Carrie's First Baby Shower!

We are anxiously awaiting the arrival Kenden's cousin, Chase Luke! Today started the first of 4 showers for Carrie. This one was thrown by her sisters, Dawn and Laurie, and they did a fantastic job. Carrie received a ton of wonderful things and she's told me that she's already organized and put everything away! Ready for round 2 on March 14th!

Carrie's sister Dawn, getting all the games started!

The beautiful Mommy To Be!


Carrie's grandmothers playing the Dirty Diaper Game! They were so funny looking at and sniffing each diaper...

Right before this pic, Carrie's Nana (in the dark sweater) looked at her Grandma and mumbled, "Well, it all looks like S#!% to me!" hahaha! SO FUNNY!




Opening Gifts....

Helpin' Dada put Knobs on the Cabinet!

Blowing Mama a kiss before he started helping put the hardware on the cabinets in his bathroom!


Kenden helping Dada work the REAL drill! He was so very excited, and it was the first time he and Jeff didn't "butt heads" while Kenden was trying to get in on the action of being a big helper!

A Playdate With Friends!

What a fantastic day! We took advantage of a few great situations...Jeff was out of town, so I thought it would be a SUPER day for a bunch of moms and kids to take over the house; #2 my good friend Theresa was in town with her 2 great kids, Gabe and Wesley; and #3 we had some BEAUTIFUL weather here in good ole' VB!! I invited Kelly and Blake, Sandra and Kayla, and Theresa and her kiddos over for a morning playdate! We had sooo much fun! The kids started off the morning inside, but we quickly moved outdoors because it was just to nice to pass up! As you can see, we had a ball....it made us really look forward to spring, that is for sure!

We started out inside....

....and quickly went outside because the weather was WONDERFUL!!


Strap in and....

HOLD ON TIGHT KAYLAAAAAAAA!!!!!





Takin' the Ford F-150 for a spin with Wesley....then Blake had a turn!





Theresa with Baby Wesley, Gabe, and Kenden, who are both enjoying a juice box on the BEAUTIFUL February day we had! It was almost 70 degrees!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Grammie!

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Dear GRAMMIEEEEEEEE!!!!! Happy Birthday to you! We love you bunches Grammie and hope your day was a fantastic one!

Happy Birthday Patti-Cake!

We LOVE our Patti-Cake!! Happy Birthday to you today! Hope you had a wonderful one...you deserve it!

Happy New Year and Thanks Mom!!

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR a little belated! This is my first post of 2009...so much has already happened and we aren't even out of January yet! Kenden is just growing and changing by the day, and I have to say, the "Trying Threes" are harder than the "Terrible Twos". Especially when one's child talks as much as MY child does!

Funny story, today I told Kenden that I'd gone upstairs last night and totally straightened up his playroom, which looked like a tornado had hit it. I was telling him that we need to get better at straightening up the room, because when stuff is all over the place, there is no room to really play. We were discussing this on the way home from preschool. As we pulled into the driveway, I asked him what he was going to do when we got into the house and he said he was going to go upstairs and play with his matchbox cars in the playroom. He ran into the house and asked for help getting his shoes off, then off he went up the stairs. I sort of followed behind him to see what he'd say...I stood at the foot of the stairs....he was so cute. He gasped and said, "MOMMY! Thank you SO much for cweaning (cleaning) up my big mess in here!"

You know, I know I need to be better about making him help me, but hearing that from him was totally worth the trouble I took organizing everything....he was sincerely appreciative. Now, I just need to teach him how to straighten up himself (or at least with my help)!

Breeden Christmas Celebration 2008

We had our annual Breeden Christmas get together on Sunday December 28th! What a great day...the weather was beautiful and we all enjoyed seeing each other again for the first time since this past summer at the OBX! As you can see from the pictures, we had a ball. We ate pizza, opened gifts, teased each other, and even got a chance to play outside since we had some lovely 75 degree weather! We love our family!








Havin' fun, being silly, and opening our gifts!







We had such a beautiful day to celebrate Christmas...it was 75 degrees on December 28th~perfect for 3 little boys who were full of energy and itching to get outside!






Kenden Hiding From Papa!!

Uh Oh! Papa found him!!



Playing Hide and Go Seek with Papa (aka Uncle Ted)!!

Uncle Ted and Camden Face Off!

SAFE on Base!

Run Kenden!!

WHEW! Safe on Base, too!



How Many Kids Does it Take to Take Down a Cop??

You can take 'em TD!!



"Fro me in da air Da-da!!"