Easter Sunday 2010

Sunday

It's been nice to actually go to church together on Sunday. Jimmy always had to be in church for meetings, so I would have to get all 3 kids ready and meet him there. Life is so much easier having him home in the morning! I took the kids to my field trip at the YMCA last Friday. We were the first in line to get these balloon swords, and somehow we were STILL standing there 20 min. later!
I don't know how appropriate this picture is, but I swear, it's a SWORD hahahaha!

Finally I have carpet!!!

Well, we put our addition on 2 years ago and cost WAY more than expected! As many people know, we had NO carpet in our bedroom...which wasn't terrible because we just kept the door closed all the time LOL. We decided to use some of our tax money and buy carpet!!! Woohoo :) It's the simple things that make me happy haha! Our house is slowly coming together, we still need to put trim inside..UGH...at least the majority of the new addition is now finished...oh and we still haven't touched our ceilings yet LOL...that'll be a while! I still laugh when I look at our closet/bathroom!!! It definitely was NOT planned that way...it was supposed to be a nice, big walk-in closet...after it was framed in, we decided to put a sink and toilet in..then have the closet in the back...well...last minute we said...let's put a stand-up shower in too...which made things hard because the only place the shower could go was against the back wall...needless to say..now you have to walk through a closet-type area to get to the bathroom LOL...at least it's just our bathroom and no one uses it but US!

My kiddos are growing fast STILL...Brinley is now 13 months old and not walking yet! Over the past day or so she has been taking little steps by herself though. She is so high-energy that she just stands and tries to RUN or drops to the floor to crawl as fast as she can to get to something because she's nosey. Easton is talking WAY too much now! He is still shy in public though...but at home he's getting annoying haha! Tristan is a spoiled little boy....way spoiled..I shouldn't complain because I made him that way. He's the king of the house because Jimmy is barely here during tax season from Jan. to April...so Tristan runs the house pretty much. Tristan and Easton are just starting to fight over things and argue..I'm in for it! Brinley is not talking yet...she just babbles and yells...then screams when she wants something..like FOOD!

We are planning on celebrating Easter this year at Austin and Crystal's house with the Drake fam...tax season is ALMOST over and then our lives can be back to normal...with a Daddy that's home on Sat.'s and and more during the week...since he leaves the house by 5am and doesn't get home until 11ish at night...so the kids will be excited to actually see their Daddy other than on Sun. That's all I got for now, Syracuse plays in the NCAA tournament tonight at 7pm and miraculously Jimmy will be home to watch it...so we're taking advantage and ordering some Mama G's :) Go SU!

Kiddo Updates

I was in Brinley's room & I kept hearing sounds like something unwrapping, so I went out and found Easton with a whole bag of chocolate!!! He is the most mischevious kid I swear. He's into EVERYTHING!!!

Here's the kids opening Brinley's presents on her birthday.

Brinley's real First Birthday was Saturday. My friend Lynn made her a cute giant cupcake LOL. So, since we normally go to dinner for birthdays...we took her to Ruby Tuesday's for lunch..I mean..hey she is only ONE haha! My Mom, Ryan & Amanda came with us minus Jimmy because he was working. We decided to let her have her cake at Rubys and everyone probably thought I was nuts! This little outfit is almost identical to the one she wore home from the hospital when she was born...except her newborn one had a cherry and this one had a strawberry.

Tristan & Easton got new bedding...and Easton finally got his big boy bed. Tristan is obsessed with Batman..and all Easton kept saying was "Spi-aa-maan"..so here they are with their new beds.

The MOST

We finally got to take a trip to the MOST in Syracuse. It was Tristan's friend Nathan's bday, so a bunch of us girls took our kiddos to play there. They had a good time, but I think there was WAY too many people LOL.

Brinley's First BDay Party

We celebrated Brinley's first birthday with our cousins little boy Koby. It was quite the party....TONS of people that's for sure! Poor Brinley was sick and was ready to fall asleep as we were doing the cake...it was really cute and fun. It's hard to believe my little girl will be ONE on her birthday...which is on the 20th. It seems like I JUST had her. I love my little ones so much and couldn't imagine what my life would be like without all the carseats, strollers, gerber graduates, cartoons, temper tantrums, doctor visits, playdates...just everything...I love that I have 2 boys that will hopefully look out for their little sister. Brinley went to the doctors today for a sick visit and weighs just under 19 lbs.!!!!! She's so chubby...but so little compared to my boys...I just hope she stays little for a while!!!

So following her bday pics is a picture of my hubby's lovely bear rug he had made....it's seriously hanging on my bedroom wall at the moment. I've cried so many times over it. We have NO room to spare...so it's my room or the friggen living room (which will NEVER happen!). The smells is SO BAD that I couldn't even sleep in there last night. I'm so stressed out over it. I wanna be supportive..but REALLY??!! 3 full-size deer heads, 1 antlers & a friggen HUGE bear rug....he better have a nice big house in our future with his own MAN CAVE..literally....it's CRAZY!

My first post of 2010!!!

I can't believe it's already January 28th and this is my FIRST post of 2010....I'm suck a slacker. Honestly...I've been wanting to get my blog printed off...so my kids will have it..and I thought I should wait and post after I print it...but...I don't wanna spend the $30 to do it so...time to post LOL.

Brinley is now 11 months old. I'm so sad that she is turning into a toddler...and not my little baby anymore. She is a screamer...full of prissy-ness...wants attention ALL the time...I mean ALL the time!!! She wants to be looked at, talked to, held you name it. I think it's because she sees her brothers getting so much attention...she wants it too. We are celebrating her 1st birthday on Feb. 6th at my cousins house. There little guy Koby is 3 weeks older and turned 1 yesterday. So we are having a combined party for them thinking it will be our LAST FIRST BIRTHDAY party ever (if we don't have any more kids lol). She runs everywhere in her walker but gets impatient when she gets stuck. She will NOT stand on her own, she just drops to the floor to sit and crawl. I wonder if she will actually be taking steps by her first birthday. Easton didn't walk until like the day before he turned 1.

Tristan is doing good in nursery school. He is the biggest and tallest in his class..and also one of the youngest!!! He can say all the letters in his name and can write it on his own! I'm so proud of him. He's such a smart little guy, if only he was more mellow!!! He is so high-energy, I'm in for it I know!!! Tristan literally eats ALL DAY LONG...I mean from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to bed!!! He loves sleeping in his Naynay's bed when she's off from working the night shift...which is once or twice a week. Every day when she walks in from work, he asks...are you working tonight??? So funny! I told her she needs to get a king-size bed because soon she will have all 3 kids wanting to sleep in with her.

Easton is talking more and more. He is starting to fight Brinley..I mean really fight, like punch, kick, pull hair....maybe he just likes that there is someone in the house who is smaller than him...since Tristan has always had the advantage on East. He loves getting into things, climbing on stools, counters, tiolets...everywhere!!! Easton is still pretty much the same size he was when he was 1 LOL....Brinley is catching up to him in size really fast!!! He is still my cuddliest kid.

That's all I have for now...it's Thurs. night...that means Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice are on....so it's time to go chill now that my kiddos are sleeping!

Here's to 2010....