Birthday Celebration Part 2

Brooklyn getting ready to celebrate her 2nd birthday party on  the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Auntie Claudia send B this cute birthday outfit and some other fun Cupcake things. She was not to sure what was going on, but was excited once her friends arrived. When I took her to her 2 year checkup she weighed 26 3/4 lbs (50%) 33 3/4 in tall (25%) with her head in the 46 1/4 cm (25%). She got a flu shot and 2 other shots that were due. She was not to happy at the nurse, but quickly forgave her when she gave her a sucker.

Thankfully Auntie Dina was here to help me get ready 2 big parties in 2 days was crazy, but so glad she is a great cook and is used to large gatherings to help me out.

Ah our old neighbors Marin and Becky

Our new neighbor Beth, Annde and B (yes I have a thumb sucker UGH!)

Berlin and Brooklyn the November Birthday girls

Big Brother Carson Brooklyn loves seeing him and he is so good with the little girls.

Baby Reagan Love this pictures look at that face, so cute!!

Kids making there reindeer magnet craft

Friends they love playing together.

Clara dancing she is quite the ham

Pinata time, Brooklyn was quite happy when she picked this one out.

Get it Garrett

CANDY!!!

Birthday Friends minus Annde she had to leave early

Yummy Cupcakes - Brooklyn loves them she always refers to treats as cupcakes no matter what it is. I have to say the cupcakes were that the great, but the frosting was yummy.

Patiently waiting for present time

Every present she got she would take over to Stacey (Allie's) mom to show her.

She had a great birthday, thank you to all our friends and family that came to celebrate. Brooklyn was completely spoiled and loves all her presents. Next year her 3rd birthday will be on Thanksgiving Day lucky girl hopefully she will like a turkey dinner!

Thanksgiving

This Thansgiving was truely a day to be thankful for. We were able to spend the day with Family and Friends. I was a little nervous at first having such a large crowd that we would not have enough food, but like always there was plenty. I even tried out some new recipes and they turned out great.

The Place settings, I decided to not put names on the turkey's and let everyone sit where they wanted.

Homemade rolls from Steph

The Kiddie Table - Garrett, Clara, Brooklym and Lucy

Big kid table - Jake and Hannah

Really Big kid Table 1 - Marin, Matt, Reagan, Uncle Angelo, Stephanie, Richard and Gretchen, Marin's mom (she came later after the pics) - the Wheelers got snowed in from traveling to Matt's family so we got the pleasure of having them spend the holiday with us.

Table 2 - Auntie Dina, Jennifer and Brent Galvan - they don't have any family up here as well so we adopted them.

I think B liked the grub

B and Lucy busy on the magna doodles

My favorite place that day in the kitchen. Actually with Auntie Dina here is was great, she is an amazing cook so she helped get most of the sides done the nigth before and we prepped the turkey so it was just gettinf everything in the oven on time. The day was a true success thanks to Auntie's help.

Brooklyn had the camera and was taking pictures

Happy Cousins

Ah the couch after a long day time to relax and enjoy each other. Of course we had to go through the ads and scout out where we were shopping at as well.

We love that they come visit for Thanksgiving and Brooklyn's birthday. It really means a lot ot us and we love spending time with them. Thank you for all your help and for making our little girl feel so loved and special.

This is Auntie and I waiting outside Target for it to open at @4 am. We decided to not go to sleep and hit Walmart at 12am. We ended up shopping until 11am meet the boys at Cabela's then went to breakfast and finally laid our heads down to rest at 1pm Friday. It was crazy, but fun. We were delerious and laughed a lot do to the lack of sleep, but I would do it again. Of course next time I would be better at actually getting my shopping list done.

The new beanie Uncle got B at Cabela's and Daddy's new Wii hunting game she's ready to play with the big boys next year.

Birthday Part 1

Our baby turned 2! Wow where has the time gone, I look back at old photos and videos and can't believe she was so tiny. She has such the great personality and is so much fun. She has discovered the terrible 2 stage which I can do without, but that just calls for lots of deep breath moments which she mimicks me when I do them and can't help but laugh.
Brooklyn first present she opened her new Magna doodle from Linda and Gordy Johnson. It is a hit with all the kids. Thansk for thinking of her.

I had big plans to take her to the cupcake store and get her a cupcake, but with hosting Thanksgiving I was doing last minute shopping so we took her to Red Robin for dinner instead. She was not quite sure when they were singing to her.

They have cupcakes at Red Robin bow did you know that? She was super excited.

Her new trick she covers her nouth when she laughs or thinks she is so funny.

Kisses for Uncle, she was so happy to see them when she woke up from her nap.

Smiles with Auntie

We went to Toys R US where she got a crown, balloon, and they annouced her birthday and sang over the loud speaker it was quite fun.

She loved playing with all the toys and dancing with the Dora doll and Mickey Doll.

Auntie bought her a wind up butterfly she had a great time playing with it. Overall it was a crazy day not how I had planned but she was plenty happy with dinner and the toy store.

Snow, Baby, and Birthday

We our first snow fall of the season the weekend before Thanksgiving. It was just enough to build a few snowman.

Brooklyn was excited at first...

Until she walked in it and it got her boots wet and dirty that she decided that she had had enough of the snow.

The 2 snowman that Danny made by rolling the ball along the grass as you can tell it took all the snow we had.

Baby Shaun Matthew O'Connor was finally born, poor momma had a terrible terrible birthing story that went on for 3 days,but he arrived healthy and happy.

The proud new parents Matt and Sara they waited a long time for this baby boy we are so excited for them to finally be parents.

Lucy playing beauty parlor on Uncle Danny, he really needed a hair cut, to bad the scissors were plastic.

Brooklyn enjoyed the pretend nail polish

Jake turned 8 and had an Army party. Ricky was the the drill sargeant yelling at them while going through the obstacle course.

Brooklyn with her commander headphones from the goody bag

Cousins Clara and Brooklyn they are so cute together. They already have the look that they will get into trouble together someday.