Florida at G-Ma's

Brad, Brady and I packed up and headed down to Florida to my mom's. My mom was gracious to throw Brad and I a wedding celebration at her club. Wally, Sally, Nyle and Marley as well as Lori and Meredith also made the trip. It was great to spend time with family and to see and meet all my mom's friends. See Lori's blog (link to the right) for more pictures.

Brady was so excited for the plane trip. He loved looking out the window and was very well behaved throughout the whole trip.


Nyle and Marley were great with their younger cousins. They were always around to lend a helping hand. Here are all the grand kids swimming in the pool. Brady is still a little timid in the water unlike Meredith who is a fish and loves swimming on her own.

The party was held at my mom's club, Crown Colony. We had a great time eating great food, dancing and talking to all mom's friends.

My great friend, Lindsay, who I played soccer with growing up made the trip down as well with her husband, Tim, and kids Jake and Abby. The Tyrrells have been great friends to our family for a long time.

Sally and Wally were fun as always to hang out with

Mom and Mrs. Tyrrell (aka the sisters to each other that they never had)

Meet Lenny and Kristy... my mom's adopted Florida children. Lenny is an assistant pro at the club who somehow has enough patience to give my mom her weekly golf lessons :) Lenny and Kristy got married last November.

Here we are celebrating being Mr. and Mrs. Teeple again

Mrs. Tyrrell and Lindsay smile for the camera

Mr Tyrrell and Meg

Uncle Wally and Brady

Here are some pictures of Meredith and Brady posing around the pool.

Brady, Meredith and G-Ma watching the new digital photo frame.

After being in a car, a plane, a train, and another plane back to Kansas City we were finally on the bus to our car. The kids did very well and were still playful up until the point they both crashed on the car ride home.

Potty Power

We spent the weekend in Potty Boot Camp. We stayed home all weekend and Brady and the Potty became very good friends. We started out on Saturday morning with Thomas the Train big boy underwear. We had several accidents before Brady started to understand when and how to use the potty. He quickly understood that every successful trip to the potty ended with him receiving money to put in his new train signal piggy bank. On Sunday Meredith and Aunt Lori came over for a Potty Party where we watched lots of potty movies. Brady and Meredith both did a great job giving each other high fives with successful pee pee in the potty. We even managed to get some shots that will likely turn into blackmail in the future :)

Mark and Kara's Wedding

On New Year's Eve Brad and I attended the wedding of our great friends Mark and Kara. The day started out with a beautiful church wedding where Kara became Mrs. Mark Friel! After the wedding we hopped on the Kool Nites Limousine for some fun and refreshments. We ended up at Jerry's Bait Shop where the wedding party took some pictures and munched on some Pyramid Pizza (Kara and Mark's favorite). After watching some of the KU football game we got back on the bus and headed for the reception site. The night ended with a balloon drop at midnight. What a great way to spend New Years! Thanks Kara and Mark for a great time.


Meg and Kara on the party bus


Brad and Meg at the reception


Kelly and Amy pose while their husbands go get more drinks.


Meike and Tony are always a good time.

Barb and Dan are always up for a party

THE Party Bus

The newlyweds at Jerry's Bait shop

The first dance... those dance lessons really paid off :)

Christmas 2008

We hope you are all enjoying this holiday season. As Brady spent this Christmas with his dad we celebrated Christmas with him when he got home. On Sunday night we opened some presents and then on Monday night we went over to have our final Christmas celebration with Aunt Lori and Meredith. Brad and I enjoyed our Christmas up in Michigan with the Teeple family. Thank you to all our family for the many generous gifts we all received.


Brady helps Daddy Brad open his gift from G-Ma Sue. Can never go wrong with anything Adidas in Brad's eyes. He looks forward to wearing his new shorts and hat on the golf course in Florida where he will get beat once again by his new wife :)


Brady received lots of new clothes which is always a good thing as he continues to grow quickly out of the old ones.


Grandma Cheryl and Grandpa Wes sent Brady this train signal piggy bank. He loves putting money in it and watching the signal go off. It is going to be used as his reward for sitting on the potty (thanks to Grandpa Wes for the great idea). We are going to start Potty Boot Camp this weekend. Wish us luck!

Trains seems to be the all time favorite at this point in Brady's life. He was very excited to get a new train set.

Meredith and Brady did very well sharing each others' toys. They continue to be great friends and always have a great time playing together.

G-Ma got Brady a new V-Smile Motion Game. He has already tried it out and is slowing getting the hang of it. He likes his new Thomas the Train game.

Meredith got a nice new Easel from G-Ma. Soon after Brad put it all together for her she was quick to show off her artistic abilities.

Meredith got a new golf set from her daddy for Christmas. The little golfers were excited to practice their new swings.

The night ended with a sword fight... Brad vs. the tenacious two year olds. Brad put up a good fight, but eventually the two year olds over took him.

Christmas Trains

Lori, Meredith, Brady and I bundled up and took a trip down to Union Station to walk through the Holiday Express train. There were three train cars to walk through. Santa and Mrs. Clause were waiting for us in the first train. Brady was not enthused to see him as his fear of Santa continues. There is definitely no sitting on Santa's lap this year... Maybe next year. The next two cars consisted of train displays and lots of Santa figurines. Next we went inside Union Station to look at the great big train display. Our next stop took us over to Crown Center where we ate dinner at Fritz's. At Fritz's there were even more trains and our food even was delivered by a train! Brady and Meredith sported their train engineer hats and were highly entertained by all that was going on. What a fun full day of trains we had. Brady was in CHOO CHOO heaven. He was so sad to have to leave all the trains.

Cookie Party

Lori and Meredith invited Brady and I to a cookie decorating party at Julie's house. We had a great time making lots of yummy cookies. Brady and Meredith did a great job and had so much fun playing with all the other kids as well.