Monday, December 23, 2019

Christmas fun!

Brennar got to sing and walk in the Holiday Lights parade Longmont has - he had a blast with his buddies, and we had so much fun watching

All dressed up for church, love the Christmas photo scene they set up

Since we will be in Montana on Christmas this year, we had an early celebration with the Stapp family.  Have you ever seen 4 cuter boys????
Or 2 more gorgeous girls???

The preschool Christmas program is by far one of the best nights of the year - it was strange only have one kiddo up there this year, but he sure loved looking out and seeing all of us there cheering him on!

Stratton, Cooper and Brexten- these 3 live right by each other and will all get to go through school together - I love that they became friends so early in their little lives!

Getting in the holiday spirit

Every year I get to go to a fun little Christmas party with some pretty amazing women, this years theme was "wild" - so we all dressed in animal print clothes, it was a blast! We take a minimum of 20 minutes taking a perfect picture of all of us:)

I woke up to this sunrise one morning, it was amazing
Brilee started at a new dance studio this year, and she couldn't love it more!  They do a holiday dance recital, and Brilee knocked it out of the park!!

Her dance teacher is actually a Denver Nuggets cheerleader - so fun for Brilee


She got flowers from each of her brothers and her daddy - I don't think many little girls have that many guys who love them that much

We also had our 2nd annual Christmas party - we had 100 people at our house, it was so much fun, we love all our people!

Our family photographer, Corrie, we adore her!
Lori, Kari and Paige - some of my football mamas
Kelly, Brittany, Katie and Lori - some of my newest and oldest friends
Dawn and Paige, more football moms
Some new friends I made this year, they both have kindergartners too
Bri, Tammy, Dawn and Beth - school friends
This is 8 of the 60 kids we had over
Kate and Jenny- my fabulous neighbor friends!
Hayley - she is the gorgeous mama of Christian and Tristan
Brexten and Stratton -  one of his first playdates with his own friends:)

Parties and SANTA!

Our besties took us to the new Frozen movie for Sadie's 6th birthday, we all had a blast!
We have a picture of these 3 cuties in our bellies, and now they are all in kindergarten together,
Brilee's best bud, Christian invited Brilee to Get Air for his little brothers birthday party, these 2 were fast friends in kindergarten and still adore each other
Brexten and Tristan became "best friends" too, because their siblings are:)  We just adore this family!
We also went to see Santa!! And I am not sure how this happened, but all 4 kids made the nice list again this year!  It MUST be rigged




They do clean up nicely though
This is the best Santa around, we've gone to see him for 7 years in a row now!
They asked Santa for a basketball hoop, a drum set, a guitar and a gymnastics bar - pray for us!

Football and Thanksgiving

I am pretty sure I have never mentioned how much I love Brennar's football team, but I do!!! They area a great bunch of kids, and their moms are pretty great too!
We took them for a little bonding time outside of practice and games and they had a blast!
After a couple hard fought games, they made it to the superbowl for the 4th season in a row
They had each team stand for the National Anthem and they were all announced on the speaker, it was pretty neat for them
Unfortunately, they sort of gave up and came in second place, again, for the 4th time, so no trophies only medals, they were so disappointed, but maybe next year!
Another team played in a tournament in Denver the weekend after football was done and the coach invited Brennar to play with them, it was such a cool experience for him
His best buddy from when he was only a couple months old was on the team, that was really neat for them to play together, they have had to play against each other every single year since they started football
A sweet friend of mine gave me this blanket, my friends know me so well:)
We were able to catch a couple of Griz games in Colorado this year, the boys always dress the part!
I love getting to spend one-on-one time with each kiddo, Brilee and I went Christmas shopping together
She's a girl after my own heart, she's loves Starbucks too!
How cute is this Christmas pup??? This was her 1 year birthday
After a crazy couple of days, with lots of puke and canceled plans, me and two of the kids boarded a plane and headed for Big Sky - the other 2 ended up having to drive with Clint and the dogs - things didn't go as planned, but we all made it!

And as soon as we arrived, they got their matching Christmas jammies!!

And these 2 really lucked out and were able to go to the Griz/Cat game in Bozeman, it was a pretty sad outcome but a really cool experience for them
They came home and went straight to the bar;)

Big Sky is definitely my happy place - especially if i can wake up before everyone else and get some quiet time in front of the fire
And we didn't realize what a good lot we have!! Amazing sledding, right out the door - the kids spent so much time doing this, it was so fun!
There is nothing like these mountain sunrises


The herd of elk that roam our neighborhood - pretty cool getting to see them from our window