11/12/2011 Graison's 6th birthday party and Fall Fun with Friends.

HAPPY 6 TH BIRTHDAY GRAISON

BEST BUDS SINCE BIRTH! :O)

HAPPY 6 TH BIRTHDAY GRAISON!! Thanks for having us to your movie party!!


Graison with her sister Caylin behind her and Caylin's step-sister Sammie, and a boy from Graison's school who is kind of "her boyfriend"! Ha! Ha!






Graison's cookie cake was REALLY yummy!!!







The Birthday girl finishes up her cookie. While her "Bestie" Lindsay waits to help her open presents!





Brooke got icing from her cookie all in her nose! LOL!

Lindsay tickles Cutie pie Rylann!

Gotta love those CHEEKS!!! :)

Graison shows off the DS game from Lindsay and Brooke. We got her Discovery Kid's Dolphin Discovery game, which Lindsay is dying to have if she gets a DS for Christmas. She doesn't have a clue but she IS going to get one AND we are going to get her the Dolphin game too!!

Graison opening Lindsay and Brooke's card!

Lindsay looks on while Graison opens the rest of her presents!

Graison's Daddy showing her she has more games in her game carrier that she got from them!!

Back at G's after the movie Puss and Boots, Graison and Lindsay head for the leaves.

Too cute they are having so much fun!

Graison covers up in the leaves as Lindsay falls on top of her!

Picking the leaves out of our hair...

It's RAINING LEAVES on Lindsay & Graison!!

WOW!! They had so much fun!!!
Just look at those FACES! I love it!

Graison is building the pile back up as Lindsay jumps right in!

"BESTIES" having fun together!! The girls are only 7 months apart and they are both in Kindergarten!

More raining leaves!! Lindsay ended up having a sleepover with Graison.

Graison and Lindsay perform singing in the rain!

Such beautiful smiles!

Sharing the swing!!!

Daddy Mike took some great photos!!!

Again, the girls give us GREAT SMILES!!!

Lindsay & Brooke LOVE this swing at our house!Brookie swings next to Rylann.

Caylin diving into the leaves!

Caylin pops out of the leaves! Fun for all ages that day with the leaves!!

Graison and Lindsay get buried again!!

Brookie finally gets in under Lindsay's Sesame Street Umbrella.( Not sure why they brought out the umbrellas?)

Brooke having a blast and she makes the leaves rain too!

Brooke and Sammie.

Brooke brushing some leaves out of her hair looking so cute.

MY FAVORITE PHOTO OF BROOKE EVER! I NEED to frame this one! I just love her sweet dimple smile!!

I can't tell who is buried back there Brooke or Lindsay!? Ha! Ha!

Lindsay still having a blast scooping leaves with her umbrella!

Thank you so much Missy and Anthony for the party invite, the movie and letting Lindsay have a sleepover with Graison! We had a great time and so did Lindsay!

We hope Graison enjoyed her 6th birthday party!

We love you all!

Chris, Mike,Lindsay and Brooke

LINDSAY'S SCHOOL PHOTO 2011

Lindsay Cecile Bresnan

Age 5

Kindergarten

Boston Elementary School

Finally, we got our photos back. We are not used to having to buy our photos without seeing the proof first. I guess that is another thing that is different about being in "real" school versus pre-k.

As you can tell from all of my blog posts Lindsay is having a blast in Kindergarten this year. She has made lots of friends and has an awesome teacher. We hope to continue this trend in the years to follow at Boston!

The entire Kindergarten is putting on a play next week for Thanksgiving and that shall be the next blog event most likely. Stay tuned for more Bresnan Family events.

11/5/2011 Brooke's Silhouette

Today we took Brooke to Learning Express to have a silhouette made of her like we did with Lindsay in 2008.
Here is Brooke doing a very good job sitting very still for the artist. It's really cool to watch them work. After she is finished you end up with three silhouettes of your child's profile.
Lindsay came with us and her job was to make Brooke stare at her the whole time so she did not move.

Here is the one we had done of Lindsay back in 2008. I went to Michael's that day to pick out a frame for it, as the artist will frame it for you but theirs are very expensive. In 2008 I was already expecting Brooke and fortunately I had the forethought to purchase TWO matching frames as I knew I would want to do a silhouette of each of my children.
Lindsay was age 2 at the time of her silhouette.


Here is the one we did of Brooke Marie today. We liked her in Pigtails, since she wears them a lot we thought it was kind of "HER" look. Just like when Lindsay was two her hair used to be up on top of her head in a little sprout pony tail which was her "look" back then.

Here is Lindsay's silhouette again...

...and Brooke's

I am very excited to finally have one for both of them. I am planning on hanging them over each of their bed's. Just as shown so it looks like they are looking at each other from across the room. Thank you very much to my sister and their Aunt Patti for paying for this for us. I am so happy to get a silhouette of Brooke too.

Thanks Pat we love you!

Fall 2011/ Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2011 Brooke checks out the pumpkin that Daddy and Lindsay carved while she was at Aunt Agatha and Uncle Paul's house the night before. We were leaving to go trick or treat so we set out the candy in the cauldron and a bowl and left a sign for the kid's to only take one or two and leave some for others.
Lindsay was the Barbie swan fairy and Brooke was Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

Trick-or-Treat at our neighbor John's house. The girls with John and his daughter Megan.

Waiting at the door of the new neigbor's house! They had scary blow up's in their yard which we forgot to take a photo of. Oops!!

The girls were so happy to go around on our street for a change this year!

The girls loved the glow wands that Mom found for them at the dollar store, we didn't let them glow until dusk. Lindsay's was pink with a butterfly on top, and Brooke's was yellow with a heart on top to match her dress.

Ms. Pam gave the girls lots of candy!

Here we are leaving Ms. Lisa and Mr. Shelton's house.

After our street, we drove over to Aunt Agatha and Uncle Paul's new house to go Trick-or-Treat in their new neighborhood. This is a photo of just one of the pumkins' that Uncle Paul carved.

By now the girls have met some new friends to run with. Audrey Grace and her sister Caroline. This house had a Raggedy Ann & Andy just about to leave. Brooke and Lindsay were waiting with their new friends Pocahontis and Minnie Mouse to get more candy.

Off they go, to the next house!!

I had to have a picture of this pair! They were SO ADORABLE!!

Brooke, Audrey Grace, Lindsay and Minnie Mouse (Caroline)

Happy Girls' We think Lindsay will be much more willing to go over to A & P's house now that she has met someone her same age to play with. Audrey is also 5.

I took this photo of the Mickey Mouse pumpkin for Donna!

What a cool pumpkin! Great carving job!!

How sweet! The girls really made fast friends, Lindsay really has no problem making new friends. I just wish we had more kid's her age in our neighborhood!!

We all exchanged phone numbers so hopefully we can make some future play dates even though the girls go to different schools.

What Cutie Patooties!!

The girls all hold hands as we walk to their house to get some candy from our new friend's parents; who were also walking with us.

Uncle Paul gives Brooke a lift and Grandmama smiles for the camera.

Brooke and Lindsay pose with another one of Uncle Paul's pumpkins. Uncle Paul also gave the girls each a mini pumpkin to take home.

Too cute! Brooke is just a little excited!

Here is our pumpkin all lit up when we got home. We even had left over candy.

Another photo of our pumpkin witth the porch light on. It was kind of small this year because we waited until Sunday to get one and they were very picked over by then. We were LUCKY to get one at all!

Lindsay is PASSED OUT! She fell asleep on the way home from Agatha and Paul's house, she has been this way since she was a baby. Mike can carry her up the stairs, change her clothes and get her in the bed and she does NOT wake up. LOL!!

*10/30/2011 CARVING THE PUMPKIN*

Lindsay drawing the circle around the top of the pumpkin for Daddy who would cut it. Brooke was not home which is why she is not in any of these photos.

We got a funky shaped pumpkin...

Lindsay's least favorite part scooping out the guts.

Gotta love THAT expression!!

Lindsay wants to plant some pumpkin seeds in our back yard so we can grow our own pumpkin's next year.

There, now she has the BIG kitchen spoon to scoop with!

C-H-E-E-S-E what a great Lindsay smile!!!!

My sweetie shows off his glasses for me. He needed them to work on the crazy mouth that Lindsay wanted him to carve!

Mike carves as Lindsay colors with the marker.

Here's the final product! Yeah, Lindsay and Daddy! Thanks for carving our pumpkin.