Birthday Party time!

We decided to have Brennar's birthday party early this year, since he pretty much is a Christmas baby, so we had it the first weekend in December.  We have always had parties at our house but this year we decided to go to Little Monkey Buziness. It is pretty much just a big room full of different bounce houses. I think everyone had a great time.  Especially my little monkey!!!

This is Brennar and one of his friends from school, Richard.  We have had so much fun with his little class, I am so sad that he is changing rooms next week, but it will be good for him

She had a pretty great time, too:)

Brennar loves him some cousin time - he is just enamored with Drew

And here he is with his best buddy, Eli

The 4 Stapp kids and one Stubbs:)

He requested blue and chocolate shark cupcakes - I think we succeeded in making him happy

And the 2 Stapp girls - the older Brilee gets, the more she looks like Maddi - I just hope she turns out to be like her too, she is the sweetest little girl and is SO good with my kids!!

I have LOTS more pictures from the day, but most of them are action shots of the kids so didn't turn out too good - oh well, it shows how much fun they all had!!!

Christmas program and party!

 

Unfortunately we had a little bit of a parenting fail the night of Brennar's Christmas program.  Both the video camera and regular camera were super low on batteries, so this is the best I got:(

 He was the first one walking out - loved that!!

 He got to sit in the very front - again loved that!!

 And he actually sang all the songs and did the actions with them!!! LOVED that!!

 I helped with his Christmas party at school so didn't get any pictures during the party. But at the very end, all the kids brought a wrapped book they had gotten, one of the moms read a story and each time she said Jesus, the kids were supposed to rotate their books. OH MY GOSH - don't do this with 3 years olds!!! I think every one of them was crying at some point!! They just didn't understand - they all wanted the book they had brought:) Oh well, maybe next year.

 Brennar is moving to a new class in January- I really loved this group of kids:( Hope the next group is just as fun!

 But what I am really going to miss is his teacher!! Mrs. Hassa has been absolutely wonderful with Brennar, he has learned so much and she is so sweet to him!

Luckily, the classroom helper, Mrs. Busch, will be in his new class too!!!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

It's been so long since I have wrote!! Ahhh! Where to even begin? We had a great time over Thanksgiving in MT.  This year only me and the kids made the trip, so we missed Clint, but had fun just the same.  All my grandparents came also so I really liked seeing the kids with them.  We made a trip to Chuck E. Cheese, which was super fun for all of us, I'm not sure if my mom or the kids liked all the games more:) Brennar is taking after Alex and only ate a roll for Thanksgiving dinner, Brilee didn't do much better, she had rice. However, they both ate a few slices of chocolate pie!!!! They could definitely just eat dessert and be just fine, just like me! We also went to the holiday parade.  I can't even believe it, but it was both of their first times at a parade - how can it be that in 4 years we have never went to a parade!!

 

The night we got back the kids got to open their first presents, matching jammies and a Christmas book.  They have had fun getting to open a new book each night.

Aren't they super adorable???

Brennar also had his first Christmas program. I honestly was looking forward to it for weeks.  The only song he would tell me they were singing was the "mountain song"  took a few days, but we finely figured out it was Go Tell it on the Mountain.  He also told me he was going to be an angel:) Well, duh, what else would he be?? He really is my little angel boy.

All dressed up and ready to go! This really is something that happens all the time at our house. One of them will just randomly go up to the other and give them a big hug.  Brilee has started adding, "Brennar, I love you somuch" no typo there, somuch is one word:)

 I just love them so much, too!!

 She ADORES him!!

Family pictures!!

 We got our fall family pictures done and I am in L.O.V.E.  Seriously, love them so much!!! So for those of you who aren't on facebook, here are my top favs!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

 We had an underwater theme this year for Halloween.  Brennar requested to be a shark, so Brilee was defaulted to a mermaid:)

 Isn't he just the scariest shark you ever saw?!?!

 And the most beautiful mermaid. 

 I just can't get enough of them!!

 Here they are with the before pictures of their pumpkins. Brilee had Ariel and Jasmine and Brennar had a shark and an angry bird.

 We had a minor mishap with the lower jaw of the shark, but the 2 princesses turned out good.  Unfortunately, the angry bird didn't make it:(  I won't name any names of who did the shark and the bird, but it wasn't me:)

 And my sweet kiddos wanted to make a pumpkin for the new baby brother. They waited to ask until about 3 on Halloween, so this is what the little mister got:)

Brennar and Eli had matching costumes, they were adorable!