That time of year....

I will have to take a moment here and give accolades to my husband's photog skills...cause he's got them!  Although every now and then I hit the nail on the head and luck into a good shot.  As my luck would have it, it's usually a pic of him.  (Yay Me) So I did it again here...in my opinion.  And the lighting outside certainly played a major role, then again it is hard to take a bad pic when the subject is so strikingly handsome. 
We did our Christmas Card pics at the barn in Southlake this year.  We always have fun.  There is not much too serious about our camera time.  Except Brandon trying to not laugh in just about every pic I take!  You can see that here if you look.  He is trying hard to not burst out laughing at me. 

Anyway on point....this is one of my favorite times of year.  Not that there any times of year I truly dislike.  I have a hard time fitting in ALL the things I want to do with the kids and for the kids.  I realize that the most important thing is being together, being at peace and loving one another.  There will always be another year to decorate the Gingerbread Houses, there are plenty of lights to drive around and see, there are tons of cookies in our future to decorate, Santa will always be there waiting for us to take our pic with him and they will NEVER run out of toys for me to buy.  So this year I am sitting back relaxing, enjoying the season, looking forward to new traditions, not worrying about what we did not get to do.  Most of all I look forward to sitting down and reading the story of Baby Jesus in Luke tomorrow night and telling Bradford about his Christmas Day Christening when he was 6 weeks old.  (And of course we will make Santa's cookies) For now
Good Night to all and to all a new year...

I have nothing to say

Well how about that!  I have not had time to blog lately and I really miss it.  Here I am with both boys watching a movie, munching on carmel popcorn balls and I have time to blog....Yet I have no idea what I want to blog about....Do what??  Yep....

This may be one of my most random posts EVER. 

Today was the last day of T-Ball.  Glad for the break since today was so cold.  We will all miss it though.  I will miss wathcing Bradford learn more about the sport and seeing him get excited about something new.  Daddy will miss assistant coaching...I will miss watching him do that too...Berkeley will miss playing with Izzy.  Bradford will miss seeing his teammates and having quite the cheering section.  Everytime he was up to bat, he would turn around to make sure his entourage was watching.  When I say entourage I am referring to the two sets of grandparents and any various number of aunts.  It never failed that he always had more followers than any other team member.  It kind of reminded me of Dana who told her family they were only allowed to buy her children 1 gift for Christmas and Birthdays.  No showing up with box on top of box.  Good thing there is no such rule in t-ball:  No showing up with person on top of person to see you play.  What if it was like graduating from A&M and you could only invite 5 people from you whole life to see you graduate.  Heck I have more sisters than that!  Limits just don't run in our family.  Everything is always over the top, filled to the brim, good to the last drop, bring a friend and stay awhile...

We had a ball at Bradford's bowling party on Wed.  He had lots of great friends there to play and he was on cloud 9 all day.  I still can not believe he is 5.  It seems like yesterday we were getting up at the crack of dawn to head up to the hospital.  I remember how excited Daddy was to be a daddy.  He still amazes me daily what a fantastic father he is.  I mean I always knew he would be great but he actually far exceeds my expectations.  But then again he far exceeds my expectation of an amazing husband too. 

Berkeley is just about the cutest little two year old I know.  He just makes you smile the second you meet him.  I am thankful daily that God saw fit for Berk to join our family.  What a joy. 

Well that is the end of the voices in my head on the chilly, fall eveing...Enjoy the season of thanks and giving...

there are NO divng boards in Robot land

pat pat pat....now raise one finger...pat pat pat with four fingers....pat pat pat... raise up the thumb, pat pat pat...only three fingers left...pat pat pat....pat pat pat...shhh shhh...mommy's here....two fingers left....shhhh...pat pat pat slowly slowly pat pat...shhhh...no more patting...he pops his head up...shhhh...mommy is still here go night-night....pat pat pat...crawl out of room...


Thank GOD every night is like that.  It reminds me of the office--no not the show on NBC...take a little time off and you pay for it later..the boys spent last week with BEBE and Boss(Brandon's parents) and it will take us at least as long as they were gone to get back in the rhythum.  It did not help they just came home yesterday afternoon, an hour after we did and we were gone again tonight, leaving them with THE AMAZING KARA.  (We had a party @ my in-laws best friends new BAZILLION dollar house--A real cant miss...And Brandon's best friend for 9 years old thru college--which I left him there enjoying Memory Lane) 

KARA: the BEST gal in the world:  They are both in love with her.  For the first time in over a year, no one went to sleep for her, so I  came home at 11:00pm, to 2 boys still awake(mind you the latest my two boys HAVE EVER stayed up except for New Years Eve this year...oh.  correction, one was awake after sleeping for an hour...which left me to pat pat pat one to sleep and to help the other finish the roboot factory made out of Legos.  (Because who can sleep with an incomplete Lego Robot Factory???)  In my zeal to hit the hay, I tried to put a piece in the most convientent place calling it a diving board--"we can finish the swimming pool in the morning..."  His answer: "Oh Mom, there are NO diving boards in Robot Land--it makes the robots go bleazzzkkkkk!!!"  I should so know that...But after 2 COSMOS I apparently need to retire my Lego card for the night...

Sounds like everyone is asleep... so I'm off to never never land... thank God!    and no spell check tonight...

Bittersweet

Time flies when you're having fun.  That's NO lie! We go to the BEST Preschool EVER!  They let Berk start in January even thought he was a couple months younger than the rest of his class.  But he would cry after we dropped off Bradford every day during the fall because he wanted to go to school too.  It was the sweetest, saddest thing you've seen.  He was so excited to wear his little baby backpack and go to school, well at least after the second week.  Compass Preschool has been the best place for both of my boys.  We can't wait for next year! 

2008 First Day

2009 First Day

Ham bone

HAM BONE: Always hamming it up!  My kids for sure. 

I have no enlighting story for you today.  No big adventures....Nothing earth shattering....But boy do I love my life!  Seriously, I am in the lead for the cutest boys EVER, I am certain.  And man oh man, I have an amazing husband.  Quite sweet actually.  Bradford orchestrated a family concert last night.  Dad played the guitar, Bradford played the bongos and sang.  He was very "Type A" with his organization of it all...who sat where, what you sat in, then he brought his nite lamp from his room to shine on himself and his Dad while they performed.  Can we say spotlight?  And yes the questioning has begun already...A new American Idol Season and "When do we get to go there and watch them sing Mom?"  I feel a trip in my near future...He has been asking to go to American Idol for almost 2 years now!  Berkeley was creating chaos everywhere he went during the concert, not wanting to sit where his big brother told him...hmmm I see other things in my future too....