Valentines Party of 8 Please!

Tonight we took the kids to Disneyland with a little side “Smith” party of 3 minus Scotty.

The kids had so much fun as so did we. When do we not have fun???

Mostly laughing at ourselves or the fact that we have a million kids were herding

around while everyone watches in awww...

BUT those kids are the cutest kids eva and we would herd them all day!!!

Happy Valentines everyone!

We missed you Scotty!

A big thank you to Bode for ending the night with a "bang"

by throwing up everywhere on the way to the car...

love you little bam-bam...

A little shopping crazy party of seven please

WOW, today was a great day. We drove to the Carlsbad Outlets… How I spent my day with a couple photos…

1. Hubby waking up late for his game & running out the door
2. Ink pen explosion in the dryer, requiring a new drum be installed pronto (completed)
3. MIL & Aunt coming over to save me to actually get dressed to go out for the day in public
4. A little cleaning for the Cleaning lady & her rescue making me smile
5. Loading the car with five kids in car seats & losing the address to where we were going only to find it later after arriving at the destination under Madison’s booty.
6. Pulling over on the freeway as child #1 in the 3 row has somehow gotten his leg stuck in a fetal position and is in a dangerous situation. I had to crawl through the back on the trunk & Madison through the front, making BOTH of us have to work like “Brownies” to shimmy him into his seatbelt without harm.
7. One million “I’m hungry”, “I’m thirtsy”, “I want that”, “mom”
8. Getting off the freeway, going out of the way to find the MIL & Auntie that were following us before pulling over for seatbelt mission.
9. RED gummy bear stuck to Miya’s booty causing Madison to think she was pooped on (priceless).
10. Beer? Do any of these restaurants serve BEER? Yep!
11. Super great deals and fun shopping
12. Potty break – 30 minutes later
13. Kaidin whipping out a “treasure” from his pocket a few minutes after leaving Ralph Lauren. (marched right back in there to return the “key chain” “treasure” he found on the floor with no tags)
14. Madison being asked if she knew the Octomom while waiting with the 2 strollers & 4 kids while I was busy marching Kaidin to Ralph Lauren. (guess the guy was Octomoms neighbor) That was funny…

I had such a fun day… I say ROADTRIP! LOL I kid I kid

We need a little love over here...

Hello to all my friends and family that love me so much! Isn’t that a great way to start off an email! I thought so. I need a little love, help & support. Trying to win a photo contest for an entry in the "Favorite Picture" Contest with GREAT prizes. Can you please help me out with a couple little “clicks”. The photo with the most “clicks aka likes” WINS this contest. I would be forever grateful. Here is how you can help. ALSO please pass this on to anyone you feel may also LOVE me so much that I left off… xoxo

1. Click on this link http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/laurarauchphotography
and click on the “like” button at the top of the page. Then step two…

2. Click on this link and click on the “like” button. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/photo.php?fbid=10150148935897065&set=a.10150148935462065.324169.126706212064&theater

That’s it… cross your fingers and hope we win!

Here is the photo we entered...

“Jessie's western round-up"

Today we went to Sienna’s 3rd Birthday “Jessie's western round-up" Party.

It was just Miya & I and she had so much fun.

It was such a cute party and they did such a great job as always. You can see in the pictures how much fun Miya had. I was so proud of her today, the whole time I kept thinking to myself “OMG I wish Tony (her OT therapist) could see her right now”, she did so good. I was so proud of her. She sat at the table with all of the girls, didn’t eat, but that’s ok, there was a lot going on.

She rode a pony ALL by herself around the little loopy loop…

She was smiles all day…

Happy 3rd Birthday Sienna, I hope you enjoyed your party.

We had so much fun... xo

LL (Orioles) Opening Day and Pictures…

Today was Little League (Orioles) Opening Day Carnival and Team Pictures…

Orioles Practice

Had a little practice tonight. LOVE watching the little Orioles.

They are just too cute and are such good listeners.

PS: our team moms are the bestest EVA!

You need to check out the boys “buckets” in the photos below…

Kaidin is loving every minute of baseball...

a lot of trust ='s 1 row of babies - baby mommas

Having a little...

with my peeps.

I will take a water, baby plate and everyone staring at us please...

PS: The person who sat us here, all together, in ONE row, with no parents, MUST not have any children and must really trust us... Ha Ha Ha...

Featured: Funky Polkadot Giraffe

Ahhhh...

by surprise... LOVE her!

GUEST Blogger: Christina @ O.C. Munchkins

Today we have a guest blogger…

her name is Christina Ranieri from O.C. Munchkins.

We are so happy to have her here today and this is what she had to say:
I bet you know of someone either unhappy w/their current daycare situation, expecting a new baby or maybe someone just looking for childcare. We offer the best licensed, loving, educational in-home childcare in Orange County! O.C. Munchkins has a few spots left to fill. We'd love for that to be you!!

Contact: Christina Ranieri @ 949-394-9527
Email us at o.c.munchkins@gmail.com
O.C. Munchkins is on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/OC-Munchkins/164945063538580

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“mommy of the year” award is a goner...

Today after we came home from our super long day of the kids therapy I got Bode out first and had him on my hip. I went around to the other side of the car to get out Miya and I used my one free hand and I pulled on her arm to help bring her to the top of her car seat so I could grab her to carry her on my other hip into the house and when I did that I heard a loud “POP” noise and she instantly started crying. She was moving her arm a little but was in pain and crying. It was awful! After talking to her Doctor I took her to the ER. Her little elbow popped out of socket. The ER doctor popped it right back in and she was happy as could be. Not one more tear, all smiles and eating up all the ER’s gram crackers (as seen in the smiling photo to the right below). The doctor said that this happens all of the time and is very common, making me feel like less like a horrible mother… well I guess my “mommy of the year” award is a goner… LOL. After all the tears from Miya & I am happy to say we are all doing great… Here is my happy lil DIVA waiting for our discharge instructions to go home… PS she hated that bracelet, even though it was pink.

Kaidin loves his Teachers = Valentines

This morning Kaidin and I finished up his Teachers Valentines gifts,
OH and Miya & Bode gave a little something something to Tony & Laura…
they count as teachers too!
We wanted something easy & cute and we love the way they turned out…
Happy Valentines Day to all of the wonderful teachers/therepist out there!
xoxo

lilsteinstyles Contest Giveaway “Me & My Friend”

lilsteinstyles Giveaway Contest “Me & My Friend”

Dates: 2.7.11 – 2.11.11 Midnight PST
What you will WIN: one custom St. Patties Shirt for you and a friend
How to WIN: You MUST be a “fan” of lilsteinstyles FB page, then have as many of your friends “like” this photo and they must leave a comment with YOUR name, that you sent them over. The person that “sends” the most friends over will WIN. Best Part: YOU AND ONE (of your random drawn) friends will BOTH WIN a custom shirt.
Good Luck… lets get this contest started!!

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