August Celebrations!

I should have done this at the beginning of the month but I didn't think about it. August is a busy month for celebrations! I hope everyone had good days! I love you all and hope this next year is amazing!
August 10th ~ Happy Anniversary Ben and Jessica!
August 15th ~ Happy Birthday Jessica Marie!
August 19th ~ Happy Birthday Alecia!
August 22nd ~ Happy Birthday Terri!
August 23rd ~ Happy Birthday Tyler dear!
August 24th ~ Happy Birthday Aunt Rachelle!
August 31st ~ Happy Birthday Aneron Racquel!
I am sure there were more in the family but these are the only ones that I know!

Love you Aneron I hope you have a good 9th birthday!
And tomorrow on the 1st of September Haley has her very special 8th birthday! Haley I hope you have a happy birthday and a wonderful baptism. I hope you know Tyler and I love you and are thinking about you on your special day!

Baby's room...

Thanks Brittany for the idea and thanks Hannah and Tyler for your help!
~Now for my reason to pay someone to paint stripes for me next time~
Time consuming
The tape was taking the paint off the walls which created more work
So hard for me to keep them straight
Hard to paint up high when 35 weeks pregnant
I am a quality over quantity person and I rushed to much so it is bothering me.
Glad that in the picture everything looks cute. When you get to close you can see all the mistakes.
So basically I have learned that just pay someone to paint for you or make sure you aren't pregnant!

It was fun doing and I learned a lot so hopefully it will be a lot easier next time.

And now that I have shown you the picture of all my hard work I can inform you that my husband has decided that we should move to Reno. There is a job opening there and it would get us out of expensive California. We are still trying to figure out all the lovely details but it is looking like we will be moving at the end of September. My baby will only be a couple weeks old if not younger depending on when he/she decides to show its face so it should be quite the adventure. Good thing my mom and his parents will be here around that time to help us pack everything up and hopefully help us drive there. So with that on my mind now I am a little stressed out but I know everything will work out!

Poor kitty!!!

You can't help but laugh when you see this picture. I just love this little girl!

Happy Birthday Tyler-Pooh!

I am going to be cheesy probably because he has been gone for a few days and I guess I missed him. Today he is turning 26 and it is his last birthday before the baby comes. Here are 26 reasons that I love him.
1. He makes me laugh
2. He likes to cook
3. He is a good little house wife
4. He spoils me
5. He isn't afraid to tell me when I am being a brat
6. He is still here even though I am a huge brat
7. He always makes the bed
8. I come home from work to a clean house and dinner pretty much every night
9. He will be an amazing father
10. He respects me
11. He is a mama's boy
12. He is also a daddy's boy
13. He loves his family
14. He keeps me active
15. He does things that I want even though he hates to
16. He cant sit still. We have moved 4 times since getting married and it is looking like #5 is right around the corner.
17. He helps me with my patience
18. He compliments me
19. He likes to tease me even though it is annoying most of the time it still makes me laugh
20. He gets a long so good with my family
21. He goes along with my crazy ideas
22. He is hot stuff
23. I love that he is a workout freak. Helps me stay motivated
24. I can cheer against his sports teams and he doesn't kill me
25. Did I mention how much I love that he likes to clean and cook
26. HE LOVES ME AND I LOVE HIM!

Hope you have a good birthday and you know how much I love and appreciate you!

The Haban Family!

For those who don't already know, Kameron Haban lost his battle with Lupus this morning. He has touched the lives of so many with his huge smile and genuine kindness, and will be missed by so many! Jami has also touched many with her amazing courage and faith throughout their ordeal. Whether you know them or not, please keep Jami and 2 1/2 year old son Kason in your prayers.
This sweet family is in need of emotional, spiritual and physical support. Kameron spent more than the last month of his life in the ICU. We are all blessed with an opportunity to help. Yesterday a bank account was opened for them. Anyone can go to any Bank of America and make a donation to the account under JamiLynn Haban for the benefit of Kameron Haban. You can also make an online donation at paypal.com by sending it to habanfundraiser@gmail.com
Jami did an amazing job of updating everyone on her blog kamandjami.blogspot.com if you would like to read more about their experience.

Please help us lend support to the Haban family during this time! Please help spread the word of how to make a donation to those who you know will want to help.

36 week doc visit!

I promise I will get caught up tom. Okay I will do this one before the reunion one since that one is going to take me forever.
Well the doctor went really good. We started our weekly appointments and I am starting to get checked down there. Not the most pleasant thing. Tyler thought it was strange that she held a conversation with me while checking me. He said he could never do that. So she checked me and said that I am at 1 cm and it is soft but still long. I think I understand most of that but all I know for sure is that this baby will be here in the next 3 or 4 weeks! So crazy it is almost time. I am so ready and excited. I think that I have everything that we will need for this little one but I will never know until the time comes.
Tyler is in San Antonio, Texas this week until Saturday night so the baby cant come until then because I am not sure it is a great idea to have to drive myself to the hospital. One of the joys of not living near family. My mother gets here the 12th of Sept so we are hoping that the baby waits until then to show its cute little face. And the weekend after my due date my in-laws are coming so we are hoping it comes before that date so that they can see the baby also. So if you are listening baby follow those instructions.
We go to the doctor again on Tuesday the 25th!

Isaacson Family Reunion!

My mom and dad were in charge of the Isaacson Family Reunion this year! So you can imagine that it was AWESOME! My mom and my sisters did an awesome job! It was so much fun and everyone had a good time. They put so much work into everything and it definitely showed. I think we had 108 out of 119 people show up. Which is as awesome turnout.
We had the reunion at the PERA. It is such a fun area for the kids to run around and get into to trouble. Except for the terrible wind everything went great.
My mom divided everyone into teams at the start of the reunion so throughout the whole reunion you played games against other teams to earn points. Most of the men played a lot of horseshoes, I never made it that far away from the food. And the kids enjoyed tug of war, board games, ping pong, and whatever they could find. When they weren't playing competition games they were catching lizards and exploring. It was so fun to see them all playing. That is mostly what I did, watched the kids and tried to help out as much as possible. One of the games that they played that I wish I had some pictures of was Sock wrestling. Two players around the same size put socks on and then they wrestled and tried to get the other persons socks off. It was very entertaining!
There were always yummy cookies and snacks to veg out on and there was plenty of that going on. And my mom made some fantastic meals. Which is definitely an art to feed that many people and have know one complain about the food! Thanks mom!
In the evenings we had little talent shows. It was so fun to hear and see peoples talents. One night they had Austin dress up as Hannah Montana and all the kids danced. The kids had a blast!
Most of these pictures were taken by my little friend Raymond!







On Friday night we rented the pool. It was so fun. The adults played keep away and the rest of us just tried to stay out of the way! I only got a couple pictures of the swimming because I was in the pool and they were of the 2 little ones that didn't enjoy the swimming as much as the rest!


On Saturday we took family pictures and then we had the main event! Notice the Raymond and Lorraine children are wearing referee shirts. Such a funny idea mom! I can't wait to see the HUGE group picture!





So following the pictures my mom and dad put together a scavenger hunt for all the teams to do. Note I was on the Red team! THE WINNING TEAM! (not because we finished first but because we managed to do a good deed for another team along the way) My dad came up with some places and people for us to find and take pictures of. It was so fun and we learned so much along the way. I wish I had gotten a copy of all the questions. They included question like, where Aunt Sharon was baptized (the little rezi)where Uncle Kenny was born (the MVD used to be a hospital) where the Isaacson homestead is, someone named after Grandma's dad ( Caleb Parley) and there were quite a few more I just have a bad memory. It was fun to go to the cemetery and learn about some of the people there that are related.
So they gave us the list and we all jumped in cars and headed into town to find all the answers. I am sure it was very entertaining for people that had no clue what we were doing. The town got invaded by people in red shirts snapping pictures of random things. At one point we stopped at circle K and invaded the store. It was quite funny. Here are a few pictures that my team took. Thanks Joe for driving us! Our team was awesome.







After the scavenger we ate some more then Mickey put together the coolest slide show of past reunions and of Grandma and Grandpa that brought most of us to tears. It was so cool and she did an amazing job. All those late nights sure paid off! Then the night ended with some awesome fireworks, thanks to Joe.
This reunion was a huge success and I am sure we all learned so much about our heritage. And what a great heritage that is! Thanks mom, dad, Rachel, and Mickey!
Here are few more pictures of the family from our weekend at home. It was so fun to see my Arkansas kids and see how grown up they are. I have the best and cutest nieces and nephews.




I hope I remembered to post everything that I wanted to about the reunion. That will teach me to put it off so long. I can't wait until the next reunion! It was so fun seeing all the family. And this year 3 of us were pregnant so next reunion there will be even more!

Caleb and Hannah's visit!

We were able to convince my mother to let Hannah come for a visit and Caleb coming with her was one of the selling points. And we were able to convince Caleb to come out by saying we would take him to a minor league baseball game! So that was the first thing we did. We picked them up from the airport on Friday afternoon, went to the apartment for a few minutes then headed to the game! Shamore a neighbor boy was able to come with us. He sure helped make it entertaining. He and Caleb were able to flirt their way into getting the girl to throw a t-shirt to them and our section was able to win a in n out burger for being the loudest thanks to Shamore's ability to scream! The game was a lot of fun. The San Jose Giants played the single A team for the Angels. And I went to the game with 2 rockies fans and 2 diamondback fans! Also the girls bathroom at the stadium had cool paintings from the movie "A league of Their Own."




Then on Saturday morning Hannah and I did some painting and I think the boys watched some sports. (shocker) Then we had a little swim party and a BBQ. Lauren joined us swimming and Carly, Jessi, Melon, Vanessa, and Shamore joined us later for some hamburgers and yummy food! No pictures of the eating but a couple from the pool.


Then on Sunday after church we took a drive up to San Fran because you can't come to San Jose without out seeing that! We saw the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombardi St(the crookedest road), the ocean, and the craziness of the city. It was foggy but other then that it was a nice Sunday drive.








Later that day we came home and rested then we went to the park and played Frisbee. Okay they played and I watched. It was quite entertaining since Hannah wasn't the greatest at first and Tyler is clumsy. They did do a lot of running for their workout that day. Did I mention that Tyler took Hannah to the gym with him everyday. I am sure the people at the apartment thought that Tyler traded me in for a newer cuter skinnier model. lol! Here are a few Marla Hooch pictures! I was to lazy to get to close. We were so grateful for the beautiful weather. It was in the 80s all week and absolutely perfect! Definitely love that part of leaving in California!




We also did Hannah school shopping while she was here and started painting the babies room. We were able to get all of Hannah's clothes at 1 store, TJMaxx, and she did her shoe shopping in my closet. It was such a fun visit and we hope they come again soon. We did a lot of laughing and I definitely needed that! Plus it was nice having them with us on the drive to AZ. The drive home was so much longer because we didn't have any entertainment!