1 Week to Go

Kaitylnn Bella Bronander will be a year old in exactly one week... Harumph! ( I am pouting)

My Favorite

This is one of my favorite pictures of the girls from Halloween. Here they are with their Hitler Baby mustaches and Carlos. It is one of the weirdest things we have ever done... but we laughed so hard that day... even dad was having a good time. Thanks again for visiting guys, we'll never forget it!

I work three 12 hour night shifts this weekend so there wont be any posts until next week... Or whenever I get to it :)

SONIC

Today Tim and I took another load of leaves to the yard recycling center. You should have seen how huge the pile of leaves and grass was. It was literally enormous. I took a picture because it puts it into perspective. This mound was atleast another two times its with further on the right than my camera would capture... Unbelievable. It was like every tree in Green Bay was storing its leaves there. Although i have to mention I really never understood just how many leaves our yard had until we did it again this year. Good Lord! Reminds me when Timmy and I talk about buying a new house that we consider the amount of trees on the property ;)

After dropping off the leaves we headed to the new "restaurant" in town... SONIC. I know most of you are like "whats the big deal?" But to us, it is a big deal. WE figured there hasn't been a new fast food joint to come to Green Bay in quite a while. This sonic is so popular that the first week it was open, there would be lines of car waiting in the adjacent parking lot just to get in line. No Lie! So we waited until the middle of the afternoon when everyone was at work (besides us of course) to try it out. Not bad... 1/2 off slushies were nice. But I have to say that Hardees still trumps hands down!

candy candy candy!!!

Today was a bit of a lazy day. Dad was sick to his stomach alot so we girls kind of kept to ourselves. I go out to my parents alot to visit... even when he's not 100%... because he's never a 100% anymore. So we did a little cleaning and Kyra decided to organize her Halloween candy. It was so cute! She had it categorized by type, size and in order of favorites ( too bad she cant eat it. Sugar makes her crazy). I love this little girl! She did however sneak a few pieces which we later had to swim off at the YMCA.

Congrats Becky!

Today was the baby shower for Paula's BFF Becky... and I was invited (heeheehee... makes me feel special). Anyways, it was so cute to see all the little baby things again. I know you are thinking- hello, Bella's only 11 months old, she's still a baby. But let me tell you, its different. I was noticing the itch today, but don't tell my husband that. Oh! And today was the first time that Kaitlynn tried summer sausage. OMG! A word of warning (as with ice cream) do not give this to her unless you are prepared for a screaming temper tantrum when you stop giving it to her... Fair warning. All in all it was a wonderful morning. Paula had coordinated some baby games to play including: measure/ guess Becky's belly, guess the baby food, baby bingo and other fun stuff. Oh, she even made little rattles out of cupcakes and a diaper cake... it was adorable! Anyways- shout out to Becky: Thanks for letting me hang out with your fam and friends- hope all goes well!

I heart fleet farm

have I mentioned that I LOVE Fleet Farm? Its awesome! I remember hearing as a child that if you cant find it here at "the man's mall" you dont need it... its sooo true. Tonight we picked Kyra up from school and then met my mom for a little shopping expedition. We headed to Fleet Farm to return a drip pan for my dad's snow blower (i'll explain later) and to check out the toy isles. Kyra was in heaven. The hard part was to watch her drooling and asking for toys that I may (or may not) wink wink have boughten her already. Kaitlynn had a blast looking at all the pretty Christmas lights and I must say that my mother was a bit entranced by a few herself. Kaitlynn got ahold of a huge summer sausage and would not let us put it back. Good thing Christmas is coming up...

So the whole snow blower thing is that my dad had a new garage floor poured this summer and he is VERY protective of it. He sweeps it out religiously and they even have a squeegee for when it gets wet. So when he thought about this winter and the snow blower, he decided that we needed something to catch the water. He sent mom and I off to find something (he's still really sick) and we found a pan. but its a metal pan and that will rust... so that's what we returned and after much frustration I think he has settled on a mat... Ugh! What we do for love...

~Happy Birthday Mary~

Today is Mary's 50-something birthday. It was a nice "stay in your jammies" kind of day. Jennifer and Andrew flew out yesterday and AJ and Anna drove back to Milwaukee too. We decided to do a little yard work at my house and it turned out to be a total lawn overhaul with everyone pitching in including Mary and Carlos. Anna watched the peanut thank goodness because it was quite the ordeal. Mary had fun stomping the leaves and looking at all the colors. Carlos was awesome and helped us heave load after load of leaves into the bed of Timmy's truck.

But today we are taking it easy. I picked up a cake quick from Copps and we sang a little happy Birthday. Kaitlynn was playing with a beer can (I know... bad Mommy) until she saw the candles and the cake... then it was all over. CAKE!!! We had a little pre-birthday celebration for her and let her try a little cake... Okay, alot of cake. But how could I say no? We laughed and laughed... and then took a bath.

Later this evening we headed to see the deer at the yard waste/ recycling center. There are a few deer that come out at dusk so we wanted to she Mary and Carlos. And there they were... a pair of bucks, some does and a few little Bambies (good thing AJ wasn't there to shoot em... not that you could anyway). So we ( and by that I mean Carlos) threw them some extra apples from Mom and dad's and watched them come ever so slightly closer and closer to the vehicles. It was interesting to watch the people that were there to see the deer and those that just wanted to get their yard clippings taken care of.

After it got dark... and COLD, we headed into town to check out the new "SONIC" restaurant which is right by our house. Its the first new restaurant that Green Bay had gotten in a while and its in the old drive up style. Would you believe that there was a line straight out the driveway and at least 20 cars deep... standing still. I couldn't believe it! We skipped it and got a pizza and some movies... our time to experience SONIC will come :)