Happy Birthday Grammy!!!

Today is your 61st Birthday!!!  I can't believe it! You don't look a day over 59!! Just kidding! I hope I look half as good as you when I'm that old!! Haha! In all seriousness I hope you have a wonderful Birthday and wish you many many more!!  We love you so much!! 

From this cute little girl...

to a blushing Bride...

to the best Mom...

and Grammy ever!!!

Happy Birthday! We love you very much!!

Uncle Brad Home for some R&R!

We were so happy to see Uncle Brad when he was home for a week!!  I'm not sure how much rest or relaxation he actually got but I know we enjoyed having him here!!  The night he got in, Scott cooked him a steak dinner and we had Aunt Taylor, Uncle Lucas, Aunt Lindsey and the kids over for dinner and to hang out! It is always so nice to be with eveyone!! Then the next morning we had Meema and Marty and Aunt Taylor and her boyfriend Robert over for breakfast! Again, it is so nice just to hang out with everyone!!! Then during the week it was just awesome to have Brad here and the kids loved playing with him!! Then the night before he left, Uncle Lucas and Aunt Taylor came over so we could hang out!! That was fun to all get to hang out one more time before Brads back in a few months!! While Brad was here he got a Tattoo on his arm.  All the way down his arm like a sleeve.  It looks really cool and tough! Well, when you have a 2 year old that thinks her Uncle is just the coolest you end up with a 2 year old with marker all down her arm!!  Alli was coloring and then she came over to me and showed me her "tattoo" just like Uncle Brad!!  Gotta love it!!

Brad showing Logan and Taylor cool Army stuff!!

Alli hanging with Aunt Taylor!

The girls talking!!

Alli wanted Logan to hold her!

Look at how Alli looks at Uncle Brad!

I love this picture!!

Marty, Robert and Aunt Taylor!

Siblings...

being...

Siblings! 

Look at those handsome guys!!

Uncle Brad got to read lots of books during his break! :-)

Alli's tattoo!!

St. Patty's Day 2012

Okay, so I know this is over a month late but that's just how I roll these days!!  I really do think about blogging a lot it, but just seems I never get around to it.  So better late then never right? Eventually, I will post about Christmas and New Years! (Talk about way behind!!)

So this year for St. Patty's Day, we (the kids, Grammy, Grampy, Aunt Sarah and Nana) went to a little Irish festival! They had an Irish band and the creek was colored green and they had hair painting and face painting for the kids!  It was a lot of fun!!! We (me and my kids) got there too late to get our face or hair painted, but we still had fun walking around and listening to Irish music!  Then for dinner one of the Pubs was serving corned beef and cabbage and they had green beer!!!  During dinner Grampy kept the kids entertained by wearing any and all accessories that Alli grabbed out of Grammy's bag!! Then later after dinner we took the kids for a walk around the creek and of course we had to stop for cookies!!  Alli picked the huge green iced shamrock so she go to share that with Benny!  I don't think she actually ate any cookie, I think it was all icing!! Then the big boys (David and Andy) decided they wanted to climb on the brick walls around the creek and Andy kept saying 'I have incredible upper body strength' as he was pretending to walk the wall with his "arms" only!! It was very cute!! After all this fun it was time for us to head home and see Uncle Brad!! He had just got home for some R&R (I will do this post next) so we got to hang out with all the cousins and aunts and uncles all in one day!!  Alli was in heaven!!!

Here are some pictures! Enjoy!

We are all wearing our 'Kiss Me I'm Irish' shirts!

I'm so lucky!!

My little leprechauns!

Callie got her hair painted red! (like her mommy)

This is just the start of Grampy's bling!

Andy and Nana had fun!!

Andy with his green beard!

David's green mustace!

Yep that's Grampy!!

Alli thought he needed a hat to complete the look!

I know that no one is looking in this picture but I love how Benny is trying to give Grampy a puff!

David added an unibrow to his look!!

A rare brotherly hug!

Alli enjoying some icing!!

Showing me her shamrock!! Ben was loving his!!

Look at this cutie!!

A little messy but oh so cute!

Callie chose ice cream!

Aunt Sarah showing off her face tattoo!

Andy and his incredible upper arm strength! (this picture is from the wrong side, when you were in front of him it really did look like he was just using his hands to walk the wall. Making the comment more funny!)