LET'S GO SUNS!!

Yes, I had to start the blog with this photo because it makes me laugh every time I see it because she looks so cute!!!  Little Cece in her 2T Suns/Nash shirt wearing her Budlight beads!!!  She really is a Brown girl!!!  : )

Now for a little background.  During the Suns/Spurs playoffs a group of us got together to watch one of the games at the Suns viewing party at Native New Yorker.  It was really a lot of fun.  They gave away shirts and noise makers.  They had Budlight girls there (hence Cece's beads) giving away free stuff like beers, playing cards, and bottle koozies.  I won cards and a bottle koozie.  
They even had some of the Sun's dancers there.  I was waiting for a performance but they just walked around.  

There was even a special guest that the Brown/Wright family has become very close too.......our friend....the.......

Yep, our friend the Gorilla was there to get the crowd all hyped up and excited to watch the game and boy did it work!!!  However, you know he had to take a minute to come hang with his favorite people!!!

Since Cece was asleep at the wedding this was her first time meeting Uncle Gorilla and she did great!!! 

Next it was time for the Gorilla to reunite with his favorite couple the Wrights!!  For those of you confused the Gorilla is the one on the right!!  : )

Notice how the Gorilla is touching Stacey's breast?????  And Stacey's big smile????  I'm calling Maury right now just to reserve a spot for a possible paternity test in July!!  Everyone saw how close the Gorilla and Stacey were the night of the wedding.......I will keep everyone updated on this possible breaking story!!!

Here is Cece with her two favorite Aunts!!!

With our great support the Suns won the series against the Spurs and have now moved onto the Western Conference Championship!!!!  They are playing the Lakers (BOOOOO!!!!) and are down 2-1 in the series.  However, I think we are about to see a come back and the Suns will win Game 4 and tie the series 2-2.  What do you think Cece?? 

LET'S GO SUNS!!!!!

More to come

xoxo

Happy Mother's Day

This year for Mother's Day my sisters and I made breakfast for all the Mother's/Grandmother's in our life and boy do we have a lot of them!! 

We had my Mom, Lara (stepmom), Grandma Brown, Grandma Carol and Grandma Lingnowski.  BTW I know my sister Stephanie is a Mom but she doesn't let us do all the cooking for her since she wants to cook for our Mom so it becomes complicated so during the food preparation she is a sister and then for gifts she is a Mom!! 

This was my first Mother's day thanks to Charlie!  It's about time I get a day!!  : )

For breakfast we had homemade donuts, danishes, fruit, french toast, pancakes (which were suppose to be be waffles but we had an incident with the waffle iron and the waffle iron won), bacon, and country potatoes.  Yes, quite a feast but it's always better to have too much food oppose to not enough food!! 

After breakfast everyone opened their gifts and then it was time for PHOTOS!! 

Here are all the Mom's lined up on the couch.

Charlie and his Momma....and of course he is looking away from the camera!!

Lara and her Mom (Grandma Carol)

Three generations.....Grandma Carol, Devyn and Lara. 

Grandma Brown with Cameron and Devyn

Stephanie and Cameron

Mom with her Mom (Grandma Lingnowski)

Grammie and Cameron

Cameron with G.G (Great-Grandmother)

                                                             Devyn and her Momma!

Lara with Cameron and Devyn

Lara with the girls

Grandma Carol and Lara with the girls

Dad with his Mom (Grandma Brown) and her favorite Grandkids!!!!

My Mom with her girls......including the latest addition Sophie

My Mom with her Mother (Grandma Lingnowski), Cameron and us girls

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!

More to come

xoxo

American Idol......Maybe????

Today Devyn had her school concert which featured her singing an playing her recorder. I could tell you all about it but instead I figured I would let you enjoy a little bit of it for yourself!!!

This number has a little singing, clapping, and foot stomping!!

This next video shows the kids demonstrating on how they keep rhythm. No singing in this one.

A little song/dance number

Devyn's first solo!!!!

Yes, she had a temporary brain fart on her words but otherwise she did great!! BTW sorry about the screaming kid in the background. Some parents think it's okay to sit there during a performance while their kid is screaming!! Not cool people!! Actually let me take this moment to give some advice to any parents out there. If your kid is screaming (at any event) I think it's best for everyone to excuse yourself and maybe go outside or stand in the back of the room. I know kids will scream and cry and I get that but as the adult you control on how you handle it and ignoring it and acting like it's okay is NOT the right thing to do!!

Now back to Devyn's great performance!!

The concert was great and Devyn did a wonderful job!

Here is the final song:

More to come

xoxo

Happy 11th Birthday Cameron!!!

Today was my favorite nephew's birthday and he had a laser tag party!!  The first time I played laser tag was for Cousin Day so I ready to try to improve my game and really focus on kicking some 11 year old butt!!  : )

Since I was so focused on the game I didn't bring my camera with me while we played.  I needed to focus. 

Before the game started we all had to shout happy birthday to Cameron.  As you can see he enjoyed this!! 

After the birthday shouting it was time to play the game.  There are two rounds of play and they last 15-20 minutes each.  I thought I did better playing then I did on Cousin Day but it was hard to tell because there we so many people playing!!  These damn kids were everywhere!!  Gosh, you would think I was at a kid party!!  Needless to say I didn't win in either round.....however, I did make it in the top five on the second round which was good enough for me!! 

Here are a few of the winners:

Congrats to Stephanie (2nd) and Andy (1st)!!  They rocked it in the 1st round!!

Congrats to Courtney who placed 2nd in the second round and not photographed was the first place winner Adam!! 

After playing laser tag it was time for gifts!!!

Cameron got lots of great gifts from all of his friends and family like this Perry the Platypus from his Auntie! 

However, his favorite gift would have to be the one that he got from his Mom the night before.  Since he is 11 years old it was time for him to get his FIRST......CELL PHONE!!!!! 

Doesn't he look excited???  Look at that boy text away!!! 

 After gifts it was time for some cake!!  It was yummy ice cream cake too!! 

It wouldn't be a party without one of my self-taken photos!!  Oh, Adam your so cute!! 

The party was a lot of fun and we all had a good time!! 

Thanks Steph for the great party!! 

Happy 11th Birthday Cameron!!! 

More to come

xoxo

Goodbye Snow!!

One final photo before we all headed home!!!

We will be back soon!!!

More to come
xoxo

After the Snow......

After a long day of skiing and sledding I was so excited to get home and take a shower!! It had to be the best shower of my LIFE!!!

My knee was killing me and bruising was starting to appear so I thought I would rest my leg and elevate it. The house had a recliner so I thought I would sit back and relax......and then I broke the chair!!!

Actually the chair was already broken. Thank goodness!! However, this was not relaxing at all so I decided to just to sit on the couch. Alyssa let me elevate my leg on her which was very nice of her!! Wait. Let me explain that statement. Alyssa was sitting on part of the couch so she let me lay my leg across her lap so I could have it straightened. I didn't want you guys to think I used Alyssa as an ottoman or anything!!

For dinner that night Stacey made us yummy tacos and rice with her homemade hot sauce!! YUMMY!! Thanks Stacey for making us such a great dinner!!!

Since it was snowing the whole evening I thought we should do one more group photo for the night. Everyone say SNOW!!!!

More to come

xoxo

Sledding!!

**This is a continuous update from my skiing entry....yes I know it's totally late but better late then never***

After skiing we decided to go to this place right by the the slopes for a little sledding so that Stacey could have some fun. We figured sledding would be okay for her and Manni.....even though Aunt Alyssa was a little nervous about this activity.

We found the sledding area and there was a guy and his son there so we were excited that it was not crowded and it was snowing still so we were all ready to hit the hill.

We had sledding disk from the house for us to sit so we were ready to go!!! Little did we know how fast we would go!!!!

Here is Courtney as she heads down the hill!!!

Alyssa and Stacey were ready to go next!!! Here they are climbing back up to the top of the hill, which by the way was SUPER hard and slippery!! Not sure how pregger did it with no issue but she climbed it like a pro!!

GO ALYSSA GO!!!

Now it's time for Stacey and Manni!!! Hang on Manni!!!!

My turn now!!! I went super fast and super far!!! So much fun!!

After some sledding Stacey and Courtney decided to make some snow angels!!

Sisters!!!!

And more sisters!!!!

Group shot!!!

After a few minutes we were all ready to go and head back to the house so we can all take a warm shower!! However, we all had to get back up to the top of the hill. Remember I said that it was hard to climb the hill because it was covered in snow and slippery. Well Alyssa, Stacey, and Courtney all made it back up to the top but I couldn't do it. My knee was killing me from my fall skiing and I couldn't put weight on it so I would make it half way up the hill and then I would fall back down. It was funny at first and then it got frustrating and I just wanted to give up. I told the girls just to go and they could leave me....I had given up all hope!!! It was like climbing Mt Everest......

Luckily another man and his son arrived and the Dad was able to pull me up to the top of the hill. I felt like a total moron having to get rescued on a stupid sledding hill but if it wasn't for this man I would still be down at the bottom of the hill. I guess my Uggs aren't good climbing shoes after all!!!

More to come

xoxo