A house full of BOYS!!!!!

On Saturday I watched my cousin's two boys (her daughter was in the hospital for RSV), so I had a house of 4 boys and then Adalyn! Luckily the boys play so well together and are very well behaved, but boys will be boys!

Bray, CJ and Caleb playing wrestle and football!

The young ones are no match for Caleb!

They did manage to get him down once!

We love having them come and play, Caleb really loves to play with the boys and is such a wonderful help!

Porter was the most well behaved, not getting in on the action of playing with them, he played all by himself in his kitchen and with his train!

Just smitten...

Our boys just can't get enough of their baby sister. Every time Porter see's Adalyn he has to stop and give her a kiss and he says, "Hi, Baby Adalyn!". Braylon loves to hold her hand and kiss her head! He is such a wonderful helper, he gives her nukie when she is crying so that Mommy can get a few things done. I never thought our boys would adjust so well and love her so much! I guess all I can say is Ms. Adalyn is one lucky girl!!!!!

Brotherly - Sister love!

And another....

After we left Grandma Pammy's and Papa Todd's, we headed up to Grandma Joan's and Grandpa Rick's to see Great Grandma Deloris and Great Aunt Kitty. And of course to play with the Candon a little more before we headed to the Brush Christmas.

Great Aunt Kitty snuggling with Adalyn

Great Grandma and Adalyn!

Ben playing with Kenna

Braylon and Candon playing wrestle!

It was great to see them and we are glad that they made the trip to New Ulm!

More Christmas

Christmas is my favorite time of the year, not because of presents or material items but because of the time and memories that are shared with family! Since becoming a mother my love for Christmas has literally gone through the roof! I love watching the kids enjoy the holidays and seeing everyone. But with the good come the bad, and being so busy and running around with 3 kids make it a little more difficult and exhausting, a good exhausting (kind of)! We went to Grandma Pammy's and Papa Todd's on Christmas morning to open presents before heading to the Brush's christmas later that afternoon.

Braylon digging in! He helped everyone open their presents after unwrapping a TON of his own!

Porter unwrapped a bunch of construction DVD's, can you guess what we have been watching for the last two weeks???

Their train table :) Which hasn't made it home yet, it is still in Grandma and Papa's basement, waiting for our basement to be done (post to come on that).

Grandma, Porter and Adalyn resting after all of those presents! I forgot Adalyn's Christmas Dress on our bed (bad thing about being rushed and getting three kids out the door), so she enjoyed lounging in comfy wear!

Papa and Adalyn! I just love this picture!!!!

Christmas Take #2!

After we spent the morning at home as a family of 5, we headed to Church and then off to Grandma Joan's and Grandpa Rick's for Christmas Eve with the Jensen's!

Candon keeping Adalyn company while we got presents ready for opening!

Kenna enjoying her new bumbo chair!

Candon and Bray singing Red Solo Cup song!

The three boys, trying to get them all to look and smile is NOT easy and after about 40 pictures they were done!

Porter and Braylon (and his fake smile)

The Briggs family!

Grandpa and Grandma with the girls

Then with the boys

Ben and I's family picture didn't turn out so well, Bray wasn't interested in sitting still for pictures!

Merry Christmas take #1!

Ben was lucky enough to have Christmas Eve off this year (it just happened to be his Saturday off), so after he went into work right away in the morning to take care of some quick business, the boys got to open their presents from Ben and I (Santa comes and leaves a present and stocking stuffer on Christmas Eve night). The boys were so fun to watch this year, both being a great age to open and appreciate each and every present! Adalyn slept through the entire thing on my leg as I took pictures.

Our little Vikings fan opening his presents! TRAINS!!!!

Braylon got a pair of skates and he of course had to test them out, we will be purchasing a bubble to put him in when Spring comes!

Porter opening his LeapPad! Big hit for each boy to have their own "computers"!

Braylon opening his LeapPad games!

We had an amazing Christmas together, Ben and I are so lucky to have three beautiful children who are happy, healthy and full of life and personality!

Fun with Papa Todd!

Papa Todd always gets the boys CrAzY when we get together! The boys just love to wrestle and play with Papa! It is a good thing that Grandma has her Granddaughter to sit and snuggle with while the boys get crazy!

Papa getting Porter!

Double trouble! Reese even likes getting in on the action and he tries to pounce Papa too! (don't worry Papa loves Reese)

Grandma and Adalyn snuggling on the couch.

Papa stopped wrestling to love up Adalyn

Then Porter got really jealous that "HIS" Grandma was holding Adalyn!

Papa is one of the only people that gives Porter pop and doesn't get in trouble! Somethings are just not worth fighting ;)

More wrestling

And we then stopped and took a picture of the whole gang!

It is never a dull moment when Braylon and Porter are with Papa!

Adalyn, Oh Adalyn!

I have tried to get newborn pictures of Adalyn several times, and she can be out cold and the second that she gets put in position for her pictures she wakes up and refuses to close those beautiful blue eyes! So here are the few that we got, they are unedited, but cute.

This is probably my favorite picture! It is just adorable!

A happy baby girl! 

Mom I really think I am still hungry...

Boats... Boats... Boats

The boys really love to play with boats in the bathtub, they say that they are Papa Rick's Pantoon and Boat. They speed around in the water and splash and sink their boats, hopefully we never have to deal with that in real life, but nonetheless they think it is really fun to pretend their boats are just like Papa's!

Showing me their boats (Braylon's boat has more pieces, but he takes them off).

Sinking the boats!

Snug as a Bug

Ben had his wisdom teeth pulled yesterday, so he spend the afternoon home from work to recover. He took the time to snuggle Ms. Adalyn and catch some zzz's, she didn't mind the change in snuggle partners for the afternoon!

Both so sleepy!

Reese even got in on the sleepy action!

Learing new things

With a new baby in the house, it means that new things are happening, for example nursing Adalyn has caused a lot of conversations about feeding babies and why she eats milk from Mommy not milk from the fridge, Porter has tried to share his chocolate milk with her a time or two as well. But the thing that the boys are most fascinated with is when Mommy gets milk out with a pump! Every time I pump the boys also have to have their "pump" pieces so that they can play too (usually using it as a blow horn).

Look closely and you will see their new toys!

Sitting... Waiting... Wishing...

Cousin Candon and McKenna came to town yesterday. The boys were sitting and waiting for Candon to arrive at our house today, so that they could play before they headed back to LaCrosse. Braylon asked me today if we could move Coley's house closer so that we could play all the time... (Come on Uncle Kevin, for the kids ;)).

Waiting for them to arrive!

Those poor boys!

With the new addition to our family, it is aparent that the boys/men in our house are in big trouble... They all just LOVE Adalyn so much, she has all of them wrapped around her little finger already!

Braylon has been the BEST biggest brother in the whole world! He is just smitten with Adalyn. He tells everyone that his baby sister is finally out! He sits next to me while she eats and he helps burp her and talks to her while she is awake or sleeping, luckily she doesn't mind. He loves her up every chance he gets! Bray has adjusted very well to having a baby sister in the house (we figured he would be the easy one, but you never know). We have noticed a few more temper tantrums over nonsense things, but we are ok with that. All in all Braylon has been an amazing help, especially those first few days home when I was still healing a bit.

Porter and Daddy giving Adalyn some love!

Porter has had a bit harder time with the adjustment of having a baby in the house. Mostly because Porter is a Mommy's boy, he doesn't like that I can't pick him up and carry him around, he is getting much better about this. Porter is the first one to run over to his sister if she makes a noise, telling her "It ok, it ok" and then kisses her or the side of whatever she is in and then runs away. He is doing wonderfully all things considered!

The whole gang!

A very proud daddy! (Not the best picture), but Ben's heart has been stolen and Adalyn holds the key to it!

I am the luckiest girl in the world to have the support and love of an amazing man! Benjamin has been amazing this last week, taking care of the boys, the house and making sure that I got rest and healed. Not an easy task to do alone!

Ben and I feel truly blessed to have such an amazing family and healthy, happy children! The boys have done such a good job adjusting we are so proud of them! We can not wait to watch our littles grow and learn throughout the years to come!



Baking Cookies!

The littles and I went over to my mothers on Saturday to bake Christmas Cookies, the boys helped for the first 2 minutes and then decided to play with all of Papa's old cars and trucks that he has in the basement. So it was just the girls in the kitchen for most of the time. Both boys put up a fight when I tried to get their picture, so there is only one and it is of Ms. Adalyn! She really loved baking cookies (or at least smelling them while she slept the entire time).

Isn't she just adorable :)