Girls are 9 months! and Easton is SIX!

My cutie patooties are now 9 months old. They crawl so fast it's crazy! They are now wanting to stand and are pulling themselves up onto the furniture. They are babbling and are seriously the happiest, easy-going babies ever. They both have 2 bottom teeth and have little blonde hair. They have appointments in a few days, so I'm curious to see how much they weigh and how tall they are now. We celebrated Easton's birthday this past Sunday. We had a little family dinner and it was nice and relaxing. My "little" boy is six and in Kindergarten. No matter how may times I say this, life really does pass by in a blink. I can remember bringing him home from the hospital, his long curly hair, crying when you said his name in a deep voice, barely speaking but taking everything in, copying everything his big brother did, riding naked on the back of Tristan's tricycle, playing pirates...anxiously awaiting the year he was old enough to play FOOTBALL! (this year!). So many memories of this little boy and so many more to come. I'm so blessed to have FIVE beautiful, healthy, loving kids. They mean the world to me and I wouldn't change it for anything. Oops! I forgot to mention Miss Ella! I posted one pic of her! She is so stinking cute. She is now almost 5 months old and as adorable as ever!

School begins!

This was a big change for the kids. I decided to move them to Fairgrieve school since it's right around the corner from our house and is our home school. Also, it was the first year the boys were going to bus to and from school. Thankfully, the transition wasn't too bad. The boys seem to have adjusted well. Tristan is in 2nd grade, Easton in Kindergarten and Brinley in UPK. Tristan is a reading machine! He LOVES books and reads every chance he gets. Easton just goes to school because he has to lol. I kept him out an extra year to help him mature. Not sure if it even helped yet haha! He's a character. I asked Tristan if he ever got in trouble at school and he said NO NEVER! I asked Easton the same and he casually said yeah, I'm on red all the time. Oh boy! Brinley is in my afternoon UPK class. She's such a prissy little thing. Hopefully she won't get chewed up and spit out by the "mean" girls as she gets older....well maybe I should said hopefully she isn't a "mean" girl lmbo!

Another summer flies by

Wow! I try to catch up on the blog and realize summer is long gone and it's October FIRST today! lol. Good effort ;) Summer was very relaxing. I pretty much laid low and enjoyed lounging around all morning! It was nice to just push the world aside and do what I wanted to for a change. I was able to spend lots of time with my kids (even though I was ready to pull my hair out some...okay....MANY days). I have the perfect schedule and I'm so lucky to be a teacher. Everyone is growing up so fast.

Ella's Blessing Day

I had to share this picture of Ella's blessing day. There's just something special about your own sibling having a child. Can't wait to watch her grow up with my kids.

Ella

My brother and Amanda had their first born baby girl..Ella Estelle...on May 8th! We are so thrilled that Emry and Paisley will grow up with her. She is a doll!

July Already :)

I need to catch up on the babies pictures!!! Holy cow have they changed! They are the sweetest babies EVER! I'm so blessed to have these two little chubby whubbies! Boy have they grown. They are rolling all over the place. Grabbing things, smiling, laughing....growing into baby babies...instead of newborns. We got both of their ears pierced, but Emry's turned out crooked and I just couldn't live with it! I pulled them out and am letting them heal before we re-do them. It is easier to tell them apart now that Paisley has earrings and Emry doesn't :). They are eating baby food now. They BOTH hate veggies and all things dinnerish, like chicken noodle and beef whatever. Basically they eat oatmeal and fruit. The kids and I are now on summer break. I'm so blessed to be able to stay home with them all summer. Even though I go crazy most days, I'm glad I have this time with them. My mom and I took the kids to SeaBreeze spur of the moment a week or so ago. They had a blast, but it was a little hard with the babies. I want to bring just the boys and Jim again so we can do water rides and stuff. Tristan would go up and down those slides all day long! The 4th of July is tomorrow. We are going down to celebrate in Penn Yan with my family. There a lot of things I don't love about NYS, but being close enough to get together with my family is one thing that I will never let go of.

Girls Only

How seriously cute is the picture of the twins in the Easter hats :) One of my friend's moms made them for the girls. They look like chubby sumu wrestlers lol. We had Amanda's baby shower March 31st, the day after Easter. I will post pictures once I get more. There's a cute picture of Brinley and her cousins Rileigh and Sami....and of all the "Drake" girls :)

Brinley Turns 4

This year I made Brinley's cake. Let's just say it was a pain to make, cost me well over $40 in supplies and tasted like dry crackers lol. Never again! Although she loved it :) She wanted a big barbie house so bad, so that's what she got. What a girly girl! I also added a cute picture of the twins and a picture of them on Valentine's Day <3

Blessing Day

The girls were blessed in March..I can't remember the exact date at the moment. I made them little tutu's to wear instead of buying them actual dresses. I was on the fence of letting them wear them, but I'm glad I did because everyone loved them :)

The Kiddos

It's been so long since I've posted once again. Life is crazy busy as usual. These are just a few pictures of the kids. The babies were about 4 weeks here and growing fast! Brinley was not very thrilled to hold the babies but my friend Ashley got them all matching outfits...so we had to get a photo of them together :) Love these kiddos <3 I couldn't imagine my life without them.

Emry & Paisley

These are pics I took at 2 weeks :)

Here are 3 weeks :)