2 Years!!

2 YEARS BABY!!!

So yesterday, January 7th marked our 2 year anniversey! last year both of us completly forgot all about our anniversery until the day was over, so we made sure to remember this time. Brit, Brandon's sis offered to watch the kid's so we could go out....we were so all over that! So we decided to go to Northwoods (our favorite restaurant ever)!

We both ordered way too much food, so we stopped by the house to drop off the leftover's and left again to go bowling! It was alot of fun, except for the fact that I cannot bowl....the score ended up being 144 (brano) - 47 (me)! Wow!

One of our favorite things to do is take silly, dumb pic's so after we were done bowling and playing video games, we took our silly pic's. So here they are! Anyways, it's been a great year for us. For those of you that don't know we started dating when we were 16 and we have had alot of crazy, fun, hard, years since then, but we couldnt be happier then we are now! I love him soo much and am so glad i got to marry my prince charming!!!

Family Fun August 2007

Ok so i know these are months old, but they are cute so i have to post them. Brit and Dylan came down to go to the beach house and then spend another week at the house. Elli and Dyland and Ayes are all the best of friends. They had alot of fun together that week.

Dyl taught Ayes how to climb up onto the chair and rock back and forth. It was a fun activity that week.

Heres the baby einstein i got for my baby shower. The baby's loved it!

Aisley loved the pool this summer. We went alot and she's a fish just like her sister!

Ayes and cousin Dyl in their floaties at the pool!

We went to Johns Incredible Pizza Co. The babies were so funny while they were eating, they sat right next to eachother in their high chairs and they thought it was pretty funny...as you can see they were sharing food haha

I MADE Bri and her friend go on this ride with Elli... haha (they really did not want to go at all- they are way too cool for this)
Elli taking Ayes on the slide in the kid area....such a good big sister!!

And Ill leave you all with a true princess. Of course this is what she chose for her prize! Duh what else would she choose....She is such a lil princess!

Rose Parade

There's a tradition in Brandon's family to go to the Rose Parade every year. Nana (Brandon's grandma) lives very close to the parade route, so we just slept over there, got up in the morning and headed out to the route. All the family was there talking and just hangin out. Elli brought her good friend Taylor, and immediatly Bri started shooting silly string at them and so the girls got her back really good as you can see.

Here's Elli and Dylan.(Brittney's son) They have so much fun together! He and his mom came down to visit all the way from Michigan...

Here's my sister in law's Brittney, Bri, Braydee...

Bran, Me and Ayes watching the parade, she seriously was so good the whole parade, she sat there and watched all the floats go by, she got especially excited when she saw the horses and the bands.

So for most of the parade the girls were really good, during a little break I got a picture of them doing what they were doing when they were boerd...Elli blowing the annoying horn her daddy bought her and Taylor concentrating so hard on pouring her orange juice in the lid, then drinking it very carefully...they were cute!

Here's Braydee and her boyfriend Jeff....

Ayes and Daddy watching the band in the parade...

The girls staring at a really cool float!

Elli dancing and clapping at the band playing the music, I think that was her favorite part of the whole parade....

When the firefighter's came by Jerry started yelling dont throw us a rose throw my son a job! It was so funny!

All in all we had a great new year and we hope all you did too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disneyland 12-19-07

Brandon and I gave Elli a Disneyland pass for Christmas, and I wanted to take her before Christmas before all the decorations were taken down. We had a blast! We walked on all the rides. The only one we had to wait in was finding nemo, and that was 30 minutes. So it wasnt too bad. Her favorite ride's were splash mountain and Hollywood Tower of Terror.

Here she is with her churro, gotta love those churro's. They are seriously the best!! And she thinks they are called cherrios.

Here's Elli with Santa Claus. Everytime we see Santa, she tell's him something different. Most of the time it is a pink guitar, but this time it was a piano.....i bet you didn't know she knew how to play all these instruments huh? pretty talented. j/k! she also asked for a silver star...Isn't this the cutest lil santa you have ever seen....disneyland always has the best santa....

Here's Santa's reindeer. She thought it was pretty cool that his reindeer were here too.

And oh my goodness, this as Elli would say is Santa's wife...She was the sweetest lady ever. She so fit the part. And Brielle took in all the sweetness from her, she kept talking about santa's wife all day...It was pretty darn cute.

And here is Elli with the Alice in Wonderland crew, except the Queen. And Brielle just had to wait for her so she could say hi to her. I really didn't want to wait there for her to get done talking to people but Brielle was so adament about it, so I did. And it was pretty funny, the queen was being so funny with her, she was trying to play her mean part and Elli wasnt too sure she liked that.

She also saw the wiked witch from Snow White, and kept telling me how nice that wiked witch was...

We went on Finding Nemo for the first time, and enjoyed that. Here's Elli in the submarine...

Here we are in front of the huge beautiful Christmas tree....my favorite part of Disneyland at this time of year....sorry so blurry, just what happens when you ask someone to take a pic for you

After Disneyland, we went to California Adventure to watch the Aladdin show, and Elli made a friend in line and they just had to sit by eachother, and kept eachother entertained while waiting for the show to start. But she had a major probelm when she had to leave and didnt understand why we couldnt just hang out with her the rest of the night. But much to my luck she found another friend in the line of tower of terror who was her age and they kept saying hi friend and giving eachother hugs and playing. When the ride was done, Elli yelled hey friend did you love that ride...she said yes friend i did.. Kids crack me up...

Here's when we were leaving, everyone was taking pictures next to the letter's in front of california adventure and Elli just could not be left out so she went and stood by the L and some kid came up to her and said get a picture of me too. i was like oh honey can i get a picture of her please, he said no me too, and wouldnt budge so i just snapped the picture, then he wouldnt leave us alone, so i asked wheres your mommy, he said i dont know i dont have one, so i started thinking maybe i should help look for his mom, but eventually i found his aunt or something taking pics of her kids and not even worried about this other kid shes in charge of... gotta love all the many types of people that come to dland. We had a great mommy daughter date and Elli was asleep before we even got on the freeway. She was a trooper!

Elli's 4th Birthday Party

THE PARTY GIRLS!!!

Brielle turned 4 on November 25th. I let her choose what kind of a party she wanted and she chose a princees party, of course no surprise there!! We got her a princess bounce house, which she was completly estatic about (i dont think i spelled that right) The whole time they were setting it up, she was just standing there watching, and completly shaking, half from being so excited and the other half from being so cold! When they were done she was so in there with Aisley and Bri, they all were laughing so hard beccause they were having sooo fun!

When all her friends arrived, they decorated princess crown and wands with stickers,diamonds , and other fun stuff i got for them...they really enjoyed that, and it kept them busy for awhile too,

Next, came face painting done by my ever so talented sister, Jessica, she did an awesome job! oh by the way in the above picture thats keleny and bri helping with the decorating of the crowns and wands....loved the awesome help! Anyways, here are some pictures of Elli with some of her friends after they had their face's painted....

Abby & Elli, friend from mum's church!

Elli & Aslyn, friend from church!

Elli & Addi...friend from church!

Rachel and Elli...friend from church!!

Elli and Chloe...friend from dance!!

Elli and Alyssa....friend from dance!!

Talent Factory Girls!!!

Aspen and Elli...friend from church!!

Hanna, Elli, Brenna...the 3 cousins!!

Elli and Taylor...the BFF!

The girls before musical chairs...

Brenna was the winner!!

Opening the presents was insane! Every single one of the girls was in a huddle so close around Brielle, I dont even know how they could breathe. They all had to see what she got and wanted her to open their presents first. It was really funny to watch.

She made a wish (out loud) that all her family could go to disneyland together and have alot of fun! It was a crazy, but fun day! She slept excellent that night by the way!