What is happening?

Ok so really not good at the consistent blogging but that's probably obvious. Not a whole lot of stuff has happened since my last post but enough to keep me way too busy. I had the extreme misfortune of going though my first landlord- eviction- process. Talk about headache with a capital H. I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Now I know to work quicker when they're late past the 15th of the month. Still not a very fun turn of events, lesson learned though should it ever happen again.

Also for some reason we all have this ridicules cold/ear infection/ sinus infection sickness that just keeps going and going for about a month and a half we have all been sick with some thing. I am at my wits end. I want us all to get better and get ride of this stupid thing. I am starting my second round of antibiotics this month as is Briel. Xander doesn't seem to be infected yet so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Briel is almost four now and such a good girl. She started ballet and seems to really love it. She has started the love for dress ups and I have found that it is less expensive to buy her nice church dresses that are the same color as the different princesses then to buy her the actual dress up princess dresses, ridicules. She is also fully potty trained I thought it was going to be a while before she slept though the night without an accident but she started right after Christmas and has only had two accidents.

Xander is now 18 months yay here comes nursery, (if we can ever get well enough to go to church again) but he is such a nut. He is by far the goofiest little boy I've ever seen. With that free spirited silliness comes a very willful little boy. He is defiant for defiant's sake. I guess I deserve it but he's got me pulling my hair out, but I love him. Fortunately he makes me laugh more then he make me want to cry.

We had a huge family photo shoot as a secret Christmas present for my parents and results were great. Although were probably going to have to do it again real soon cause half of us is getting married this year. It figures we make a plan to get this time in our family history recorded and it changes dramatically right after but that's how it goes. We had a wonderful photographer Missy Allen she did a great job at capturing all of us. We actually had these done in oct but because of the hush hush secret nature i couldn't post the results until after Christmas. (I realize that Feb is quite a while after Christmas.) Here are a couple of my fav's

I love this family shot it turned out great. Xander pretty much cried the whole time poor little buddy was so cold.
Briel loves to have her picture taken and turns into quite the poser when ever the camera comes out.

He was really cold so he wasn't his usual hammy self but we did get a couple good ones.

Here the one we ended up giving to my parents. They loved it it was well worth the wait.