Brilyn Birth Announcement Picture

Some of you will be receiving an actual print out of this as Brilyn's birth announcement in the mail shortly. In the printed picture the color turned out kind of weird so my Dad says she looks "black and blue" oh my! As you can see in this picture she is not. So that kind of stinks. Aaron's aunt Jennifer bought her this outfit and I think it is so cute. She was 3 wks here I think. Now she is 5 weeks. I can't believe she is already 5 weeks. That went fast.

I'm back!!

Well, I must confess I gave up on blogging for a while -well close to a year it seems. Pregnancy has a funny way of sucking out all of your energy for "extra" things at least for me it does. But this pregnancy was successful and produced a beautiful little girl name Brilyn Rose Bandel who was born on December 26th, at 1:27 p.m. a very petite 6 lb. 12 oz. and 20 inches long. So needless to say life is a little different than when I was last posting and one of the reasons I have been absent for so long from blogging is I didn't know where to start back up. So I decided oh well, just start where you are. Here are some pics of Brilyn and her proud big brother.

He's ALL Boy

Cole and Daddy were "fixing" his car before he could ride it up and down the hall way. Our hallway to the bedrooms is more like a race track these days. And isn't it funny how he is doing his mechanic work in his diaper:) I guess we are not quite all grown up yet.

Fireman or Laundry Man

Cole loves playing with the laundry baskets. He jumps off of them and on this particular day was being pushed by mom up and down the hall. He is at a very cute age right now and likes to "help" with things around the house. Hopefully we
continue this behavior:)

Baby Shower

Cole and I helped host a baby shower for Maria Nudd, Aaron's cousin, and it was very nice. We are very excited to meet her new little boy due April 25th. And I really hope he is born that day because that is my birthday!!

The Bathroom is DONE!!

Well I don't know if these pictures really do the bathroom total justice but it is only letting me upload so many pics for some reason. Anyways we are really enjoying our new shower. It seems like it is twice as big as our old one. And we have a lot more floor space as well. Matt did a great job.

Lunch Time

Cole was pretty excited about his ravioli this particular day. He spends a lot of time in this highchair so I thought I should take some lasting memories pictures.