the word

Alex wanted me to clarify where "squistie" came from because she didn't invent it.  I actually say a lot of words where I add "...ie" to the end.  Many of these are even used by my two year old and other family members today.  For example: diap-ies, eye boog-ies, shoog-ie (instead of sugar), etc.  But alas, this is not where it comes from either.

Our husbands have a group dislike of ANY instance in which we feel the need to bring up old boyfriends, but I'm afraid the credit for this term goes to one of mine.  He had two sisters which he lovingly referred to, and addressed (on the phone at least), as squisties.  Like in any relationship, I began to adopt certain phrase-ology and other characteristics from this significant other.  I called my sisters that a few times after that, they liked it, and it stuck.  And there you have it...the birth of Squisties.

Brothers

I love that us older three are married and we have brothers of our very own..since we grew up sans brothers. Alex..I can't wait to see what character you bring into our family :)

Anyway..Jeremy is just a trickster. He loves to kid, and he really likes to get our goats. He likes to do things like...stick his foot in front of you when you're trying to take a picture with Sheeb.

But..Jeremy is one of the coolest brothers I could ask for. I love that he loves soccer and that he is the father of Beckett. We get along really well and he's...........pretty cool.

Andrew is the biggest goofball there ever was on this entire planet. My favorite thing is that he says one funny thing, everyone laughs at the joke, and then he continues to say that thing forever. For example, Andrew saw the following video.. imitated it, got a laugh, and then proceeded to repeat the following action the ENTIRE day. (Mind you, it was Christmas day, so every time someone opened a gift he would say..."Ohhhh myyy goooooshhh")

[Uh..I don't know how to put the video on here so here's the link :)]

Surprise Party

Proof:

Oh brothers.

-Abby

Gotcha.

This is quite possibly the ONLY

"paparazzi"-type photo I have of anyone.

If you can't read the post-its they say:

"Maybe Daddy (AKA Leremy),"

"Maybe Mommy (AKA Schmeee),"

and "Maybe baby."

This is from before Beckett was born.

Ashley didn't know if she was pregnant,

but I guessed she was.

We figured out about a week later that I was right.

:)