Christmas Vacation

Okay, so this is really long and wayyyy overdue! But the day after Christmas, Shawn Brynna and I, my Mom and Dad and my sister Tricia and her girls climbed in our cars and drove to Florida for a week. It was so much fun! First day was The Kennedy Space Center, then Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure and then Sea World. We are so glad that we went, it really was a blast!

Brynna is truly the perfect child! We drove for 2 days, and she cried once. The first day of driving, she cried right before we got to the hotel. That's it. She is so amazing!

Here she is with Grandma trying to drive her cart. Mom started reversing once and couldn't figure out why. Brynna was on her lap. She apparently felt the need to run over the people behind her

So here she is with The Grinch in Seussland at Islands of Adventure. She did not like him at all! Started screaming the second he looked at her. But he was an awesome Grinch!

She fell asleep in her cart on our shoppiong bags. So precious!

I don't know why we did this, other than it was Seussland- which is freaking awesome! I totally fell in love with it! Could have spent all day there

Grandpa and Brynna having fun!

She loves to cuddle with Grandpa.

Brynna was not a fan of all the characters, but I thought their costumes were awesome

The only ride that she could ride the whole trip was the carousel. And boy did she love it! She could not stop smiling and giggling the whole time.

So this is absolutely priceless. For Universal Studios Christmas parade, they actually own the balloons from the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and that is what they use for theirs. So they were looking for volunteers to hold the stings. Greg and Shawn "volunteered". Which means we volunteered them :o)

That is hott Ginger!

Believe it or not, Brynna is actually under there somewhere!

Tricia was apparently trying to jump up on the car. I don't know either.

I was serioulsy scared of this guy. He was cool and everything with his costume. But he totally freaked me out

We had so much fun and about 1,000 more pictures, but I have bored you enough.

Santa

So this is why I absolutely love Nebraska. I was dreading standing in line this Christmas at the mall waiting for Santa. But to our delight, Bass Pro Shop has a Santa. It is an awesome setup! They have crafts and passes so you don't stand in line too long. We had so much fun! My parents, Tricia and her girls, Alycia and her family and Paul all went to Bass Pro on Saturday.

These are the better pictures, Brynna was not exactly excited to see Santa- which we were expecting, and it was still so cute, even if she was screaming!
I took some pictures at home of her in front of our tree, and some came out beautiful! She is so stinkin' cute and we are loving watching her experience all the Christmas traditions we love so much. Even if she doesn't understand them all :o)

Lately......

For Thanksgiving we went to Shawn's parents for dinner and my parents for dessert. Brynna was loving all the food.


Grandpa Doty feeding her cool whip. THe above picture is her following it when he is trying to take it away
Mmmm.......
She was having some fun crawling around playing with everybody's shoelaces.


All the food just tuckered her out.

This is our Brynna bug at Halloween. She was the cutest ladybug ever!
She thought she was pretty stinkin' funny!
You can seriously never stop kissing her cheeks!

This is one of my favorites. Auntie Trish found her a shirt that matched Daddy's jack-o-lantern shirt. So she wore that all day and her bug costume at night. My little pumpkins!!!

Put Into a Headlock by the 2nd Richest Man in the World

Yes, that is Warren Buffet, founder of Berkshire Hathaway and 2nd richest man in the world. And that is my husband he has in a headlock. So many comments, so little room.

Definitely something to keep Shawn going through his master's. Thanks Warren!!!

Lots of things lately......

These are just some random pictures of the last little bit. They are out of order- but still super cute!


This is Brynna's new favorite thing- Super Bryn!!! She loves when you sing Super Bryn and fly her through the air. I will say, my daughter does not like cameras- she usually smiles much bigger than this.
At Papio Bay they had doggie day and we decided to see if Mose could swim. He can- but he doesn't want to. This is one of many pictures we have of him trying to get out of the water.
She wore her first hoodie the other day and it was so stinking cute! I couldn't stop loving on her!

So, Brynna loves sweet peas, bananas, applesauce, pears. But green beans, not so much.

This is her other favorite thing- riding on daddy's shoulders.
And put her in front of the mirror on daddy's shoulders, you get the cutest little giggles!

I decided to start a tradition on General Conference weekend. Big breakfasts- which we don't normally eat. It turned out really well. However, in my wonderful year and a half of marriage to my amazing husband, who spoils me ridiculously and cooks very well, I learned something new this day. He really can't cook breakfast. I asked him to cook the bacon. It burned (I cooked the rest). I asked him to pour the waffle mix onto the waffle maker. He forgot to spray non-stick so they were destroyed. Next year, I will have him set the table :o) (And Paul cooked the hashbrowns. They didn't burn. Mom taught us well).
Even though he can't cook breakfast, I wouldn't trade him for the world! He is too good to me- just ask my family~

Labor Day Weekend

So on the labor day weekend we went to the zoo and the the Strategic Air Command Museum. Shawn has been trying to get me to go there for awhile, but I knew it would just feed his desire to go into the military. But I finally gave in and it was a lot more fun than you would think! And Shawn was like a kid in a candy store!


This is the only picture I am posting of the zoo- we have a TON on pictures of animals, but you know what those look like :o)
She is so stinkin' cute!
These are Brynna Boo just chilling at the museum. She was really good and just kept looking around at all the planes.
Ashley thought it was really cool that she could touch actual planes- Don't ask me.
This is the sign when you walk in. We have a lot of really cool pictures of planes and and signs and memorials but there are way too many. The museum is worth the trip and they have updated a lot apparently from a few years ago.
She got tired waiting for Daddy and Ashley in line.
Ashley and Shawn in the simulator getting ready for their "adventure". Shawn said it was pretty cool, but the B-2 simulator was better.
In the cockpit of the plane. There are way too many buttons in that thing. Probably a good thing I am not a pilot.