spring.......

A few weeks ago I told Brooke that we could go and look for a new dress for church. She was so excited to pick out her own Easter dress. Of course Mya wanted the same dress as her big sister. Brooke and Mya wanted to wear the dresses all week long. Every morning Brooke asked if it was Sunday so that she could wear her new dress.

Mya actually sat down for three seconds and said "cheese".
Brooke is in love with her new blue purse that grandma/grandpa drussel bought her. She carried the bag with her to church b/c it matched her new dress. We all know that she does not get that from me. Brooke has more of her Aunt whit-e in her. Especially when she wore her pink high heel princess shoes with her dress to church.
Jon's dad is working in PA for two weeks so he drove up over the weekend to see the girls. We went out to dinner saturday night to the cheesecake factory and then he came to church with us on sunday. It is fun for the girls to see him. thanks for driving up grandpa!
Mya outside on st. Patrick's day. She would not let go of the neighbor's chalk box. She looks so cute and innocent in this picture.
the girls posing for their annual st. Patrick's picture.

Winter

We have not been up to much this winter. Whitney left for her mission the end of January. That was a dramatic time for me in my life. It is hard to go from talking to her every day to not talking to her at all. But life does not revolve around me......

The kids loved to play in the snow. We got a couple of big storms in February so we spent most of our days playing in the snow.
Brooke loves to wear her bathing suit and one day she found the swimming tubes for the pool. She really wanted to use them, so I told her to put them in the tub. They had the best time "swimming" in the tub.
Brooke insisted on pulling Mya around outside.
I love this picture of the two. They were actually somewhat cooperative. They are in a fun stage of life where they love to play together and make each other laugh

update..............

So i do not have the patience to put the pictures in chronological order. but this all happened in November and December.


This is the best that I could get of the two of the kids in the same room at the same time. Brooke and mya dressed for Christmas Sunday Mya being adorable and snuggling dad. moments like this make me want another baby.

This is all of the cousins on my side of the family. my mom bought them all polar bear pjs. we went out to Utah just to get this picture.............OK so not really, we went out to Utah for Michael's wedding and to get this picture.

the kids and us before we left them in the hotel with the baby sitters so we could go to Michael and Andrea's reception. it was a formal sit down dinner. it was nice to enjoy a quite meal with out the kids.

On our long weekend in Utah we went to temple square. Brooke was running around like a maniac. she loved seeing all the lights and running with her cousins.

Haley, Jack, and Brooke all stopped for a minute to take a picture and then they were off and running again

I had a birthday. Jon and I went out to dinner and fun night together.

We went into the city for the tree lighting. It was not worth the trip in. But at least we have a picture to prove that we went into the city that night.

Whit waiting to open her mission call. She is going to las vegas spanish speaking. as promised she will be getting a package every month. they will be filled with AWESOME things you just wait sister drussel!



On thanksgiving we had a nice and relaxing day. we went to my parents house. I made the pies and some other things and my mom and whit took care of the rest. The kids and i playing under the table.

Aunt whit-e with the kids eating a snack under the table...........why not

Whit posing with her famous mashed potatoes. and of course sporting mya's head band

Jon is the lucky one that gets to carve the turkey and make the gravy. he makes delicious gravy.

Mya wanted to eat veggies and dip so badly we sat her in the chair and let her eat while we got the rest of the food ready. she was so happy to have her own bowl of dip!

All in all the last month and a half has been a lot of fun. sorry for the random order of things but i guess that is what i get for not being better at updating the blog.

WE DID IT !!!!!!!!!!!

Jon and I ran the Richmond, Va marathon this weekend. We left on friday morning with Whitney, Tyler. It was a LONG car ride with the kids but we made it. When we arrived in Richmond we called a few hotels to try and find one closer to the finish line. we lucked out and got a hotel room that was 2 blocks away from the finish. We picked up our race packages and whit and ty stayed with the kids in the hotel so that jon and i could go carb up at the olive garden.

On saturday morning we got up and got ready for the race. Jon and I left around 7:30 and walked up to the starting line. Whit and Ty stayed in the hotel with the kids and brought them down to watch us at the finishline.


I started out feeling good and running at a good pace. After mile 13 I had some ups and downs but in the end we crossed the finishline together. It was so cool to be able to complete one of my goals in life with Jon. We finished the race in 4 hrs. 15 mins. 33 secs.

Whit and Ty brought the kids down to watch us cross the finish line. It was really awesome to have family come and support us. Thanks whit and ty for coming along and watching our kids.

Thanks mom, dad, whit, and ty for all the weekend baby sitting and late night babysitting so that we could do the race. Without all your help we could not have done it.



Us with the kids right after we finished

nice and gross.......i guess that is what you get for running for 4 hrs.

the crew

this photo sums up the weekend of whit and ty with the kids

whit and brooke in the fort in the back of the car

Halloween

we had a fun october this year. at the end of the month we carved our pumpins and had a ward halloween party. we took the girls trick or treating with one of our neighbors. they all had a blast. Brooke trick or treating

Brooke wearing mya's costume on Halloween

Mya was a cat since brooke stole her costume.

the girls posing with their pumpkins

Mya at our ward Halloween party............eating of course

brooke in her princess costume at the ward party

Mya with aunt whitney. whit and i dressed up in 80's.

mya loved to play in the pumpkin goo

jon showing the girls how to clean out their pumpkins

daddy daughter date

Brooke was so excited to go on her first daddy daughter date. She called Jon on the way home from work and asked him if he wanted to go on a date with her. he of course said yes. She spent the next 30minutes getting ready. she went and picked out a clean new outfit and then we had to do her hair for her date. she is our little girly girly.

for their date brooke wanted to go and get ice cream. they went and got ice cream and then walked around the grocery store and came home with flowers for me. she was so happy to tell me all about her date when she got home.

thanks jon for taking our princess out for a fun night on the town

weekend with grandpa and grandma "B"

Jon's parents were able to fly in over conference weekend. All of us loaded into the car late thursday night to pick up grandpa and grandma. On friday we took them to abmas farm as per brooke's request to show them the animals and feed them crackers. On saturday we went to demarest farms and went on a hayride and to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins. We had a fun weekend with them and were glad that they were able to come out and see us. the kids sitting with grandparents

Brooke and Grandpa being silly together at demarest farms

the kids in the pumpkin patch with the grandparents

A group shot of all of us at the pumpkin patch. I love going pumpkin picking!!!

mya loved to sit on the pumpkins.

enjoying the hay ride out to the pumpkin patch

brooke and grandpa at abmas farm

mya collecting all the pumpkins at abmas farm