Easter Extravaganza

Easter was beautiful this year, church service, the kids, the dress up for the kids thanks to grandma's exquisite taste.  We spent the morning at church and the after noon at dad's.  I forgot the camera in the car when we got to dads which is why all I have are pictures of the kids before church.  Dad made a wonderful lamb and Aiden, Tony, and Mia got to play in the yard on a beautiful afternoon.  Judith gave the girls professonal back peels and I just did the usual "damage" control the entire dinner. 

Mom's surprise birthday party

It was the most extraordinary day!  Today was the day of my mother-n-law's surprise birthday party.  My sister-n-law was amazing at coordinating this effort by making special arrangements to see to it her mother's brother (Uncle Carl & Wife), (Uncle Sam & fiancee), and sister (Diane with daughters and grandaughters) made it from out of state to join the festivities.  It was my first time meeting Aunt Diane and the girls (they were so beautiful).   Several of mom's friends came for lunch as well.  We were all not sure how this would play out as far as the timing of all guest and Kelly keeping mom in the dark but it worked out great and mom had no idea that lunch with her daughter would turn into an amazing reunion of family and friends.  Her reaction of jumping and screaming over and over brought tears to our eyes, it was priceless!  Check out some amazing pictures from the event! 

Mom's amazing reaction to the surprise!

2011 The Baker's are Beautiful

Today was historical as we took Tony and Mia out for a 6:15pm appointment to get their pictures taken.  You should have seen them all dressed up in their grandmother's finest and excited to be out with their mom and dad. I looked at my husband when we arrived and said "we have got to get Mia's pacifier out now and get the water works over before the pictures start."  Sure enough she bellowed loudly I think the customer's in the store beside us heard her scream.  I graciously coaxed her with a bag full of popcorn and things quieted down.  Antonio,  the opportunistic, decided to entertain the other customers with a tap dance (I had no idea he even knew what tap dancing was) it was great!  After several hours of chasing, huffing, pushing, pulling, smiling, laughing, crying, running, throwing popcorn on the floor; mommy I'm hungry, unplugging the center's computer after we made all of our selections and had to start all over; and several hugs and kisses later this is what we got:

Tony's new haircut!

Today was an exciting day with an amazing Sunday service on the premise in James chapter 1.  Tony spent the afternoon with his grandma where they met a bit of a stink on the McDonald's slide (another funny story for another day HA!). Mia spent the afternoon with a little Mommy and Me time with me and her daddy. Tony got his hair cut yesterday after his soccer game (military style).  I thought I would try something new and it worked out okay.  Let's be honest I think with that cute face he could even make a botched hair cut look good, just saying. This morning I got some new pictures of Mia and Tony dressed up nice for Church (See below.)  Our church is soon moving to their new building, my how it's growing.  It's nice to be settled into a ministry with a Pastor that has known us individually even before James and I were married.  The bussle of the new year has begun with James starting back with his classes, working full time, and providing for his family... a whole lot to take on with only a few hours in the day.  God will see us through.   Checkout the new church website   http://kingdomdominionchurch.com/?page_id=311.

Weekend with Cousin Aiden

Antonio had his first sleep over at his cousin Aiden's house this weekend.  They played and played until they almost crashed at 10pm.  Tony was so excited and filled with energy it took him a long while to sleep but he finally made it.  The next day Aiden came over to our house where the boys watched superman, dressed as superman, and tried to fly and fight like superman it was hillarious!