Bailey Bugger's Birthday!!!

WHAT? SHE IS THREE ALREADY? NOOOOOO!!!

Every Birthday I blog about how big they are getting but THEY ARE DANGIT! IT SUCKS!

Bailey's birthday was on a Sunday this year so she got to pick a family night out the night before. She picked Chuck E. Cheese...   : O (That is my sarcastic shocked face) We had a blast as always. Braxton and McKenzie were so sweet. They gave her their prize tickets so she could buy a princess crown. If you know my kids, that was a HUGE sacrifice LOL! The next day we went to church and I couldn;t resist taking some pictures of the kids all dressed up. Bailey was all about it of course, Braxton... not so much, but he sucked it up and smiled. We had a great day making her cake, relaxing, riding her NEW MINNIE MOUSE BIKE, opening presents and eating the nastiest pink cake and pink ice cream I have ever tried! Seriously... it went in the trash the next day. Oh well, it made her so stinking happy to make her own cake.

Happy birthday to our sweet little baby girl... I mean BIG girl : ( We love you so much!

I am trying something new for this blog post... a slide show! I really like how it turned out : )
Here it is...

http://www.photosnack.com/9EAB95B8B7A/p7pfdqeq

Gobble, Gobble, MOO, MOO?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

For the first time in a while we had our own little family of 5 Thanksgiving. We missed having family here but we made the best of it. Rich said, "Let's just do it simple this year." This idea quickly evolved into the following...

Lunch: Prime Rib, Garlic Mashed Potatoes and all the fixins! Oh my HEAVENS! UHHHHMAZING!!!
I love Rich's Before, During and After Regret pictures : )

Dinner: Home Smoked Turkey and a full Thanksgiving spread!
The missionaries in our ward got permission to watch football on Thanksgiving so where do they end up? Our place of course! They joined us for the Cowboys game and dinner! We stuffed oursleves silly as always.

White Trash Smores (Over the Turkey Fryer Propane Burner)

Little Models!

I have a great friend here in St. Louis who is ridiculously talented! She has her own online boutique business that sells hand-made accessories like bubblegum necklaces, hats, headbands, etc. They are so stinking cute and so is she!!! She asked if she could take some pictures of my girls wearing her gear for her website. Heck yes! FUN!!! While she did a little photo shoot with the girlies I did all my Christmas shopping for all my neices from my kitchen table! SCORE! McKenzie and Bailey had so much fun! Ever since then bailey can't take a picture without popping her hip and giving a model "glare" lol. They loved it! As if this experience wasn't cool enough, my friend is working her tail off making and selling these accessories to help raise money so they can adopt their third little Marshallese baby! Her other two beautiful kiddos, Grant and Emory, were adopted and now she and her sweet hubby have the opportunity to adopt Grant's sibling when he/she is born in March! Super cute stuff for sale that benefits an amazing family! McKenzie and Bailey have their pics on the site now. Check it out...

http://www.yourbubblegumboutique.com/

Bailey

McKenzie

I paid Braxton to throw on a decent shirt and smile... his services are not cheap!

SuiKim Friedmann, you are awesome! Thank you! We love you!

Spoiled Buggy

Sometimes I feel guilty as I go through my pictures because I have so many of Bailey Bug. The big kids are in school and I get to hang out with her all day every day. Plus she is ridiculously silly and cute so that naturally leads to many more photos than the other kids get. Can you blame me? She does, however, have a hard time smiling when I tell her too. I usually get crazy faces. Oh well, what can you do? We get to have all kinds of adventures like gymnastics story time, the Magic House, and playing with great friends! I am so grateful that I get to stay at home with my little spoiled buggybug : )

Birthday B!

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY BRAXTON!!!

I can't believe my baby boy is so stinking BIG! 

Bailey and I brought him his favorite lunch in the entire world... McDonalds (big gross shocker) and we brought Angry Birds cupcakes to share with his class. 

This year we weren't going to do a friend party but Rich suggested he just have a few friends over and have some pizza and hang out. I thought that was a great idea. Here is what REALLY went down. We invited a few kids and then the list kept growing. He didn't want to leave anyone out or hurt anyones feelings. In the end 12 boys were invited. It was a weeknight, school night AND it was Parent Teacher Conferences for every single boy that was invited. I figured no more than half would RSVP. Right? WRONG! Our "have a few friends over" party turned into a dozen 6-year-olds! They had an absolute blast though and Braxton could not have bene happier! He was spoiled ROTTEN by all his buddies. We had pizza and cake and played life-size Angry Birds. Then they spent the rest of the time chasing eachother around and wrestling... boys will be boys! 

Happy Birthday B! We love you so much and we are so grateful you are ours! You are such a sweet brother and a caring friend. We are so proud of you!

School Pictures

I HATED school pictures when I was a kid... I had a bad experience in elementary school when my mom made me sleep in sponge rollers for picture day and I had a legit white afro! I looked like a blonde Little Orphan Annie after she had been eletrocuted! Thank goodness my kids like picture day more than I did. School pictures always crack me up... you only get one shot which leads to some goofy, deer-in-headlights looks lol. Here are this year's gems : )

Baby you a song...

DATE NIGHT!!!
It had been WAY too long since Rich and I went to a concert together. We love live music but it's so hard now that we have kids to get away for that long. Rich took the bull by the horns and bought us tickets to Florida Georgia Line! We had such a blast! It reminded us of our younger days. They put on a great show and we abolutely loved our date night! Thanks baby for reminding me how cool we used to be : ) You make me wanna role my windows down and cruise!