Other January Happenings

Samuel started Preschool & is absolutely LOVING it!!
Brielle & Colette started Gymnastics and also loving it!
Timothy is just running everywhere these days to keep up with his siblings (and taking months & months to get his molars in, poor boy -- constant drool stain on all his shirts)...
Brielle is obsessed with cooking these days - she just LOVES to help with dinner!
And the last picture - our cute matching boys - such handsome brothers.... :)

Brielle's Birthday Party!

The long-awaited birthday party!! :) Brielle has begged us for one of these for quite a few years now! She finally got her first one.... And she had a blast!! She invited 8 girls over and there was a pinata, a pin-the-nose-on-the-snowman game, prizes & fun party-favor bags, and of course, cake & ice cream -- Brielle chose an angel cake this year from our fun cake book... (It was supposed to be a winter-wonderland theme -- also something Brielle had chosen)... She was off-the-walls excited all week for that party, and it went really well -- she has some fun friends -- they made it a fun party! Afterwards, we asked her what her favorite part was, and she said having all her friends come over to her house! (She has always LOVED anything social!) :) So anyway, here are the pictures from her party... Phew! (Hopefully we haven't set too much of a precadent for the future)... :)

(Jared was the one who eventually had to break open the pinata for us - it was quite the tough one... The girls LOVED seeing it break open!)

Brielle's 7-year-old Pictures

We just can't believe how grown-up this little girl of ours is getting... Jared took these for me this year -- he and Brielle had a fun time together finding places for her to pose! :)

Brielle's 7th Birthday!

Cannot believe we have a 7-year-old already!! Craziness... She had about a week-long celebration with Jared being gone to Albuquerque on her actual birthday, so we did as much to celebrate as possible on the day of, and waited to open presents and stuff until he was home. And then also, she got to take cupcakes to school the following day for her birthday, and she had her first birthday party with friends invited over this year!! (Which was the following weekend)... So I think we're safe to say, she had a great birthday this year! :)


Birthday Morning...



Celebrating with Grandma & Grandpa the evening of her birthday...

We had quite the crazy games of Twister that night!



Dad's Home! Opening presents time... :)



Taking Cupcakes to School...