My Brynley

I guess when your baby can pull up into a sitting position in her bouncy seat she is too old to be in it anymore.

The Girls Room

We started the girls room before the baby was born 5 months ago and painted it but it has taken us until now to get the bunk beds up and the wall hangings we also started before the baby was born. I still have to work on organizing the closet and putting up more wall hangings but here is what we have so far.

Here is Aubrey her first night in a big girl bed and not in a crib.

The Before

The After

The wall hangings I envisioned and that Charlie made

I will probably post again once I have it complete but we are happy with what we have so far and look forward to moving on to decorate another room.

The Fair

We went to the fair in February. We saw a few shows and some animals. My favorite part was the petting zoo because you could feed goats, camels and cows. I learned that the fair is way over priced with food and rides so the girls picked one ride to go on but it was a fun experience.

Valentine's Day

This is our Valentine's day post. I'm not a great journal writer so I wanted to make sure and remember this for myself because it turned out to be a pretty fun day.

A couple of years ago Charlie and I swore of Valentine's day as a romantic holiday after a few years of bad luck and interesting stories that I won't go into here so we now celebrate it as a family and keep it simple. In the morning I decided to go and get a few things for the day and ended up locking my keys in the car which goes along with my bad luck so I thought for sure the day would end in disaster but it didn't. Charlie came home and cooked a simple but delicious steak dinner for us.

Then we had a family home evening lesson on love and a few activities. The first one was spin the bottle. First we had a spinner with 6 numbers and each number corresponded with an action such as give a hug, give a kiss, say something nice etc. and then we would spin the bottle and see who would receive the action. The girls really loved that game.

We then sat in a circle and everyone massaged the person's foot on their left and then we switched and did the right. After that we decorated cookies and then called it a night. It was a fun family Valentine's evening.

Grandparents

This post of pictures has been sitting waiting to be finished for a month now so I will be brief to get it posted. My parents came to visit at the beginning of February. We had lots of fun just being together. Some of the things we did were the zoo, picnic, out to eat, movies, walks and playing in the backyard. We hope this will be at least a yearly visit.

Brynley's 1st Disney Trip

We all love Disney and all my girls have made their first trip as babies. Charlie's brother and his family were in town visiting so it was an extra special trip because it was spent with cousins.

The Latest...

I am ready for a New Year. December was a good but challenging month. Illness visited my family during the month of December several times and I can honestly say we did not have a day during the whole month when someone was not sick. Unfortunately, Charlie became ill right on Christmas Eve so the girls and I celebrated by ourselves and he wasn't feeling any better on Christmas. With all of that going on and a newborn who is now 4 months old life continues to be crazy and often feels like I'm just getting by without much productivity. But, that being said I have cute happy girls and a loving husband and that's what matters most. I'll post a few pictures from our latest happenings.