Sunday, December 15, 2013

Visiting Santa!

We woke up this morning and decided to get ourselves back down to Molbaks to see Santa today!

I was really nervous that Lily would cry. A lot. But none of our kids cried! Yesssss!!

Kenley went first to show us how it's done. She told Santa that she had been good and he told her he already knew. Then she tried to confess that she had maybe been a little naughty, be he assured her that, no, she was definitely good. Then Cooper got the primo spot.


After seeing her cousins, Lily couldn't wait to join in the fun!

Santa was very sweet to all of our kids, we just loved him!

Comparison collage!
2012                                                      2013

We had some fun while we were there...


Kenley's favorite thing to do at Molbaks: tell Lily, "Let's get lost!" Um, no.
 We picked out some poinsettias to bring home! 

Monday, December 2, 2013

Our Tree is Up!

And it may be a little light heavy on the front lower portion....



Sunday, December 1, 2013

Erin's Wedding!

Our sweet cousin, Erin, got married this weekend to a wonderful guy! Poor Chris got dragged to Seattle in the midst of mom crisis, and he just jumped right into the gaggle of Brehms, and handled it all so smoothly. He definitely got a thumbs up from all of us! We couldn't wait to celebrate our growing family this weekend with all the Brehms!

Kenley was super excited - she was invited to be a flower girl again, and this time with Lily, too! And as an extra special treat, the bride invited all the flower children (6 girls and 1 boy!) to tea with the bride. It was all-out fun!



 Kenley rocked at "Pin the bouquet on the bride!"

 They got tons and tons of gifts, candy, cookies....they were totally spoiled! It was a little girl's dream.

 Coopie was one of the most handsome men there! With Amie...
 ...and Erin, the bride!




We had so much fun and got so hyped up that we had to stop and burned off some energy at a park. Doesn't Coopie look hyper?

And then we went home and had more "tea parties." (Lily loves these weekends where she gets to spend millions of uninterrupted hours with KK!)
 Then, our wonderful aunties took the children for the evening so that Rachel, Jason and I could go to see Catching Fire with Elie and Josie at the awesome, newly renovated Bagdad Theater and then Rachel and I went to the bachelorette party (no pics from that! haha).

And then it was the big day!










As soon as Lily saw the aisle, she ran around the boy carrying the sign, ditched the kiddos, and ran full speed ahead down the aisle. Oh, and before the ceremony she walked right up to the stage, sat down and started singing a song. Maybe she is going to take after her cousins Amie and Erin?!?

On to the reception at the super-cool Octagonal Barn!







The girls were dancing up a storm! Lily even crashed the first dance (she got away from Jason and headed straight for the dance floor!). Then around 6:00, Lily ditched her dress and Kenley laid down to take a nap in the middle of the dance floor. Weddings with small children just are not the same as the good old days!



Cooper was ready to party though! 

We pretty much failed at getting pics of the girls in their dresses. Hopefully the pros got some, but I'm not sure how when KK was bounding around the entire time they were trying to do the flower girl shots! :) Luckily, we snuck in a few last weekend at Molbaks!







Congratulations Erin and Chris!!