Happy Birthday Brookelynn!!

I was stuck in bed for Brookelynn's birthday so we were not able to do much on her big day, but we were so excited to have Rachel, Jaxson and Rawston come over to help us celebrate. They were so sweet to come over and bring a cool Tinkerbell cosmetic kit! :) I love this picture of Brookelynn styling Jaxson hair! Thanks Rach and Jax for making Brooke's day special!

We had to postpone Brookelynn's Tinkerbell birthday party by a few weeks but with some help from my parents we were able to have her special day at the park!

The birthday girl loved seeing all of her friends and family. Thank you everyone for making this a special day for our girl!

Brookelynn's First Day of School

Brookelynn had her first day of school in September! She was so excited and most excited that Brynn was in her class. We warned their teachers that Brynn & Brookelynn loved each other like sisters...so there was a lot of love and a lot of hate going on! haha

I love the picture of the girls after their first day. I know that I am going to look back on this picture in about 12 years and cry because it feels like this only happened yesterday. Love these girls!

Family Vacation - Sandestin, FL

We went to Sandestin, FL this past August and had such a WONDERFUL time! It was such a sweet time with my husband and girls. The beaches were beautiful and Brookelynn loved the beaches. The sweetest part of the entire week was seeing how much the girls truly enjoyed the being with their daddy. Sometimes I forget how blessed I am to have such an amazing man! Thank you God for blessing me with my wonderful husband!

This is just a brief overview of the trip. I was able to make a book that captured all of the sweet moments...

Big Announcement- Baby Beal #3

We are very excited to welcome another baby into our family! This was the pic that we sent to our families to let them know about the exciting news! We are so thankful that the Lord has blessed us with another child. We continually pray for her health and we are so anxious to meet her!

Hawaiian Falls 2011

We drove past Hawaiian Falls a lot this summer, so Brookelynn talked about the 'slides' quite a bit! We finally went with the kiddos near the end of the summer. We weren't sure how the kids would do but the LOVED it! The big girls started with these small slides then dominated the big twisty slide! It was so fun to see the girls build up confidence to do something that made them a little nervous. Hopefully that friendship will only encourage good, safe, wholesome fun in all of the upcoming years! haha

Circus 2011

In July, Jenn and I took Brynn and Brookelynn to the Barnum & Bailey Circus. It was such a special day for our 'big girls'! They loved seeing all of the animals and performers. Here are a few pictures of our fun day.

After the Circus the girls and I headed to Tyler with Gigi to see Jenn and Mom's cousin Kim. We had such a fun girls weekend! It was also Jenn's 21st birthday so we celebrated my little sister!

The weekend is one that I will never forget because I found out the morning of the Circus that I was pregnant with our 3rd baby girl! I was a little surprised! Bailey was out of town and in my shock I ended up telling him that I was pregnant as he sat at dinner with 3 colleagues in an airport restaurant. He was a little surprised too! But we are so excited and blessed to be expecting another baby girl into our family on April 2nd.

Lake weekend with the Selfs

We headed to Cedar Creek lake with the Selfs in August and had so much fun! The kids had a blast playing in the water and riding the Jet Skis and boat! Brookelynn loved riding the Jet Ski with dad!

The little ones loved playing in the pool on the deck! We had a wonderful weekend with special friend but on Sunday Berkley got a little boo-boo! So sad! I felt terrible! She fell out of a chair in her bumbo and landed on the tile floor. It scared me to DEATH!! Our pretty girl had quite a lip when we left.

Summer Days

We had a wonderful summer of playing in the backyard, swimming at the gym, and playing with friends and family! Here are a couple of cute snapshots of the fun!

4th of July

On the 4th of July we had a nice weekend at home with hot nights and cold ice cream! This is one of my favorite pictures ever. My sweet girl was losing her ice cream to the July heat but she was giving it her best!

On the 4th we headed to Addison for an air show and fireworks. We had a lot of fun and Brooke and Berk loved the fireworks. Brady, Alex and Carson showed up a little after picture time.

Happy Birthday Berkley!!

My sweet baby girl is one year old! I can't believe how fast this year has flown by! We wanted to have a sweet celebration as sweet as our Berkley!

The party was so fun! We had all of our closest friends and family there! I had a lot of fun playing with the 'Ice Cream' theme. I think my favorites were the cupcakes. The cupcakes were in waffle cones and the icing looked just like an ice cream scoop!

My camera decided not to work the day of the party but I think it worked out because I was able to download everyone's pictures before they left. Berkley was a busy girl at the party. Everyone wanted their picture taken with the birthday girl.

I didn't expect Berkley to be interested in the cake at all. After all...she only likes baby food and Cheerios. She tasted the cake then went for the waffle cone, which she loved!

It was so fun to have all of our new little friends at the party! The youngest of the crew were Gage and Graham. I think we counted 19 kids! SO MUCH FUN! Everyone was in the picture except Jaxson...he wasn't feeling it. :)

We had some indoor activities and some outdoor activities. Lots of fun for everyone!

We had the party a little early so we celebrated on the 28th as well! Berkley was greeted by her Daddy in the morning, then she experienced her first pancakes. She loved them! We went to the pool, she took a nap, then after dinner we headed to Baskin Robbins to make the "Ice Cream Celebration" complete. She thought she was such a big girl to get to hold her own cone! I think that she loved her fun day of new things.

Berkley we love you so much and thank God for you daily! You have such a sweet, calm personality. You are such a blessing to you mommy, daddy and sister. Happy Birthday!

New Family Vacation

We had a wonderful weekend at the lake for Father's Day this year. I think that Brookelynn and Jaxson had the most fun, which made it so fun for us to watch. Jared, Rachel and the boys came out a little later but Jaxson was ready to catch up on the stuff that he missed out on. He didn't even make it to the house before he was in the pool! They were hilarious! Here is Jax grabbing a quick drink in the hot Texas weather! haha (out of his shoe)

Brooke was SO excited to have a partner in crime!

Brooke and Jaxson had different techniques on entering the pool...Brooke was all about the height and Jax was more interested in the sting of the belly flop!

This is so fun guys!

Got a little tangled

They definitely mastered the Slip N' Slide

Sunday morning we woke up and had a delicious Father's Day Breakfast. It was the perfect finish to a wonderful weekend. Brookelynn and I recorded this cool book for Bailey and it was funny to watch him as he listened to his silly girl's answers. Thank you Bailey for being such a loving Daddy to our little girls! Thank you to my sweet dad for being such a wonderful Dad and Chief! You are adored by all of your girls as well! I love you!

Jared & Jaxson took a little rest on the hammock. A sweet Father's day memory!

Crazy haired boat driver!

Beal Family Vacation

We headed to San Antonio at the beginning of June to have a weekend with the Beal family. It was SO much fun. The last family vacation that we went on with the Beal was the first year that we got married. I guess they didn't like to spend that much time with me! :) Well it was definitely a different vacation than it was 8 years ago! We headed to the Wild Oak Ranch for great family friendly fun!

Berkley got a new big girl car seat for the trip! She thought she was such a big girl and loved watching a movie with Brookelynn. Sad to say that there was not much sleep on the way down there.

The Wild Oak Ranch has a cool lazy river, beach and pool on the grounds and the kids had the most fun in the sand. They got pretty dirty. Terry and Nita were great to sit in the sand with them while the 'big kids' floated the river. (All except Bailey, who was sick in the room.)

Saturday night we headed to downtown to have dinner at Mi Tierra. The food was quite tasty but the wait was a little long. We shopped a bit and we played our guitars, we shook our maracas and we shopped a little more. Then it was finally time for dinner!

Brookelynn loved the mariachi band.

At the end of the day we were all tired but we had a great day. Our little senoritas were all decked out! More pictures to come...I just need to get them off Terry's camera.

Silly Girls

Brynn came over for a couple of afternoons while John and Jenn were out of town and the girls had a great time. (As always) Here are a couple of pictures of them being silly!

Not my baby anymore...

My sweet Berkley has been a 'baby' for a really long time! She started sitting up at 6 months and has been content sitting watching her sister ever since. She was not interested in crawling or rolling... just sitting and laying. She finally got a little bored and started crawling on June 5th. She hasn't stopped yet. On June 6th she started standing up in her bed...it seems so strange walking in to get her now.

Photo op...

Of course Brookelynn wanted to get in the picture! (Doesn't like to be out of the spotlight long)