Special Visitor at Brandon's school !!!

Today Brandon had a very special visitor at his school . The TOOTH FAIRY came to visit them. She taught them to use their toothbrushes like a choo choo train when brushing their teeth and to sing the abc song 2 times for the correct amount of time brushing. She also told them that sweets caused sugar bugs to come in their teeth and the cavity monster will eat their teeth if they don't brush 3 times a day. She said they should eat fruits & vegetables instead of sweets.  
p.s. Brandon loves his boots and wanted to wear them today even though he was wearing shorts ...

~ Nichole

I did it !!

I did it !! I quit my job @ the bank and now I am a stay at home Mommy !!! My whole life I have always wanted to be a mother and after I lost my triplets I was heartbroken because I didn't think my dream was going to come true. I did have Shelby but I didn't give birth to her and I know she has her mother who gave birth to her that I could never replace the bond they have as mother & daughter. I wanted to experience that bond between a mother & her child like I have with my mom.. then God blessed me with Aubrey and my whole life changed .... Aubrey has that unconditional love for me that I always wanted and I totally adore her as well. My amazing husband has been tight on our budget the past 2 years to make it possible for me to stay home with our little princess and I couldn't think him enough !! I have been home 2 weeks and it still feels like I have to go back to work soon because that is all I have known since I was 18. I am trying really hard to get into a routine but I have just been enjoying being home with my kids & doing the housewife thing like laundry, grocery shopping & cooking dinner every night without being stressed out . I even got to go on a overnight trip to San Antonio with my husband. It was awesome just going with him without having to check my schedule to see if I had to work. No more worrying about meeting goals, confrence calls or customers yelling at you .. LIFE IS AMAZING and I feel so blessed !!!

~Nichole

Christmas Service 2011



I am so blessed to have this family !!!



We had a great christmas & I just wanted to share some special pictures ...
We took a few family pictures after church.  Brandon & Aubrey sang in the little program before service started. It was a great day !
~ Nichole

My kids singing .... ( Aubrey is wearing Shelby's dress from when she was 4 )

Don, Brandon, Mom, Keith, me, Shelby, Mike & Aubrey

Our bonus son ..... Brandon



Brandon, Maggie & Aubrey



facepainting @ christmas parade

Brandon is staying with us again until his mom can get her life together. It is so much fun having him in our family. Little boys are way different than girls.... Lol
Aubrey & Brandon are best friends . They are only apart when they go to school. They share a room and have so much fun together.
I just wanted to share some of the fun moments we have had with him this year ....

trying out new shave kit ..

going to school

Brandon, Shelby & Aubrey



reading with my kids



moustaches ....

Shelby's in love ..... Again...

Our sweet Shelby is in love... She has been "dating" (every sunday & wednesday) Aaron for 5 whole months... The other day she told me they were going to get married after college... I love that kid so much. She is truly a great girl. Don't misunderstand me that she is always a pleasure to be around because I don't know any 13 year old who is but I am proud to be her mom.

Aubrey gets her eyes checked....

Aubrey loves glasses. She loves to wear them so much that I have actually bought her 2 real pairs of glass frames from the walmart vision center just so she can wear them. Now that she turned 4 I decided maybe it was time to see if she really needed glasses. I am so blind  without contacts or glasses it isn't even funny but I prayed Aubrey wouldn't get my vision.... Apparently she did get my face ....lol
Anyway I took her to Dr. Gilmore who has known Aubrey since I was pregnant with her to check her eyes out. She did such a great job listening to what the dr was telling her & was full of questions on why is she doing this? What is that for ? It was so cute seeing my little girl sitting in that big chair so of course I  took lots of pictures...

And the dr says she can see perfect !!

Happy 4th birthday Aubrey !

Today Aubrey turned 4 years old !!! We celebrated her birthday yesterday at chuck e cheese and she had such a great time. I have to get pictures from my mom & sister because my camera died right when we got to the party but I do have a few I can share.... I will post more later ....
~ Nichole