Crazy Hair Day

I totally forgot to post this, so sorry, life has been crazy. But for Crazy Hair Day at school I decided to go all out and Brad came up with this idea, so two hours later, she definitely unofficially won the Crazy Hair Award, I came to lunch and pretty much everyone stared at her and said things like "Oh, hers is definitely the craziest". Pipe Cleaners have so many purposes!!! The pictures really don't do it justice, but it looked really really cool.

Easter Time at the Brockbanks

Well this year we decided to step it up a little and actually do our parental duty and let the Easter Bunny come to our home this year instead of Grandma (formerly known as the Easter Bunny). So Easter morning came and we woke up a little later than hoped, the girls were in the tub, we had planned beforehand of course, and went to the store the night before at around 9:00 PM to find their last two baskets and candy, can you believe they still weren't on clearance!? Anyway, so I told Brad to go hide the baskets as Brad's family tradition would suggest. He hid one upstairs under the sink in our guest bathroom and one in the dryer. He went upstairs to inform the girls of their exciting surprise and task of finding it, and it went something like this...

Brad-"Hey Girls, its Easter Morning, do you know what that means?"

Girls-"No, its Easter?"

Brad-"Yeah, and the Easter Bunny came!!!"

Girls-"Really? Why?"

Brad-"To bring you something"

Girls-"Did he hide eggs?"

Brad-"No, he brought you a basket."

Girls-"Why?"

Brad-"Because its Easter!"

Girls-"Hmm, where is it?"

Brad-"I think he hid the baskets, you'd better go look for them!"

Girls-"Where?"

Brad-"Just go look!"

So the girls finally got the hang of it as we gave them some obvious hints and found their baskets and now they fight over who ate whose candy. Obviously we have slacked in the Easter Department previously, well, at least they aren't teenagers, now is better than later, right?

Abbieisms

Abbie learned something new from her sister, many know as Finder's Keepers Losers Weepers... well, everytime Abbie finds something she says, "Keepers Finders." I just think that's so cute.

Another thing she's been saying is "Ohhh, but that'll take FOREVER!" The other day she was sent to her room because she was being very grumpy. She called to me from her room in a very sad voice, "Mom, when can I come out?" I called out, "When you can be happy." And her response? Yep, you guessed it, "Ohhhh, but that'll take FOREVER!"

More Family Pictures :)

I thought these were great, don't you just LOVE family pictures? Man it was so windy that day, but it was fun.

Journal Entries... 11/15/96

So I decided to share some fun Journal Entries from LONG AGO, 13 years to be exact. I thought this entry was great because I went to my journal, clicked "control F" for FIND and typed in "Brad", this was the first entry that it came to...


"Hi, it is the 15th of November of 96. Just going to fill you in on how I feel about Brad right now and how things are going so that some day when my teenage daughter asks me about what I was like with guys, I can whip this out and read it… anyway. I wish so badly that Brad would kiss me. I have never been kissed before and I wish he would kiss me. I haven’t seen him for a while actually and I am just waiting, looking out the window waiting for him. I get really bored being the only child now because Brian is on his mission, Andi is married, and Mike is at college"...

I'll stop there since you don't need to know the rest that I wrote that day :)


Okay, so here's another great one, two years later, 08/24/98:

Anyway… Brad Brockbank and I are better friends now. He still likes me I know because he practically tells me everyday, but he’s a great friend to have and doesn’t mind taking me out to ice cream once and a while :). He just gets a little annoying when he has too much sugar, let me tell you… man.

What a Beauty...

These were taken with the other family pictures. I actually took them myself :) I'm pretty proud of myself... maybe I should be more proud of my genetics than my photography skills but either way, she's a beauty. Brad went to her open house last night and came home with "Our Daughter is quite the popular girl at school." The reason he said that was almost everyone he saw came up to her and said, "Hi Victoria." He said almost everyone knows her, no matter the age or grade they are in, everyone knows who Victoria Brockbank is, for those of you who know her Daddy, that's something they have in common.

FAMILY PICTURES ARE HERE!!!!

GO TO: kallibarkerphotography.blogspot.com


It was a windy day, Tori got hit in the head with a door and Abbie had the "chicken pops" but we still decided to try it, and I think we got some really cute ones! Can't wait to put them up on our wall!!!