Disneyland group shot

Here's our group shot from Disneyland. Everyone wasn't able to attend but we were still quite the group.

Brielle is 9 months

She's like 9 1/2 months actually but its ok.

Here's her stats before I forget

She is 16 pounds.

She is getting so big. I cannot believe she is so old already. At the beginning of January she finally got her first 2 teeth. It has been a long time coming. She is a hard teether. She almost gets a tooth and then it disappears. Just like Ridge was. Her hair is finally getting thicker. People call her a skunk because of the thicker stripe down the middle of her head. We can finally put it in a little do'. Its pretty cute.

She is on EVERYTHING. She is climbing on EVERYTHING. She is a super crawler and gets everywhere fast!!

She still does her monster noise and doggy pant which is hilarious.

When she's hungry and she sees food she will grunt until you give it to her. She loves ANY food.

She has started standing by herself for longer and longer times.

She loves to attack you all over with her open mouth. So I constantly have wet spots literally all over my clothes.

She is suffering right now from croup which has been hard. I hate seeing her sick but she still tries so hard to be happy.

She has a special relationship with her siblings and loves her daddy. Whenever he comes home he has to hold her. She loves to play on the couch. If she could, she'd play on it all day long.

Her smile is contagious :)

I just love this shot, she looks so guilty for pulling Ridge's mask down :)

Table Re-do

We got this beautiful table when we moved into this house from my Aunt Teddie. It is a wonderful table. However it had quite a few nicks and dings and the top just needed to be redone. Upon accepting the table, I knew it would be a project. Well here it is a year later, and I finally got it done. I like to tackle these kind of projects. They are daunting and huge but the after its done its worth it. I decided to just paint over it instead of restraining it but it still took forever. There is so many nooks and crannies on this table that the prep was extremely time consuming.

I decided to take off the back chair pad and I like the new look. I need to reupholster the chairs but that's another day :)

Disneyland

We just got back from our Allen family Disneyland reunion trip. We had a BLAST! It was so much fun having that time with the family. My kids have been literally counting down since before Christmas.

We left last Tuesday and travelled all day to get to our hotel room. We enjoyed the first evening in the pool and the kids seriously couldn't wait till the next morning to go. They got up at 5 (in the hotel room). It was so hard for them to contain their energy in that room. We finally headed over with his whole family to Disneyland.

Here are the kiddos all ready for the fun to begin. Yes I made their shirts :) I couldn't see myself paying $20 or even $30 for shirts so made some.

Cousin Ava

We didn't get to see too many characters but we did see Mary Poppins and Bert.

They were celebrating Chinese Lunar New year

Ridge refused most rides...including tea cups. We did force him on most though. Brecklynn LOVED almost every ride. So amazing to see the difference

Second day, we all wore our Allen shirts. There was a crowd of 41 of us. We enjoyed getting into the park earlier to get some of the busier rides done early.

Do you see her two teeth? Cute!!

Pout..pout...pout

Here's all the grandkids that attended. We were missing quite a few still too. Oh and GG (the kids Great Grandma) attended this year. What a special unique experience.

The Allen brothers...with April- no further explanation needed

Our cute happy family

I got this same picture two years ago so had to snap it again

The favorite ride by far was the new Ariel ride. We rode it probably 20 times. The kids LOVED it.

Ridge kept doing this to all his boy cousins....kind of concerning :)

The boys tricked GG onto Space Mountain. They told her it was a hay ride.

Cambree agreed to go on Tower of Terror. In this picture she is smiling. But that was the last time she smiled. She hated it. I love that all her uncles are looking at her :)

This is the end of the Ariel ride. Ariel is waving to everyone and EVERY time....Brecklynn had to wave and insisted everyone with her did as well. Super cute.

It was a lot of fun. The kids are already talking about when we get to go again. Brielle was wonderful the whole trip which was amazing. Thanks Steve and Pat for a wonderful trip filled with many memories!