Bret's BD



Bret celebrated his 35th birthday the day after Christmas. We went and had dinner at his dad's house. This was the first time in several years that we haven't gone to Dos Coyotes for dinner, so it was somewhat tramatic for him!!! I think he'll survive though, especially knowing that his birthday present that he ordered for himself a month ago will be here shortly. For those of you who don't know yet, he ordered himself a new Corvette. Talk about getting what you want for you birthday. Since it isn't here yet though, I found a small one to put on his cake that will have to tide him over until the real thing arrives.


Needless to say, he had a nice birthday. Before I post this I'll try and include a picture of Adam's bed, since it didn't quite make it on last time. Hope everyone is having an enjoyable holiday!!




Posted in: on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at at 11:54 AM 0 comments  

We made it!

Friday was my first day off , so needless to say, Bret and I did a marathon shopping day on Friday (with kids in tow no less) and then again on Saturday because we weren't quite done. Saturday we split up so we could double time it (somehow I'm the one who ended up with the kids though - how did that work out?!!!). That left Sunday for a full day of wrapping. We also had to wait for the kids to fall asleep because we gave Adam a new bed for Christmas, so we couldn't have them still up while we set it up. I finally went to bed about 1 am, woke about at 4 to make sure Bret was going to take the trash out and finish wrapping his last few things. Back asleep about 5, then up at 6:30 or 7 to put film in the camera and be ready for when they got up. Adam patiently waited until 7 to get up. Briana didn't want to get up until he reminded her it was Christmas, and then all of a sudden she shot right up!!! Funny how that works.

This is the kids with the presents Santa left under her tree in her room. Adam had slept in there with her so we could set up his room! They opened these and then we moved downstairs. Brian had come up the night before so he spent Christmas morning with us.


It was a whirlwind of present opening!


And finally....here is Adam's new bed. He's in a full size bed now. The toddler bed didn't last long. He's really into trucks, so that's what is on his bed. It's very cute!!!

Well, I've tried 3 times to upload pictures to finish this post off, and 3 times it hasn't worked. For as long as it takes me to try and upload one picture....this is killing me!!!! I NEED HIGH SPEED INTERNET!!! This will have to do as is! : ) Sorry no pics of the bed. Maybe next time.

Posted in: on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at at 11:56 AM 0 comments  

Adam's Christmas Party

Adam's school had a Christmas party (okay, so it was a couple of weeks ago....and I'm just now getting around to posting pictures of it!!!). Anyway, it was a very nice evening. They read stories, played games, ate dinner (and lots of yummy desserts - especially Briana. Everytime I turned around, she had another one!!), sang songs, and the grand finale was a visit by Santa and Mrs. Claus. I got a picture of the two kids on Santa's lap.


They were passing out gifts, so Briana got a Barrel of Monkeys and Adam got a truck (how did Santa know?!). Of course, he had to try it out right away.


While Miss Susan read "T'was the Night Before Christmas" they came out as different parts of the story. Here comes a little reindeer!!!


And finally, here is Adam with his girlfriend Addy and a couple of his friends. As you can tell from the picture, he's one of the youngest kids there but they don't seem to mind. All the kids (and teachers) call him "Cutie Pie" and just love him to pieces. One of the dad's at the party told me his son has to bring two of everything that he brings to school - one for him and one for Adam. Too cute!!! : )


Posted in: on Saturday, December 23, 2006 at at 6:13 PM 0 comments  

It's been a while

So, it's been a while since I've posted anything, so I thought it was about time. Things have been busy as usual. Report cards went out this week, which means I was very busy last week getting grades done for all 220 or so of my students. That's always a fun time of the year. Oh, did that come out sacrcastically?! Oops!! I really mean....I love my job. Yeah, that's it. I've also been coaching a Lego Robotics team twice a week so that's been taking up my time as well.

Of course, all of that work is sometimes a welcome respite from home. You just never know what these two will do. For example, the other day Briana decided she would teach Adam how to do ballet. In order to do so, you of course need the right outfit. So, this is what Briana came up with.....


I'm sure the kid is probably scarred for life. I dread thinking about the therapy bills that will be in our future!! : )

Then there's always the wonderful things Adam comes up with. I was IMing Ken and Helen in Australia tonight and all of a sudden Adam walks in with a sheet of glass about a foot wide and slightly taller than he is. This seems like a situation that could go bad very quickly. Where does he even get this stuff? It's like he's attracted to all things that he shouldn't have or do. Since I took the glass from him, of course he had to go find something else to do. So, being the helpful boy that he is, he decides to clean out the fireplace for us. Normally that would be nice to have the ashes cleaned out so that we could start a fire, but when a 2 year old is doing it, it's not always as nice as one would have hoped. He actually did a pretty good job, but we won't let him know that. Don't want to give him any ideas. (Like he needs any from us, he comes up with plenty of his own.)


Between the two of them they sure do keep us on our toes. Since both my parents and Bret's put the curse on us though (you know the one - "We hope you have kids who act just like you do.") we should have known years ago that this would be coming. I can certainly say life is never boring!!!

Posted in: on Friday, December 01, 2006 at at 7:35 PM 0 comments  

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