Sex and the City tonight!!!!!!!

Is it bad that I am acting like a 5 year old on Christmas morning when it comes to seeing Sex and the City tonight?????? I can not tell you how stoked I am to go see it. I feel like I have not had a girls night out in a very long time and this is the perfect movie to get out with your girlfriends and have some high school fun. I know that is what I am going to be doing.

I went to the movie theatres about noon today to go buy our tickets and the earliest showing that was not sold out was 9:55!!!!!! It is going to be so packed and girls going crazy!!!! I am so giddy over this dumb movie. I have watched from season one and have fallen in love with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Maranda!!!!!

It is going to be great!!!! There will be lots of pictures

Happy Birthday AGAIN!!!

We were thinking about post poning Brooklyn's big birthday party for a later date but the more we started talking to people, the more we realized just how much we have going on in the next several weeks. SOOOOOO............we decided that we would just have family over to my mom and dad's pool and have a little cake and ice cream and call that her birthday party for the year. We will have another big party next year.

I am still in awe everyday of how much she has really grown in the last year. Time has flown by so fast and I wonder if there is anything that I have messed of her growing up. I do know that the terrible 2's are here and I hope they are gone soon but somehow I doubt they are.

It was a tedious task but we had to figure some way of getting her cast wrapped up good so she wouldn't get water in it and we found the key........press and seal!!!!!!! Not a drop of water got in her cast!!!!

Finally we got her in the pool and she turned into a fish!!!!! She absolutely loves being in the water and with her arm floaties she thought she could swim as good as the rest of us.

Her with her cousin, Austin.

This was only a third of my family that was there!!!!!

Her birthday cupcake cake???? It was cute and very good when you have a bunch of kids, you don't have to cut pieces, you just hand them each their own cupcake.

The product of red icing!!!!!

Some of the other family that was there

First year for the pinata and she loved it. We were thinking about getting her one that was shaped like Elmo but we started thinking about it, she may not like the kids hitting Elmo and we didn't want her to be scarred for life so we opted for the round seaseme street one.

When we got all the toys in the house at 10 pm!!!!! she felt like it was Christmas and we had to play with every toy last night.

She had a very good birthday and enjoyed having her family around her. As I sat and watched our 2 year old play around in the pool along with all of her second cousins, it gave me such a sense of happiness. I was raised with all of my cousins around me and we were a very tight knit family and we had always talked about keeping our family close and it has finally come the day where our family has expanded and grown outside the means of a house but yet we still all come together in the littlest spaces just so we can keep the family together. I know one day Brooklyn is going to be telling her friends at school about her cousins and she will actually be talking about her 2nd cousins. There aren't many people out there who know their 2nd cousins or even most of their 1st cousins, to me, that is something special.

Thanks to my family for sharing in this special day with Brooklyn and making memories with her!!!! We love you so much!!!!!

Happy Birthday to Brooklyn!!!!

Well, my baby girl turned 2 years old today!!!! I can not believe it, they grow up way too fast!!!

Because of some unfortunate events, we had to post pone Brooklyn's birthday party that was supposed to be tomorrow until further notice. Being that she can't have her birthday party tomorrow, I decided she did need something special today. Sooooo.......I called all my non working mothers (which was only 2 of them) and we made a day out of today. We headed to Bapu and Gdad's house to go swimming. It was the perfect day to get out in the pool and enjoy some sun and play with the kids. We had a blast playing in the pool, eating pizza, eating "happy" cake and of course, opening presents.

I don't feel like writting anymore, as you all know, a day in the pool leaves you feeling exhausted and worn smooth out!!!!! The pictures will do the rest of the talking

The 3 Amigos

Mommy, Brooklyn, Aunt D & Kyler

Brooklyn and her "happy" cake

It's mmm mmmm good!!!!

Kyler enjoying some "happy" cake

Instead of a cake, we had Dora and Diego cupcakes & Brooklyn had to have a Dora and Diego

Opening presents

Fun in the sun with Aunt Molz!!

I Broke It, Katie

Cooorey and Katie,

Yook, I broke it!!!!! It doesn't hurt much, I got some really good pain medicine. Mom says codiene is really good but everytime I take it I go to sleep so I don't know how she knows that it is really good. You should see the attention I got from Bapu and Gdad!!! I think I may have to milk this awhile. Mommy has to do EVERYTHING for me. She even has to feed me right now....hahahaha. I kicked dad out of the bed last night and I got to sleep in the big bed..hehehehehe. I wish you could see me but mom says this is the best way for you to see what I look like and how I can turn on the charm with this sling thing on. I will call you on Monday and let you know what the doctor says. I love you! Tell Coooorey hi.

And one last one, me on pain medicine!!!!!!!

We went and saw Elmo LIVE!!!!!!!!

Weekends with the Ruff's

So the last couple of weekends have been busy and a lot of fun for us. Brian and I are so addicted to Brooklyn's love and personality and we enjoy taking her out and doing things with her now. She is at the age where she is interested in everything and she really listens and sometimes actually understands us. She keeps us laughing all the time. I really don't know where are funny personality comes from. Brian and I are amazed every day that we made such a special little person. Just tonight we were getting her ready for bed and she started saying, "Dance, Dance mommy." I got up and she wanted to hold my hands and dance with me. No music, just us dancing. It was the sweetest thing and she laughed the whole time. You can tell that when we spend time with her, she is the happiest person on Earth. She loves for us all to sit down on the floor and play together, except it usually turns into Brian and I laughing so hard at her because she is so silly.

I could go on how in love we are with our child (which I am sure every parent knows what we are talking about). She just brings us such joy and fills our lives with happiness.

On with the blog.........

So our weekends. Last weekend we went to Aunt Molly's stockshow at the Ft. Worth stockyards and we had a blast. This year was the first year Brooklyn actually knew what a cow was and what they said. So it was fun to watch her explor new things.

After a fun weekend at the stockyards, Brooklyn took a little fall at the babysitters house. When she fell, she fell off of another toy onto another one and it hit her in the mouth. Wasn't a big deal till we got home and I examined her a little bit and noticed some bruising on the back of her gums. Kind of paniced a little bit and didn't know if she was going to loose her teeth or if they came loose so my mom put a call into a friend of hers and they told us to take her by a recommended pediatric dentist and let them look at her. So on to our first dentist appointment she went. I was not there to experience it with her because I was called to sub for the first time ever, so I asked my mom to take her and take lots of pictures. If any of you guys need a pediatric dentist, this one was highly recommended and my mom loved the lady!!!! I don't think Brooklyn had a good time....:-)

To finish out her week, the Elliott's and the Ruff's decided that we wanted to do something fun for the kiddos instead of doing something for us. We are always going out to eat where the kids can't play with anything or we have to wait FOREVER to get seated because we have 3 toddlers and 4 adults. So this weekend we decided to take the kids and the boys (Brian and Chuck) to Chuck E Cheese. Wow!!!!!! Don't go on a Friday or Saturday night. Big mistake. Kids everywhere and screaming, birthday parties go on all around us, it was nuts. But fun and something new we haven't done with the kids.

And, a match made in heaven!!!!!!!!!

Just A Little of Everything

I haven't blogged in awhile. We have been extremely busy the last couple of weeks and I am not sure what happened. Brian and I were talking yesterday about how we make a commitment to go to a financial class every Sunday at our church because we were always open on Sunday afternoons. We would usually go out for lunch and then go home and rest the whole day. Well, since we made a commitment to attend this class, everything starts popping up!!!

We were supposed to go for the first class last week. If you know Brian and his family, they are avid Cowboys fans and like we were going to miss seeing the game for the financial class, heck no!!! Plus, we were having them over to celebrate Brian's birthday too.

Brian picked out this cake and decided that we should have a themed birthday party for him & since we were watching the game, we decided to go with the Cowboys. It was really fun and we were laughing in the store the night before because it was like we were 4 years old again picking out all the decorations and things for a birthday party. :-)

Sometime during that week we had the Brandt kids over for 2 nights while mommy and daddy had to work and go to the academy. We enjoyed having them at our house and I know Brooklyn did too. She actually adopted Lucas as her "bubba" too. She would hear Hallie call him bubba and so Brooklyn just followed along. Lucas on the other hand would tell Brooklyn, "I am not your bubba, I am LUCAS!!!!" hahahahahahahaha. It was so funny and Brooklyn would call him Lucas for about 2 minutes and then she was right back calling him bubba.

Lucas cleaned and vaccumed the whole time he was at my house. I am not sure if he thought my house needed to be clean or if his mommy and daddy make him clean all the time....hahahahaha just kidding Rakel and Justin. :-) No, Brooklyn got a vaccumm for Christmas and it actually vaccums. So he loved it.

Hallie enjoying her popsicle.

One night during the time that we had the Brandt kids, was on a Friday night and it was the Friday after Brian's birthday and we have a tradition in our family that we go to Cheesecake Factory on the weekend following your birthday. We thought about waiting till that Saturday night to go since the Brandt kids wouldn't be here (plus, Chuck and Blaine Elliott and their two boys were going with us so that would be 5 little toddlers eating at Cheesecake) but seeing that the Brandt kids were not trouble for me at all, we decided that we would take them with us. I mean, we are planning on having 3 kids one day, is that going to stop us from going out to eat? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Little did we know we were going to have to wait for 2 hours, my dad talking to the manager about how ridiculous it was, & it was 8 and the kids were all hungry. Lots of fun, huh? So we sat them all down on the floor and ate snacks and played little games with them to try and pass the time. Didn't bother Lucas, he was still trying to love on the girls.

We decided on the last morning that I had the kids, we would take them to the Ft. Worth stockyard parade that is non-motorized. It is all done with horses. It was a lot of fun but it was very cold!!!!!!!! The A&M Corp of Cadets were even there!!!!

We tried to get to the rodea Sunday but it was all sold out. We were up there with my little sister, Molly, stockshow. She shows cows for the FFA and was up there doing all of her FFA stuff and we just thought we would make a day of it and go to the rodeo that night, didn't quite work out that way. So we are going to try for another weekend to do that.

Brian is doing really good at his new office. He loves the area and seems to be having more success with door knocking than what he was in Cedar Hill. He hates the drive though. I wish there was a solution to this problem but unfortunately we have to wait till we sale our house to be able to move over there. But he loves it!

Also, I know I sent out an email last week asking for prayers for the Gerwer Quads. They are still needing your prayers. If you look at our links on the right, their's is the one named Gerwer Quads. This family had a lot of trouble getting pregnant and had to go through some tough times with this pregnancy. She delivered and the babies are doing really good and fighting on their own but mom and dad have to leave the hospital without their miracles. Mom went through some trauma after giving birth as well. You can read all about it in their blog. I just wanted to reach out to everyone who checks on us to ask you to send some prayers up for them. They will need it for awhile until the babies have the strength to be on their own and get to go home. So please pray for them.