Happy Birthday Brynley!

We celebrated Brynley's first birthday 3 days early. We invited two other little girls who are close in age and get along well together! We let the girls play for a while since this was the first time they had all been together. Me, Janelle, and Heidi were all pregnant together last year at the same time. So it was fun to let the girls play!

Here is the birthday girl tiara and all!

Brynley and Camie.

I had to add a stinky face in! She makes this face when she gets excited!

All 3 babies!! This is the closest we got to all three looking at the camera!
(Michele and Kristen, remember we took a picture of the boys at about the same age?!)

The music table was a party favorite!

Camie, 14 months

Kaylee, 1 year!

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After they played for a while we decided it was time for cake! The best part! I called Albertson's and ordered her FREE first birthday cake! It was decorated in pink, purple and yellow flowers, and said Happy 1st Birthday Brynley! Brynn dove right in!

She was slow at first, and was more concerned that her hands were dirty!

She tried to "share" a few time! So nice!

Camie and Kaylee also enjoyed their cupcakes!

Yes that is a glob of frosting on the underside of her leg! How did it get there I do not know!!!

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After everyone got cleaned up we let Brynn open a few presents!

We got her a ball sorter. Her and Kaylee are checking it out!

This is one of my favorites! Brynn and Kaylee playing with toys and Camie opening up another one!!

This soon became the favorite!

Here she is with all her loot! She got a camera and a phone from Kaylee and super cute outfit and a book from Camie! Thanks guys for coming and making Brynn's day so special!

Christmas Day cont.

After we came home from Church we ate a quick lunch and dove into the pile under the tree! We got a lot of really cool useful stuff this year! The kids said that this was the best Christmas ever! I have to agree that it was a pretty fun one.

Santa Gifts.

Brynn got this cute musical story book from Grandma/pa McDowell.

Me and Brynn right before she went down for her nap. With her new soft baby from Nana and Papa and fluffy blanket from Great Grandma/pa Naranjo. Brynn made it about 1/2 way through and gave up and needed a nap!

Me and Travis sporting our new sweatshirts from Nana and Papa! He got a NCIS cast and crew sweatshirt and I got an Oregon one!

Zachary with his loot!

Madison with her loot.
Brynn didn't get a loot picture because she was sleeping!

I am sure that are pictures missing, from that morning when I find them I will post them. The Rose Bowl just started so now I am done blogging!!!

Happy New Year!!

Christmas Eve and Day 2011

This year was pretty fun with Brynley around! She didn't really open presents, and at times the ripping of the paper scared her!

Our Christmas Eve tradition for the past few years is to go to McDonald's with our friends, the Ratnayake's. So we had an early dinner at 4:30p, we felt like old people!!! Then we came home and Travis's sister and her family came over for "The night Before Christmas" gift exchange! And of course Christmas jammies!



All the cousin's oldest to youngest! Madison 7 1/2, Zachary 5 1/2, Ryleigh 2 1/2, Brynley 11 1/2 months, and little Bailey 8 months old!!

***Christmas Day***

Since Christmas fell on a Sunday this year and we had Church at 11am, we let the kids get up at 7:30a and open stockings and their Santa gift.

Coming around the corner to see what they got!

Travis brought Brynley and he was smiling because I framed some large UO pictures for him!

Brynley loves her music table that Santa brought her. She wiggles and dances when she plays with it!

Right before we left for Church. Since I am in the choir we sang twice and I got to play my flute for Away in a Manger, along with the piano and the organ. It was a really nice meeting. It was fun to have it on Christmas, to help us remember what it is really about!!

Access Denied!

This week we had to put the baby gate up in the hall. Brynley has started to stand and cruise this week. She will follow anyone down the hall. She likes to go into rooms and eat things or make mischief!

Here she is discovering the gate. Madison and Zach thought it was fun to play on the other side. They both like to color and Brynn will eat their crayons so, they took the opportunity to color in peace!

Well, she didn't like the fact that she wasn't invited in the fun! She was crying and "yelling" the kids. So I grabbed the camera and called her name!!
She was so sad and mad at the same time!

Oh well, I hope you had a good laugh!

The Nativity

Madison is obsessed with the nativity. Starting at the beginning of December she takes any chance she can get to dress up like Mary! She even has Zach dress up like Joseph, both with blankets tied to their heads. Last night I went to check on her and she had a blanket draped over hear head like Mary, NO JOKE!

So the other day Zachary made a car ramp out of a box. Well Madison saw it and only thought one thing, Nativity!! Here eyes practically lit up! So her and Zach dug in their closets and found things that they could in their version of the Nativity.

Here is what they came up with......

Let me give you a little tour of the Nativity: Mary and Joseph are played by Dorothy and the Tin Man. The shepherds are The Mad Hatter, Flynn Ryder (from Rapunzel), and a green army guy poised and ready for battle! The Littlest Pet Shop pony is the donkey, and a dalmatian dog is a cow. Inside the basket is baby Jesus played by, Prince Eric (from Little Mermaid).

They were very proud of their work!

11 Months Already!

I can't believe that Brynley is already 11 months old!! I can't believe how fast the year has gone. She has become quite the silly baby. She growls and "barks" at things. Like the Christmas Tree. At first she just cried every time we came close to a tree. Then she would just sit and stare, now she "barks" and gently touches the branches.
*She is crawling everywhere and will eat anything you leave on the floor. Like legos and pennies! So far I have gotten it out of her
mouth before she actually swallows it!
*She has started standing and letting go for a few seconds.
*She has to friends at Church. Kaylee T. who is two weeks older, and Camie T. who is 3 months older but is about the same size.
* Brynn has one tooth on the bottom!
* She loves her blanket which we call "fluffy." Too bad it's a one and only and can't buy them anymore, which makes washing it hard!!!


I let her grab one just for the picture!

She wouldn't let it go!

This one makes her look so old! Almost no more baby!

Baby Godzilla!

Brynley has become BABY GODZILLA!!


Since Brynley has started crawling, she has figured out where the fun stuff is to play with! She will now follow Madison and Zachary where ever they go! She knows that if she follows them they are doing something fun!

So lately I have been hearing, "MOM, can you come and get Brynn! She is getting our stuff!!" We just laugh and tell them to deal with it. Zachary usually picks her up and brings her to us. But she turns right around and goes right back!!!

Christmas should be fun! We had our first encounter with a tree today and she just cried! So maybe she will leave it alone!

So I finally got a video of her crawling. She usually stops moving when I get the camera out! So this time I has her crawl toward the camera and that seemed to work!