Welcome to the Family!

I'd like to introduce you all to my baby brother Kevin.  Being that he is 31 years old and has worked as a Rocket Scientist and is currently in Medical School, I could/should probably drop the moniker of "baby" brother.  But I don't think I ever will!  I'm sure I will be well advanced in age and still calling my brothers Inny, Heathy, Adie and Kevie (their names being Ian, Heath, Adam and Kevin).  I like to think that as their favorite sister I can get away with calling them anything I want! ;)  They in turn like to remind me that I'm their only sister so it isn't really like they have a choice! ;)

Last week Kevie got married and I got another beautiful sister in law!  Welcome to the family Michele!  Let me remind you that you knew exactly what you were getting into when you married Kevie!

Kevin & Michele

June 3, 2009

We share a name and now an injury ...

Cameron was named after his mother and now we share an injury!  When I was just over 7 years old I fell and broke both bones in my right arm just above my wrist.  Cameron is just shy of 7 years old and fell off his sister's rip-stick this morning and broke both bones in his right arm just above the wrist!  The following pictures are not for the faint of heart ...

pictures taken with my cell phone

Yep, it was pretty gross!  Andy is out of town this week, so I was on my own.  So of course I called in reinforcements! Big thanks to my brother Kevin and his sweet wife Michele for coming and holding my hand at the hospital (I did really well until they had to set it - I stood outside the door and cried while Kev & Michele sat with a sedated Cam). Thank-you Laurie for coming to the ER and taking my other 2 rugrats to the Jogging Broads picnic, they had a great time!  And thanks to Heather for keeping Syd with her family for the day!  I wish I could say I was calm, cool and collected ... but I wasn't!  I was shaking like a leaf. Thank-you to everyone for helping me out, staying with me and giving me a shoulder to lean on!

Boston Bound

Wish us luck!

Hair today, gone tomorrow!

Before

After

Mya cut 9 inches off her hair yesterday!  She looks so cute with her new short and sassy do! Way to go Bubba!

Say it again ...

The conversation went something like this ...

"Mom guess what! Brett told Brian who told Parker who told Ashley who told Kenzie who told me that Brett likes me!"

Yep, that was it - I made her repeat it three times to see if she could get it right again, of course she did! Nothing like the excitement of finding out that your crush has a crush on you too! Now I'm no Mrs. Robinson (ok, I am a little), but this Brett kid is pretty cute.  White blonde hair and blue eyes, smart, and a killer soccer player (big kuddos in Syd's book for that one!)  Lucky for mom and dad he also hits Syd at her chin! Whew, a few more years until we need to worry about that one!

Casual Wednesday

We are lucky that Andy gets to work from home.  We save so much money on gas, eating out and of course his work wardrobe!

Nice babe, real nice ...

Can you spell excitement ... WII

We caved - more like I caved - and we got a WII for Christmas, along with just about every game and attachment that a kid (or daddy) could want!  We didn't give it to them Christmas morning, it was a surprise gift they found after having visited all the grandparents during the day.  I think the surprise was a huge success, what do you think?

The initial reaction ...

and some more celebrating ...

and some more ...

my own personal rock band -  I am so out numbered (and in trouble!)

daddy finally getting his turn to rock it!