Drabynskis

 It finally happened!  Kyle got to meet the Drabyn family!  Our Steve is an assistant coach at Stetson University and they were in town to play/beat Lipscomb.  We love it because we get to see Steve, Brit stays with us, Aimee and her fiance, Rob, comes around, and we get to see the Mom and Papa Drabyn! What a treat!  The kids love all the attention.  I enjoy spending time with Brit and talking health food, Adam enjoys riding Steve about anything and everything.  My dream is that they one day move next door and have six babies. 

For those who don't know, Steve was Adam's roommate/teammate at Belmont.  They were an unlikely pair who turned out to push each other, compliment each other, and to be close friends.  We love Steve.  This was his first time meeting Kyle.  Adam had to teach him the power stance when holding Kyle because the kid is so heavy!!

One day Kyle will be a good shooter thanks to Uncle Steve.  :)

We have had a lot of company and an eventful week. Aubrie had her 4 year check up.  No shots, thankfully.  She did need to pee in a cup and as simple as that sounds, it wasn't.  She wouldn't go for me the two times I took her, and then when Adam took her one last time before we left, she went for him, but he spilled it.  So we had to take home a cup and bring it back later that week for Kyle's 6 month check up.  6 month!!!  I can't believe my baby boy is half way to 1 year.  Aubrie is 65 percentile in height and 50 percentile in weight.  Our Kyle is 94 percentile for weight at 20 lb 6 oz and off the charts (97th percentile) in height at 28 1/2 inches.  He got a flu shot when we were at his check up.  Thankfully, Brit wanted to keep the girls so I didn't have to take the whole crew to the doctor's office twice that week.

So after a busy week, Adam wanted an easy weekend and wanted to do a movie night with the kids.  The girls love popcorn and Aubrie's at a great age where she can sit through a movie and enjoy what is going on.  Emilie doesn't so much care about the movie as much as she cares about the snacks.  

We had popcorn, yogurt covered pretzels, sweethearts, and banana chips

SO PUMPED!

They picked a classic.  Who doesn't love Cinderella?  Now, Aubrie will say to Emilie, "Uhhh Gus Gus!" and Emilie will laugh until she can't breathe.  They are so silly together.

Best friends.  Ever.

I'll leave you with some photos of the kids that I've taken around the house the past couple of weeks.  I was having a hard day the other day and Adam reminded me that the hardest job in the world is the best job in the world.  Thanks babe. 

Hey nose eater!!

What??!

Stay healthy, give someone a hug.  :)  Love to all!! Pin It Now!

Birthday and Baptism

It finally got here!  The party, that Aubrie has been planning since Emi's in October, finally arrived!!  She invited all her friends from school over and Emilie was allowed to invite a friend and she picked Higgs.  It was loud and it was fun.  We shipped the dog and Kyle off to Amanda's house for a nap so the kids could have free run of the house.

Aubrie talked about a flamingo party, princess party, you name it party and she finally narrowed it down to Curious George. We had cupcakes, frozen chocolate bananas and cake push pops. 

I bought the invitations and all these cute printables on Etsy. For a small price, you get the PDF file and can print as many things as you want and you have the files forever!  You can find the printables here:  Curious Printables

The kids got a Curious George reader and bag to put candy in from the...

pinata!!

Adam and Mike ran the kids around outside.  Luckily we had really nice weather. 

Ryan definitely had the best form with the pinata.  His dad would have been proud!!

Baby Rhett and my workout partner, Katie. 

She looks happy here, but she had some rough moments this weekend.  It's not easy celebrating someone else's birthday when you are 2. 

On Sunday, it was Kyle's big day.  He was baptized a week before he turned 6 months.

The Anglemyers were there! 

Sweet Kyle

Sweet Cranky Kyle

We tried to get a family photo

Did I mention that Emilie is 2?

We had all of Adam's family there.  Lana made the girls' dresses and they were too cute.  I got Kyle's outfit from Etsy at a really cute shop, TwoLCreations

The girls were NOT well behaved during the baptism.  Emilie was crying as we walked up there and kept going back and forth between us and Grandma.  Aubrie was peaking into the baptismal font and people were scared she was going to tip it over.  Kyle was a little fussy as well, he was hungry of course.  At the end of the baptism, our church sings a hymn that I love (I'll share my favorite part below).  During that hymn, I whispered to Adam, "This is our last baptism!"  I couldn't believe it.  Our oldest turns 4 and our baby is 6 months old and growing rapidly.  And Emilie is...2.  :)

Child of love our love's expression

Love's creation, loved indeed.

Fresh from God, refresh our spirits

Into joy and laughter lead.

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Aubrie's 4!!

 On February 5, 2009, two "kids" were off to the hospital to bring their baby into this world.  They didn't know if it was a boy or girl.  They were just full of enthusiasm and ignorance as they charged into parenthood.  After some complications, at 3:20 pm they found out they gave birth to the prettiest 6 lb 11.5 oz girl and named her Aubrie Jane.  Aubrie was just a name we loved and Jane is after Adam's Aunt Paula Jane who passed away after her battle with cancer.  On top of that, Aubrie and Aunt Paula happen to share the same birthday!

She was lanky like dad.

And quickly put on the pounds.  :)

When we watch home movies of her, it's so quiet and they are so long.  We just sat around and marveled at her every move and everything was so amazing to us.  All our home movies now have a LOT of background noise. 

Time flew and our princess turned one.  She loves cake.

One of my all time favorite Aubrie pictures.  EVER.  (Love you Steve and Brit)

Soon Aubrie's world changed when she became a big sister. 

But she quickly turned two and showed us she was up for the challenge.

And so was her pal, Petey.

Turns out, Aubrie is one of the best big sisters you can ask for.  Just ask Emi and Kyle.

She has logged many hours of dancing in the kitchen with dad.  (And shared bad hair days with dad.)

She just lights up our world.

But she kept growing and time kept flying by.  Now she is 3?!

Little sister wants to be just like her.

And now she has a baby brother to take care of, too!

She loves the mud, loves a good princess outfit, and is always entertaining.

And then it happened.  After planning her party since October, (Emilie's birthday) she finally turned 4.  I'm telling you people, this can't really be happening.  I look at her long legs and watch her act so grown up and I'm in shock.  What happened to my baby?  This world is a better place with our dear sweet Aubrie.  Happy Birthday sweet Princess. 

Love to all!

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