Life, Love, Laughter: February 2013

My goodness I've been a little behind the times on this updating stuff. Time to put it in the blogging books and do a little year end review....Picture style!
Fall fun for Everyone!

Swim lessons and playing outside were a few early fall favorites for our crew!

Duct tape day at school during Homecoming week! Can you guess who he is?!

Kindergarten already? sigh, he sure is precious.

Racing day at Newton Motor Speedway! A father's day gift almost a year in the making was finally played out on this afternoon in October! 3 of the most deserving Daddy's I know!

A post race dinner in Kalona at Tuscan Moon! What a fantastic full day with two of the most amazing couple friends in our life. We are so lucky to have them!!!

Pumpkin Patch 2012 in Ames!

AMAZING PLACE! We will definitely make a trip back!

Romp in the corn!!!

Our little 6 year old braved this slide all by himself! WTG Dylan!

Grandpa and me!

Fall day trip up North! Stare off to start!

Cheers.....ice cream style!

In August I threw a bridal shower for Brad's cousin Cassie! She was more than deserving. All of this in preparation for her Fall Wedding!

October 20, 2012, Dylan's debut as a ring bearer! He did a fantastic job!!

Cassie the bride with cousins Taylor and Dylan

Great Grandma Holub and Dylan. LOVE her!!! She is the BEST!

Cousin Kenzie and Dylan. LOVE her too!

Brad's Dad and all of his Aunts and Uncles + Grandma! Great picture!

Danielle and cousin Lucie!

The most beautiful bride I have ever seen!

There is nothing more precious than a Daddy and his baby girl.

One of the most beautiful couples that we know. Congratulations Cassie and Cody!

This family has done SO much from us since day 1 of Brad and I dating 17 years ago. They are amazing people and we are SO blessed to have them as our family. Watching these kiddo's grow up to be model adults like their parents has been touching. I hope Brad and I are at least half of the parents that Connie and Dan are, if we are then I will chalk that up as a job well done. It was more than a pleasure to celebrate with this amazing family on Cassie and Cody's special day.

Fall Fishing!

Birthday's are SO special, especially when you are an adult and you pull off an amazing slumber party!

Craft during the best slumber party ever!

Cheers!

A few of the most beautiful, inspirational women in my life. One lucky girl here! Thanks SO much Tay for the hospitality! And a VERY Happy Birthday Kir!

Pumpkin carving!

Daddy takes this very seriously!!!

Wicked cool!

Loving our Treasure Hunter Pirate!

And our beautiful Poodle Party Princess!

November our little peanut had sudden Adenoid removal and a Uvulectomy. Poor thing had to spend the night with Mommy at the U.

The kids came with Mommy to vote for the President of the United States! He was SO proud to go along!

Here come the Holidays!

Football on Thanksgiving?! Only in Iowa would we get a November heat wave!!

Time for Christmas tree choosing! It was a beautiful day, little breezy but we managed to get a tree cut down and decorated before the snow coated the ground!

It is always a special day when we decorated for big brother Dalton. Dylan was really into helping this year, and making sure everything was just perfect for his big brother. Melts our heart!

Christmas at All Saints! One more thing I absolutely LOVE about our child's school!

We were invited to a magical nite by the ARC East Central Iowa! We had dinner and cookies, Santa even arrived on a train and the kids got to sit on his lap! This even was AMAZING! Only 20 families were invited and we were more than proud to be one!

First Christmas of the season at Grandma and Grandpa's for Grandma Martin's Celebration!

Dylan's Kindergarten Christmas Program! He did an amazing job this year singing and doing all of the motions! It was a beautiful program, we are SO proud!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow! The first snow of the season. He watched out the window for several minutes as the first snow blanketed the ground!

Holiday travel 2012! Dec 22nd EARLY A.M we headed for the 13 hour drive to Pennsylvania!!!

Even our furry family member, Skylar, got to go to Grammy's house for Christmas!!! She was SUCH a good girl, not making a peep for the entire 13 hour trip!

Desperate calls for desperate measures! Yep after stopping in a town during a black out to find ALL the businesses closed....we allowed for a stop to water nature! His first time ever, Daddy was quite proud of course!

Pennsylvania Christmas with my Mom

Morning treatment time to help keep those lungs clear!

My Mom's very peaceful abode, it is literally her sanctuary.

We celebrated after our drive for Daddy's Birthday! Happy Birthday honey! You are an amazing Daddy and Father, thank you for being you. We are SO blessed!

Early morning ventures of Mom's property. A secret around every corner!

A tube slide Britni and her friends put together and love. This absolutely cracked me up!!! Notice she is sliding down on a skate board, LOL!!!!!

We got to watch my sister tear it up on the indoor Field Hockey field. She is an amazing athlete!

Was Daddy ever so proud to teach his son all about the loves of a bow!

Sleeping in Grammy's arms....there is no place better for an evening siesta!

Grandpa Phillips. Love him so much. Little did we know, this would be our last Christmas with him.

He really enjoyed visiting with Brad, giving him bits of history about PA and Cedar Rapids too!

Christmas Eve cooking!

Cousin lovin! Cutest little Christmas kiddo's ever!

Dylan, Savich, Nola and Sayla!

Christmas Eve found us at St. Columba for evening Mass. It was snowing quite a bit and we were quite early so we sang Christmas Carols in the car. Fun times with my festive family!

Spreading reindeer food!

Late night indulgence with family!

Have you been naughty or nice?!

My Mama did such a great job making her home our home for the Holiday's! Love you Mommy!

Reindeer prints in the dusting of overnight snow?? NO WAY!

We ALL get stocking fillers from Santa!

Best feeling ever, being with family on Christmas morning!

Snowman making kit! How fun!!

Love him!!

This picture makes me feel so sad, she looks pitiful....but I ensure you she got plenty of family loving this trip!

Twins 16 years apart?

Two loves of my life

Absolute first love of my life

There is nothing better than having a sister, someone just like you to love and who's always around!

Grammy, Danielle and her new bracelet!

Beautiful girls!

Uncle Chase and his mini me!

Mom got Jesus his very own birthday cake! After all he is born for us! For him...we celebrate!

A Christmas evening game of Angry Birds

Packing up, heading home into the worst Blizzard ever! These kiddos were amazing travelers.

As soon as we saw plows stationed every 2 miles in the median we knew something was up. We hit the worst Blizzard ever. 16 hours later and a LOT of patience on the road we made it home safe. Our Angels were for sure guiding the way.