The Lombardo Family

October 5, 2012

The Lombardo Family 2012

We have the BEST photographer in the world! A huge thanks to Kevin Yarnell for spending the evening with us and capturing the adventurous spirit of our family.

October 2, 2012

We are SO blessed! My wonderful family came over this weekend to help us clean out and organize our garage. Mom, Dad, Ray, & Grandad all came thru for us and worked in the heat to help us get settled. We spent the day cleaning out everything, with a couple trips to Costco and Home Depot, organizing and building! The shelves are beautiful and look so pretty all done with all the boxes lined up neatly. I don't have an after pic because it was too dark and I was too tired, plus we still have more to do so I don't classify it as done yet. We had lots of laughs and bonding time together and had to repeatedly tell people that "NO this is not a sale, it's all our stuff!" The funniest part of the day is when I unpacked a box (that's right UNPACKED from the 1st move) that had my collection of cell phones! I think I have at least 2 more that I can add to that pile LOL! A super huge thank you goes out to my parents who worked their tails off and my brother who brought all his tools and designed and built the new shelving. We could have never got it done without ALL of you!

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September 28, 2012

Down and Out

Monday we had a great family date at Baskin Robbins and then....

Tuesday hit...and it hit HARD! Below is a picture of where I have spent the past 3 days and my arsenal to help kick this bug. It all started with the flu symptoms then to a bad cold and cough that brought on bruised ribs. Being 29 weeks pregnant my best defense is that giant bag of Halls- lot of help those suckers are doing! My wonderful hubby came home very early the past few days to help with Tay while I attempt to recover. It's a slow process but I have felt improvement. Being this sick (with NO meds) SUCKS!!!

September 26, 2012

Wordless Wednesday

September 24, 2012

Busy Busy!

Two weeks ago we had 1st birthday party madness! We celebrated with Chelsea turning 1 in the afternoon and then we were off to Cruz's 1st that evening. Both parties were a ton of fun and Tay was so well behaved for being dragged all over SoCal with no nap. He played ball with the boys, ate ate and ate and went down the water slide about 100 times. He LOVED Kimmie's mom's homemade Mac N Cheese (so did this mama) and if you look very closely at each cake smash pic you can see his little face trying to catch some crumbs!

The past 2 weekends I have been NESTING! Trying to get our house ready for a new nursery as well as a new garage set up has consumed me. This upcoming weekend we are cleaning out the entire garage and the wonderful men in our lives are coming over to build shelves while mom and I organize. So prepping for that has meant lots of trips to organizational places for me, The Container Store, Ikea, Target Target Target.... And lots of moving things from 1 room to another. Saturday I reorganized the toys in the living room and prepped them to be moved to the kids rooms. Sunday I moved an entire bookcase yesterday and packed 3 boxes of store/sell, lots of progress! Add in a trip to Costco, BabiesRUs and a lunch date with my girlfriends for Vi's birthday and I was DONE for! The 3rd trimester monster reared its ugly head and then I collapsed on the couch from exhaustion.

We have been so blessed to have many friends and family once again giving us their baby girl clothes and I finally had a chance to go thru them and attempt to get things all set up. The piles below crack me up, FYI almost all of them are 12mo-18mo with shoes for a little walker. My fav's are the boots, they are SO cute! Tay helped me pick out a few things at Ikea and he got a new hat rack and clock for his room. He wakes up every morning and says "clock clock clock!" He had a great time being a tool helper with daddy putting them up.

And last but not least my kid ate salad! He has decided he hates all vegetables and we have tried and tried to no avail to get him to eat them. Last night he decided he wanted to eat Daddy's (very strong lemon and red wine vinegar) salad and he dug in for 2 bowls! Now let's see how long that lasts.....