JEREMIAH AND BRYNLEY...TWO PEAS I A POD...THEIR FUNNY FACES FROM THIS SUMMER IN NORTHERN CAL!

Well, I am madly trying to catch up on our blog. We missed posting the entire summer. My goal is to do a re-cap here very shortly, but for now I figured I would start with the fall. Here are pics from the first day of school. It was pretty crazy to have all 3 girls at school!! It was a fun day and they are learning lots!

I'd say it was a successful day. A lot of emotions from happy to sad to happy again. Brynley was a superstar and jumped right into 3rd grade and is looking as stylish as ever this year. Kennedy and Kylee took a while to come around...in fact I spent the first week at school in their classroom and on two hour bus rides...can we say 'bus sick'...barf...but we have made great progress and they are loving school!

BOY OR GIRL????

We are happy to announce that we have a....
happy and healthy baby. It was super busy and liked to spin circles over and over. It was even playing peek a boo! Make your predictions now and scroll down to find out if you are right or wrong!






So if it isn't obvious enough...it is a baby boy!!! Holy cow! What are we going to do with a mini Jeremiah running around. The girls are thrilled. Brynley and Kennedy predicted a girl and Kylee predicted a boy! Bryn and Kylee were excited about the news...Kennedy had to run to the other room and cry for a few minutes. She got used to the idea though and is happy to have a little baby brother on the way. I think she was really excited about playing princess and dressing up a little sister...her dad has made it clear that there will be no dressing up his 'little dude'! Only 22 more weeks!

EASTER - 2009




Grandma had to get in on the action too!


Kylee may have been sick, but she managed to color a few eggs while under the influence of Tylenol and then she went seriously downhill for the next 5 days!


Jeremiah had to drop home inbetween meetings to dye his annual BYU eggs. We were running a little behind on the whole dying easter eggs this year.


They looked so cute. Too bad we were minus one to complete the picture.


The girls were disappointed about the rain, but excited about their note and half eaten carrot from the Easter bunny outside. It was an indoor Easter egg hunt kind of a day.



Easter dinner!



This is what happens when you stay home from church with a sick child who wants to sleep...you waste your day blowing out egg yoke, dipping them in egg whites and sanding sugar. It's all in the details I guess! It was a great Easter Sunday!

What a Surprise!

So one last birthday surprise was our littlest niece, Abby, coming to stay with us for the weekend with her dad, Matt! What a fun, crazy, and exhausting weekend it was. Matt came to speak at a conference in Seattle and Jen had a million concerts to direct the very same weekend...so...what to do with Abby? It wasn't even a question. Matt brought her on the plane to Seattle at 5am Friday morning and we got to play all weekend. She is cute as a button and is as tiny as one too. She stole the attention everywhere we could show her off. She came with us to visit Uncle Jerry, Christie, and Doug in Tacoma, to Maple Valley to a friends boutique, a baptism, a few other random places and then at the end of Saturday to the Outback. I think we had worn her out. By the time we got to the Outback with mom, dad, and the Dobson's, she was done! Everybody took their turn walking with her, soothing her and feeding her a french fry, bread, broccoli, potato and anything else she would eat. It was a fun night with family and friends! It was great to see Matt and Abby and best of all...it was a total surprise to Brynley. She was thrilled beyond explanation!

One last party for March and the Shakespeare family...Brynley's 8th Birthday. I can't believe how fast she has grown up. It seems like yesterday that she was running away from me at the grocery store and knocking down every can or thing she could get her hands on. It seems like yesterday that she wanted nothing to eat but chicken and fries...with ranch dip of course. It seems like yesterday that she was starting her first day of pre-school at the Gingerbread House with her buddy Emily. It is amazing how fast the time goes and how wonderful it is to watch your little baby girl become a young lady.

Your dad and I are so proud of you Brynley and all you have accomplished in your little 8 years. You are smart, mature, creative, obedient, a wonderful big sister, and we couldn't be happier at your decision to become baptized in May. What an important step in your life and we are all rooting for you! Thank you for being who you are and we love you! Love, Mom and Dad