Carpe Diem

On this day, 6 years ago, we lost someone very dear to our hearts. We miss him everyday! We wish he would have had a chance to meet Brody. We're pretty darn sure he would have been one of Brody's favorite "uncles!" Brian was Pat's college roommate and one of his best friends.

We miss you, Brian! Carpe Diem...

Swimming Fun!!

We went swimming on Valentine's Day after my niece, Brooklyn's, birthday party. Brody had a blast even though the water could have been a little warmer!

Uncle Joey....

We got invited to go see Dave Coulier (aka Uncle Joey) at the comedy club last night with our neighbors, Chris and Sara! He was pretty funny...did all of his crazy voices and everything! Sara even shouted "Cut It Out!" at one point and Dave asked to see the hand gestures!
Birthday Cheers for Chris! He turned 29!
Sara and I!

And this last picture was from a few weekends ago, when my sissy and I had a girls night out! And of course we had to get a picture! Thanks for being the very, very bestest sister EVER!

Spring Flashback...

Oh...how I want Spring to get here!!!! I was just looking over last years spring photos and came upon 2 of my favorites. We had a little bit of a dandelion problem in our backyard, and Brody was helping his daddy by picking them! He also had a mohawk..how cute is he????

I've been neglecting my blog a little bit, because SOMEONE introduced me to facebook!!!! I'll try to do better...

Best Buds...

This is a picture my aunt took from Christmas. I can't tell you how much Brody LOVES to play with his cousin Aaron. Aaron keeps him busy all day long when they play together.
At this very moment Brody is sitting on my lap looking at this picture repeating "Look Mommy, it's Aaron.....can we go 'pway' with him. Look Mommy, it's Aaron....can we go 'pway' with him." And what's funny is that I can remember when Aaron was Brody's age and wanting all of us to play with him.

DWTS...LIVE

So being the avid Dancing with the Stars viewer and fans, my friend, Sandi, and I decided to take it all in...LIVE @ the Sprint Center last night!

BUT....probably the highlight of the night was going to "The Record Bar" in Westport to see Mark Ballas and Derek Hough perform with their band after the DWTS concert! And if you're not familiar with whose these guys are....first of all, shame on you....but they are 2 of the professionals from Dancing with the Stars. Actually Mark and Kristi Yamaguchi won 2 seasons ago and Derek and Brooke Burke just won this past season. Pretty cool...

Arica, Derek, Sandi

Sandi, Mark, Arica

We also got a picture with Maurice Green, who was Cheryl Burke's partner last season. Maurice actually sat down at our table for a quick "chit-chat" before leaving the bar to catch the tour bus! Before we left the bar we had a fairly long conversation with Derek about random stuff on DWTS, her girlfriend (Shannon Elizabeth), him being sick a couple weeks ago, on whether or not he'll be on the next season....all kinds of good stuff! Sandi...thanks for going with me...good times!

Sandi, Maurice, Arica

Holiday Highlights...

Well, here are just a few highlights from our Christmas holidays. We did have a slight BUMP in the road.....we spent Christmas Eve in the Emergency Room! Pat's mom came up to share Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with us and Brody had just finished leaving Santa his milk and cookies....when he tripped and hit his head on our rock fireplace...UGH!!!! We knew immediately he was going to needs a few stitches, so we cleaned him up (head injuries seem to bleed FOREVER) and we headed to the ER. One of his bears (that he totes everywhere) got a little blood on it, so we put a band-aid on bear and took him too! The nurse let him watch Pinocchio and gave him a popsicle after he was all done....so Brody was ready to go back to the hospital the next day!!! But he's good now, got the stitches out on New Year's Eve, let's hope it will be a while until we make that trip again!

Anyway, on to the pics.... my sister has this picture up too, but I just thought it was too funny...so here it is again!

Family shot....not too bad for 5 kids staring at a red blinking light!

This was pre-stitches....looking through the bags!