Brother's wedding

My kids and I flew to Colorado over the weekend for my baby brothers wedding. It was an amazing trip. I got to see my brother Chance marry his beautiful bride Caiti, got to play in snow and got to see my niece take her first steps!







She is so pretty and we are so excited that she joined our family. And my brother is so handsome. They make a very cute couple.

Ily was the flower girl, Joey was one of the ring bearers and I was one of the bridesmaids.


My Mom and I made Ily's dress the night before the wedding. My sister found the idea on pinterest and of course Ily fell in love with it and talked Mema into making it. We ran out of tulle so the morning of the wedding I ran to Hobby Lobby which is about 20 minutes away to be there when they first open to buy more tulle.
We finished just in time!



Handsome cowboy. Papas decided the ring bearers needed cowboy hats like the groomsmen so he took them to get hats.

Snow!


Snowball fight with the cousins.


Some of the cousins going for a ride in the fire truck with Papas.


Joey got his own seat on the plane ride back home. The plane was tiny, 1 seat on one side of the aisle and 2 on the other side. Ily got her own seat on the way there but for some reason I didn't take a picture of her. Oops.



We had such a good time even thought it was a short trip we had tons of fun as always.
I wish my brother and new sister the best and many happy years together.

Ily's new guitar

We bought Ily a Taylor Swift edition Baby Taylor for Christmas but it has been on back order so she didn't get it on Christmas. It finally came in last night and she was so excited to go with Dad to pick it up.



I love sitting here listening to her practice in the living room.

Mommy and Me

Ily and I have started a notebook thanks to Pinterest for the idea. We write notes back and forth every day. I'm loving it, she has been able to tell me things that maybe she wouldn't tell me in person. I'm definitely saving the notebook to reread when she gets older and plan to continue this for a long time.

Merry Christmas

We had a great time in Disney World for Christmas. More pictures to come but for now here is our Christmas card picture I didn't get printed and sent out.

We hope all of you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Joey

This is what happens when I let Joey play with my phone.





I get all kinds of random pictures and videos.


He's lucky he's so cute!

I am Thankful for Friends who give my kids hand me downs when their kids outgrow things.
Joey got a new bike



And a new drum set. Thank You Emma!



These were both on his Christmas list. He thought it was Christmas already.
Now what does Santa bring?!

St Jude's Walk

We had the opportunity to participate in the St Jude's 5K Walk this morning with Joe's work. We love doing these walks they're so touching and a great way to teach my kids about helping those in need.
This walk was at the Zoo which added a special treat to get to walk for others and see the animals. Ily and Joey were occupied seeing the animals it kept them from complaining they were tired!

Before the walking playing with the ducks.


Joey was a little nervous to get close to the ducks at first.


He got brave.





Love these two!


We got attacked by pigeons!


They gave us green laces in support of St Jude's.


Bullritos Group



This giraffe came really close.


Look at that tongue.





We Finished!