Flashback Friday

This picture was taken January 15, 2007 and we are doing the exact same thing January 15, 2010. Will the poor baby ever out grow these ear infections?

Nana is 80!!!

Happy Birthday Nana! Today is my maternal grandmother's 80th birthday. It is hard to believe she is 80. She is still very spry and full of life. We are going to celebrate her birthday on Saturday. It will be fun to see a bunch of family we haven't seen in a while.

Nana holding Brennan and Bridgett in August

Wordless Wednesday

Ten on Tuesday

I have been in a little bit of a funk lately. Just really feeling the stress and pressure of life I guess. Instead of dwelling on those things I have decided to turn it over to God, and change my perspective by making a list of 10 things I am thankful for right now.

1. Warm, soft, fuzzy throws
2. Family movie nights
3. A baby that goes to sleep at 7 PM and doesn't wake up again until at least 7:30 AM
4. Prescription strength cough syrup with codeine...slept for the 1st time in almost 2 weeks last night
5. Medical Spending Debit Card: Brayden and I both met our prescription deductibles in the last few days and it was so nice that the $125 did not have to come out of our pocket
6. Meal plan done for the entire month...makes dinner so much easier when you take out the what's for dinner question
7. Grandma turning 80, and being able to celebrate her. I lost my other grandma 3 months before her 80th birthday, so I do not take this one for granted.
8. A job where I had 2 weeks off to spend with my family for Christmas, and where in 4 shorts weeks I get another week off for Spring Break!
9. Eating lunch at school with my kiddos, even neater when Daddy joins us
10. A working vehicle that takes my family to and from where we need to be. Stinks to be down to 1 car, but thankful that we still have reliable transportation for our family.

"Not Me!" Monday

This week my house has been full sickies, from of a coughing husband to hacking kids. Since I of course am never sick, it wasn't me that has kept my poor husband up for the past week and a half coughing non-stop all night long. I hate cough medicine with a passion, so if I did get out of bed numerous times a night to take the dreaded cough syrup or nasty Halls cough drops they would have at least helped me. Sigh, so I am not walking around like a zombie today, because 1 1/2 weeks with no sleep is finally catching up with me. Nor did I finally relent and let my husband make me a doctor's appointment for after school today. I guess the poor mister would like to sleep tonight.

We took the boys ice skating this weekend at Arctic Wolf. This was the boys second time to ice skate. We would never have taken them for the sole purpose that it was FREE we knew the boys would have a blast. I mean who cares that it is normally $11 to skate and $8 to watch a PERSON. There are only 6 people in our family so a mere $50 for an afternoon of skating...no biggie! I would never be that cheap. Plus the boys are already way better at skating than I ever was. So it isn't me that was constantly cracking up when they wiped out fell. That is not typically my humor, so it certainly wouldn't be funny when it was my own child falling. I mean they could get hurt, but don't think I wasn't giving God a mental "high 5" each time they missed hitting their heads by just a few inches.

This week I have not gotten addicted to a game called Luxor that Dustin found and loaded on his iPhone and my iPod Touch so that we can play it where ever we are. I just got on to him last week for playing it too much and at what I deemed bad timing, so that would be very hypocritical of me. That certainly doesn't sound like me at all. I mean I don't even really play video games very much, not even the Wii, so I would never get that addicted to a game. Not to mention my sweet angelic son Brandt would never be so competitive that anytime his Daddy plays Luxor and passes a level he wants a turn so he can catch back up to him.

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Very proud of the boys...

The older 3 boys are involved with Awanas at our church. Bryson is in Cubbies, and Brandt and Brayden are in Sparks. The older 2 have a self-paced book that they are suppose to go through memorizing verses. Their books are suppose to be for the full year. Brandt finished his book by Thanksgiving, and Brayden finished his book tonight (the 1st full week back from Christmas Break). I am so proud of both of them. What an amazing foundation they are getting through this program. Way to go boys!

Very Busy, Very Fun Saturday

My parents and nephews came to visit for the day, and we had a lot of fun. This morning we took all the boys to the local ice skating ring called Arctic Wolf. They were having an open house, and the boys got to try a lot of different things. Then this afternoon we took them to see the Texas A&M men's basketball team beat Nebraska. Whoop!

The boys and the "Cat in the Hat"

Sweet thing was freezing watching his brothers skateMy nephew Hunter and Brennan at the basketball game

My parents and Bryson Brayden and Dustin Bryson getting ready to "whoosh" when the Ags make a free throw Brennan was obsessed with feeding my dad popcornBrennan with his hands up during the Aggies free throws

Brandt and his best friend Clayton Brennan snuggling with my nephew Christian

The boys with the Yell Leaders after the basketball game