that way after having Madeline and James. You should see Maddy and Jimmy's faces light up when Dada gets home! :-)

So keeping with Spence tradition, Madeline and I worked hard this evening cleaning the house and decorating the kitchen for Stephen, he works until 2am tonight - so he'll come home already being his birthday to this!

We baked him a chocolate chip vanilla cake. Madeline helped me frost it and put the candles on. They'll get to enjoy it in the morning while I'm at work. Then we'll take Stephen out for a birthday lunch and pick up Oma from the airport in the afternoon. It'll be a fun day.

"Daddy Daycare"

Stephen is doing such an awesome job being home with the kids for 5 hours in the morning while I am at work! He refers to it as "Daddy Daycare". LOL I had to post the above photo, I think it was day 2 of him watching them. When I got home the house was quiet, I was pleasantly surprised Stephen got James down for his afternoon nap! But then I noticed James' bedroom door was still open. So Stephen tells me, "no they're in the family room". I had to laugh when I saw James nearly napping under the coffee table. Oh and also worth noting, on 1 of the days Stephen even brushed Madeline's hair and put it in a pony tail with a scrunchie!

After all this we give eachother a kiss in passing and he heads off to work a 9 hour shift. I'm so blessed to have an awesome husband and father for our children.

Daddy!

Madeline: "I love you Dada, you're the best Dada ever!"

James: "eeeeeeeeeeee, Dada! eeeeeeeeeeeee Dada!"

"A Father like you is hard to find one who's Honest, Strong, Wise and Kind."


A few weeks ago Stephen caught one of his favorite 80's movies on TV, Vision Quest. Anyhow while watching it he said I'd love to have this soundtrack! It does have some cool 80's songs on there. So I found it on Amazon and ordered it. The kids and I are excited to give it to him today, along with some after shave balm.


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