Life is Good!!!

Can I say that Life is Good! I am so happy right now & loving life. Bryan is finally home & we are loving every minute of it. He has been home for 2 weeks and the kids and I love having him hear with us every minute. He asked me if I was tired of him yet, but I am definately not. 6 months is a long time to be without your husband (well besides our occasional weekend). Last night he told me he wasn't ready to start working again, he was just loving being home with us!
The kids love it and won't know what to do when he does start working again. On saturday Bryce told me he had the "bestest, happiest family ever!" That was like music to my ears. It definately makes the hard times worth it to know that your children are happy & love their life. He also, in the same conversation told me that this is why he loves to homeschool because we are always together. He is such a sweetie!
So, life is really good at our house right now, just having Bryan here with us and spending quality time together as a family!
(Sorry no pictures, just wanted to say how happy I am right now!)

Family Pictures

Picture day with our family can be quite interesting. It is very hard to get all five of my kids (yes, i mean 5 & I am not counting Deuce) to cooperate. For those of you that know my goof ball husband he is just as hard or harder to get a picture of, because he loves to act like a goof ball in the pictures. DRIVES ME CRAZY! On Brayden's birthday I wanted to get a family picture of us with Deuce all in our Texas Longhorn shirts. My friend was taking the pictures & could hardly keep her composure because of Bryan. I usually don't like to show people these goofy pictures, but I just wanted to show you guys what I live with all the time. Got to love him!

Why would anyone want to look so goofy is beyond me, but that is my crazy husband for you! Oh, and we didn't know this was going on til after the pictures when my friend just started laughing!

A little better, just 1 crazy eye instead of 2.

Finally, a halfway decent picture! I think I am going to start framing the pictures with him looking goofy, in our house, instead of searching for a good one of him. (Just kidding). He does this all the time. Just ask his parents or siblings.

Birthday Boy!

Brayden celebrated his 6th birthday this weekend. He wanted to have a Texas Longhorn Football birthday. We went all out with decorations and between mom & I we had lots of Longhorn & football decorations. He decided he wanted a cookie cake and since this weekend was super bowl we were lucky we were able to find a Football cookie cake. His birthday was on Thursday, so we gave him a Longhorn shirt & hat so he would have it to wear to his party! He had so much fun! Isn't he cute!

The weather ended up being beautiful. On Jan. 31, 2009 it was 70 degrees outside. Since Brayden was born we have never had a warm day for his birthday. It was a perfect day for a football party so we played football themed games outside. Here is Brayden throwing his Longhorn football! He's getting ready for a perfect throw.

We tossed the football through a hoop & everyone had alot of fun! I was surprised at how many of the kids had really good aim & several of them had pretty good throwing arms on them. Here is Savanah throwing the ball. If you look close you can see it heading toward the hoop.

I found this really large ball that looked like a helmet with the Longhorn logo on it. We tried to keep the ball going, but the wind didn't really want to cooperate on this game. They had fun anyway with the extra large ball.

We then played hot ball. They had to pass the ball (like a hot pot.) & when the music ended the person holding the ball was out. We had 17 kids who played the game & the little blonde girl named Abi (who likes Brayden) won!

When then finished up the games with pin the Horn on the Longhorn. (My best friend Cristina gave me this idea & our artist Bryan drew it for us). They had alot of fun. Brayden & Abi tied the game.

Brayden & all his friends had alot of fun at his party! I couldn't believe how much fun we had with 17 kids around. Being outside probably helped, but they really enjoyed all the games. We ended the party with presents, a cookie cake & fruit & veggies. Brayden said his birthday was better than Christmas! I am so happy that he enjoyed his special day. Here is a picture of all his friends that were at his party. We have really been blessed since we moved to Frisco. We have made alot of great friends in our homeschool group, at church, and in our neighborhood. We also get to be by family (& close to some of their cousins) & close to our best friends that we met when we first moved to Irving TX almost 8 years ago. Brayden was so excited he had so many friends to invite to his party! (Sierra & their cousin Brandon are missing from the picture)

I can't believe how time flies. I still remember the day that my beautiful redheaded boy was born. It seems like just yesterday. All my life I loved Redheads & always wanted a little redheaded boy. When he was born & the nurse announced that he had red hair I was so excited. Just thinking of the day he was born brings tears to my eyes. I am so blessed to have Brayden in my life. He is such a Sunshine! He is so happy and loves to make people laugh.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAYDEN! I love you!