California Surprise

This past week my sister Traci, myself, Kaydree and Brayden all made a suprise trip/drive down to CA for my Dad's 50th Birthday!! I left my house at 8pm Wed. night after only deciding at 11am that same day that we were even going to do this. At 9:30am the next morning we finally arrived at my parents house suprising my day for his birthday...and boy was he suprised!! We then all got showered and dressed for the day and went to my mom's preschool to visit her. Kaydree and Brayden had so much fun playing with all the other kids! We went out to dinner for my dad's birthday with the whole fam except Austin and Trac's husband. We all had fun swimming, shopping, and did I mention organizing!! It was a quick trip but we had fun hanging out as a family for the whole weekend especially in 75 degree weather (It's a blizzard here)!! Happy Birthday Dad!

The kids jumped right into the fun and loved playing with the remote control car, squirt guns, and bubbles with Grandpa!

Picture of us all at the zoo! Definitely NOT a great pic! :)

Buddies!

The baby giraffe was by far my fav.!

My mom, Brayden, and I

Brayden touched his 1st snake. Eeww! I managed to escape that (Kaydree too!).

The kids loved the baby animal area!

Kaydree and Baby Ryan (my sister's boy). She is

obsessed with babies lately.

Grandpa and Kaydree taking their daily needed nap!! :)

Man he's old!!

This was Brayden pretty much all day Sunday at my parents house. After having a fever of 104.8 for over 24hrs. we took him into an Urgent Care and found out he had strep throat and tonsilitis. He's doing great now!

Spreading the LOVE

{Lucky you!}
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This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

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3- It'll be done this year.

4- You have no clue what it's going to be.

It may be a story. It may be a picture of myself, or a handmade piece of artwork for your living room. I may sew you something. I may bake you something. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!

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The catch?
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Let The Party Begin!

This past weekend we had so much fun being able to hang out together with our family. We had a Super Bowl/Birthday Party for Austin's birthday on Sunday. I felt so bad for Austin and Kaydree because they both caught some nasty flu ( Austin just found out he has an ear infection, sinus infection, and bronchitis :( ) so some of our family made their stay short but we still had fun! Super Bowl is a big deal in our family so we all watched and waited for our team to win ( that being the Cardinals b/c I love rooting for the underdogs! except my brother-in-law who loves the Steelers and always will pick the right team who wins, always). So needless to say, he was the only one who went home happy...but we all had a fun night and I sure did cook up some mean food! :) Happy Birthday Austin!!!

This is a really bad picture but all the rest look

like he's half out of it. :) He really is handsome!!!

Kaydree wanted to help daddy do everything!!

Brayden all ready for some football...hey it's the only one

we had!! He loves football already and Austin thinks and wishes

he'll go pro!

Austin's brother always performs and sings songs

for everyone's birthday. This time was HSM 3!!

Lately it seems that there could be a light at the

end of the tunnel. Kaydree and Brayden seem to

be playing together and not screaming non-stop.

I think they realized that it was easier to just to get

along.... I'm still waiting for all of you who said that

because they are so close they will be such good friends. :)

But they bring me so much joy from little moments like these!

Yes, I got my hair done again. My cousin does

hair and charges me just for supplies and I love her!

It's so fun having short hair and Austin loves it too!

And here are some pics of some of our recent

projects we have been working on. This old

camera does nothing justice and the mantle has

not been stained yet and we need our painters to come back

...but I love what I see so far!!

Wa-la!!