Easter/Dumont 09

We had another great Easter weekend out in Dumont. We arrived very late friday night/saturday morning but because we were so late we missed all the yucky wind and rain, yay. Saturday and Sunday were both very hot and we ventured out to the creek to cool off. Of course both times forgetting my camera :( Oh well we had lots of fun. Brook's becoming our little pro rider, standing up as she's riding and going way too fast IMO, she's also a wonderful big sister riding Brynnie around and following Gavin on his quad to make sure he's doing good. Easter morning the girls woke up to Easter baskets and between us, Chuck and Em, Rick and Lisa and the vendor egg hunt, way too much candy! Em and I hid the eggs the kids had made at Steph's, plus lots of candy filled eggs and then set the kids free. It was so cute watching Bryn and Gavin figure out that there's good stuff in their eggs. Brook and Kyra are seasoned veterans and knew exactly what was in those eggs and made every effort to find as many as possible, in fact Devon and Colton even got in on the hunt when we went to vendor row for their 1st annual egg hunt. Brook found two dollars and Kyra found five dollars, they were so excited. Can't wait till next year!

Five years old!!!!

My goodness time sure goes by fast when you're having fun. And it's surely been a fun five years with our princess. We started off Brook's birthday with strawberry whip cream pancakes which she had two servings of! Getting older must be hard work. After that we lit her candles on her birthday cake and we were off to start the day. We didn't get to do much to celebrate today because we're leaving for Dumont but we sure did some celebrating last Saturday with her birthday party and last night it was her choice for dinner anywhere she wanted, she picked Sonic for their corndogs and cherry slushie, I'm sure it won't always be that easy.
Her birthday party went extremely well if I do say so myself. We had 50+ kids and over 120 people total! What can I say we love to entertain. :) We had both jumpers up, a pony, goat and rabbit, the best pinata ever (thanks sis) and because of the hard work and dedication of Jon, Grandpa Craig, Grandpa Herman, Cato, Matt, Barry, Chuck and Dane we also had Brook's new swing set up and ready for play. Barry joked that with all the different trades working on it, the job would have cost us at least $6000, ahh it's good to have the right connections! Not to mention all the "womens" work that was going on inside the house, between myself, Grandma Letty, Grandma Lila, Robin, Shanna and Dawn food and drinks were all ready on time. Yay for family and friends!!!! We have been so blessed to have so many people come from near and far to celebrate this special time with us.
We love you Brookie and we're so proud of the big girl you are becoming!!!!

Happy April!

This is Brookie's 5th birthday month! She is a true diamond girl and every bit an Aries. I can't believe my baby will be five years old this month, time goes much too quickly. When she was first born I could not wait until she got bigger so that we could play, talk and hang out. Now that that time is here I just want her to be a baby again so I can just hold her and stare at her all day (plus then she couldn't talk back, lol). What a big girl she has become.:)
Ok, moving on before the tears start. We have her birthday party coming up this saturday and we're praying for the wind to stop and the sun to shine, hopefully the princess will get her wish.:)Every year we battle the weather but even when we have had a few sprinkles her parties have turned out well. So I'm hoping this party will be no different. This year instead of renting a jumper Jon decided we should buy one, I tried convincing him this would be her last big party and Bryn only has a few more till she turns five but he wasn't having any of it. According to him we'll be having birthday parties at least until the girls are eighteen. Lord help me!!! lol Anyways here's a picture of the jumper and the girls playing in it. We received it a few weeks ago and practically everyday since then they have wanted to play in it...well at least we'll get our money's worth!