Summer is ENDING

Well the summer has flown by! We have had a lot of fun camping, playing with friends, and hanging out at home here are some pictures that capture our summer.

Kyson's 1st Birthday

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A TRIBUTE TO MOMS

A Newborn's Conversation with God
A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"
God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy."
God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you.And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy."

Again the small child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?"
God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."

"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"
God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray."

"Who will protect me?"God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking its life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."
God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you."

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

God said, You will simply call her, " Mom ."

Good Job all you Mommies out there...Keep up the good work!!

A Few Firsts

This last month has added a few first for our family and boys. Kyson's first trip to the hospital. He had a very high fever and so we made the trip to the ER a few days before my birthday. We stayed over night so that they could monitor him because he had a very high whiteblood cell count. After some rounds of IV antibiotics he seemed to be much better and we headed home the next evening. Kyson also celebrated his first Easter. Lincoln loved that the Easter Bunny "pooped" eggs all over his house. We spent Easter with Evan and Joanna and had another first experience with going to WonderCon, a comicbook convention. That is where the Batman and Batwoman picture is from. We rode BART over the S.F. and Lincoln just loved that. Another first was daddy letting Lincoln paint. And as you can see from the picture it got a little messy. Lincoln looks like he thinks he is going to get in trouble. Soon we will be celebrating a first birthday. We can't believe Kyson will be one here in about 6 weeks. Time sure does fly!!

The Joys of Parenthood

Well it's been awhile since I have posted. Our lives are wonderfully and crazily busy as we are learning the joys of parenting two. For the month of February that has meant a sick child every week. It seems just as one gets better the other gets sick. Trevor and I are getting frustrated with having to take time off work, but we slow down and realize that this is our job now and taking care of our boys needs to be our first priorities. This month has also brought 5 new teeth for Kyson and the new adventure of crawling. Lincoln is using new vocabulary every day. He never ceases to amaze us with the things that he can come up with. Like, "Hey dad how about while I do this you can go and do that" or "mom that shape is an octagon." We love every minute we have with our boys even if it is crazy and tiring. Other exciting news is that my youngest sister, Amanda is engaged! We are looking forward to planning a wedding for her and welcoming Uncle Nick into our family officially. Well the month of March is now upon us and we are hoping that it holds healthy kids for us. Trevor and I will also be celebrating our 5 year anniversary and I will be celebrating my last birthday of the 20s....WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE!

Fun in the Snow

Lincoln's new pal.
The Boys with Papa and Grammie
The Family

Ky's first trip to the snow

Auntie Manda and Lincoln

Well we headed up the hill to play in the snow this weekend. We were amazed to find how little snow there actually was. Here are a few pictures of our fun time.

Christmas Come and Gone!!

The Boys on Christmas Day!
Lincoln's new hunting shirt and helicopter

Kyson's first gift of Christmas

Boy I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone already. Life has been so crazy that we never even got all the Christmas decorations up. We did put up the tree and decorated that and Trevor did put the lights up outside. So we did have a little bit of Christmas. I didn't get much baking in. The only thing I made was biscotti for our neighbors and friends. But we didn't lack in holiday sweets. Our Holiday was wonderful. We enjoyed Christmas eve with my family at my mom's house. We ate ham and turkey and opened a ton of presents. Kyson had a wonderful first Christmas and enjoyed eating the paper more than opening the presents. Christmas morning Trevor's parents came over and the boys opened their presents from Santa. Then we headed over to my sister's house and had creamed eggs (family tradition that we only get on Christmas). We had a wonderful time just hanging out. After that we returned home and just relaxed. Trevor had a 4 day weekend and we enjoyed having him around and hanging out with our little family. Our favorite gifts this year are: Trevor- new choke for his gun...in his words he blew a clay pigeon to dust (you should have seen how excited he was/ Jill- my Mommy necklace from my husband and my new pots and pans...oh they are fabulous/ Lincoln- new hunting shirt (so he can go hunting with daddy he says) and his Megatron Transformer/ Kyson- really enjoyed watching his brother play with his new ball popper. We were very blessed and are very thankful for all our wonderful gifts. I now have two more weeks off and I am planning on getting somethings done around the house and enjoying my boys. It is so nice to have a restful vacation. I head back to school on the 11th and I am sure by then I will be ready. But as for now...not getting out of your jammies unitl after 12 is very nice.

Santa is HERE!

Yes, Santa is here already and Lincoln was very excited to see him. There was a little bit much going on to get a good picture..but this one turned out pretty cute, just wish we could have gotten Kyson's great smile.

Halloween Pics

My Pirate and Pea

Aren't they adorable!!

Kyson is 5 months!

He now has 2 teeth on bottom and is loving eating his cereal.

He is working on rolling over both ways. He has the front to back mastered but is working

on rolling from his back onto his tummy.

He loves his bouncer and loves being snuggled.

We are enjoying watching him develop his little personality.

Lincoln Turns 3!

We went to Marine World a few weeks before Lincoln's Birthday. We had a wonderful time. We had such a great time that we bought season tickets for the rest of this year and next year as well. It was a great deal and we just couldn't pass it up. Lincoln loved all the rides and the animal shows.

Happy 3rd Birthday my son!

Lincoln got a big boy bike from his aunties and uncles. He had a difficult time at first realizing that the pedals needed to go forward. But he really has the hang of it now and loves riding his bike around the neighborhood to see all his friends.

Just thought I would include a picture of our sweet Kyson. He is getting big so fast and it had been awhile since I posted a picture of him. He turned 5 months today.

Well our first son has turned three! I can't tell you where the time has gone. It seems like all the sudden he has become such a big boy. He can carry on wonderful conversations with you and knows so many things. He has a great memory and doesn't let you forget when you have told him that he can do something. He is such a great big brother and helper to his mommy and daddy. We love the spunky personality that he has and the fact that he really doesn't meet a stranger. He loves to sing and dance and Daddy even made sure that he got a drum set for his birthday. We have been so blessed with an amazing little boy and we can't wait to watch him continue to grow.

We love you Lincoln Amzi Mansfield!

First Soccer Game!

Lincoln had his first soccer game tonight. He was so cute and so excited. He is playing with he two friends that live across the street. All of the boys did a great job and had so much fun running up and down the court. They play inside the gym and only play half court. It was so cute to watch him. He was really concentrating and listening to his coach to hear what he was teaching them. I can't believe we are starting sports already. I love it though and I know from here on out it's no slowing down!!

Photo Updates

Kyson's First Train Ride at Kennedy Park in Hayward

Lincoln on the train with his cousins Hannah and Collin

Lincoln riding the carousel at Kennedy Park in Hayward with my Grandpa and Grandma.

MMMMM.....yummy!!!

Our new HAIR DOs!! How do you like it???

Daddy's little hunter! He is making his daddy so happy!!

Sleepy Boys

CHECK IT OUT!!

Life around the Mansfield house is busy...but not busy enough to have a little fun.

Check out this picture of Lincoln!

Big Smiles

I didn't know I recorded this, but it sure is cute!!!

Giveaways

A website that I like to visit to help me save money is the Censible Sawyer.

http://www.centsible-sawyer.com/

This week they have two giveaways a $500 gift card to Walmart (Grocery MONEY) and a Wubbzy Giveaway. Both great deals~ check them out on the site above.

Back to Work

Well it was back to work this week. My how the summer has flown. Kyson will be 12 weeks on Friday and he is getting big. He is smiling a lot and he is doing very well at day care. I'll take a new pic soon and get it up here but I have been one busy bee lately.

Camping and Stitches

Well it has been an eventful couple of weeks for us.

Two weekends ago we went camping with some friends of ours, Shane and Erika. Besides having to drive around for awhile to find a site (everywhere we went was full), we had a wonderful time with them. We had no running water so need less to say we were all very dirty and throughly enjoyed our showers when we got home.

Then on Sunday my friend Christy and her husband and son came up for a quick visit from San Diego. I haven't seen Christy since Lincoln was like 3 months old. She has a little boy named Ethan who is 6 months and just adorable. I loved being able to visit with them, although it was much too short.

Then Lincoln headed out on Wednesday with my parents to go camping. Our whole family headed up to Yosemite for the weekend and my parents went a day early and took Lincoln with them. He had a wonderful time. As we were packing up on Thurs to go we got a call from the pay phone up there (no cell service) that Lincoln had fallen in the trailer and bumped his head and they thought he needed stitches. The clincher here is that my dad had left to go fishing (and again no cell service) so there was no way to get Lincoln anywhere at the moment. So we decided that we would meet them at the ER in Sonora and they would leave as soon as my dad got back. It ended not being too bad. They were only about 10 min behind us. We got Lincoln in and he needed about 5 stitches. The boy didn't skip a beat though. He was the highlight of the ER giving everyone high 5's with the blown up glove that he had. He did freak out majorly though when the doctor was stitching him. He wasn't all the way numb the first time they tried and so he freaked and then was looking out the side of eye and saw the scissors and they freaked him out even more. Poor baby! But after that he was as good as new and never skipped a beat. Running, jumping, climbing (with everyone else on edge of course). On Friday we headed into Yosemite. It was beautiful and HOT-101 in the mountains man that is hot. Sat the boys went fishing and the rest of us stayed home and went swimming at the pool where we were staying and rested. We all had a wonderful time. Now we are home and back to reality. Only two more weeks till school starts and a lot of work to do before then. Wow how the summer flies by.

Trevor, Lincoln and Shane going fishing.

My Dirty Bird Lincoln

The Family at Yosemite

My Beautiful Baby Boy!

5 stitches above my right eye and I didn't even skip a beat.

You should have seen the other guy!

SUMMER FUN!

It's been a busy summer so far for the Mansfield Clan. And it doesn't look like it's going to slow down anytime soon. We have something on the calendar every weekend from now until I go back to school in August. Oh well... have fun... and make good family memories. I posted just a few pics to show what's been going on with us. Kyson's 1st Fourth of July.

Enjoying the valley summer nights!

Oh, so peaceful.

Uncle Brad took Lincoln to ride on some tractors. He had so much fun!

Lincoln decided that Daddy doesn't do his hair correctly and so decided to do it on his own. He use a 1/4 of a bottle of new gel. Nice 'do buddy.

My 10 year high school reunion.

Dodo Fun