Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The New Brylee

So, as many of you know by now Cooper has recently learned his future is not in cosmetology. On Saturday Bryan brought the kids home from soccer and they were ex-haus-ted!! So Momma thought, hey let's pile up on the bed, watch a movie, and take a nap. You guessed it, Momma fell asleep and the kiddos did not. Brylee woke me up saying, "Momma, look! Bubby cut my hair." Instantly, my heart sank to my toes. I saw the back and thought, okay, it's not that bad...we will do a short little bob. Then Brylee turned around and my heart jumped out of my chest. Cooper had cut her hair on top, too. There was not a hair on her poor little head that he had not touched. He managed to give her a mighty fine mullet. Her hair was completely chopped all to pieces. In panic mode I called my mom and begged her to come. Bless her heart, I know I scared her to death but I was in pure PANIC mode. My babies beautiful blonde locks were gone. Luckily, mom was close by and rushed over. Dad was smart and offered to take Cooper home with him so his Momma couldn't kill him. Mom and I took Brylee to get what was left of her hair "fixed." The sweet lady at the salon could only offer to shape it up and give her a short, spikey pixie cut. There are still super, super short sections but like I have been told a thousand times since that day...it's only hair and it will grow out. My poor brother tried to make it better and said, "one of these days you will laugh about it." My response, "maybe one of these years but definitely not any day soon." She loves her "rock star hair" and has the spunk to pull it off, but I miss her pony tails and braids. At least it's nice and cool for summer!!

Monday, April 25, 2011

First Hike

Wow Weeeee!! What were we thinking?? Bryan and I decided to take the kids on their first hike in April. He said it was a three mile hike...I'm thinking a mile and a half there and a mile and a half back. WRONG. It was a 6 mile hike total and totally worth it! I was absolutely amazed at how well the kids did. They loved every second of it. There were a few times on the trail I was literally saying to myself, "what in the world are we doing?" but both of the kids were such troopers. They kept pointing to things and saying take a picture of that. I have a gazillion pictures of tree stumps and random bugs. The end result was a waterfall that makes you say "Wow, look at God's amazing creation."

Amazed by the beauty of God's creation!!

Now that is excitement!
Really?? Does it get any sweeter than this?


Fun, Fun, FUN!
This hiking thing is hard work!!

One of her proudest moments

Yes, she is absolutely proud of the crazy mess she made!!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Photo Session

This Momma thought it would be fun to take the kids on a little photo shoot. Needless to say, it is much easier to capture other people's children than it is my own. I did manage to get a few pictures of my cutie pies!!



LOVE the super sweet expression from Miss Brylee...she adores her Bubby

So typical...

Smiles and Giggles. that's my girl



Mr. Serious...that's my boy

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

BFF's

Brylee and Griffin....yes, I will show this at your wedding one day!


We love

our trips to the Boro because....


We get to play games with Uncle D....
and dunk Poppy...

and play with Daddy...
and we get to show of our style... and we sucker Uncle D into bike rides around the WHOLE neighborhood!!






Fathers of the family

Father's Day...just a few months late :)
After all these years...still holding hands
My amazing grandparents, Mam & Pap

Brylee Grace collecting her "pine combs"

back row: Bryan, Uncle Mike, Uncle Otto
front row: Dad, Pap, Uncle Chester

So, so blessed to have such amazing men in my life.

My grandfather, oh, what a man. I tear up just thinking about him. He is amazing. Really...how do you put that much love in words. He has loved me and prayed for me since the moment I was born. He has always said that I was born to do something special...I hope and pray I make him proud. I have so many special memories of him and am lucky that he is still with us to make more!

My Daddy, it doesn't matter how old I am...he will always be my Daddy. In my eyes this man hung the moon. He is the sweetest, kindest man I know and just a tad grouchy too :) But, after raising me for 30 years (I say that because he still is) how could you not be a tad grouchy.

My hubby! Absolutely the best father to our children I could imagine. I love and admire his commitment to Coop and Brylee and to our family. He loves like no other.