Beautiful Baby

So with the beautiful weather we have been having here, we took the opportunity to get some pics of Shelby outside in her beautiful bonnet that Great Grandma Daly made her!! She had a great time getting all dressed up and "girly" as Jimmy likes to call it. :)

Shelby 8 months old

Kelsey's Birthday

So we celebrated another birthday this week! My good friend Kelsey turned 26!! We went to dinner at Diccios. We had a blast hanging out with friends.

Kels, me and Shelby Jimmy

Mom and Shelby

Happy Birthday Kelsey!

Kels and Shelby

Shelby in her high chair

Nikki's 24th Birthday!

So Nikki celebrated her birthday on he 12th and we all got together to go to dinner. We went to that new Brazilian steakhouse called The Rio. It was a really neat place and we all had a lot of fun! Its an all you can eat place where the waiters bring out different meats on these huge skewers. We had about 10 different types of meat to choose from. There was everything from chicken, to tri-tip, to lamb!! Then they had all the sides and salads to go with it. The best part was when they came out to sing "Happy Birthday" (actually we heard it quite a few times as there were several other people celebrating that night also) but they sang it in a very tribal, authentic way with maraccas and tom tom drums so it was very loud and exciting!! Shelby wasnt too sure at first but then she got into it and was jumping and bouncing away!

Naz, Nik, Grandma Joyce and Shelby Naz, Nik and Shelby

Aunt Nikki and Shelby

Big girl!

After dinner we went back to my parents house for an ice cream cake and brie cheese dessert. Yum!

Gabby helping Nik blow out her candles

Cousins

Over our Christmas vacation we got to spend some time with Jimmy's family. The kids always have a blast when they get together. Its nice that they are all relativly the same age. This pic was taken at Jimmy's brother Steven's house.

Ethan, Xavier, Alexia, Jacob

Christmas Eve 2008

Back to blogging! Ok so here are our Christmas eve pics. Lex spent Christmas eve at her moms so she wasnt with us, but we did get her on Christmas day! We spent Christmas eve at my parents house eating dinner (the traditional BIG deli sandwhich, chips, dips, cookies, home made fudge, and much much more!) and then the GAMES! We had a blast....

Here is Shelby opening her christmas jammies!
Look daddy, I can do it

Aunt Nikki and Shelby in their Christmas jammies

Here was Shelby in her Christmas outfit! Her and Gabby had lots of fun playing

Shelby, Gabrielle, and Aubrey

The kiddos playing

Aunt Nik and Shelby taking a nap! Its rough to be a baby!!

Gramma Val and Shelby

Alexia's 7th Birthday!

We had Alexia's birthday at her favorite place....Red Robin! I can't believe that she is 7 already!! Time flies.

Here is a little about Alexia at age 7:
Favorite color: blue and purple
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite snack: ice cream
School: 1st Grade

Alexia is doing soooo well in school. She is learning to read and is doing awesome with it. She has been reading everything from street signs to actual books! We are amazed by her every day! Jimmy and I can no longer spell "secrets" around her anymore because she'll sound them out to see what we are talking about. Well happy birthday Lex!! Here are some pics of her special day.

Gramma Val and Aunt Nikki at Red Robin

Me and Jimmy

Smile pretty Shelby

mmmm ice cream!!

After the yummy dinner at Red Robin we headed back to my parents house for cake, ice cream, and presents!

To top it off we had to get the Hannah Montana cake!! Lex loved it!
"Happy birthday to you..."

Make a wish baby!!!

Alexia we hope you had a wonderful birthday! We love you!!

Love

Dad, Mom, Shelby

gingerbread house

Ok so I haven't blogged in forever!! Sorry about that. It has been a whirlwind over here with the holidays and Alexia's birthday, but I have all my pics downloaded to my NEW laptop that I got for Christmas from my wonderful husband!!! So Im ready to catch everyone up on whats been going on with the Tubbs!! First things first the week befor Christmas my sister Nikki and Lexi decided they were going to assemble a gingerbread house. Well let me just say those things were harder than they looked. They got going and were having a great time.

This was the finished project!! I told them to smile so I could get a pic of the beautiful masterpiece....well Alexia wasn't quite ready so I went to take another pic......
This is what I got!!! The house collapsed!! Well at least they had fun and we spent some great quality time together as a family! :)