a sad little story

I have a little sad story to tell. Landon and I have been really crushed about this. And some how I am able to laugh and cry (not really, but like I said, I'm really sad). Yesterday the trees in back of our house were trimmed. They are HUGE pine trees that bug me so much. If there is just a tiny breeze in the air, my backyard gets covered with pine needles.(So you can imagine what happens when we have Santa Anas). I would go and complain to the city a lot. So one day out of the blue I come home from walking to Home Depot to get some steaks for my tomato plant and this is what I found.


They have trimmed the trees and just let the branchs fall on to the garden. I wonder what the guy up in the tree was thinking "Bamb, got that plant, Bullseye, Hit that one. Man I'm good at hitting these plants." The guy is right above my garden and saw exactly what he was doing....smashing my plants. This is the saddest sight. So above is my early girl tomato, below is my sunflowers, green beans and my purple and red bell peppers.



This here is my cherry tomato.


Doesn't this look so sad? My poor little garden.


And this is what it looked like with the some of the branches pulled off. I had to pull them off so I could take the pictures.


On a lighter note, Shane just loved licking the cookie dough on the mixer. So here are some shots (from my point and shot) of our little weekend of just us two. On Friday we headed to Disneyland (we have passes so it was kind of free for us, so why not go?) For the first time I was able to go and eat at the Blue Bayou, and ........well I did it, and will I do it again........maybe when I'm older. It was kind of cool to say that we did it. Other then that, my taste buds have had better.


Then on Saturday we went horseback riding. Landon and I have this dream that when we buy a house it's going to be on open land and we'll have horses and a huge area for my garden. Well we will most likely not be getting that living here in California, but it was nice to dream that this past weekend. But after riding for two n half hours (which is way too long if you have never rode horses) I have come to the conclusion that I will let Landon do all the riding. I really enjoyed riding, but my horse Cowboy just wanted to trot. So come Saturday night I could not walk. I couldn't even go to church on Sunday. I was in sooo much pain. I couldn't sit, stand, walk, or lay down without being in so much pain. But all in all it was a wonderful weekend without the kids.




I'm sure the people at the stables just got a good laugh at us. I had the dress up cowboy boots on and we both had cowboy hats from target. We are such wannabes, but it was fun!!!

the monroe kids

I love being an aunt, and I absolutely love all my nieces and nephews. I love being in a family where it just keeps growing. (However, it seems to be at a stand still right now, and it will be for.....a little while. And that is OK) But one of my favorite things to do as an aunt is taking pictures of my nieces and nephews. I have been doing this since Landon and I were dating (that would be since High School). So every year we take the kids out, put them in some cute outfits and I snap away. However, by far this has been my favorite session with these kids. I took them up in hills where the yellow flowers are growing like crazy and shoot away.

I loved Madison in these flowers.






Grant is such a little hunk.


I love these girls. And I love this photo.


However, I couldn't decide if I liked it better in black and white. I love the feel I get from both of them.


With any photo shoot that involves kids, your on a time limit. And from the looks of this picture you can tell their time is up. However, I love it! Each of them have their own expression, their own personality showing through. I love you Abby. ( Hope you got a good smile out of this one Kalli)

You guys did great!

Well I am out for the weekend. I have the pleasure of celebrating my fifth anniversary with my handsome, wonderful, thoughtful, loving husband. Man I have been blessed. Have a wonderful weekend

a new little place

I have been wanting to go and find a location where I could shoot some pictures with all the wild mustard flowers in the background. The hills by our house has tons of them growing everywhere. So one day when I was tiered of being locked up in the house I decided to go for a drive. I finally found a spot were there wasn't a fence and I took advantage of it. Here are just some cute little shoots that I liked.



For some reason I fell in love with Wyatt's expression here. Landon didn't care for it, but this isn't Landon's blog, so I posted it.


I love this picture of Shane. I couldn't have asked for a better time for him to be happy and cheerful. He loved playing in the flowers (but sometimes they looked like weeds....Which maybe they are)


I feel in love this this sign. It was so old and rusty looking. And it is out in the middle of nowhere and they have this sign saying to pay. I just laughed and then shoot the picture, and no I didn't pay.

a sad moment for me

"Oh look at the your little girl! How cute is she.", "Your little girl is so cute.", "How nice, you have a boy and a girl."

WHAT!!! is what I'm thinking.

That is what we heard all night when we were at Disneyland the other night. Landon swear that we were going to cut it that night. And for the record he was wearing boy clothes that were boy colors.

Then at the grocery store today a gentlemen commented how cute my girl was.
HE IS A BOY!!!

So we cut his tonight. I'm sooo sad. But it needed to get done. Really, I could have done pigtails with his hair. But above all, he still did not look like a girl.



Some eighties look going on. My brother Ryan had that look in Jr. High and he totally thought he looked cool. Yeah, we just laugh whenever we look at that picture. But he was a pretty cool guy though and still is.

Ok so it's not that bad. (actually he is still so cute) I'm still so sad. There is one thing I would love to learn while I'm mom, that is to cut my boys hair. My mom, sister, and sister-n-law all can cut hair. Some how I didn't inherit that particular talent. But do I realize that, NO! I still try every time my boys need a haircut. And what happens every time I do it: Aunt Krista fixes it. So Krista if you are reading can you fix his hair next time your in town, I would really appreciate it.

Over all I tried to be nice whenever someone called him a girl. However, if someone does it again with his hair short I don't think I would be as nice. I'm already sad as it is. He no longer has that baby face. It's all toddler. That I'm not ready for.

my little green garden

My garden is growing. I only planted it about 2 1/2 weeks ago and I am surprised of how fast they are growing. I love this time of year,....Spring. I love walking into Home Depot and seeing all the plants lined in a row and calling out to me to take them home and plant them. If I had the money I would probably buy one of everything. I don't think you could see in the picture, but I have my first little yellow bell pepper growing. Here my brussels sprouts are growing so well. These are my green beans that I just cannot wait to eat. We eat them like french fries (minus the frying).And this little lady is growing so well. She's my grape tomato. Everyday I am surprised to see how much see is growing......I am a proud mom of her.

And this is the whole garden in one picture. I couldn't go and take pictures of the garden without taking pictures of the boys. So here is #2, don't you just want to eat him up?

Meet our Mr. Firefighter. It was a gift when Landon graduated from the Fire Academy some four years ago. He has been in our front walk way for the past couple of years. However, the boys just love putting dirt into it. It gets all clogged up with dirt and just stops working. So the other day I decided to take it out and put it in the backyard were (in future) there will no longer be dirt. Let me just say that Landon will have the job of cleaning that fountain. It was an all day process that I do not want to do again. And of course the boys are loving it in the backyard as much as they did in the front yard.
Shane going down the slide

And Shane at the bottom of the slide. And what does mom do.....take the pictures. I did comfort him afterwards.

just an update

It's been so crazy around here, I haven't even turned on my computer lately. Trust me I have been going through withdrawals. So last weekend we did Wyatt's birthday celebration with our family so Landon and I decided to made his cake while he was enjoying his Sunday nap. He got these dinosaur candles from his grammie and he LOVED them, he even slept with them because he loved so much. We got a little creative, but we had fun doing it. Wyatt loved it!!

Boys have the weirdest smiles sometimes. Look how cute Miley is, she is so sweetFor Easter weekend my sister and her family came down to my moms house. So we headed out there for Easter as well. I was so glad I was able to catch this on the camera. During the hunt Wyatt had the hardest time finding the eggs. So Landon was trying to help him out. Well as you can see in these pictures, the eggs are right in front of his face and he still has a hard time finding them.

No still can't see them.

Where did you say?????OOOhhhh there.....I see!!!
And then there is my baby Shane just being him. He is so cute.....I just love being a mom

wyatt turns three

I can't believe my little guy is three today. How nervous I was to meet him and have him come to this world. How my life changed when we had him. And how I would never go back and change it. He is the funniest little kid around. I love how he excepted Shane so well and is so protective over him. l love watching him when he discovers something new and the excitement he has for it. I love seeing the moment when the light turns on for him and the expression he gives. I'm so blessed to have him come down to me. How did I get so lucky? I just hope I can continue to teach him to be the best he can and that he can do anything he puts his mind to, and the sky's the limit. I love you Wyatt and Happy Birthday!