B's 8th Birthday ...

Sorry this blog has been such a SNOOZE lately! Just hard to keep up with everything ... blogs, Facebook, Etsy ... kids, etc. Anyhoo ... in case you haven't heard, BRETT IS NOW EIGHT.

We celebrated with an awesome pool party. Brett was in heaven... he probably went down the 2-story slide 109 times.

Here were the highlights of his Birthday Celebrations:

The banner [well, maybe not a 'highlight', but a tradition].

The treats.

His buddies.

The slide.

Legos & his new Jaguars shirt [thank you Gays].

His new bike.

And a self-inflating whoopie cushion [he's sitting on it]. We couldn't possibly forget that. :)

He has had an awesome year ... and I know this next one will bring even GREATER things. We love you Bretty-Brett! Happy 8, Big Guy!

I EAT ALL MY ...

[Pause the music so you can hear the video.]

Libby has just been cracking me UP lately.

Tonight, she was declaring that she was going to eat everything on her plate. But she kept getting interrupted. By her brothers. After laughing at her ...

"TI - YIT." [quiet]

"TIIIII ... YIT!" [quiiiiiiiiiiet]

"TI - YIT, BEPP!" [quiet BRETT!]

... I had to try & catch a video. I didn't get her yelling "TI-YIT", but you can still see she's serious about finishing this statement. She's gonna be a bossy one, I tell you.

Wizards vs. Rapids

This past Saturday night we took the kids to their 1st Major League Soccer Game. My best friend [since a year old] & also Libby's Godmother, Carrie, invited us to her family's tailgate ... all the Noonans [minus little bro Michael] were in town to watch the Kansas City Wizards play the Colorado Rapids. Carrie's brother Patrick plays for the Rapids [you can read about him here]. I hadn't watched Patrick play soccer since he was in grade school [MLS games on TV don't count].

We had SO much fun tailgating with the Noonans before heading over to the game. We were approached by somebody asking if we could help him out with a participant in the half time show. We totally thought Davis would do it ... but he was shying away from the attention just at the mention of it. So we turned to Brett who is ALWAYS up for the spotlight. :) He got to go down on the field with Kyle and race the tractor tricycle. The other boy won, but Brett still got to keep the tractor tricycle, a Wizards shirt, a hat & he won 4 tickets to the wizards last home game. Not bad for 2nd place.

The game itself was a total blast. So fun to watch. Oh & I'm sure we were fun to watch hauling a tractor tricycle out of there ...

... and taking it on the bus.