pumpkin carving picture post…

(ewww!)
(I still can’t believe she’s big enough for pig tails)

(next year we are investing in carving tools – from the dollar store no doubt!)

halloween 2009…

was a very Harry happy Halloween!
The kids loved dressing up as Harry Potter and Hermione Granger!

Before they knew it they had turned Danielle into a little buzzy bee!

But I guess that’s better than being turned into the Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat! Imagine that, she swallowed a bat! We did read about her at [...]

yoHO, yoHO…

…it’s a pirate’s life for me! Well, it was for Memorial Day anyway. :) We decided to get out and have some fun – and boy did we! :)
This was a first for all three of the kids and by the last hole I’d say they pretty much had it figured out (in spite of [...]

what an eggsellent time…

…we had at Ms. Martha’s house on the 4th!

Officially this was Danielle’s first easter egg hunt. However, with all the rush and tons of eggs you were content with the first two you laid eyes on.

If only I had the luck you kids have! Not only did you find lots of eggs, Jadon found the [...]

the rest of the birthday…

festivities were pretty low key! Since you were under the weather on your actual birthday, we postponed the celebrations for a week! :-)

You got some nice new clothes, toys, money and lots of sweet wishes!

I was impressed how quickly you figured out how to get on your new horse…

and how quickly you learned to get [...]

what an amazing first year…

you have had – truly a beautiful year…full of love, laughter, discoveries, trials, growth and so much more.
From day one you have had a very nurturing and watchful big sister. She’s usually the first one on the scene to rescue you when something goes wrong!

And your big brother accepted his new role with such [...]

a baby’s first birthday…

requires a lot of preparation. A Mom has to get the cake ready, the baby ready, the camera ready, siblings ready, party area ready (this includes anything that might show up in the photos), and if you’re smart you get the bath ready…before the festivities begin! I missed that bathtub part. There I was, dirty [...]

from the mouths of two braswell babes…

we heard an unwarranted, “Santa did a good job this year!” I can assure you Mr. and Mrs. Claus were beaming from ear to ear when they heard this news. :)

One of the first things the kids discovered was that Santa left a note. Not just any note…one stained with evidence of eaten cookies and [...]

the one present worthy of its own post…

(drum roll)…the NERF GUN! :) Mainly because everybody had so much fun playing with it. The pictures pretty much say it all…

“WHAAHAHA!”

“He’s gonna do what to me with that thing?”

The fear didn’t last long. After a while the girls couldn’t keep their hands off it!

“Whoa, DUDE!! I just shot the camera!”

“I’m gonna get that bear!”

“GOT [...]

dear santa…

I know it was my first Christmas and all, but next year do you think I could get more than just bows and ornaments? :)

I did like these gold ones.

And the purple ones with mice were pretty cool too.

Wait a second! Where did my bow go?

Okay, back to the ornaments…look! I can put them in [...]