Love is in the Air....A Valentine's Wrap up!

Brooke and I are off to a day of Valentine Parties with the boys!

First stop, Drew's class......here are Drew and Diego....they both play on the same soccer team and sit at the same table!

Drew and his best buddy, Paxton, playing Valentine Bingo.

Drew and his teacher, Ms. Giebel! This is her first year teaching and she has been awesome!

Next stop...Jackson's classroom where only a few pictures were taken in order to avoid embarassment for Jackson......would not even look at the camera!

I had to resort to snapping a shot of him with his back to me while he was playing pictionary....his word was "Sweetheart" and he is about to write the word "sweet" in the middle of the heart. You're not supposed to write words, but he gets the point anyways!

Now, for Brooke's little party with her playgroup. Here she is with her friend Grace.....they both wanted to get in the swing, so this is what they got! It worked!

Making a Valentine's bag. She put about 2 stickers on it and was done......

The ladies in RED!!!! Look at these cuties! We have one boy who is in the playgroup....I think he was too overwhelmed by all the hairbows to get in the picture!

A Super Super Bowl Party :)

We had the Goodnoughs and the Pottorffs over this year to watch the Super Bowl. So, it was 6 adults and 13 kids! Craziness!











Brooke playing music on Abbie's phone.......













I guess the boys felt they had to recreate all the tackling that they were seeing on tv!
















Most of the gang.......













The Pottorff girls......aren't they beautiful?














Brooke put on Katie's headband, put on her tutu, pulled up the stool and helped herself to food on the counter. She had a great time entertaining everyone with her own halftime show of dancing in her tutu.......good times!

Busy, Busy, Busy....

Busy, busy, busy.....Brooke is my busiest child for sure!!! She is truly into everything.
She is getting into playing with her kitchen and will make us coffee or tea with never ending enthusiasm!















She will also serve you over and over and over again......you can never have enough coffee! Oh, and notice that she does it all in her tutu!


















Sometimes, I still can't believe that I have a little girl. I am truly enjoying all that she adds to our family! Maybe I'll have someone to help me in the kitchen soon :)

NFL Experience!

Since the SuperBowl was in Dallas this year, Jason and the boys headed down to the NFL Experience for some great fun!

The boys got to pass, kick, and catch balls on a regulation size NFL field. They thought that was super cool!

Watch out Tony Romo!

Poor Drew...I just know he's on his tippy toes!

Tough football player face.....

They got to see a lot of neat memorabilia and each got new sets of football cards which they are really into these days.

They have the coolest Dad for taking them to things like this!

Birthday Bash!

I cannot believe we just celebrated Jackson's 9th birthday! We could not feel more blessed than to have Jackson as our son. He continues to develop a steady and strong character, with a lot of silliness mixed in!
Brooke was my little helper and she helped me lay out the plates for the boys. She knew something exciting was about to happen.









Jackson wanted his friends to meet at their school for a game of flag football. It was a beautiful afternoon and they had a great time!















Action shot...I don't know whether he caught it or missed it. I'll say he caught it of course!













Here is the team....Drew played too and he is lurking on the side. I just wanted to get Jackson and his friends in this one.











Then it was a short walk home for pizza and cookie cake. Jackson has never liked cake. He doesn't like the all the frosting on cakes. I know what he means. A cookie cake was perfect.









Ready to blow out the candles...















Next on the agenda....the Mavericks game. I painted the boys faces and we headed downtown. I thought they looked awesome!











Gangsta kids from FloMo













Finally, home and getting settled for bed. They were all asleep by 1 a.m., although in the morning some of them claimed they stayed up all night long. Yeah, right!
These boys were so fun to be around and I think they all had a great time.
Happy 9th Birthday Jackson! We love you!

Holiday Happenings!

We started out holiday celebration at my parents house this year. Brooke loved hanging at her own little table coloring and peeling stickers out of books!










One day, all the boys (Jason, the boys, Papa, and Uncle Ben) went to Snow Creek where they tubed down the big Kansas mountain. It actually was perfect for them and they had a great time.





Hold on tight!










This is toooo cute! Brooke put her little doggies under the Christmas tree and was having a little face time with them.







Autie A brought some fun games to play on Christmas Eve. This is her version of "Minute to Win It" We had to pull all the tissues out of a kleenex box in a minute....could we do it? YES!!

Staying with tradition, a cardboard table was set up for puzzles. Ben and Jackson doing a NFL puzzle. Grandma Bernice would be proud!

The boys on Christmas morning with their Itouches! Thank you Nana and Papa!

Our second stop was at Grandma and Grandpa's house. The kids just posed in this position out of the blue....once we saw it, the cameras started flashing. I love Jackson's arm around Drew, but the hand on Brooke's forehead....that looks a little forceful :)

One of our traditions from Grandpa....his famous Belgiun Waffles! We were so spoiled...we had these every morning and Jackson is even writing a "how to" paper on how to make these waffles!

The boys sandwiching Uncle Josh.

One of their all time favs....XBox Kinect. Fun times ahead! Thank you Gma and Gpa!

Brooke was in heaven when she saw her new Wiggles DVD. It immediately went in to the dvd player and by the end of the day, we all knew the songs :)

Grandma and Grandpa brought Brooke and the boys bourets home from their trip to Paris. They also got those little wooden jumping jacks from Germany.

One day, we went to the bowling alley on fort. It was so fun!

How cute is this dinosaur that they have for little kids to roll their bowling ball down? Brooke loved it and scored better than her mom!

Bowling Buddies!

The night before we left, we went to the T-Rex Restaurant where we learned of Brooke's love of dinosaurs. Who knew?? She followed the dinosaur around the restaurant and still talks about "Dexter the dinosaur"

The gang at the end of a wonderful Christmas season!