Our 4th

This year, Josh was working, so it was just me and the girls. We went with some friends up to a house in Lake Dallas...it was fun getting to hang out, eat hot dogs and ice cream, and swim...the fireworks on the other hand, well, they did not go as expected...
Riley thought they were too loud...

...and Aydia HATED them...she buried her head in my chest and wouldn't even look at them. She hated them so much that she worked herself up into a sweaty mess and we ended up going inside...oh well, maybe next year!

The 3 of us!

Early Bday Celebration with the ladies!

For an early bday celebration, me and my girl friends went to Pete's Dueling Piano Bar! It was SOOOO fun! Everyone needs a good ladies night every once in a while!

I always feel like I don't have enough pics of me and my friends, so I went down this line and got everyone! Once you have kids (which all of us do!) you just take pictures of all the cute kids!

Bre, Amy, and me

Me and Tracy

Natalie, Maria, and me

Stef, Emily, and me

Me and Amy

Got called up on stage for my birthday! We sang the hokey pokey!

Easter Day...

The easter baskets we gave the girls! (We don't do the whole Easter bunny thing, it may seem boring, but we just don't want them to loose the true meaning of Easter!) (Oh, I made those bows ;)!


Cute girlies!

Me and my girls!

This is what my husband did while we were SUPPOSED to be playing a game...

This is what I did as I was bored while everyone was sleeping but me...(played with my camera :)!)


Look, there is one right there!


What's that you say? Oh, I didn't ask if I could eat ALL of my easter candy? Well, I did...and I got caught red handed!

What is in there?

All the Brock children and grandchildren

Holy smokers, look at all that candy...

Our Valentines Day...

We spent our Valentines day as a family this year! It was a lot of fun!
When the girls got up and came out for breakfast, they saw these:

Riley with her bag!

Aydia with her bag!

The stuff that was in their bags from me!

The girls and I were out running errands and as we walked up to our car, we saw this...


My gift...a massage!

Where we went for lunch! One of our fav's!

Daddy and Aydia

Mommy and Riley

Yummy sweet potato fries!

Riley putting on her lipgloss that I got for her!

Valentines Day Playgroup!

We had a Valentines Playgroup with our church family! It was a blast! We had great food...LOTS of sweets, crafts, and cookie decorating!

Ri and A

Aydia painting...I love how she is laying!

Riley painting!

Mommy painting! I wanted in on the fun too!

We stripped down to decorate some cookies...that paint sure made a mess.


All the mama's hanging out at the table...where the food is!

World, you make me sick...

This is ridiculous. A man who worked at Walmart was trampled to death today by shoppers. This just makes me furious. What could those people possibly need so badly, that they have to break down the door and trample a man? A tv, toys for their kids (who probably have hundreds already), a Wii, some shirts, wrapping paper...seriously? This world is SO materialistic it makes me sick.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11282008/news/regionalnews/man_killed__woman_miscarries_in_wal_mart_141313.htm
This is one of the news websites with the story...hate it.

What are you thankful for today?

I am thankful for my sweet girls! My husband and all of our family! I am thankful that the Lord provides our every needs and I am especially thankful that the Lord allowed us to buy our first house yesterday!

What we are doing for Christmas...

So this year for Christmas, our family, along with our church family is going to build wells for people who don't have clean water. I am not saying this to brag, because that is totally not what it is about. I am saying it in hopes to get your help. Please watch this video and join the cause. If you want to help, just ask me what you can do! Think about how awesome it would be to be able to give clean, drinkable water to people instead of giving/receiving so many gifts on material things that really, do you need?
Living Water International

Halloween...

This was for a fall festival.

They wanted to get their faces painted...the line was REALLY long...we waited for 1 1/2 hours in that dang line...that is all they wanted to do, so we waited...oh the simple things in life...we love them!

Aydia would not be still, so they had to do it on her arm

They rode their first ride, and loved it. Aydia actually threw a fit when I had to take her off.

This was on Halloween. Now, you are probably wondering why they wore 2 costumes. Riley's is because she had her princess dress that was borrowed from a friend and it got ripped by another friend, so she then borrowed a mermaid outfit. Aydia's was because we didn't have the bee outfit from another friend in time for the festival.



They both really had a lot of fun trick-or-treating for the first time! Riley was so excited, she ran everywhere...hard to keep up with her while holding Aydia who is pretty cautious and did not want to walk because it was unknown! Riley would run up to the door and say, "trick or treaty." It was pretty funny! We only went to about 10 houses (mama's spleen started to hurt...mono). I have only let them have a couple pieces of the candy as well. I have been trying to pawn it off on guests. They just don't need it and neither do I! I know it seems mean, but oh well! My house, my rules folks! Hahaha!