Thank you Nana

Thanks Nana for the awesome balloons, cards, and money!! We are going to go get something fun at the store.

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Happy Fourth of July

Hope you are having a good time with your family and friends!

St. Patricks Day

Hello all! I thought I would take today and update you on the boys.  It has been a crazy few months and it seems things are just settling down.  I'll say that and then it will get nuts again, but oh well.  :)  Spring has sprung right into early summer...ohhh the south, yayyy for us! It has been 80 degrees and beautiful but seriously, 80 degrees in March? What does that mean for May? Its not going to be good.  I may need to go visit my family in a humidity friendly state. 

For St. Patrick's Day this year we decided to take advantage of a night out and skip the parade all together :) haha! Sorry kiddos! Our wonderful Auntie Alicia kept the boys for us and we went out and celebrated Christopher turning Old..oh uh, I mean 30. :)  I'm already 30 so I can make jokes. 

Alicia is the best Auntie and held down the fort while we hopped around downtown and got to see all the crazy people out for the holiday.  Since the news was estimating and EXTRA million people in Savannah we thought better of the parade.  Not with a two month old and a two year old.  First we would have to wake them up at six in the morning.  That's as far as we got.  We are not into waking sleeping children.  Sane people don't do this.  Seriously.

So we watched a little of the parade on the "T" (tv to Christian :)and laid around most of the day.  Later in the afternoon we took the boys downtown for a little bit to get Christian something fun off those vendor carts with the blinking lights (see- we are not heartless!) and he got this:

Dora.  Also known in this household as, "The Most Amazing Character to have EVER Graced our Television."  He is obsessed with this little girl.  I don't think he has put her down since we got her.  Best $6 we have spent in a long time.  She ran errands with us all day Sunday and had a good time waving at everyone.  He even shared his french fries with her.  Tell me that's not love. 

We quickly left downtown as it was insane (!) and I got really freaked out in the pizza line.  Let me tell you about it....

The night before we saw a police officer friend of ours.  He told us how his buddy had just arrested a "hippie" (his words not mine) for going to the bathroom in the street (? what!) and that we should be careful around these people because they have SKIN DISEASES!  What?! He said that they look really dirty and always have a lot of dogs with them, they never wash and apparently someone caught a skin disease from them, so be sure they don't touch you.  So fastfoward to Saturday afternoon, Chris is holding Christian, I'm pushing Gibson in the stroller and we get in line to get a piece of pizza.  I notice I smell something horrible.  I turn around and there are the people the guy was talking about.  Now let me throw in a disclaimer that Chris says I'm the crazy liberal.  I like to buy food and give money to the homeless on the street and since getting my minor in Social Sciences I really do believe that the majority of the homeless have mental problems and no family and that is how they end up on the street.  I always imagine that if I was in that situation, I'd want someone more fortunate to give me a few dollars.  I have debated with many a friend who thinks they should just, "Get A Job." (not that its a bad idea, just saying it won't work for everyone..) anyways..... totally going off on a tangent. 

Back to Skin Disease! As the guy and girl kept scooting closer and closer to my baby, (AHHH DON'T TOUCH MY BABY WITH YOUR SKIN DISEASED HANDS)  I just freaked out.  Plus the smell was overwhelming and really appetite killing.  I didn't even think that was possible when it came to Vinny's Pizza.  Needless to say we took off and that was that for St. Patrick's Day downtown with children :) 

Hope yours was great!

love, nicole

Valentines Day

I love Valentines Day.  In fact it is my favorite holiday.  Mostly because I've always been a hopeless romantic and cannot get enough of the sappiest romantic movies like Sleepless in Seattle, and An Affair to Remember, but for another reason as well.  I know everyone says that its a "Hallmark" holiday and no one needs to be reminded to tell their loved ones they love them, but don't we? Don't we need reminders to show the ones we love how much they mean to us?  I know I do.  And probably more than once a year :) 

Life being as busy as it is, I know I get caught up in my day to day of diapers, bills, grocery shopping ect. and may forget to tell the people in my life just how much I love them (I love you!), and this is coming from the hopeless romantic.  I'd say I'm ahead of the curve when it comes to professions of love. 

This year I made a little dry erase board out of a frame that Chris and I can write little notes back and forth on.  Serious or just funny, something to keep us connected during the week when we feel like we've only talked about potty training and sippy cups.  So far it has proven to be a lot of fun.  He writes notes in the morning when I'm still in bed (most likely with Christian's leg across my body or his arm on my face) and I try and think up something clever to write during the day (when someones not screaming demands for juice at me).  Its not an everyday thing, but just having that little reminder there helps keep us remembering to share just why we love each other.  It's amazing how you can be surprised by someone when you have known them for over ten years (but you can, go find out!)

V day is just a yearly reminder to show the ones we love that we will take some time out of our crazy lives and tell them we love them.  Whether that be flowers, or cards, or just making time for a fun date.  Things will always be commercialized, its the American way, (ask me-- I got asked at least three times to buy "special" baby photos of my newborn at the hospital for only $300, because we'd never have this special moment again! and we needed a CD! of 1 photo! to capture this moment...its really not fair to ask women who may or may not still be feeling the affects of prescription drugs + crazy hormone changes any questions involving money) but if we can look past that and see the meaning I think we can embrace Valentines Day for what it really is. 

A good reminder. 

Sending out my love to you,
Nicole

Halloween 2011

Christian had such a great time trick-or-treating.  He caught on a lot quicker than either Chris or I thought...must have something to do with the candy.  I hope he catches on the potty training this weekend just as fast :)


Little kids kept saying "Hi Mario!" when they saw Christian and he kept waving back and saying hi like he knew they were talking to him :) It was too funny. 

How cute are they? I couldn't believe Christian kept his mustache on as long as he did, it was too funny, covered his whole mouth. 

lets go!

More pictures to come...can't get them off the disk...need my IT helper and he's at work. 

I did get in on the Mario action a little bit, I was Princess Peach...minus the dress or the yellow hair (as one little trick-or-treater told me :), her exact quote, "If I'm not mistaken you are Princess Peach...well minus the dress and the yellow hair..right?" haha.  Yes little girl, I'm 30 weeks pregnant and they don't sell princess Peach dresses for people with giant stomachs :)  Not that I would buy one...wow that would be a sight. 

Love, Nicole

What's That You Say?

It's Halloween??!! Happy Halloween Everyone!

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Front Yard

The Great Pumpkin Patch

Happy (almost) Halloween!

 

The Fourth of July

My parents have been in town for two weeks visiting and we had such a good time.  Christian and I were in Oklahoma with them for two weeks before that, so we got lots of good time with them.  It was fun to have them here for the fourth, and we went out to the beach to watch the fireworks.  Here's a few pictures of Christian on the 4th.  We made sure to take part in all things summery, with watermelon, cold drinks, some pool time and numerous viewings of Independence Day and the Sandlot (a thank you to Chris Baksa-who enforces our official holiday movie selection).

Yumm! Watermelon & ice cold water

Thinking about sharing with Angelo

C got some sun in this hot Georgia heat

Hope you had a great holiday and got to spend it with your friends and family!
Love, Nicole

Mothers Day

Somehow we only got one shot of Christian and I on Mother's Day.  Here it is:

Notice everything I could get my hands on is on the table to distract him.  Worked for a little while.  Thankfully he has an awesome Daddy who walked around with him outside so that I could enjoy my brunch at SoHo.  We started the morning with brunch and it was so yummy.  Then we walked around downtown for a while and showed the squares to our friend Jessica who came to visit.  (more on that later, we had a great time!)  After that Chris and Christian headed back home, and Jess and I went shopping at the outlets.  We had such a good time and got a bunch of fun dresses.  That night Chris grilled burgers and we all hung out.  

It was a great Mothers Day.  

I love being Christians mom.  Best job ever. 

Grandpa Baksas Visit

Did I forget to put these up? I think I did.

This is when Grandpa Mike came to visit, we had such a good time.  First we celebrated St. Pat's Day downtown.  Mike's hair was a big hit.  We sprayed Chris' too but it didn't show up as bright as Mikes ;) We had a really good time.  We met up with our friends Timmy & Alicia who always do a big gathering with lots of food.  It was nice to have Mike with us this year. 

3 Generations of Baksa men

Our little family

Had to put this one on so you could get a good look at that hair!

Christian had a great time walking around with Grandpa

Alicia and I

Watching the parade with Grandpa

C had so much fun

Then he was out.  Everyone kept walking by saying how they wished they could sleep like that.

We took this photo 20 times, and this the only one where you can see them!

Off to the beach

He had such a good time

Yumm drinks at lunch

Kisses for Grandpa.  So sweet.

As you can see Christian really liked have his Grandpa around.  A lot. 

nicole

Easter 2011

This Easter we took Christian to a Saturday Easter egg hunt at our friend Chrissy's church.  They had a petting zoo, bouncy houses and hot dogs.  Christian won a prize & insisted on picking the blue bunny below...even though we were trying to get him to take the game :)  I guess he knows what he wants, he's been carrying it around for days.  :)

This is little C waiting for the go ahead to start looking for eggs.  Aren't his little shoes great?! Thanks Grandma B.

He's ready for the hunt...if he would put that bunny down~!

Kylin, Jacob, Kylins cousin Jacob, Christian & Chris

Chris and I were amazed that Christian picked up the eggs! He didn't want to let go to put them in the basket, but he picked them right up.

Christian and Kylin

Off to get more eggs

He even carried his basket (some of the time)

No we are not getting a bunny

Or a camel, Chris :)

This little horse is a biter so he had to use the cup!

What is Christian staring at so seriously?

This guy :)

We figured Christian would love a pony ride, right?

Not so much :)

He clings to Chris for safety

Kylin enjoyed her ride

My cute boys

Chrissy, Chris & Christian

Christian had such a good time

I came out from behind the camera for this pic.  How cute is my little guy?

Sunday we went to church and took our annual Easter family picture.  We get it this Sunday, so I will scan and post it here.  Can't wait to compare it to our last years photo when C was only 2 months old.  He has changed so much in a year.  Last year he was practically sleeping in line while I rocked him.  This year he was dancing in line and singing to himself.  Well--before he took off running and tried to get in another families picture.  I guess he figured, who wouldn't want a cute curly haired boy in their family picture?

I couldn't think of anyone who wouldn't, Christian.