The last few months...

All right, I know....I've been a slacker. I have had no desire to sit down and post anything since I had Brooke. I'm going to blame it on having 3 kids and being totally overwhelmed and exhausted all the time. So, this is our last few months in pictures... (In no particular order)

We had our "Miss Brookie Bear." (as Dreyson calls her) She surprised us all when she had hardly any hair compared to her siblings.

Kevin has been working so hard all summer to finish our basement. We are so close to being done! This will be my salon.

This is our family room

The kiddos came to visit

First family picture




First Sunday to church and all dressed up





We love our sister!

My mom loves to come and help give the baby their first bath. Of course, my camera ran out of battery and this was the only picture I got.

I had to get some more bath pictures when I got more batteries, but my mom didn't come down that day. So Jena was my photographer while I bathed Brooke. I found about 10 pictures like this on my camera.

I thought Jena did pretty good on this one

Did you know Fun Dips were so messy?? Neither did I.

Brooke loves her swing....just look at her face.

We've had plenty of movie dates with our "friends"

Too cute!

Playing in mom's shoes

Jena and Drey (I think mostly Jena) planted these sunflowers at my parents house. They were finally as tall as she was.

Brooke's blessing day

Just the girls

Jena started her 2nd year of preschool

We took the kids miniature golfing. It was so much fun!

I especially loved watching Drey try to hit the ball.

Showing my smiles

Snoozing away. Brooke is such a good baby. She rarely needs me to put her to sleep. She falls asleep on her own most of the time.

They do this every time Brooke is laying on the floor

Drey likes to play dress up while Jena is at school

Snoozing some more

We rode Trax up to the Circus

My mom took all the grandkids to see the circus (minus Melissa. She was sick. We missed you!)

Loving that swing

She's here!!

Our sweet little Brooke is finally here. She was born last week, weighing 6 lbs. 10 oz and 19 inches long. More to come later...

Happy 4th of July!

We had a great 4th of July weekend. It was super fun that it got to last all weekend, due to the 4th landing on a Sunday. We went to a parade on Friday night, went to see fireworks on Saturday with my family, and had a BBQ with Kevin's family on Monday. I didn't get a ton of pictures, mostly because I've decided that I get too frustrated taking pictures of my kids when they don't look at me, but here are a few cute ones that I did get.

Eating hot dogs at Nana and Papa's before going to see fireworks

We took 4 wheeler rides with Daddy...(unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Jena and Kevin)

Sparklers

While we were waiting for Kevin to find a lighter to start doing sparklers, my kids did some funny faces for me. I thought they were too cute and had to share!

Happy Birthday!

Jena and I celebrated our birthday back in June. That's right... I am lucky enough to share a birthday with my Jena bug. She is such a sweetie and I love her to pieces!

We had a very fun and relaxing day. I love parties. I love having people over and having cake and ice cream and hanging out. So, I had planned on having family over for cake and ice cream the night of our birthday. I had even called and invited people and let them know what time. Well, little did I know, Kevin already had a surprise up his sleeve. He surprised us yet again this year. (Remember when he threw the surprise party for us last year? ) The night before our birthday, he took me out to dinner and a movie for my birthday, since I really want to try and make Jena's birthday special and that way we could just celebrate her birthday the next day. Well, on our way home from our date, after picking up the kids from his parents house, he told me that his parents had invited us to go to breakfast with them in the morning. I said that was fine, and was only slightly bugged that I had to get up early on my birthday to go to breakfast. :) The next morning we were on our way to meet his parents at McDonalds, when he suggests that we stop at Chick-fil-a and get some Chicken Mini's for me and him to take with us to McDonalds since he knows I love them (you should try them....they are delicious). So, we go pulling into the parking lot of Chick-fil-a, with his parents right in front of us, and everyone starts getting out. Little did I know, he had called and invited everyone that I had invited for cake and ice cream to come have breakfast with us instead. Everyone brought presents and we had a little party there after we ate. It was really fun. Somehow Kevin even convinced me to bring Jena's Barbie cake that I had made for her so we had cake and ice cream after breakfast. We got to spend the rest of the day just as a family and it was really nice and laid back. I didn't have to worry about cleaning my house for family to come over that night anymore. We went shopping and out to dinner, and just hung out and played games. Thanks Kevo! I love you!

Opening presents

Jena got roller skates for her birthday.

She's all geared up and ready to go...




All the birthday presents

We tried to take a picture of the 2 of us together....this was the best we could get.

Jena got a sleeping bad from her Grandma and Grandpa for her birthday. She loved it so much that she insisted she sleep in it for the next 2 nights. I couldn't even convince her to sleep in it on top of her bed. She had to be on the floor.