Date Nights

Francis and I have been lucky enough to go on dates almost every other week. We saw "A Star is Born" which was really good.

 We went out to a birthday party for our friend Billy and watched the ASU v. UofA game

 and we went to a dinner party at a friend's house, cooked us dinner on this awesome grill

Date Night

Francis and I got to go out to dinner at The Yard and to see Deadpool2 last weekend. With the crazy busy schedule our kids have it's soooooo important for us to take some alone time. I sure do love this guy. 

Friends

Kai went to a pumpkin patch and the State Fair with friends, he had a great day!

 and Kali went to a pumpkin carving party down the street at Sean's house

 and I got to go on a date with my best buddy ever!

Busy week

Last week Kali had a friend over & they decorated cookies. Poor Kali has been learning the hard way about "girl drama" lately. I am glad she has friends like Lauren who are zero drama.

She has also been hard at work on her cursive & multiplication. She past all of her times tests 1-12! 

 Koko is her normal hilarious, wild, climbing, mess making self. She likes baths again & recently got scared of the shower. Now she is scared of wind. She is saying a lot of words now. Dada, Mama, Yaya, cheese, water, Kai, Noodle, ball and a lot of others that only we can understand.

 She likes to carry around her naked doll baby but does not play with her long....just throws it on the ground.

Kai of course is busy with soccer & reading every book in his room. This is one smart kid. School is a breeze for him & he tests off the charts for everything. And, no matter how smart the teacher says he is OR if he scores a goal in the soccer game he is cool as a cucumber. He never gets over excited about things....except for the last day of school, he can't wait for that!

 Mother's Day was a nice day. I got flowers delivered from a friend and the kids made me cute little gifts. Francis painted the back patio (I've really been wanting that to happen) and Kali and I went to church with my Mom.

 Here's my Mom & me as a newborn. My Mom is SOOO pretty.

 I've been lifting weights with Fran lately. He's been asking me to workout with him for years but I thought just doing cardio at the gym was better. The weights thing is working out much better for me and I've been counting calories too and I've lost 15 pds in less than 3 months.

 Fran and I went out to dinner the other night with Fran's Mom Kathi. We went to La Bocca at City North. It was SOOO good! First time I've ever tasted Baba Ganoush and I loved it!

 The coloring is off in this pic but here we are before we went out.



eleven

eleven years ago today we were in Maui getting "Maui'd" on the beach.

best decision ever.

 and here we are earlier tonight on our date

 Francis is the best friend I have ever had. I cannot imagine my life without him. We've had a lot of downs over these 11 years but SO many more ups. I know that no matter what happens in life I've always got Fran in my corner & that is pretty darn wonderful.

Happy 11 years of love to us :)

Soccer

Francis and I have been trying to go on more dates. We love our kiddos but it's so good for us to get out more and have adult time. We went to see a soccer game at the Cardinal's Stadium versus Real Madrid and LA Galaxy. It was SO much fun and really cool to see a European team play.

 It's really blurry but #7 is one of my favorite soccer players, Cristiano Ronaldo.

And, apparently the rest of the crowd too because every time he got the ball everyone cheered!

 Love getting to go out with this guy! (he is my other favorite soccer player)

Weekend

We recently got an Ipod and the kids LOVE it. They play learning games & they earn 20 minutes a day if they are good & they like to play Angry Birds or Where's My Water. We got a little fuzzy bear holder that Kora watches a little bears face sing & make faces.  Look how cute these two are :)

 Friday night we went to Desert Ridge to have dinner with Grandma Kathi. We passed a cool comic book store which turned out to also be a really neat museum.

 Seriously, any place that has Avengers, Star Wars, & Pirates of the Carribean stuff in one place is a score in our book!

Then we went to Dave & Busters to eat a really yummy meal.

 Then it was time for games

 Kora spent most of the night eating

 

Kali won 1500 tickets in 5 minutes

 

and Kora fell asleep

 The next day we went to Home Depot to make bird feeders

And, again Kora fell asleep :)

 And, Saturday night Francis and I ran in the Rave Run 5k. It was so much fun!

 The perfect date night.

First Friday

This past Friday Mr. Becker and I went on a date.

Alone.

We usually plan on going out alone but then we feel bad and end up taking the kids.

But not this time.

We went to First Friday in downtown Phoenix.

I LOVE downtown. (Mr. Becker....is not such a fan since he works down there all week)

Here we are in the car excited to just be alone without screaming/fighting kids, no juice cups, no snacks, and no Disney soundtrack in the car.

We rode the shuttle from the Phx Art Museum to other galleries/coffee shops/restaurants alone the route.

We even took some of the route on foot.

We were glad we did because downtown is really changing and there was a lot to see.

We also had a few laughs at what is considered "art".....look at this weird face:
and along the way we stopped at a place called, Steve's Greenhouse on Adams & 2nd St. and had the BEST onion rings EVER!

It was so much fun that we are already excited for next month!

And now Mr. Becker LOVES downtown too.