Brenley in all of her awesomeness

My artist. My soccer player. My cowgirl. Oh, the many faces of Brenley May.  I love them all. Every day is a new experience with her.

Her new jammies from Aunt Lori and Uncle Troy. She LOVES them.

This is my early Mother's Day present. She was so proud of herself.

This was the painting she did for Northridge Academy and their artwork is posted at the Wichita Westlink Public Library through April.  She did this unassisted.  AUH-MAZING!  So proud.

This was some of the other submissions from her class. Hers was totally the best!

This is her riding a mini pony at a birthday party. Sweats and cowgirl boots? I think so.

Big girl!

This birthday party was on a farm. So fun.

Potbelly Pig. Ahhhhh.

Another mini pony. So cute.

This girl and her chicken feathers.

That same afternoon we changed into soccer gear for our first practice/game!  She was a rockstar - and has quite the soccer athlete look going on.  The girl with many faces - and outfits!

Cheese!

And my randomness picture of me and B's new summer drinking glasses.  Insulated mason jars - I think so!

And the video of her "playing" soccer that she asked me to take.

Will's BD

William Grant is 3! And he is cute. Just so cute.
Had a great afternoon celebrating with him and playing in Kyle and Kate's backyard.
Here are some cute pic's of the birthday boy. We got him some outdoor play things. Broom included. We heard he put it to use after the party was over.

Sweet boy. He told his Mom that he loved his birthday!

This one makes me laugh. Look at that tongue.

chillaxing

March for Babies 2013

It's an annual tradition. One I hope we never stop. Last year we didn't get to walk with Dad and Beau because of a baseball conflict, but we were back together this year!

I had a tremendous fundraising year in 2012 because of a very wonderful group of family and friends that donated. As a result, I was named a Top Walker in Wichita for 2012. Yeah me!

This year the Grant Family raised $775 to date. I have until June, and I want to keep fundraising.  I want to beat my brother-in-law Kyle (again), and he is beating me right now.  Also, I am not listed as a Top Walker so far. Couple other newbies are beating me so I am a few hundred dollars behind and mama needs another sash for 2013!!!

I'm pretty sure we shed a tear every year when we look at the tributes made and even, sadly, memorials that are put up for this walk. My husband gets more emotional than I do, as we all know that first week of Beau's life, I gladly don't remember much.  Drugs. That will do it to ya!  I can laugh about it now, but believe me, none of us were laughing 9 1/2 years ago.

We are so blessed to have healthy kiddo's, and nieces and nephews.  We just want to prevent another family from leaving the hospital without their baby. It is not how it is intended to be, and with the March of Dimes research, it can happen.

My loves

Easter 2013

Easter weekend was a beautiful weather weekend. Full of new beginnings, pretty color, and of course, family.

To start off, sweet B had her Easter party and egg hunt at school. Her friends are so sweet and while we shed some tears because we didn't get 13 eggs, she was happier when her teacher made it all equal in the end!

Counting her loot

Okay, then we headed to Oklahoma to celebrate with the Levings' clan. I had posted earlier about the Bad Chicken video we shot. We are STILL laughing at that sweet boy.   But we love being together. Had a great meal, a fun time playing and hunting eggs outside, and we ended the day by smashing confetti eggs on each other. I didn't get any of those pictures. I was too busy defending myself.

My doll

My big boy

Need some help here!

Alyson

He could not be bothered with a basket.

Missing one, but love this pic. Boys checking out the tree.

Dad and Trav

Love

Carter showing Grandma his loot

this boy is beautiful

Loves her Me Ma

Money eggs!!

Blake and Bren back outside to play

Gorgeous

Bad chicken!

Time to get the eggs! Where did Pa Pa go?

Let me see! Let me see!

What a big wonderful precious beautiful bunch! So blessed.

Bad Chicken

I have got to get my post up about Easter, and I will. But in the meantime, I have promised to send this video out to my parents and brother and I can't figure out how to make the video smaller so it will email. So this is my best option of viewing Mr. Ryan James and the Bad Chicken.

Love this boy. Love this boy. Love this boy. We laugh so much every time we watch these video's.

Catching Up - Wrapping Up Spring Break

As I sit here and type, it is snowing outside. Yep. Date stamp is correct, it is March 23th. So not only has it been 70 degrees already this month, but as we wrap up Spring Break week, we are closing it out with rain and snow. Ah well.

However, I snapped this picture the other day. It made me smile. Just some geese. Walking down the street. No cares or worries (or water) for them.

Just need to catch up on a few things. First of all, Brenley got her 5 year old shots last Thursday. It hurt her (and me) both, but she did well. We celebrated a successful check up with ice cream and DISNEY ON ICE!  We went that evening and it was so much fun. She loved it. Clapped after each character show. She is awesome. I love spending time with her.

Let me back up to earlier that same day. I went on her school field trip to Taco Pronto. It was just a lunch field trip for tacos and bean burrito's, but the kids were cute, and lunch was good. I picked the perfect field trip to help drive!

Then we celebrated St. Patrick's Day at  her school the next day.  Equally fun and festive, although someone ended up going home with Mom during the party because the shots had taken a toll on her and she was not feeling herself. Good time for some snuggling at home with my baby girl.  She was better by the time her Daddy got home that night!

This is Tryniti. I've enjoyed getting to know her this year. Such a sweet girl.

Silly Dale.

 And here is their St. Pat's song.

And last but not least, Spring Break hasn't been all that exciting.  I did, however, have an amazing day off shopping for prom dresses with my two oldest nieces and my mama.  It was a great weather day and the most fun shopping experience.  We all had a great time together. Here is a pic of her dress (pretty sure her boyfriend doesn't know about my blog). Alterations to come, but she was so pretty in it. Perfect color. Perfect girl.