34!

Well today I turned 34, I think I've honestly lost track of how old I am. I've had to ask Andy a bunch of times how old I am :-) Nevertheless, I celebrated another year in style... Last night we celebrated with Em and her boyfriend, Jeff (who's birthday was yesterday) by going to a fabulous restaurant. It's a place that is right down the street from where we live and it is amazing! Top 5 in my book of best places to eat - ever. So we ate great food, drank way too much really good wine and had good company. We went out right after we got the girls down, so my mom (who is out here for the holiday) watched Declan and kept an eye on the sleeping beauties...

Here are a few pictures from the night... A picture of Em and Mom before we went out. I just like this photo. I'm pretty sure we were making fun of mom for something and were dying laughing :-)

Me and my babe... At an adult only dinner!

Andy and Jeff...

Me and my sissy!

Today I got spoiled and I got to sleep in. Then I got a few hours away, when I got to go shopping with just one baby! I think it was the first time that I have ever gone somewhere with just one baby... I took Bria because she is being a big momma's girl lately and honestly she didn't make a peep the whole time we were out and was happy as could be. Of course she was, she got 1 on 1 time with her momma! Then we came home and the girls started to puke one by one... Pretty sure the stomach flu is going through the house. Awesome birthday present :-) Aven and Stevie have puked and I'm just waiting on Bria now... Hopefully they are one and done - fingers crossed!

Here are a few pictures of the kids the last few days - you wouldn't even know they were sick! Bria about to paint me...

Bria thinking I'm funny of course...

Aven standing! She's doing it for longer and longer periods of time now. Still no steps, but she likes to just stand around :-)

Aven thinking I'm funny of course...

Bria and her funny hair this morning...

Again Bria thinking I'm funny... Thank god I'm not the only one that thinks I'm funny now...

So here's what Bria does... When she wants to get to something she will take one or two steps, but then she will do a face plant. It's pretty funny... If she could just figure out how to take more than a few steps she would be good to go. But for now, it's pretty funny to watch. This is my attempt to capture her walking, but instead I just got the face plant...

So after the girls had puked and pooped everywhere today, I had this brilliant idea of taking a picture of all the kids with no clothes on and Santa hats (and an elf hat for Dec). I had stripped all the girls down so we didn't have to keep changing them and Declan was in his underwear all day. Totally serious - all day.... We asked him if he wanted to get dressed, but he just wanted to hang in his underroos - why not, It's my birthday :-) Anyway, Andy and my mom thought I was nuts, but I was bound and determined to to get a cute picture. Here's how it went...

As close as I could get... L to R: Bria, Declan, Stevie and Aven

And then it took a turn for the worse...

At least Stevie thought it was pretty funny...

 
Declan trying to bring it all in... Stevie, our angel, still sitting there waiting for her photo.