December 2023

 Madden and his buddies crashing the Annual Bressi Ranch Christmas Party.

Skylar and her girlfriends annual white elephant gift exchange.

Lennon and Morrison came down and spent the night with us.

Madden and his buddies Annual White Elephant gift exchange.  

Liam stole the show at the Christmas Eve present opening ceremony. He was at that delirious baby point where he is but having the best time but you know he could crash at any moment.  Lucky for us he didn't and was having a blast with all the kids.  It was fun to have a little one for the holidays again.

Choke hold on Skylar.

I'm so upset at myself as I did the worst mom job ever and got ZERO...yes ZERO pictures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  I think this year I was just soaking it all in and enjoying all the moments, which still isn't an excuse but I really was.  I feel like we had a blast at Christmas Eve with all the family and playing unless games of Left, Right, Center.  

I really wanted to take our time opening presents Christmas morning with the kids and enjoy that special moment with them so below is the only picture I got of any presents.  

We had a pretty chill New Years Eve by going to the Aviara Resort with the Rossitto's.  Had a nice sushi dinner and played Top Golf.  Sadly it was our first NYE without Skylar who was having a slumber party at a friends house...she was missed.

2023 Holiday Card

 Recreating the iconic Vibe Magazine/Death Row magazine cover was an idea I had been thinking about doing for the last couple years.  We were so happy with how it turned out and it was actually a lot harder to recreate than it looks.  We got a lot of messages from all our 90s hip hop loving friends who thought it was a hit!

Jake's 42nd Birthday

 Glad had a pretty mellow 42nd Birthday.  His mom came down to celebrate and we also had Morrison and Lennon make a special guest appereance.  Madden started his day off with a Madden Special aka an omelette.  If you haven't had one you are missing out since he cooks the eyes in bacon grease.  

Morrison made Uncle Jake a crown to wear on his big day.

Suzie made Jake is childhood fav tamale pie and we made him a massive ice cream cake to top it off.

Friday Night Lights 🏈 North Carolina Tar Heels (Fall 2023)

🎵WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS🎵.  
We had an awesome season playing in the 5th/6th highest level conference.  We ended the regular season 8-1 and a little bitter that we weren't crowned conference champions.  We took that and used it as motivation in the playoffs.  We made it to the championship game playing against a tough team.  Our boys stepped it up playing in probably the most intense FNL game I have ever been apart of.  We were down 2 touchdowns with under 4 minutes to plays.  Our boys were incredible those 4 mins and ended up winning the game with 2 seconds left with Madden catching the tieing touchdown and catching the game winning extra point.  

November 2023

 Trivia night with the ladies.

Madden had been seizure free for a year and had his yearly EEG which came back clear.  Praying that we are done with this epilepsy journey.

Holiday dinner with Rossittos.

Madden and Jake attending the Rams game.

Jake, Madden and I did our first 5K Turkey Trot together in Palm Springs.  Jake and Madden rocked it.  I came in 3 minutes behind them.

We had such a fun afternoon watching SDSU Basketball play inside a high school gym.  It was a fun with with all our families together.

October 2023

 Carlsbad High School Pink Football Game.  I mean, how cute are these girls, can't believe they will be high schoolers next year.

I attended my first High School football since I was in High School. It was a blast!

Madden and his buddies went to the corn maze.

Out in the desert with my favorite people to celebrate Dianne's birthday.

Carlsbad Dance Centre picture day.

Halloween Dress up week at dance...haha.

Skylar and Madden walking in the Carlsbad High School Homecoming Parade for ASB.

Well one of them walked.

Maddens soccer team had a team party after one of their games.  He had a blast.

This was classic!! It was Halloween Dress Up at soccer practice.  Madden dressed up as "white trash."  Coach told Jake that he wanted to tell Madden to take the cigarette out of his mount while practicing but he appreciated how Madden was staying in character the whole practice.

Halloween 2023

Halloween was different for us this year.  We decided to change up our front yard display from witches to a more religious theme of dead monks.  Jake and I spent all of September DIY a much of new items and we couldn't of been happier with how it turned out.  

Since we had a bunch of crossed in the yard Jake and I decided to dress the theme this year. 

Madden was a last minute costume idea but we absolutely loved him going as Tupac.  Plus I think he loved running the streets with no shirt and just tats.

Skylar and her crew were just the cutest dressed up as Cupids.

Cupids with their Fallen Angels.

Tupac, Bradley Cooper from the Hangover, a couple Fat Football Players, a Monkey and I'm not really sure what Cooper is.

Another crazy busy Halloween Night where we loved every minute of it.

No More Braces

 YES!!! The day has finally arrived!! Both kids are officially done with braces which we couldn't be more excited about.  Madden finished up his second round this month.  Love seeing that smile!

September 2023

 24 hours in Vegas..Baby!!  We took a quick trip to Vegas with JB and Bobby to see Ed Sheeran in concert.  Sadly an hour before the concert was set to start Ed canceled his show.  We made the best of the evening by going to an ice bar and seeing David Copperfield.