Where or where has January gone?

Oh my goodness. 6 months from tomorrow, I turn 40. Time. You can slow down anytime you want. Please.

Speaking of time, I have been terrible at documenting life for my babes. So allow me to play catch up. Maybe I'll do it in reverse order so I can get started with the freshest memories.

Okay. Daddy Daughter Date Night. That was tonight. We had no idea what it really entailed. Was it dinner, snacks, dancing? Well, after a lovely evening, the Dad and his beautiful daughter are home and it was a dance with cookies and drinks. They both had fun dancing with each other and Bren dancing with her girlfriends. What a beautiful couple. 

receiving her corsage from her date

Loving her date and thanking him for the corsage

So Beau and I had our own date night at a local sports bar. We shared a plate of cheese fries and watched basketball on TV. I loved it. I get so caught up in making sure his homework is done or his teeth are brushed, that sometimes I forget how amazing he is. How witty he is. How sports minded he is. How quickly he is growing up (we talked a little about girls tonight). And I don't get as much one on one time with him, and I should definitely do more of that. He is really cool.

Basketball. Beau is back at it. MAYB tournaments and league make for full Saturday's.

Birthday parties for Brenley's friends. After tomorrow, she will have been to three. Trampoline jumping to face painting to rock wall climbing.

Speaking of birthday's, there have been five this month in the family. Troy, Carter, Alyson, Momma and Jordan.  Wow! We love our January babies!

Honor Roll. So proud of Beau making all A's for the second nine weeks considering a month into the quarter, he had two C's!

Brenley is doing well at school too. They celebrated their 100th day on Friday so they had to draw a picture of what they will look like when they are 100. 

Ribbie. Oh my. We love this pup. Okay. I love this pup. A great officemate during the day. A great snuggle partner in the evening. He started doggie daycare recently and loves playing with new friends. He comes home so tired!!!!!  He is now 4 months old.

Okay, that was a quick summary for the last 24 days.  Now we turn our attention to Brenley's birthday and Valentine's Day. Never mind the fact that Mom will be gone most of February, only to be led by Brian taking a guy vacation starting this Thursday.  That folks, is called life, I guess. And we are learning to love every minute of it. 

Painting in the new year

Kicked off our day painting a few projects. She loves anything art and I love her!!

How is this girl so smart?

She did it all herself!

Christmas in Oklahoma

We had a wonderful time in Oklahoma celebrating Christmas. The kids are getting so big. They just love being together. We had a great time playing games, opening presents, and ending the night with our annual white elephant / dirty Santa game! 

Here are some of our Christmas moments.

Going outside to play!! It was cold. 

Ryan tearing into his present from us. 

And it's out!!!

Beau opening a present.

Sis showing off a present.

Helping Grandma open her presents.

Showing off her Hideaway Pet! 

Let the game begin!!!

Ribbie wanted in on the action too! 

Sis showing off her video skills to Uncle Tyler. 

It was a Merry Merry Christmas all around! 

Christmas 2014

I guess I was too involved in the moment and picture taking wasn't on top of mind this Christmas, but I did manage to capture a few images.

First of all, we added another family member to our household and that is Mr. Ribbie Grant. We are already in love with him. Such a sweet boy. The kids were so surprised. This has been such a hard secret to keep! They were so excited when they found out the news. And so far, both of them have been so helpful with him, but of course, the newness has not worn off yet!!!

Here is our new baby boy. We brought him home at 13 weeks old and really well trained for a young pup. 

This is from our first night.

Sometimes I look at him, and I think... What did I do? And then a few minutes later, I think, why did we wait so long? In the two short days we have had him, he has provided us a lot of joy. Here is to a lot of memories and an easy puppy phase.

We went to McPherson on Christmas Eve and the kids love to play with each other. It gets really loud with the laughter and wrestling, but it's always fun to watch the kids open their presents.

Tyler helping pass out our presents! Big strong boy! 

And here we are at our house Christmas morning. No doubt the big present was the pup, but Santa still managed to come through. 

My babe's artwork

Bren never ceases to amaze me in her art skills, but this one really made my heart happy. The Birth of Jesus! 

The reason for the season. 

Merry Christmas!

Basketball has begun!

Definitely late in posting this since the first tournament was two weeks ago, but at least I am posting before his NEXT tournament which is tomorrow!

So new team this year. He is playing for the Shockers. Still #31 and so far, he is doing a great job! I'm excited to watch him this season. Our last season of this basketball league!