Family Dinner....what is that?

Family dinner is non existent in this house.  I am sure that one day when everyone's schedule settles down and the kids get older and can actually sit at the table that things will be different.  Until then this is what dinner looks like here in the Sanchez House.....

Noah usually goes first, he isn't one to miss a meal!

So glad we bought the bigger kitchen table.

Meanwhile the other two are doing there own thing.....

Next comes Zachary for his dinner, once again this bigger table has really come in handy!

Then mommy drinks her dinner

Isaiah skips dinner for this night and Daddy is still at work.

One day in the Sanchez house family dinner will return, but until then we will make do with what works for us!!



This is why I blog......

Cesar Isaiah Sanchez

You can not leave this boy alone for 5 seconds without all heck breaking loose!  I am alone most nights with the boys and bed and bath are a little challenging.  So tonight I need to put Noah to bed and I leave Isaiah in the playroom/kitchen with Zachary.  Now putting Noah to bed consists of walking up the stairs and laying him in his crib, 2 minutes tops. 

I come back down the stairs to this.....

I guess he was thirsty and just couldn't wait 2 minutes.  Not surprising, not surprising at all!  How can you resist this face.....

I can't and that is half the problem here in the Sanchez house!!



Celebrating a good friends birthday and maybe a girlfriend is in Zachary's future?!

Today we headed to the bowling alley to celebrate one of Zachary's friends birthday.  Aneesa turned 9 today and she has become a good friend of Zachary's and her mommy has become a good friend of mine!  We all had a great time having cake, cotton candy and popcorn and hanging out with friends.  Zachary wasn't sure about going to the party, it was a Justin Beiber theme.  He thought his friends would make fun of him!

On another note, this morning Z asked me to put gel in his hair before school.  What?!  He has never cared about what he looked like before today.  I did, he went to the bathroom to see what it looked like and requested I do it different, like maybe get the hair dryer and make it spike up more!  I swear, I thought that having boys would meant that I was not fixing hair in the mornings!!  I think there may be a girl in the picture, I hope not!  He is still to young for that in my eyes!

What a great weekend!!

I am so blessed!  I realize this more and more each day as I grow as a wife and a mother and in my faith.  I am learning, sometimes slowly, to take each day and cherish it.  To let the little things go and spend time on the big things, my boys.  We had a full house this weekend with Q, R and K over and we headed to John's Incredible Pizza for some good fun a fun with Grandma, Papa and Dina.  Life is good when you get to spend the weekend having fun and playing hard!

I LOVE living out here in CA, but........

I am reminded when I get an invitation to an even I can not attend back in KY what I am missing. 

Being an Army wife means moving, sometimes far away from where you grew up and far away from your friends and family.  This is the case for me.  I love being out here, so much I would stay if it came to that.  I have friends out here and family out here that I love.  I am blessed that I get the opportunity to fly back to KY to visit at least twice a year.  That being said when one of your oldest friends, read little sister, is getting married and you get an invitation to a Stock the Bar party at a GREAT place in KY and you know you can not attend, it makes me a little sad.  I love this family so much.  They lived down the street from us growing up and they were my second family for sure.  Heather is like another little sister to me and when she called to tell me she was getting married I couldn't have been happier for her.  I am so excited to be in this wedding and to fly back to KY in July for a weekend of parties and happiness, but today I am a little sad I will not be celebrating at the Stock the Bar party, at least not in body, but I will be there in spirit!!!

Wonderful weather out here!!

The weather has been awesome out here, well except for the winds!  They have died down today and we are heading to the park after school to play for a while.  Daddy is getting off early and the grill is getting fired up tonight for dinner!  I have cleaned the house and finished the laundry.   We are getting ready for a weekend with my two nephews and one niece that will include, I am sure, video games and a trip to a pizza place!  Can't wait.  I will post some pictures of our park outing later tonight!

Enjoy your weather, whatever it is!

Wow, time flies!

I really like blogging, I just can't seem to find the time like I used to when Isaiah was a baby.  There always seems like so much is going on here that sitting at the computer for an extended amount of time usually doesn't happen.  I am going to make it a goal this year to blog more.  Not for others to read but to keep the memories for me and my boys! 

So here we go again, the crazy life of the Sanchez Family!!  Hang on, it's going to be wild!!

Zachary's Thursday Night ballgame

This baseball season has been a little bit of a struggle.  Zachary has moved up to what they call farm and the kids pitch to each other.  There have been a number of kids hit by the pitcher, Zachary included, and a lot of them are now scared of the ball.  You can see at least half of the kids backing out of the batter's box scared to death.  Zachary has not had a hit since his birthday back in March and he is really dissapointed in himself.  He has a hard time when he doesn't excel in things.  We were on our way to the game Thursday night and he was really quite.  I noticed that the closer we got to the field the quiter he got.  I asked him waht was wrong and he started to tear up and say that he just wanted to hit the ball.  My heart was breaking for him and all I wanted to do was hug him, but he is way to big for that!  So I started telling him about Granddaddy and his love for baseball.  That this should be fun for him and it was always fun for Granddaddy, when he played, when he coached, when he was at the field, or watching the Reds on TV he was always happy with baseball.  I told Z that this should be fun or we shouldn't be doing it.  He said ok mom and got out of the car to join his teammates on the field to practice.  I sat in the car, had a good cry for my baby and prayed to God and asked Granddaddy and Meamaw to watch Z's game and cheer him on to a hit, at least one.  The game starts and he is first to bat, I am sick at my stomach and I can hardly watch.  I am praying over and over, please let him hit it, please let him hit it.  He swings and connects.......foul ball.  I breathe again.  The next pitch, ball 1, again I breathe.  The third pitch he swings, connects and it goes right past the pitcher's mound!!!!  I am up off the bleachers running to 1st with him!  He is thrown out but the look on his face told me that he was ok, he was so happy to have hit it!  I go back to my seat and try not to cry.  He gets back up to bat 3 innings later and again I start my prayer.  He connects on the first pitch and again is thrown out at first.  This time he comes skipping off the field.  I am so proud of him my heart could burst out of my chest.  I leave then to get the little ones and I am crying the whole way home.  I am so happy he is out of his hitting slump, but I know that my Granddaddy and Meamaw were cheering so loud up in Heaven Thursday night and I know that they played a big part in his two hits!

My MeaMaw

While it was great to have my parents out here, there was some sadness along with their trip too.  My Mom's mom had to go into the hospital on the Monday after Noah's birthday.  She had been sick on and off for a while.  She had been in and out of the hospital since my wedding.  She passed away on Thursday, April 22nd.  I thank God that my mom made it home to see her before she passed.  My Meamaw was a great woman and she will be missed by a lot of people, my Paw Paw especially.  They had been married for 64 years and he is lost with out her.  While it is sad to have to say goodbye, it's not really goodbye, it's more like see you later in Heaven.  I am happy that she is free now, no more oxygen, no more wheelchair just her.  I am happy to be able to picture her like that again, it's been a long time.  I am also glad that she now has a front row seat for all of my boys things.  She got to see Zachary play ball Thursday night for the first time in a long time, I am a firm believer that you can check in on us from Heaven.  I know her and granddaddy were cheering him on big time.

Birthday Pictures

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Noah's 1st Birthday!

On Saturday April 17th we had Noah's Birthday Carnival!  I was so much fun.  It's hard to believe that my baby is already a year old.  Time passes so fast with children.  In the blink of an eye they are grown up and doing so much.  I have said before that things are a little sad with Noah.  I know that he is my last baby and I am fine with that, but I am sad that there will be no more 1st birthday's.  My parents flew out to help us celebrate and that was awesome.  It's nice that they are still such a big part of my boys' lives, even if we do live across the country.  We had a lot of friends and family celebrating with us.  There were carnival games and a popcorn and cotton candy machine.  We had a face painter and the chance to win a real goldfish.  A Big Top cake and pinata finished the night.  I was exhausted at the end of the night but it was all worth it.

Noah is an awesome baby.  He is so laid back and go with the flow.  Nothing really ever bothers him, except when he is hungry and then look out!  He walked at 9 months, he climbs on everything.  He has a big attitude in that small body.  He will scream at you when he is mad, he claps his hands at you to get your attention, he loves his brothers!  I think he is a little scared of Isaiah but he loves him nonetheless.  He eats anything that you put in front of him, but he is true to his Mexican heritage!  He loves his beans and rice.  He sleeps alright, better than Isaiah but not as good as Zachary did at his age.  He loves his paci but he doesn't have a lovey like my other two do.  He likes a blue blanket but is not as attached to it as Zachary is to baby and Isaiah is to blankie.   I love having boys and Noah is no exception.  Happy Birthday my little one!

Easter and Family Pictures

Happy Easter, a little late!

Easter was a lot of fun here in the Sanchez household!  I hosted it for the first time ever.  Let's not kid anyone, it's the first holiday I have ever hosted!  I am no Martha Stewart, but it turned out ok.  Cesar's parents and the girls came over and Sgt. F and his family also joined us.  Sgt. F recruits with Cesar and they are from SC so they have no family out here.  I am still getting used to the mexican Easter!  We grilled out carne asada and chicken and had beans and rice, tortilla chips, salsa, ect...  It was great and the weather was great too.  We had an earthquake here, a 7.2, center in Mexico but Papa was the only one who felt it.  As a friend posted on FB, He has risen and the earth has shaken!  I am still not sure if that's a good thing or not.  The kids had a blast hunting for eggs, but Isaiah was really scared of the Easter Bunny.  Enjoy the pictures of Easter!

Noah's 1st Haircut!

On Saturday we took Noah for his first haircut!  It was getting a little long around his ears and getting like a mullett in the back.  It was bittersweet for me.  I was excitied to see him expirence another "first" but sad at the same time because every "first" for him is a "last" for me.  This is my last baby and while I am ready to be done with the baby stage I am sad at the same time.

Noah before the haircut

Noah after his haircut looking so grown up!

Birthday Pictures

Happy 8th Birthday Zachary!

It's hard to believe that my little boy turned 8 on the 16th of March! It seems like not that long ago when it was just me and him living in our first house in Shelbyville, learning how to be a family. So much has changed since then. He now has two little brothers and a daddy. We live all the way in California now too. He is the most amazing 8 year old I know. He is super smart, smarter than me that's for sure and he loves school. His test scores are super high and he tested for the Gifted and Talented Program at his school for next year. Math comes super easy for him, I think he gets that from my dad. He loves his brothers and helps out so much. There is no way I could do it with out him. He loves to play baseball and is a great hitter. He is getting into sports now. He is starting to understand the games and the statistics and is a great play by play announcer. Unless it's a tight game and then it's quite aggravating! :) He is a U of L fan, but also a KY fan too. I think he does that to drive my nuts. He loves the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles for NFL, the Lakers are his team in the NBA and he bleeds Dodger blue for sure! He is polite and I am always getting compliments on his behavior, it makes me and his daddy really proud. It has been an amazing 8 years and I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes in the future!

Opening day Baseball 2010

Play Ball!!

Zachary has started baseball again and boy are we busy!  There is practice at least twice a week and two games a week too.  I am worn out with being at the ball park!  I have to admit, I love baseball.  It reminds me of my granddaddy and I love just about anything that reminds me of him!  I can remember spending lots of summer night at the park with my grandparents watching American Legion games and loving every minute of it.  I can't help but think of how Granddaddy would love watching Z play.  Opening day here in CA is amazing.  I have never seen anything like it for youth baseball.  They named the park after an older man who they called a "friend to baseball".  I started crying listening to this, all I could think of was granddaddy.  They have an opening pitch, a parade of all the teams with their banners and flags, it is a sight to see.  Zachary's team this year is the Padres.  Of course I have outfitted us all in Padres gear, pretty easy here in CA!  We all load up and go to the park 4 nights a week.  Cesar, as busy as he is, hasn't missed a game yet.  He is such a great daddy!!  Here are some pictures of Zachary's opening day and some games and practices.  He also got the game ball on his birthday!

Isaiah in mascara

Isaiah's March antics!

If you have read this blog before you know that Isaiah is a wild one to say the least.  Now that I am not nursing I thought that it would be easier to control him a little bit better, WRONG!  Now my issues come when I am putting Noah down for a nap.  I put Isaiah on my bed while I went to give Noah his bottle and put him down for a nap.  I was gone for a total of 10 minutes.  Well when I came back into my bed room I saw a huge wet spot on my bed and Isaiah nowhere in sight.  When I found him he was in my makeup and covered in mascara!  The wet spot on my bed was a water bottle that he dumped out!  Here are the pictures that I took to capture the moment.

The past 6 months in pictures!

A quick overview of the last 6 months, or as much as I can remember!

Wow, it's been really busy here in the Sanchez house the last few months. These boys sure know how to keep a mommy busy! I am loving life with them, and trying to enjoying the little things. Noah is getting so big, he will turn one next month. Where did the year go? It seems like yesterday I was bringing him home and now he is walking everywhere and getting into everything. Isaiah is a mess! He is still into everything and nothing phases him. He could care less about time out and spanking just makes him laugh. He will be the death of me, I am sure. Zachary just started baseball and is on the Padres team and is loving it. He is super smart and got all O's on his last report card. Since I blogged last Zachary had a birthday and turned 8, we had a visit to KY and celebrated our first Christmas in California. I will post a few of my favorite pictures for you to see!

I hope to start being consistant in the blogging, I have a lot goin on with these boys and I am sure you will want to read all about it!

I'm Back!!

Wow, the life of a mom with three busy boys leaves little time for blogging! Well that an now a new obssession with facebook! :) I am missing so much by not sharing all the crazy things that my boys do so I have made a decision to start blogging again. My boys, especially my middle one, do such great funny things that I want the world, well ok the 3 people that read my blog, to know about it! So look for weekly posts, if not more depending on Isaiah's new tricks! The first update will come at nap time today so check back for a recap of the last 6 months!

Another trip to Urgent Care for Isaiah

Monday afternoon started out like any other afternoon in the Sanchez house. Z was upstairs doing his homework and I was nursing Noah on the couch in the playroom while Isaiah played. Is this starting to sound familiar, nursing Noah, Isaiah playing...seeing a pattern here? Isaiah comes up to me and tells me he had "mocos" which is Spanish for snot. I tell him to let me see and I try to get it out. Those who know me well know I will pick any kids nose in a heartbeat. I don't see anything right away so I finish feeding Noah and then get Isaiah on my lap to take a better look. Well what do I see but a piece of plastic stuck up his nose!! I try to get the tweezers to get it out but I can't. So I yell upstairs to Z to get his shoes and off we head to the Urgent Care. Grandma is at the doctor herself so I have to take all 3 boys with me. We get to the Urgent care and the doctor gets it out and we head home. Just another day in the life of Isaiah! Here are the few picture I took!

August pictures

Stress Relief for my BFF! ;)

I have been a bad blogger so tonight at the request of Cara Beth I am going to upload some pictures and post some happening here in the Sanchez household, or the Sanchez zoo as I like to call it!

We love living here in sunny CA! We have been making trips to Disneyland and the Urgent Care, they know me by name now! Since my last post we have celebrated Noah's 4 month birthday and Isaiah's 2nd birthday. Zachary has been in school a month and a half now and he got the Behavior Award for August! The weather has been so hot here the kids are not allowed outside for recess at school. They have not been able to go outside for almost 2 weeks. The fires are really bad here and we get the ashes all over the cars along with the horrible smoke smell. They are starting to get some of them contained but a new one started today. We are spending a lot of time with Grandma and Papa due to the fact Cesar works A LOT! I am not complaining, the food there is great!

Enjoy the picture from August!

He is going to be the death of me!!

Here goes the Isaiah story of the day! While I was once again nursing Noah, I guess he will just have to stop eating, Isaiah was doing his new dance while watching the Wiggles. This all seems pretty safe, well as safe as Isaiah can be. He is really getting into it and all of the sudden he trips and falls landing on the video chair. He is crying and so I put Noah down, much to chunk's disappointment, and go to check out the damage. I was shocked to see the huge bump over his eye and his nose bleeding! I call the doctor's office and head over to have him checked out. When I get to the doctors office we are waiting for Dr. C and I am just sitting back watching Isaiah. He is climbing on the rolling stool and pushing himself across the room, he climbs onto the front of the table/truck and falls in the front window, he pulls down the paper from the table while trying to climb on top of it. I am thinking, at least if he falls here were are in the right place!

Dr. C comes in and starts to look at him. He tells me he is going to check for bleeding in the head, WHAT?!?! I really didn't' think it was that bad, I just wanted his eye checked out. He goes on to tell me that you can tell if there in bleeding internally by looking in the nose, eyes and ears. I am starting to get a little nervous here and wishing we were back in KY at Dr. A's office! He is just chatting away about Natasha Richards and how they should have checked her ears and they probably could have saved her. All the time I am thinking, is it that bad, does my baby have bleeding internally. He then pronounces him fine and to watch for other signs of internal bleeding such as vomitting, slurring speech(come on, he's 2 all his speech is slurred) and disorientation and sends me on my way. I am thankful he is okay but left a lot more worried then when I came in!! I am sure it will be worse tomorrow so I will post some more pictures!

Isaiah's dare devil pictures take 2!

Isaiah's dare devil pictures

Why do I open my mouth?!?!

I will never learn! As I sat at the computer trying to update the blog with yet another Isaiah story I think he is safely in the playroom watching tv with his brother. When what do I hear..."Mom, he climbed the gate!" from Zachary. I get up and running towards me is my own almost 2 year old Houdini! He used the grocery cart, turned it on it's side, pushed it to the gate and climbed right over! Someone help me! I took the grocery cart out and decided the rest of the post below was going to have to wait until nap time. Well the phone rang and I had to leave the playroom to get the cordless and then I see him using the door part of the gate to climb over again!! I am not sure what to do now. He is going to drive me batty!!!

**UPDATE**
As I sat down to post this during the boys naps Noah started crying. I headed upstairs to get him and while I am changing his diaper I look over my shoulder and see Isaiah! He was SUPPOSED to be in his crib. He climbed out....AGAIN!! He climbed out Saturday but I put the mattress on the floor and it seemed to fix the problem, until today!! I have no idea what to do now. Once again the phone rang and I went into the bedroom to answer it. As I come back into Noah's room Isaiah is in the crib with Noah!! If he wasn't so cute I would strangle him!! I headed to Babies R Us to see what they have and ended up deciding to child proof the room and then turn the crib into a toddler bed. So I take Isaiah and Noah to Grandma's and start the child proofing because my husband works all the time and who knows when he will be home. I get the crib turned into the toddler bed, and made up so nice, and start feeling pretty good about myself. I can do this with out Cesar I think, I am woman!! Well then I start to put the latches on the drawers, because I DO NOT need him throwing out clothes all night long, and they don't fit! So now I am sitting here posting this before I go pick up the boys so I don't lose my mind. I need a little down time so I used the blog to destress for a moment.

~~Classic me...I made him do it all over again so that I could capture it on film. Enjoy the pictures.~~

Guess what Isaiah did now!

Yesterday I went upstairs to take a nice hot bath while Cesar had the boys. When I turned on the water I noticed it started coming out funny. So I turned it off and looked under the faucet, this is what I saw.





I tried to get it out with my hands and no luck. So I headed to the garage to get a screwdriver. I finally got the obstruction out and this is what it was...




It is the bubble wand from some bath bubbles! Stay tuned for what he does next. I am almost scared to see what it is!!

Noah is 3 months old!!

Noah is now 3 months old! Time is flying by here in the Sanchez house. He got to go into the pool for the first time yesterday and he loved every minute of it. He is just like his daddy, a water baby. He is getting so big, about 16 pounds and 26 inches long. He is wearing 6 month clothes already and fits some 9 month stuff, what am I going to do?! Nothing I saved from Isaiah is going to work, the timing and the sizes are all different! Noah is such a good baby. Very laid back and do with the flow. He only cries when he is hungry or tired and that's not very often. He smiles so big at you and loves to be talked to. He loves his brothers and smiles at them all the time. He is sleeping through the night!!!! Usually from about 8 to 5 and then he eats and goes back to sleep until around 7 or so. I have NEVER had a baby do this and I am thrilled!! I can not wait to see what the next month brings us!

Ky picture #2

Ky pictures

Catching up! *really long*

It's been a while since I have blogged...there just doesn't seem to be the time like I used to have. It might have something to do with my 3 sons!! We have been busy since the end of school. Swimming at Grandma's, playing with friends and cousins and getting ready for the big KY trip! I could talk forever about going home, it was awesome.

We headed home on the 23rd of June. Nana came out to help me with the boys on the plane ride. It went surprisingly well I thought. When we landed at the airport we couldn't get to the front fast enough. Grandpa, Kel, and most importantly Bradley, Brady and Bella Ann were there waiting for us! I couldn't believe how little Bella was compared to my chunk of a baby. Bradley and Zachary were running around crazy and Brady was just taking it all in. Of course Kelly and I cried and I am tearing up now as I write this. I was so happy to see my babies again and to be able to spend two weeks with them. I was excited to show off my baby to gran and meamaw and pawpaw...really missed granddaddy on this trip. We headed to O'Charles for dinner, they don't have those out here. It was there Bradley showed us his wonderful trick he learned at school...how to make tooting noises with a bendy straw, definitely the highlight of the night. It was so nice to be with family again. We did a lot of things, zoo, shopping, gran's for lunch and dinner, the park. We had a great cookout on Saturday and I got to see a lot of people and introduce Noah to them all. It was a nice way to see people and not have to drag 3 kids all around the state!! It was a great time and it went too fast. It is hard being here with no friends and no one to hang out with. I miss that the most, just hanging out with Kelly and the kids. I love the army life most of the time, just not when it is time to leave my family. We got home on the 8th and now we are trying to get things put away and gearing up for some swim lessons and the start of school on the 28th for Z.

I took over 400 pictures while I was at home, don't worry I won't post all of them, just a few of my favorites! Look for some swim lesson pictures and a wiggles concert to come soon!