Blazers Game!

Saturday night we went to the Blazers Game at the Rose Garden. Our friends the Zundels gave us their tickets since they were out of town. We gave them to Mason and told him that both Jon and I were going with him and he could pick one other person to come. He decided to invite Grandma Jackson since she is also a fellow Trailblazer Fan.

We had a great time cheering on the team! We are finally official since we now have Trailblazer shirts!

After the game some guy gave Jon some passes to see some of the players leave. Mason was able to get autographs from Rudy Fernandez:

Channing Frye, Nicolas Batum and Martell Webster!

During the last minute of the game the Blazers scored their final basket to make it exactly 100 points! That means free Chalupas at Taco Bell. The crowd was chanting Chalupa, Chalupa! We made a stop at the Border on the way home and ate our free Chalupas at 11:30 pm! It was a fun night!! Thanks Zundels for the tickets!

Brinley's Birthday!

Brinley's Birthday was last Sunday. We started the day with breakfast in bed. (This made getting to church by 9 am even harder!)

After church we had the Lakes over since their Mom was in Arizona. Brinley had fun playing with her BFF Kennedy Lake.

Kennedy was able to stay over late that evening to watch a movie and have cake with us since there was no school the next day! Morgan helped make the gumball cake. Brinley was so excited to eat all the gumballs on her cake and in the Bubblegum Ice Cream!

For months Brinley has been asking me to enroll her in a gymnastics class. So for her birthday I finally decided to sign her up! Here she is doing the splits in the new gymnastics outfit we gave her.

It was a fun day for Brinley! It seems like these years are just flying by and I can't believe she is already six. This week she has been talking a lot about how old she is and that she's practically eight! I keep reminding her that she is still little and to quit growing up so fast!

I'm Big Now!

For months Madelyn has been talking about how she is a "Big Girl Now!" So this morning when she stood up tall with hands next to her side and said " Look Mom, I'm Big Now!" I couldn't resist taking a picture!

I think she has been saying this so much because I'm always telling her to still be my Baby! She then proceeds to tell me "No mom, I'm a Big Girl!" She is so sweet I just want her to stay little forever! I know this is not possible but I am just loving the stage she's in right now! She loves going to preschool and is finally talking to her teachers! (I'm not sure about the singing in Big Room though!) She is obsessed with the Grinch right now, watches the movie daily, and has seen it so much that she has started to memorize the lines! She was very excited to go to Primary (Sunbeams) last Sunday just like Brinley! She daily tries to talk her way out of taking a nap telling me "Mom since I'm big now I don't have to take a nap!" She loves her roommate and wants to do everything and anything with Brinley. She still love frogs and her purple fluff that she practically stole from Morgan! Every morning she wants me to carry her down the stairs while wrapped like a "taco" in her purple fluff. We love our "Big Girl" but she will always be my BABY!

(p.s. Sorry if some of you are about to gag over this post but this is mostly just for me so I won't forget!!!)

New Year's Eve!

While I was in Colorado Jon decided to invite people over to our house for a New Year's Eve Party! I was fine with this but I said "What are we going to do?" We had a fun time with all of our friends and the 21 kids that were here! We played games at the kitchen table:

Watched movies that were projected onto the ceiling:
Nerf Gun Tag (This quickly became an outside game)
And lots of Guitar Hero:
And More:

And more! JR and Christy were the champs!

Thanks to the Dustins, McKague's, Sork's, and Zundel's for making it a fun night!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!

Christmas in CO!

Once everyone arrived safely in Colorado for Christmas we were very excited! My brother got delayed by a day due to the snow in Portland even though he lives in SLC. We had a packed Christmas Eve planned. We went Ice Skating:

The kids had a blast and little Brinley was a natural! We made Christmas cookies but didn't have enough time to decorate them until after Christmas and several of the kids reminded us that we needed to still set them out for Santa since we forgot on xmas Eve! We reenacted the Nativity which is a tradition that I grew up with. Here are the Angels: The Shephard's: And one of the sheep! We were able to connect with our friends the Barnettes who now live in the Denver area. They joined us for dinner and yummy scones made by Jon and Big Al! We ended our evening with the opening of one present! My brother and Brinley with her new robe that she has been asking for since summer time! (She really wanted a Strawberry Shortcake robe! I kept on telling her that maybe Santa couldn't find her a SS robe, she then said to me "Mom the elves can make anything!") Christmas morning was chaos with 18 people, stockings, presents, and all the paper! The kids enjoyed all their presents! Maddie loved her Dress ups and her cousins Make-up. Brooklyn was excited for her Thermos and matching outfit with Bailey: Mason's PSP was a hot item and dad liked it just as much as Mas! Brinley with Kit Kittredge:

And Morgan grew up right before our eyes once she received her phone! She has enjoyed talking on the phone but mostly texting friends, cousins, and even ME!

The days after Christmas were spent playing with all our new toys, hanging out with cousins, going out to lunch, after Christmas shopping, and late night Settlers. We also wanted to take a picture of all the girls in these aprons that Mom had made for us! She made them for every girl in the family even baby Addie! This was one of my favorite gifts!

On Sunday we barely made it on our flight getting out of DIA. It was very crazy with seven people, thirteen pieces of luggage, and carry ons! I wish I would have gotten a picture because everyone was staring at us !!! The kids did great on the flight even Brinley and Maddie!

What a wonderful and fun Christmas! Thanks Mom and Dad!