Our boys-Our love-ENJOY!

This boy has NO fear!Look at me!
Lil Ed loves staying the weekend at Tia Jax especially the NERF gun wars!

So Veteran's day was suppose to be a day off for me? Staying home was alot more work especially when this is how your morning starts!

I guess Diego is a bit young for a cup without a lid?

Nothing better then this - the love our boys have for each other.

For those of you that grew up with Lil Ed you know and remember how easy he was. Life was simple he was simple. Ok, now on to Diego - OH MY GOSH WE HAVE OUR HANDS FULL!

Yup, this is the look I get. Oh yah and the mess! This is how we know he is done!

Halloween 2008

We had a wonderful Halloween and below are some pictures to prove it! We started out on Thursday the 30th at downtown Farmer's Market. Although we got there late and most of the stores were out of candy we were able to observe the excitement with the "No on 8" and "Yes on 8" which Lil Ed absolutely loved (he is for "No on 8" of course)- my little political boy!

On Halloween day I was able to attend Lil Ed's classroom party with lots of yummy treats and afterwards we were of to trick or treat in the Village Of Arroyo Grande. We managed to get there by 3 and hit every store. Diego, was not sure about the whole thing but he sure did enjoy the Twizzlers!Here is Diego wiped out from Farmer's Market!Yum I like this Twizzler- luckily daddy is at work!
Here he is at my mom's neighbors trick or treating!

Being a Lego is not the best costume for a shy boy! At both farmers and the village Lil Ed got tons of attention from both kids and adults about his costume! You would not believe the excitement when people saw his costumes, he even got extra candy for having such and original costume! Thanks Grandma Lee for making his costume!

And were off! This was before we started our AG Village journey! After the Village we were off to my parents and Lil Ed was able to pass out candy to the kids that came to the door!

Now it's on to Turkey Day!

OBAMA 08!!!

Diego's 1st Birthday

Hit the arrow to see Diego enjoying his birthday cupcake!

I know it's been awhile but life has been extra busy at the "Cota" house especially celebrating birthday's for Big Ed and Diego.

Another reason we have been so busy is that my parent's were gone traveling the country for 39 days. Me and Big Ed had to adjust to picking Diego and lil' Ed up after school and getting Ed to soccer practic, since my parent's usually do this every day. They totally deserved the trip, but were gone longer than I liked, and we are so grateful that they are HOME.

The next important thing is that the boys got "dedicated" at our church on Sunday the 19th. I will add more pictures soon.

Below are pictures from his birthday BBQ celebration. We had a wonderful time although we missed Daddy's nieces and nephews and both of his sisters. We were blessed to have family and friends enjoy a nice Sunday afternoon with us. It was especially nice to have Buelo (Big Ed's mom) come along with Eddie's Tio Ruben and family and his cousin Dawn and her family, especially since they drove from the valley.

Diego loves hula hoops and that is what he got from Grams and Gramps.
Me and my big boy!

I loved this pictures because Diego has this look wondering what is all this about!



Here is his very own 1st birthday cake.

He enjoyed us all singing "happy birthday" too him especially having big brother by his side.

Here he is, on his actual birthday, enjoying his cupcake that mommy baked. We enjoyed his special evening with just the four of us which made it extra special!

As mentioned above we celebrated Daddy's 32 birthday on the 7th and enjoyed dinner at home and he got to watch the final presidential debate, which is what he wanted to do on his birthday!

OBAMA 08 for our house!!!

Diego's 1st Gymnastics

This is my morning! Also notice the red kitchen tool in his right hand. Always into something! So even though Diego is still coughing like crazy and up all night we decided Saturday morning we were going to try out gymnastics for our little guy. The night before he was walking backwards and laughing and then you tell him "to spin" and he spins in circles so we decided we would try a class. The class was for kids walking to 3 years of age. Diego was of course the youngest and the other 5 kids were at least 3. I would have to say Diego and another girl Justis were probably the only ones that followed directions-amazing for a 12 month old huh! Below was a long trampoline which he loved. He got to do this more then once and each time he would run faster and faster!
In this room he was able to do an obstacle course which he enjoyed. Here he had to jump over the scary spiders.
We found out during WOW parent weekend that Diego loves hula hoops. He managed to walk all over the UU plaza with the DJ's hula hoop. In class the hula hoop was suppose to be Diego's car and he had to GO on green and STOP on red, he loved driving his car! Although Tia Jackie needs to work with him about red lights since he ran a few :)
Jump Diego Jump!


PRESS THE TRIANGLE TO WATCH HIM ROLE!

Check out Diego's trophy...........

I was able to snap a few pictures of Diego and his trophy- Enjoy!

Our Boys Are Super Stars

We are so proud of Little Ed and his soccer skills. Today his team ended the game with a 4 point tie. Eddie made a goal for the team and then he played goalie 4th quarter and blocked 2 shots. He played in amazing game and had a winning attitude. BTW- for those of you that didn't know Ed in previous years was scared to death of being goalie now he asks to play the position.

Ed-in deep concentration watching the ball.Below are pictures of Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival Diaper Derby. Diego entered into the boys"toddling category" . It was very exciting especially considering we had know idea what to expect. Below he is practicing before the big race.So nervous I was right before we started.............................(actually as you can see I am busy chatting with the other contestants)Ready--Set--Go-- I was on one side and Daddy and our fans were cheering and yelling on the other side.

GO DIEGO GO!!!!!!!!!

Yah Diego won 2nd place!

We are very blessed to have such good friends who were able to join us! The Gardner family, our wonderful neighbors which includes 3 boys and a girl were all cheering Diego on and we also had Auntie Marie from work with her two friends who helped get us pumped up and also was our photographer who took great pictures. Thank you all for your support we had a blast!

Below is Auntie Marie with Diego and his trophy and of course his bottle which is why he won.I got the best idea from my creative co-workers and friends in ironing on "Go Diego Go" for the big race. With Daddy's help this was the final product-we thought it was very cute.After an already very busy day we went to Los Osos so Big Ed could do a plumbing side job and while in OSOS we were able to visit with my sister and Melody then my Uncle Jim and Debbie and then my grandma! How nice it was to see my whole family in one day except for my parents. On the way home we went to see Daddy's job in Avila Beach and all the nice work he has done and on our way home we decided to stop at the Avila Valley Barn.

Here is little Ed exiting the hay maze!

And then we have daddy and Diego, this was Diego's first time in the hay maze and as you can see he wasn't quite sure what it was all about.

This is going to be Diego's 2nd Halloween but this year he is able to enjoy pumpkins. Here he is trying to get the baby pumpkin and then he tried to eat it.

It was so cute to see Diego checking all the pumpkins and their stems not quite sure what to do?

Now this was the funniest thing--Diego versus the pumpkin! He was very determined to move the pumpkin but the pumpkin seems to have won!

ERRRRR-he screams because it's NOT moving!!!!!!!! SO SO CUTE!

Happy 11 Months Diego & Kids Passport for WOW

Once again we got to work WOW weekend and participate in Kids Passport. It seems to be an annual family event and we enjoy every minute of it. Below are pictures of our busy day........................I'm 11 months old today!
He is so good about noise, right behind him was a live DJ and he managed to sleep!
Diego obviously has no fear............

I love this bouncy thing Mommy!


Lil Ed helping out at the booth with his official WOW Kids Passport shirt - thanks Auntie Drene!
Not sure what this is called but Lil Ed was on it all day. He had a blast and he managed to win all the time although he had a little problem when it was vest versus braces. His braces actually got caught in the Velcro on the vest - YIKES.
And he wins again!
OUR CHAMPION