Santa's Lap

We took the kids to see Santa at the mall. Santa was so nice and there was a fun train for the kids to ride. Caleb asked for a race car track, Brynley asked for a castle and Aubrey asked for some pacifiers. :-)

Caleb's School Christmas Program and Christmas Crafts

Ok, so I've got a lot of back tracking to do and I'll post as quick as I can. First, let me take you back to Caleb's kindergarten class's school program. It was very cute and the whole school came to watch. The did a song with bells and one with sticks that they hit together. It was fun to watch him.




We did a couple of Christmas crafts before Christmas. Here are the kids doing their "gingerbread man house".

We also made some homemade ornaments with applesauce and cinnamon. They were fun and smelled great!

That's all for now. More to come...

Anniversary

Wow, I almost started to actually believe all that nice stuff Lindsey wrote about me after reading through it. It reads like a eulogy. Lindsey is a great eugoogoolizer... Not to mention forgiving, patient, understanding, loving, and super fine (that's a Brandon/Lindsey inside joke). Everybody knows how lucky I am to be married to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure I'm that guy that people see with his wife and think, "how did he manage to land that hottie?"

Thanks for being so great Lindsey and not one of those controlling wives who nags all the time. I'm thankful for you and I sure love you.

Happy Anniversary to us!

Last year I gave a run down of our last seven years together that included lots of pictures. So feel free to look at that if you haven't seen it.

Our eighth year brought us a third baby. We also went to Seattle to visit Brandon's folks (oh my gosh. I just said folks. Lol). The rest of the year was spent pregnant and having a baby. Ok, I'm starting to sound like a Christmas card, which I guess is fine since we didn't do one this year. Let me move on.

So, this being our 8th anniversary I want to list 8 things I love about Brandon.

1. Brandon is the best dad ever! He is so cute with Caleb and Brynley. He puts Brynley to bed every night and he just loves her so much even if she's a little stinker to him sometimes. (Aunt Kelly says she's playing hard to get. Lol.) And he adores Caleb and loves to wrestle and play games with him. He usually isn't to big on babies but he loves Aubrey. Since I've stopped nursing he's really stepped up to the plate and helps me feed her and even gets up in the night with her. Aren't I so lucky?!

2. Brandon can fix anything. Really. He can. If he's trying to hook something up or fix something and he gets frustrated I never get worried because it always ends with said thing in perfect condition. Even the kids say "Daddy can fix everything."

3. Brandon can also find anything. He is very good at looking for stuff that is lost. If any of us loses anything, he can almost always find it.

4. He does things he might not want to do without (too much) complaining. His calling involves doing something he hates: helping people move. And in our ward that is a very regular occurance. Rarely do I hear him complain. He just does what he needs to do.

5. He supports me in what I want to do even if he doesn't necessarily agree with the idea. At least he acts like he does.

6. He's so funny. He always keeps me laughing.

7. He's so stinkin hot. I mean c'mon. Just look at him. Nuff said.

8. Best of all, I know he loves me even with all my faults.

I love you, Brandon! Happy 8th Anniversary! (Brandon's actually in Chicago this week so we aren't even together... sad.)

Random pictures

And yes, Caleb is alive and does still live here. I don't know why I don't have very many pictures of him

Always a Princess

I took these pictures through our sliding glass door. Brynley was outside pretending to play in the snow. I just loved her outfit and had to share.

Brynley goes to dance!

Brynley is pretty much potty trained and we told her when she was done with diapers she could do dance! She (and I) were so excited! She is taking at this dance studio across the freeway from us. Here are some pictures from her first class. Sorry about the quality. The pictures were taken through a window.



She had this wedgie the entire time. We have tights this time so hopefully no more wedgie.