HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR SWEET LITTLE BOY!

Happy 3rd Birthday Aidan! We love you soooo much! Can't believe you are growing up so fast!

(I'll post pics from his b-day party when we get back in town....still in Austin.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We are all packed and ready to head to Austin, TX tomorrow morning for the Holidays. We will be visiting our family and friends for the next nine days. I'm really looking forward to see how Allan is going to pack our car tomorrow morning....we have 3 suitcases, one duffle bag with my shoes, 2 toiletry bags, all our Christmas gifts for both families, and Aidan's birthday presents....it's going to be a tight squeeze I'm sure....thank goodness the trip is just 2 hours.

I haven't blogged too much lately due to my trip to NYC, in Austin last weekend, and my laptop biting the dust...I hope to blog more after the holidays! Here is a picture of Aidan with Santa Claus.

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! Love you all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA!!

Happy Birthday Melissa! We hope you have a fabulous day! We love you so much and can't wait to see you this weekend! Enjoy your day and may all your wishes come true! Love, Allan, Andrea, and Aidan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AIDAN'S BEST FRIEND FINN!

Happy 3rd Birthday Finn!!!

Can't believe you are growing up so fast! Aidan wishes he was there to celebrate your birthday with you. We miss you so much! See you this weekend!

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

Happy Thanksgiving! Love the Braxdale's

Barb and I getting our feast ready!

Barb almost forgot the cranberry's!

Us with our Pom-berry Martini's....DELISH!

Allan carved his 1st Turkey this year!! What a Pro!

Good job, Al.

Jim getting into the deviled eggs!! Just couldn't resist Corinne's famous eggs.

Corinne with her eggs! They are the best!

Katie and I with our bags! Don't judge us on our looks! HA! We did get up at 4:15 A.M

Derek with the kiddo's! Allan was taking pics during daddy time. They all had fun but the daddy's really appreciate what Katie and I do as momma's! :)

WE HOPE ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS HAD A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR EACH AND ONE OF YOU IN OUR LIVES!

Aidan really enjoyed Thanksgiving this year. He told every person he saw "Happy Thanksgiving" and asked if they were going to eat Turkey, pie, and mashed tatoes! :) We spent our holiday here in San Antonio, our family that lives here (the Brinkmann's) had us over for a lovey dinner. We had a great time with them and getting to visit with our cousin, Corinne, who was home from college. We had a fun visit from our friends, The Hodson's, that evening. Derek, Katie, Addison and their dog Hailey came and stayed the night with us so Katie and I could do our annual "Black Friday" shopping trip! Allan and Derek got to be full time daddy's while Katie and I shopped from 4:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. We had a fab time as always, but still exhausted!

Hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving! Love you all!!

WE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE!!!!!!! WOO-HOO!!

Allan and I ran the Rock and Roll 1/2 Marathon Sunday, November 16th. YAY! This was both our first 1/2 marathon we have ever ran....and the farthest we have ever ran! Crossing that finish line was such an amazing feeling and such an accomplishement for both of us! We started training for this back in August and had fantastic results. My time was 2:07:59 and Allan's time was 2:08:31....yes, I beat him! :) J/K I wanted us to cross the finish line together but when I turned around after we met up at the 13 mile marker he wasn't there and I knew I just had to get to that finish line before I colasped! Our goal was to run it in 2 hours and 15 minutes...so we did well and were very pleased!

I have more photos and more to blog about the race, but I need to go run an errand, so I'll blog later about our memorable weekend!

HAPPY BIRHTDAY UNCLE ANTHONY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE ANTHONY! BIG 17 TODAY, WOO-HOO! Hope you have a wonderful day, we'll be thinking of you. Wish we were there to celebrate. We love you!

"Change Has Come to America"

"I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited." John McCain, November 4th, 2008

Wow, history was made last night!!!! Congratulations to President Barack Obama!! Today is a new day and a day where every American should support our new president. My household is a perfect example...Obama may not have had our vote, but being elected as The United States of America President, we must support him and come together as one. It's time for a change, and time to reclaim the American Dream!! God Bless America!!

AIDAN'S HALLOWEEN 2008

Aidan had a spootacular Halloween this year! Mimi came to visit and joined us for all the festivities. We started out at Mini Boo Bash at St. Mary's University Law School.....Aidan had a great time playing all sorts of games and getting LOTS of candy! Then we headed over to Uncle Jim and Aunt Barb's house for yummy chili dinner and then headed around their festive neighborhood for some Trick or Treating. It was CRAZY over at Summer Glen...every house had emaculate Halloween decorations....one house had a "Haunted House" in their front yard that people were going thru, another house had a huge projection screen on the side of their house showing "Scary Movies" and you could lounge in their yard and watch, one house was handing out these big magic wands that had glowing lights, one house had beers for the adult trick or treater and candy for the little ones!! It was so much fun, we can't wait for next year to go back!! It was the most lively trick or treat scene I've ever seen. Hopefully one day we will get to live in a neighborhood like that where they go all out for Halloween, it was tons of fun!

Needless to say, Aidan is a pro at Trick or Treating...there were many of times when he would leave the house about 4 steps and then turn around and go say "Trick or Treat" again to get second's on candy. What a stinker!! He also chased a couple of girls and would yell out, "Hey gurls, I got your candy". He was so cute. He had a great time and can't wait for next year. :)

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, HOFFMAN'S

Happy 1 Year Anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Hoffman!! We love you guys and wish you many more years of happiness and love.

AIDAN'S SCHOOL HALLOWEEN PARTY

These are some photos from Aidan’s school Halloween Trick or Treat Party last Friday. We took some pictures of the other “Halloween Boxes” that other families made. Everyone was so creative and came up with amazing ideas! Aidan had a great time at his school party. He was so happy to say “Trick or Treat”, and absolutely LOVED getting candy in his pumpkin bucket.

Halloween is going to be a blast this year with Aidan! We are really looking forward to Friday and all our festivities. Can’t wait to see the excitement on Aidan’s face!!


Aidan, the Pirate, headed to his party!

Arrrrrr, he found his pirate ship!

Aidan and Momma carved this "Cross Bone" pumpkin for Aidan's school.

Aidan and his teacher, Mrs. Rojas. She is his favorite!