Another One Bites The Dust!

Everyone who knows me, knows my obsession with throwing parties, and Braden has ALWAYS had parties to write home about! (I am a little bias)

Boys parties are just hard to do, and so I make sure that he always has great parties! This year's theme was Pirates and so we did everything pirate related! We had a blast, but boy, is it ever tough to do a party at your own house!

This year was suppose to be an easy year after last year's over the top 18$ a head Midland Rockhounds Baseball party! This was a little cheaper, but not so much easier! Next year, we are going white trash and going to the bowling alley! Hold me to it!

Baby June meet Owen or Brody? (It's one of the Rogers boys!) I think it is Brody!

Baryn was our official Pirate Wench who loved playing in the designated baby Bouncie!


The Kids had fun jumping off of the bounce ship!

Here is a cake as it is collapsing! I chose not to make the cake this year, and I go to HEB for the 1st time for a cake, and it ends up collapsing!

This is the Pirate Ship Bouncie that we put over at Sassy & Poppy's house across the street! We also had a Treasure Hunt which included a Treasure Dig over at Mom & Dad's yard behind The Brown's house! Who can say they had a Birthday Party at 3 houses at one time?

Everyone thought we just had really nice neighbors across the street, to allow us to use their yard for the bouncie! We had cars parked perpendicular in the street to allow the kids to cross safely and as they say.... It's not a party until the Cops have been called! Ironically, it was an Officer in the Gang Unit! We moved our cars and kept a better eye on the kids going between yards!

Here is the younger crew mommies with all the babies!

Here is some of the group at dinner time in our front yard. Braden is still jumping and had no time for dinner!

But he DID have time for Cake! You can tell here that is has collapse and been rigged for the photo!

Baryn take a swing at the Pinata!

And so does Braden!

Wyatt was great at the Pinata hitting! He did great!

Braden opening up his presents at 9:30 after everyone had GONE HOME!

The only family photo we could get all night! It was fun but a crazy evening of organized playtime! We are glad for all that got to come!

Kindergarten, Finally!

Well, today was Braden's 1st day in Kindergarten at Trinity! We are so proud of him and know that he will have a great year! I have added Hospitality Chairwoman to my list of "As if I don't have enough going on" list, and so I have been serving Breakfast to the teachers and parents all this week, and I am WORN out! Today was my last day of being up at school at 6:15 so that it is all set up, so I can come home and take photos with the kiddos! Whooo!

Braden had a great day, but their was a little separation anxiety...... but it was from Baryn, calling for Bubba! She kept calling for him while we talking to all the other parents as we stood around my notorious "breakfast table" and it was so sad!


Baryn & Big Brother on our way out the door!

My Friend, Betsy told me about this great book that mimics "Twas the Night Before Christmas!" Braden loved reading it last night!

Our 3rd Annual photo in front of the teacher's name sign!

Kudos to the Trainee!

I just wanted to comment on my dear, trained, husband! Everyone knows that Chad is the Bomb-Diggity and that I am so lucky to have him in my life! Well, truth be told, I married him knowing that he was great, but more greatness can be trained and so...obviously he has been trained well, and I have pulled all the greatness from way down DEEP! (girls, ...... you can learn something from this)
So on Tuesday, I took the kids to Chick fil A, and invited Chadwick. He showed up about the time that Baby Sister was yelling, "ay, ay, ay" pronounced like "play" without the P and the L. She was conveniently pointing at the play area (yes, Vickie, now I know why you have not once taken Wyatt in!)
Well let me tell you about my great husband (who I have trained so well though this was on his OWN accord)........ He took off her shoes and thennnnnnnn TOOK OFF HER BOW! Now normaly, I don't like Baryn without a bow, as you ALL know, but this time it was perfect since he didn't want her to lose it in the play area!! WHHHOOOOO HOOOOO! How smart daddy of a girl is he? Not bad!!
He knows how important those bows are to me!! Isn't he the best?

Trying to recover from Getting Back to Reality!

So Chad & I are back into reality mode and it is back to "normal." (as normal as that gets!) We had a really good time at the Sandals in Montego Bay. This resort is definitely for the young, tattooed, Honeymooners! We just kept to ourselves since were part of the "older" crowd! We got their via 1st class on Continental and so now we are very spoiled. We were so tired though since we had a 5 am departure, that we didn't really get our money's worth on the alcohol, but we sure did on the service side! They were great! Below is our week in photos!

We had some great meals, and some not so great meals!

We had a great time playing around in the water, just outside our door! Our part of the beach had nobody, so it was so nice!

We met some great couples, also on their anniversary trips, but this couple Scott & Jenny from Ohio had their 10th on the exact same day, both Catholic, 3 kids: boy, boy, girl and just so much more in common. We sat in the pool with them for about 3 hours, just talking, several times!

On our Anniversary, we had a private seaside private dinner for 2, where we took our Dom Perignon that we bought on our honeymoon in St. Maarten! (Chad thought of that!)

We had a beautiful sunset to view as we ate!

Then Chad "reproposed" for the second time in a year, as I somewhat told him at dinner that he needed to do it again this year, and maybe he would get a different answer than last year! I had our butler give him the ring that he proposed with last year, that I had hiding since we arrived to the resort!

This was our room!

Since we had Butler Service in our package at Sandals, they kept the Bar in our room stocked with whatever we requested! Our Fridge was also full of tons of different drinks!

This is what we had brought to us every morning on our Balcony. (again due to the butler service)

The is what we came home to every evening!

This is what we had awaiting us at the beach everyday. We had our own reseved seating just for us and 2 other couples next to us on our own little remote part of the resort! This is where we were everyday! Ardonick (the butler) always had the towels decorated and the cooler full of ice, diet coke, rum & Merlot for Chad!

One day we took a party boat to go snorkling, and then on to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville! This was where we got our outside food fix, actually had to pay for our drinks, and then went down a great big slide!! Chad did it 3 times!

It was a lonnnngggg slide and then whipped you out the bottom turn.......

and then THREW you out!!! You are going soooo fast! It was a blast!

This is the view of where ALL the "other" resort goers laid out! It is the view from our Balcony.

We chose a stormy day to ride the Hobie Cats, but it was fun! Very Stylish Yellow cover-ups!

The ONE thing we wanted to do while in Jamaica was doing a zipline tour! It was an exciting adventure! One line was over 1300 feet long across! Whew, real interesting when its sprinkling out in the rain forest!

Here is Chad showing off his moves!

Here is our Villa. Our room was the one up top on the right! That is our butler out front!

This was the view I had all week. Those are our other 2 chairs that we would pull into the water to enjoy a different & uncovered view!

This was the day we left. We went to go & reminisce, one last time before leaving!

On Saturday, the 2nd of August Chad and I started another 10 years together via Vow Renewel Ceremony. I surprised Chad at our candlelight dinner the night before, when I accepted he Re-proposal! I made the bouquet and had already set everything up with the wedding coordinator! It was very special! Now I am wondering if I get 2 days worth of gifts?

This is us after ward, walking down the "aisle!"

We even had a cake, champagne toast, and our 2nd, First dance, ironically a song played by Shania Twain. (the new song playing on my blog)

We took lots of pictures and boy was it hot!

So we chose to get in the water and "trash the clothes" which apparantly is quite popular with destination weddings on the beach!

Then Chad was told to drop me, and even though I knew it was coming.... I was still shocked that he did it!

So then we just had fun, while everyone watched!

You can barely tell that my dress was a tad see through! I didn't care! I didn't have a care in the world! I just remembered that the white dress would make me look tanner! Did it work?

Overall, we had a great time! We loved the trip, and the resort was nice, but our time together was even better! I am definitely ready for the next special trip!

The 10 Reasons I Love My Chad!

So, Chad and I just celebrated our 10th Anniversary while in Jamaica, and so I thought I would fittingly name this round, and then tell you why I love Chad! I hope you get a good laugh with this one! Some of you guys have known us for our whole lives, some of you only know me, or just Chad real well, some have known us since the day we started dating, and some since we moved back to Midland, but all you who think you know us, don't know the Chad, I KNOW!!!

1. He hasn't an out since we have married twice, now!

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2. He takes me places! (lots of places that are all my idea)
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3. He buys me things!
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4. He is willing to take silly conjured up photos, and even though he is not happy about doing them, he smiles through them!
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5. He is a talented artist that takes what I, again, conjure up, and then goes forth with it!

(did he really get a choice?)

Some rooms, he had to do twice!! (in 2 different towns) Some rooms....he WON'T do again. (see the 80 hour pink project, above)

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6. He let's me dress my kiddos, as cute.....

as I want! (Even when it is a boy that is as cute as a girl!)

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7. He gave me 3 beautiful Children!

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8. He has great friends, that all married great ladies which makes my life alot easier come time for gatherings! I have ended up being closer to the wives now, than he is with the guys!

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9. He finally married me after all of the chasing I did, since the 9th grade!

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and the #10 reason,

I love Chad Brown..................................

10. He has come a long way since those boots & jeans days!

I LOVE YOU, BOO BOO!

Here is to another 10 at a time!