Old Jaol

Some pictures from the fun "no kids" night that Rachel planned!! I have about 5 more posts to do so I'll let her give a better description of this night!! It was a lot of fun!! Thanks Rachel!!

(Ok, this one is before we went to the Old Jaol but I had to post it somewhere!)


From left to right - Jami, Christina, some girl I don't know that you can't really see anyway, Shannon, Rachel, Me, Chad

Nose ring
Shannon, Christina, Rachel, Kristen and I

Lemon drop shots

Me, Bri and Christina

Me, Bri, Christina, Rachel and Kristen

Kristen and Rachel

Christina and Kristen

Christina, Kristen, Rachel, Jessie and I

First taste of snow

She likes it just about as much as her Daddy does... this is why we live in Arizona!! ;o)

Eyes

Took Brynn for her follow up eye appointment this afternoon... still no changes, they are still just as much crossed as they were a month ago and they're both crossing, it's not one more than the other. He said that he wants to see her in another month and if one eye is stronger than the other by then, we might try to put a patch over the strong one for a few hours a day to try to strenthen the weaker one. He said they won't correct themselves on their own, she'll probably have surgery around the time that's she's a year old. He still wouldn't tell me what the procedure was, he didn't want to freak me out... so, for that I'm grateful.

We, along with a few other people, thought they were straightening out but the doctor said that because the shape of her face is changing and that's why we thought it looked better. That's why he's the doctor... not us!! More updates in a month or so.

Christmas celebration # 3... at the Shadel house!!

Christmas actually felt like Christmas this year!! Brynn got a ton of presents, including this barrette thing for her hair (Chad just set it on her head...) and this ornament in it's yummy box!

We got up, opened presents and had some breakfast casserole with BOB EVANS sausage in it (YUM! I miss that stuff!) then, Dad had each of us do a scavenger hunt type thing with one gift, which was pretty cool. Here's a picture of Lindy digging for her last clue!!

We celebrated Christmas morning kind of quickly, because Bri's man Jason had to go visit his family before he flew back to Minnesota (long story) but we still wanted him to be a part of everything. We had met Jason the night before but had heard ALL ABOUT HIM for quite a while. Right Bri? Are you embarrassed now?! ;o) Anyway, he's a super cool guy who treats Bri awesome. Awww... aren't they cute?!



That night, we had a bunch of other family members and some friends come over... most of them got to meet Brynn for the first time!! Here are some more pictures from that day!!

This is Bri's friend Greg, who she's been friends with forever. He was cracking us up. He was being fidgity and grabbed the "booger ball" (a.k.a. snot sucker-outer-thing!) and was squeezing it not realizing what it was - luckily, it was clean and it was pointing away from him!!! Oh, and he's super tall, like 6'7" or something crazy like that... he told us he wears a size 18 shoe, that's about as big as Brynn's whole leg! Aww...

Private blog

Chad and I have been talking and I think I am going to change our blog to "private". This means, if you would like to read the blog, I will need your e-mail address to give you access to it. If you would like to continue reading this blog, please send an e-mail to acslax8520@aol.com to let me know.

I know there are a bunch of people that I don't know that read this and I'm actually ok with that but there are two people in particular who Chad and I are extremely uncomfortable with. I don't like ex-boyfriends and their weirdo girlfriend/fiance/whatever she is reading about our lives. For some reason, it just really annoys me and honestly, it freaks me out. (You know who you are and I think you should probably take that as a hint.)

Anyway, send me an e-mail with "Your blog" or "Blog" or something like that as the subject and I'll add you to my list of people that can access it.