Lately......

We have been pretty crazy lately. Shawn is getting ready to start his last semester of his master's in August and took his CFA test in June, (which we get the results for next week!) For some reason, we decided to build a patio and finish our basement to add some more fun. I started a new job in March which I am loving- I love actually liking my job! Brynna is growing like a weed and coming up with something new to make us laugh everyday. We fall more and more in love with her everyday! Once Shawn finds out he passed the CFA, he can start applying for his "career" job, and we will finally know if we are moving! Which if we have to,I am hoping somewhere awesome like Boston or London. But who knows. These are just a couple pictures of lately :o)


I put her in a tutu and pigtails and she was loving it! She is seriously such a girly girl- when I put on makeup, she insists that she get some too. She loves purses and credit cards- I think I'm in trouble!

We found her like this one morning after she woke up. Apparently she was still tired, but not tired enough not to play :o)
Paul got a new dog Toffey. You can see them doing this at the patio door and the front door whenever they hear something outside. So flipping cute!
The patio before picture once we started construction. Hopefully, one day I will be able to post the after picture :o)
I think there is only two words for this. Stinking cute!
Grandma and Grandpa Doty bought her her very own chair. She loves it!
"Where's your belly?". She knows
Probably one of the cutest pictures I have of her and Grandpa Doty
Paul's birthday was in May. So we had some fun with his room
Okay, Shawn insisted on taking this very unflattering picture of me. But he knows how high maintenance I am and how much I hate nature, so was ridiculously shocked (and I think pleased) that I decided I wanted to plant flowers. I think he is still shocked
This was in the corner. She found the kleenex box. They were everywhere.

Family Pictures

I am a Slacker

I know I have been a slacker lately. But here I go

Seriously, she is the freaking cutest things ever!! I just love that little face so much!

I am so in love with these bows. They are so stinkin' cute (no matter what my husband says) and the lady that makes them- wow. They are a little pricey, but it goes to such an amazing cause and they are so cute!

This was just hilarious. They both looked at us at the same time like, what?

This is Mose's new favorite thing. If she is on the floor he gets down on all fours to play. At least, we hope he wants to play.

She has had her first major bruise thanks to Aunt Alycia. She looked so pitiful with that bruise on her cheek! She was at Alycia's house trying to play with the banister and her hand slipped and she went face (or cheek) forward into it. Poor bubba!

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!!!