The shirt says it all...

Such a ladies man...loves the girls and loves to flirt....

Takes after his mother...

Cavities, cavities, cavities...and off to the orthodontist next week for a consultation...

Sam adds SOCCER to his sports belt...

As the season is coming to an end...we are looking back on Sam's experience with SOCCER.  He went into it with and open mind and Eric and I wondered if he would enjoy it as he had never tried it before and didn't have his natural knack at this sport as he does with almost all the others.  A few games later...we were eating our words.  He loves it and has become quite good at it.  We have one game left and he's wondering when he can sign up again.

Eating bugs...

I love it that my boys will try almost anything...

How adventurous!!  Even if they were covered in chocolate.

Mallary & John's Wedding...

The soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Murtha

Hard to believe that it was already 2 months ago that Eric and I were witnesses to our great friends moment in declaring their forever love to one another.  The day had finally come that we were so happy to be able to be a part of...Mallary was getting married...and to a great guy on top of that!  :)

Eric and Mallary were actually separated at birth for those of you who don't know...  :)

We are so happy for the two of them and still have smiles engrained in our faces from so many laughs and great moments...

A few cocktails and dances later.......

Thank you, Mom, for coming to take care of the three crazy ones while we jetted off on a much needed break...and for picking out the great dress for me to wear.  :)

Emerald Bay...spoiled once again...

This summer we were once again invited down to enjoy the day with our great friends at Emerald Bay.  The boys all had a great time at the Vans Skate Park during the day and then we spent the early evening skating at the beach and enjoying the end of summer Reggae concert at the park.  We ended the night with another meal prepared for us by Chef Tommy...who was going to hang out with his friend "Slash" and the Black Eyed Peas in LA after he made us our meal.  We love Chef Tommy and frequently wish that he was available for us on many evenings.  :)

 

 

 

WE MOVED!!!

At the end of September we bought a little piece of California...

We are extremely excited and are happy to have a place to call home once again.

I stink at blogging...

Big surprise...yeah, right!  Oh, and returning phone calls, and emails, etc, etc...

My niece, Sara, comes to visit and experience the Cali life.......

....and we weren't for sure if she was really going to get back on the plane!!!!  But, she did.  A senior in high school this next year...one year left.  I was honored to get to take her Senior Pictures for her.  We had fun and got some smoking hot photos!  It was a great time and challenging at that...trying to entertain and keep 3 crazy boys out of all the photos.  Here is just a sampling of them...

She even watched the boys for us for one night so that Eric and I could get a much needed "date night" in...those don't happen around here and it was much appreciated!  Thank you, Sara!

Our date night.......

Eric's last year of the 30's Birthday...

So...he said not to post this on Facebook...but he didn't say anything about our blog!

What to do, what to do for the big 4 - 0 next year....hmmmmmmm.  Some ideas going on.  I guess we will have to wait and see!

We celebrated the day before with going to the beach with a good friend of ours...and of course the homemade carrot cake.

Happy Birthday, Bud!

Andrew aka Messy Marvin is 10 months old...

A picture says a thousand words, right?  Andrew is growing by leaps and bounds.  He is cruising, standing on his own and even has taken a few steps these past two days.  I am so not ready for my "baby" to start being to that stage yet...but it has been so fun and we are enjoying every moment of it......even these moments.....

 

He is into EVERYTHING!  But he's so darn cute that it's so hard to stop him when he is just exploring and figuring out this big world.  He eats so much, too!  And such a healthy eater at that.  I do know that I am in dire need of a day without changing a diaper.......

Hard to believe in two more months, T-man will be one year old.  Sniff, sniff....

Busy week/months at the Trujillo house...

Alright, so I'm not so great at keeping up with this blog...surprise, surprise!  We have had so much going on these past months, I seriously don't know where to start.  So, I guess I'll start with this..............

Eric and his boys...

It is not easy getting a decent photo with all of them together.  

This was taken on Father's Day.  The boys all made t-shirts declaring their love for their Daddy...

Grandpa & Grandma come for a visit...

Three weeks ago, Rose and Bill ventured out to see us and brought along Bill's Aunt and Cousin from Wisconsin.  Eric and I had been waiting to meet Janet and Suzy for years since we had heard so much about them.  They definitely lived up to all their stories!  We had a great time and miss everyone...

Sam's last day of Jr. Kindergarten...

What a great year Sam had...an amazing teacher, eight great classmates (all boys) and a wonderful program at Grace.  We are very blessed that we found this opening here...

  

Next year....Kindergarten!