Santa Clause is coming to town...

Breakfast with Santa was so special. We took the kids to my hometown firehouse for breakfast with Santa. I remember going to my Pop-Pop's firehouse for breakfast with Santa. It was very nicely done and the kids just loved every minute of it. Hot Chocolate, cookies and munchkins, candy canes of course...and....Santa even brought a special gift for each of the kids. Baily and Erika got an e-pet, just what they wanted! How did Santa know? Braydon got a transformer and waited patiently for his turn, not shy at all. I am so glad they will have this memory, and so will Shamus and I.

Erika and Kit, Baily and Nelly at the American Girl Place for lunch. They actually had seats for the dolls. The miniture hotdog and hamburgers were so adorable! Pink lemonade to drink, soft pretzels and honey mustard, cheese platter and fruit. Chocolate mouse in flower pots, heart shaped cupcakes and cookies for dessert. The girls had their dolls at the salon for their hair to be done. They shopped and shopped and shopped some more. What a special day in New York with Grammie and Aunt Eileen! Erika was so tired at the end of the day, she fell asleep on the train ride home. Can't wait to do this again!

Scrapbooking

Well, this weekend i actually got to scrap. i did layouts of our family vacation. I love to scrapbook. I wish i had more time to put into it. It's amazing how fast time flies when you are so into what you are doing. I commented that my hardest to scrap was Baily. I absolutely love the lo i did of her. it was my favorite. i will load it here asap. i hope to scrap again real soon.

I am so Sad...

I have a very strained relationship with my brother. He is my oldest brother. The one who always looked out for me and stuck up for me against the other two brothers growing up. Things became difficult during a very important time in his life. I thought we had burried the problem and chose to move on so we can at least have a relationship. Our boys are only months apart and I have a neice I have seen twice. I am always including them in my family doings only to be ignored. There is no respect there. What makes it difficult is they choose to see other family members without making the time for my family. I never would have expected life to turn out this way. I always thought at least we would have family. As much as I tell myself, I am not going to let it bother me...it does. It is very sad to say, my kids don't know their cousins, and I am not so sure I know my brother anymore. I will continue to make the effort, and hope that the hurt goes away, or maybe just maybe they will realize how important family really is.

Erika is 5

Erika is officially 5 years old! She has been waiting for her birthday reminding us about it day in and day out. She is our little Paris! All about fashion. Skirts and short shirts, sleeveless, high healed shoes. Her favorite dog? I will let you guess. She had a birthday party, well 2 actually. A family party with a water slide and bouncy house. Her friends from school came to her party at Cheernastics. She is so excited to start Kindergarten this year.

Softball Season

Baily has joined a travel softball team for the summer. She is playing with girls 2 years older then her, only 1 is younger. They started out like the Bad News Bears. Lost their first game by the 10 run rule. we were thankful it was over. Monday night...they beat that same team by 10 runs! I am so proud of her! And her coach? He is very encouraging to all the girls. You would never know he didn't know much about the game 3 months ago. Now all his extra time and then some is about the game, and how he can help them get better. Yes, I am talking about Shamus. Never in a million years would I have thought he would be into sports. They say that people don't change...I don't agree with that. We have championships next week, at this very moment we are in second place.

thank you jeanne

thank you for getting on my butt to get me to update. i really didn't think anybody was interested...so thank you!