T-Ball

I got suckered into coaching this year...so of course I suckered in Jimmy too! Tristan has done a great job so far this year...other than being benched a whole inning because he threw a fit at school and wouldn't stay when Nana dropped him off!

The pictures of Brinley...are pretty much...Brinley...a little spoiled brat and if she doesn't get her way...she throws a HUGE fit! Oh am I in for it when she starts talking more!

Jimmy's 30th Birthday

I invited a bunch of people to go to Koto Japanese Steakhouse for dinner. My kids were so upset because usually the birthday person gets to pick their dinner. They weren't too thrilled to have a babysitter on their daddy's birthday! So we improvised and did a birthday breakfast, then made him a quick cake so we could sing him happy birthday! Let's just say all I had in the cupboard was Halloween funfetti cake with orange frosting hahaha....it was a beauty!
Koto was neat. We sat at Hibachi tables and the sous chef cooked our meals in front of us. After, a few of us hit friendlies for some ice cream lol.
The gift was the best part! I searched for weeks to find an ipad for him. I FINALLY got one and was super excited. What does Jim do? The minute he opens it...he says..."Do you know how many tree stands you could have got me?" Great!!! :)

March-April

We celebrated Dr. Suess's Birthday by eating green eggs and ham at home! The kids thought it was the best thing ever...and we ended up making blue eggs a few days later lol.

We went down to visit Jimmy's mom in Shippensburg, PA for Easter. What a drive! The kids colored eggs, frosted cookies and did an easter egg hunt. Tristan especially was devistated to leave. He loves to play with Hunter and misses him a lot.

My BABY is TWO!!!

I would upload some more pictures, but for some reason my computer takes forever!!! My little princess turned 2 on Sunday. We had a small family party at our house for her. She had a huge yummy cake done by Jimmy's co-worker. Brinley turned her head for just about EVERY picture taken. I gave her a little pink rocking horse first, big mistake! She decided she had to sit on the horse to open all her presents LOL. She's something else. We love her so much and are so very grateful to have a little girl. Everything was of course PINK...it's so much fun seeing girl toys around now after having all boy toys for the past 5 years. Tristan & Easton are great big brothers...if they are not taking care of her...they are rough-housing with her hehe.
We love you our little Brinley Grace <3<3<3. Happy 2nd Birthday Doll!!!

Santa Baby...

As usual...Santa always spoils our family. He was VERY good to us all this year hehe...I think it gets more exciting as the kids get older. There's nothing better than the anticipation of going to sleep Christmas Eve and waiting for Santa to come!!!

This year Ryan & Amanda & Grandpa all spent the night so they would be here bright and early for breakfast and presents. Christmas Eve brought us all some special pajamas and a movie to watch together. After we read "The Night Before Christmas" together, we watched "Dispicable Me".

Christmas morning we had our traditional yummy cinnimon rolls..mmm

I got the honor of opening the first Christmas present....Jimmy got me a DSLR camera that I've been wanting and he wanted me to be able to take pictures with it :)

This year we celebrated alone. Ryan & Amanda had dinner plans with her family. My mom made the YUMMIEST turkey dinner yet and we pretty much lounged. We opened toys and put them together...then opened more toys and put them together lol. Brinley was not thrilled to open gifts. She actually left 3 of them unwanted by the tree all day. I left one of them to see how long it would last without someone tearing it open....well....we opened it yesterday finally!!! I was tempted to save it for her birthday...oh well!

Christmas day just isn't what it used to be. Celebrating with aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins... These days everyone has their own growing families. So many of our loved ones have passed away. My Grandma Drake, my dad, my nana, my uncle mark....families have changed structures....I guess it's time for new traditions to begin with my own little family.

I love my family so much and am one lucky girl to have them.

Tristan's 5th BDay

Tristan turned 5 on Dec. 3rd! I can't believe he's so grown up. It makes me so sad to think about how fast time really does go bye. He wanted a Batman cake...and MEATLOAF!!! How funny! I tried to talk him out of the meatloaf. but he was VERY set on having it. He had a nice little celebration in school with his friends, then we celebrated with him at home. It was nice to just celebrate with Grandma Drake, Uncle Ry & Aunt Amanda, Grandpa Huff and us...although the big birthday parties are fun...they can be so dang much to prepare for and pay for. I always feel like it's a burden to everyone to come and buy another gift. I think next year I will let Tristan take some friends bowling or something. He didn't care one bit...he loved his presents and that the whole day was focused on him!!!

Sat. the 4th was his first Knee High Basketball game. Rileigh and Tyler were on the opposing team. Tyler refused to play hehe....but Rileigh did....it was so cute! Tristan was a horrible dribbler...but hey...he did score a basket!!! For every basket he makes, he gets $1 :)