Kaelyn's birthday and vegas

This year Kaelyns birthday ended up being the week of my friend Lindsay's wedding in Vegas. We tired to make it special because we drove all day on her birthday. That night we went bowling and went to Panda Express. (Her choice) They had so much fun! She lucked out because grandma and grandpa came with us and so they were able to celebrate with us and play too! We had a lot of fun while in Vegas. It was nice to see friends and spend time with my parents! Lindsay was a beautiful bride and hopefully we can all get together again soon!

Kaelyn and Enzo gave each other a high five after each turn. They were so fun to watch.

Little Lucas turns 1

Ok so I have been completely busy and finally have a sec and so I thought I would do a post about our little Lucas! He turned 1 on November 6th and he's growing up so fast. It amazes me how kids can be so different. I love to see our kids personalities show. Lucas has been such a sweet little baby. He loves playing with his siblings, especially with Enzo when Enzo will share his cars. He's saying a few words like thank you, love you, Hello and his favorite Dada. He has recently started standing on his own, so it will be a few more months till he's walking. We had a fun birthday party with Mark and I's family to celebrate him turning 1. We barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs and had Chocolate cake. Of course he didn't want anything to do with the cake. We love our little guy to pieces!!!

Halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I love going all out on their costumes. We had a lot of fun going to my moms ward and ours for games, and trunk or treats on Friday and Sat. Halloween night instead of trick or treating we decorated cookies, made a halloween craft, and ate some yummy desserts! We are getting excited for the fun things coming up in the next few months. Birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Mark is currently home for his month long vacation and we are really enjoying him being home!


Our Little Chick

Future Officer Enzo Cosentino


Our little Diva Taylor Swift

First haircut

Our little baby isn't really a baby anymore. He's growing up so fast. A few weeks ago Mark cut his hair and seriously when I first looked at him he looked like a different kid. His light brown hair is gone now. He looks more like his big brother and a big boy. He's been crawling for a while now and he's learned to pull himself up to stand. He has his 2 bottom teeth and is currently working on the top ones. Any day now they will make their appearance! Enzo and Lucas have been playing more and more together and that usually means Enzo gets mad cause Lucas takes his cars. I know this is only the beginning, but I love to see them playing together!


Before




After

Kaelyn is in the 1st grade!

On August 16 Kaelyn started Berenda as a 1st grader. We are so excited for her! Her friends down the street that are in our ward go there and couple other friends from the ward too. She has a great teacher that I love and so does Kaelyn. If you didn't know Mark went to Berenda too so it's nice to walk around and hear his childhood memories and see the teachers that are still there. Kaelyns teacher actually had Nick (Marks brother) as a student. We love that we can walk to the school too. Eventually we plan on riding bikes. Kaelyn just started riding her bike without training wheels! We are so excited to see what this school year will bring and look forward to watching Kaelyn grow!

The Cosentino's first camping trip

Yeah so I never thought we would go camping. Especially not with a 9 month old, but we did and had so much fun considering it was freezing and our tent was right under a tree and the weather was really weird so it sounded like it was raining all night and I couldn't sleep. But yeah we had a blast. Our kids had a lot of fun and got very dirty. It brought back a lot of memories camping as a kid. For some reason it didn't seem as much work back then. We went with friends and it was a lot of fun visiting with them. Here are a few pics. I didn't get really any of us as a family.... it was to cold to think I guess.



The next morning we went to the beach and we were all exhausted. I wish I would of took some pics but I didn't want sand in my camera lens. So I took the picture of the kids off of Stacy's blog.

Look at all these cute kids!


We can't wait for our next camping trip... hopefully we will be more prepared! :)

Enzo's Mustang.........Racing in his blood

Ok So I finally uploaded some videos from my cell phone. I LOVE going outside each day to watch Enzo and Kaelyn run around the yard...

Our summer

Summer is over! wow! Im so glad we are back on track and on our regular schedule. We have had so much fun. Enzo was so happy to have his sister home to play with. I often found them on the couch sitting as close as they could next to each other watching tv, or playing Kaelyn's leapster. I know he misses her now that she's back at school.
One if the several things we did this Summer was go to Reno for Hot August Nights. The kids had a blast. I think the most exciting thing for the kids was staying in a hotel and going swimming at 8 o'clock in the morning. Mark and I have decided to try to go every year because we had so much fun.




Here's our kids in front of the hotel
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Lucas being such a trooper as we took him from car show to car show



At night during the event they have crusin nights everywhere. We decided to stay late so we could watch one of the cruises. It was awesome. They block off the streets and Hot Rods drive down the road to 50's music and they throw candy to the kids etc. Enzo loved it and threw a fit when we told him we had to leave. He could of stood there for hours.
Going to Reno was a last minute decision. We got back from there and then had to pack back up for camping.(stay posted for post) But Im so glad we went. Kaelyn told Mark when we got there "thank you daddy, this is the best day ever" so sweet.
Since we've been back Enzo just keeps telling us that he really wants a Black Hot Rod for his birthday. I think he is thinking of a real one because he has several toy ones. He could end up being the youngest kid ever to have his first real hot rod at age 4. He's pretty determined :)

1 happy little 3 year old

About a week ago we came across a great buy from one of Marks co-workers. A power wheels mustang for only $40.00. Of course we couldn't pass it up. Enzo is so excited! He hasn't stopped saying thank you and that it is so cool. He drives it all over the front yard, up and down the driveway and drives it like he is a pro. Just watching his facial expressions makes us laugh. He loves that he can open the hood and does it often. Kaelyn loves to be the passenger and sometimes I catch her resting her legs over the windshield and everytime Enzo tells her to immediately get them off. Its hilarious. I can't wait to see both of my boys in it!

Our pineapple princess

Kaelyn had her first performance on Saturday the 26th. She did a great job. We were so proud of her! She knew all of the dance moves and did such a great job.Not only were we proud of her for doing a great job performing, but she was a great example on keeping the sabbath day holy. After we started dancing with this school I found out that their performances were on Sundays, and since we really try to not do things on sunday we talked to Kaelyn about it and she never complained. So she performed for just the dance rehearsal. This year has really been a time for us to teach about keeping the sabbath day holy. Kaelyn has had a lot of things that she has missed out on because of our beliefs on keeping the sabbath day holy. I know that someday her example will help others!

last day of school

(I was really brave and went by myself with 2 kids!)


Today Kaelyn had her last day of school being a kindergartner and I have to admit I was kind of sad. She is growing up so quick and Im really going to miss her teacher. Kaelyn has learned so much this year and its only the beginning. I guess they don't have kindergartner graduations anymore so they had an awards assembly instead. Kaelyn was given the Citizenship award along with a medal. Im so proud of her. Today she brought home her benchmark test scores and she scored advanced on all of them. Hopefully she can keep up the good work every year!
( I wish I would of noticed she wasn't showing her awards! This picture was taken while holding Lucas :)

Madera Air Show

A few Saturdays ago we went as a family to the Madera Air Show and it was so neat. They had historic planes and helicopters that performed neat tricks, and we could actually see some of it from our house. The kids loved it and it was beautiful weather outside that made it more enjoyable.


(Enzo wasn't up for pictures this day dang it!)

Enzo!

Around Thanksgiving of last year we purchased a new Imac computer. The kids loved it especially since this is what Kaelyn uses at school. Well Enzo has learned how to do pretty much everything on it and it amazes me how a 3 year old can do so much already. Enzo can; look at pictures, take pictures, go on the internet all by himself and go to his favorite website www.starfall.com, (We do monitor him when he's on). He can also go to I tunes and click through his favorite artists which include Black Eyed Peas, Judas Priests, a little Britney Spears.... I know... awful... then Hannah Montana.. oh and he also knows quite a few songs from Lady Gaga. He amazes me every day how much he's growing up and I love that I have been able to spend time with him while Kaelyn has been at school.


Heres some pictures he took of himself!

New friends and a birthday

Well last weekend was a busy weekend for sure. Kaelyn had her first dance performance at Town and Country Park in Madera, where they performed for Race for the Cure. Of course I took a bunch pictures, but when I got home, I realized that I had forgotten my SD card and my camera doesn't have a hard drive so I lost all my pictures. :( I took video of it, but can't find the cord to hook up the video camera to the computer. So one of these days when I find it, their will be a posting for sure. She was sooo cute and was pretty much the best out of all the girls :) Im so proud of her!

Later that day I got together with my new neighbor and friend in the ward. She lives down the street from us and has 4 kids and their ages are close to Kaelyn and Enzos. Im glad that we can have members of the ward SO close!!! yay!



Heres Enzo, Mckay, Mauren, Kaelyn, and Taylor
(Benson and Lucas were inside playing :)
Look at all those Blonde kids!






Last Sunday my mom had her Birthday, (I won't say how old she is) So my sister and her family came over along with my parents. We had a great dinner and had fun visiting.

Lucas is 6 months!

Wow its crazy. Seems like just yesterday I was in the hospital. Lucas is growing up so fast. He has just started sitting up and now sleeps through the night. Its great but I know it won't last for long. He hasn't broken through any teeth yet, which has been kind of depressing. Some weeks he has been so fussy I was sure that something was going to pop up but nothing yet. He has started to really play with toys which has made him way happier which has been a blessing :). We had a busy weekend so stay updated for pics.

How do we stop smiling?

Yay! We have the internet again! It feels great to be in touch with the world. We are in our house and loving it. We had Easter at our house this year with both of our families and had a killer egg hunt. We had so many eggs and we decided to make it an annual thing. Our front yard is perfect. Click on the link to see pics on my sisters blog. (With moving I guess I've put my camera charger somewhere and I can't find it!)



We had a great holiday and now were slowly getting ourselves back to being normal .Kaelyn started back to school and I've been making the long drive so that she can stay there till next year. I can't believe that in a couple more months she will be in 1st grade. Its gone by really fast.
Like I put in my title of this blog we are so happy. Lucas has been sleeping better now that he's in his own room and away from the kids playing. What else could I ask for?

update

So things are starting to get very busy for us. In a few days we will be getting our keys to our new home and moving all of our stuff. Its so exciting. It feels like a dream because we are so happy. We feel so blessed and can't help but thank our Heavenly Father repeatedly. Hopefully my next post will be from our new place.

Lucas is 4 months now and he just had his check up and he is 14lbs 13oz. He is my biggest at this age and I just love it. Sometimes I just look at him and smile because he's just so lovable. He has started to try and crawl, started playing with more toys and he loves to laugh. Especially at 3:00 in the morning when you think he's asleep and then all of a sudden you hear giggling and find out he's awake. Yeah bedtime has been a little struggle now, but he's getting his own room soon :)

Some more pics

Today our future home had the inspection done and we met the previous owner of the house. I was able to walk around a lot more and picture where everything is going to go etc. We are so excited. Here are a few more pictures


The Kitchen



Bedrooms




Craft room :)


Master (check out the blue ceiling fan)


Living room


Family room

Some good news!

We are officially in escrow! We have found a house that we love in a great neighborhood. It is in the country club area and the perfect size for our growing family. We feel so blessed to be able to buy a second home. If all goes well, the Easter bunny will be bringing us the keys to our new place. Stay tuned for more updates!

Dance

Mondays are so busy around here. Especially since Kaelyn has started dance class. Kaelyn in January started going to Michelle's School of dance and she loves it. She is getting so good and I think we have found one of her talents.