Thursday, July 9, 2015

NEW Beds!!

Tyler had minor surgery during June, and the kids stayed at my parent's house for a week while Tyler was recovering.  While they were staying up there Natalie started sleeping in Brandon's bed, and Brandon was sleeping in our bed.  She told my mom that she didn't want to sleep in a crib any more.  Well, that was going to be a problem at our house because the only options we had were B's bed, my mom's bed, and her crib.

My mom will be living with us again next year, Monday night - Thursday night, so I knew we couldn't give her bed to Natalie without having another option for her, and I didn't think that a blow up mattress was a real option.

From there I started looking at what I wanted to get for Brandon.  I knew that we were going to be buying him the new bed because the day bed we had was more for a girl then it was for a boy.  Plus his room is slightly larger, just the layout is better for a bigger bed.  (Don't worry, Nat has the bigger closet, I did think these things through when they were born!)

My mom and I took the kids to Mor Furniture and we found what we wanted to get B.  Tyler and I had looked at it ahead of time online, and B loved it!


The new beds take up almost all of the space in B's room, but now he has THREE beds in his room and he couldn't be happier!  We have started to find places for him to put his toys in all of the drawers that are in his bed too!  The steps even have drawers in them, so that is helpful.


They love to play on the top bunk of course!  This bunk is a Batman bunk!


We had to go out and buy new sheets to celebrate our new beds!  Brandon picked out Batman, Ninja Turtles, and dinosaurs.  We could only find Ninja Turtles in the full, or else batman would have been on the big bed!



The next day we took apart Nat's room, and put the big girl bed in her room!  We moved her Minnie sheets to her room too!  She loves her big girl bed and has been sleeping like a champ in her new bed!!


Thank you grandma and grandpa for helping us get new beds for our babies!!  They love them!!



Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Dinner Dates

During the school year last year Nat would spend every other week during the Fall at my parent's house, and then in the Spring she lived at my parent's house.

There would be some nights when Tyler would have plans, or something he had to do at work, so that left Brandon and I on our own for dinner!

On a few of these nights I would take him some where special for dinner!


His favorite thing out of the salad were the olives, and by the time his dinner came he didn't even want it!!  Keep that in mind if you ever take my little man to Olive Garden!!




Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Christmas '14

Merry Christmas!  We all love Christmas in July, right?!

We celebrated Christmas this year up at my parent's house again.  It has become our new tradition, and it still kind of feels like Christmas up there!


Santa came, and laid out all of our presents for us so when we woke up in the morning it looked like this!!

Before we could start opening presents we had to finish our nativity calendar!  B was very excited to put baby Jesus in the manger!


We took turns opening our awesome gifts from mommy, daddy, grandma and grandpa!  This was the first year that we did only three gifts, and I think it worked perfectly!  It kept our buying to a minimum, and they still enjoyed everything they got!





Grandma was excited to get B's first book of life!  You wouldn't know that he was already three!  (Ooops!)


Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!




B's favorite present were the Mickey and Minnie cars from Aunt Colie, Uncle Jon, and Kinley!!  Love you guys!!


Monday, July 6, 2015

Nat's Arm

During December Natalie decided that she wanted to stand on our bench at our dining room table to color.  We were all dressed and ready to go for church.

All of a sudden Natalie was laying on the ground crying!!  We didn't know what had happened.  Tyler was in the kitchen doing dishes, and I was sitting at the table grading papers.

When I looked at her arm it just looked strange to me.  We drove across the street to the ER, and called Tyler's parents to see if they could come pick up B for us.


Daddy held our little princess while the admitting nurse tried to get some information and vitals form our sweet girl.


You may not be able to tell from this angle, but her arm was definitely bent!


Even spending the morning in the ER she wanted to cheese!!


They could only give us a soft cast in the ER, so we had to wait a few days before going to see a specialist to confirm that her arm was broken.  The ER told us it was broken in TWO places.


Waiting to see the doctor!


X Rays for our appointments two weeks apart.  You can FOR SURE see that your bone was BENT!!  CRAZY!!


Our sweet baby girl was excited to have a bright PINK cast of course!  Would you have expected anything less!?!  Just like her mama!!

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Rachel's Wedding

I was able to fly up to spend Rachel's wedding weekend with her, but Tyler and the kids weren't able to come!


Friday morning we went and got our nails done after we were done setting up the venue!  It was quite an adventure, we can just leave it at that!


Rehearsal was simple, quick and to the point!  My favorite kind!  Rachel's venue is BEAUTIFUL!


Saturday morning we had mom crying right away!!  She started crying when we made our first mimosa!!  It's okay mom, she's married, but she's still your baby!


We had lots of fun taking pictures in the bridal suite!  I'll let these speak for themselves!







After we were all dressed we had even more time to take more pictures!  Needless to stay we had a lot of fun taking pictures!!



After the ceremony it was time to eat, drink and be merry!!


First dance as Mr. and Mrs!!


Daddy daughter dance is always a favorite!!


Tossing away the bouquet!!!


Congratulations little sister! I wish you nothing but a world of happiness!

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Rachel's Bachelorette Party

The weekend after Rachel's wedding shower we celebrated her Bachelorette party!!  It was a TON of fun!!


Our awesome room!  Thank you mom and dad for heaping us stay at such a nice hotel!!  This picture was taken before I decorated!


Before we went out Friday night Rachel, Heather and Charisma took some fun pictures with our photo props!


Rachel and her friends out to dinner Friday night!


We HAD to get dessert after our amazing dinner!  It was so yummy!!!


Saturday morning Rachel, Heather and I woke up and got our coffee on our way to the nail salon.  There we treated ourselves to some mani and pedis!!


For lunch we ate at another yummy restaurant, and of course had to get our first bowl of the day!!


Our dad LOVES Snoopy, so we had to take a picture with the Charlie Brown statue as we were walking through the mall!


Rachel and her Maid of Honor, Heather, at dinner Saturday night!  We ate at a super yummy Mexican restaurant, with even better margaritas!!


We ended the night the way the afternoon started, with another bowl!!

Rachel had a blast, and she was ready to be wed!!