Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day!! We love our Nona, Nana, Nina, and MawMaw!! We had a wonderful Mother's Day. We had lunch yesterday at Shogun and that night we had dinner with my family. Below are pictures of lunch at Keith and Becky's and Shogun. Enjoy...

The Brown cousins =)...Caiden was snoozing on the couch, Owen did not want his picture taken.

Sterling...so sweet... Clayton...Claire's "bestest friend"

I LOVE this picture of O...he is teeting and was not in any mood to socialize =).
Claire and Clayton riding to Shogun together.

Claire and Clayton playing with chopsticks...
Claire, Clayton and Owen were scared of the fire...Caiden and Sterling thought it was great...Clayton's face is priceless..

Owen was not enjoying lunch...

Claire learned to use chop sticks...kind of =)

The women of my family, Nicole was not in town yet for lunch...
I am so blessed to have such a great family and beautiful children....they are just the cutest things ever....Note: Ms. Claire picked this dress out at the mall for me to wear and the gorgeous purse was my Mother's Day gift!!

Another Party, but with a twist....er

So, it was the usual weekend here at the Brown's, a huge party. But this party was more dramatic than the usual.
We threw a graduation party for our best friends, Kyle and Christie Huggins. They used to be our neighbors and moved away last summer. Since then, they had two adorable twin babies, Blake and Lauren (you can see them at their website in my list of Favorite blogs). Kyle graduated from the UofA this weekend with his doctrate. We threw a party to celebrate, as well as a reunion for all of our friends to get together and see them since they moved. In total, there were about 40-50 people here at my house, including about 20 kids!! The party was supposed to be an outside party, but the weather was bad. Just as the guests all arrived, the weather took a turn for the worse and we were put under a Tornado warning. The house was complete chaos with a ton of kids running wild, TV up full blast, and all the adults trying to act like they weren't scared (everyone but Lane, she was freaking out and they actually left =)). In the end, we had to get all of the women and children in the laundry room and guest bath under the stairs, VERY tight squeeze...there were even 4, nine month pregnant women!! There was an actual tornado coming our way, but it turned. Shane took the picture of it below from Owen's bedroom window.
After that, the party was awesome! Everyone wore red to celebrate Kyle's alma mater. You know that every party of mine has a dress code =)...




Kyle and Christie - WE LOVE YOU GUYS!! MISS YOU SO MUCH!!

When the cat's away...

Shane and I were fortunate enough to have an awesome get-away this weekend. I won the "Rookie of the Year" award for work and we were awarded a trip to West Palm Beach, FL. Everyone in the company that won an award was there with their spouse, or guest. We left Thursday and arrived home this evening. It was an unbelievable vacation at the Four Seasons Hotel, all expenses paid, including a round of golf for Shane, a facial for me, and a couple's massage!! We had such a great time sitting on the beach, sipping great drinks and just RELAXING!!! We were bummed because Eric Clapton and Fergie were both staying at the hotel and we never saw them. Everybody else caught a glimpse of them at some point. We made up for it at the airport on the way home, Natasha Bedingfield was behind us in security!! I sang "I got a pocket, got a pocket full of sunshine..." all the way home =). Both grandparents watched the kids...and of course the kids had their own mini vacation =). Below are some pictures of us at the beach and some of the kids when we got home. They were excited (well, really just Claire) to put on their new night shirts we brought them back. Enjoy...

This is a shot of Shane and some of the other guys "playing" in the water...Shane is the last head on the right...
Our awesome beach setting...Shane going to play some more...I put this picture out here for Jessica...she said I would never put a pic of me in a bathing suit...haha
Behind my sexy husband =), there is taped off area where they are protecting a turtle's nest, we thought it was so cool.

This is the best pic we could get of Natasha Bedingfield without being too obvious. Shane snapped it from his phone!
Claire excited to wear her new Palm Beach flamingo nightshirt...

Cooper wearing the gift we brought him home, doesn't he look thrilled...LOL
O in his shark shirt...
I just love those smiles...
CHEEEEEEESE...
The most common shot in my house...Owen drinking his milk...

As much as we loved our trip, we could not wait to get home today and see our sweeties!!


Never a serious photo with daddy =)...

A little pampering for the ladies...

Claire, Tara and I had pedicures Sunday. Claire had a pedicure before, but it was not the usual pedicure setting, the rows of chairs, the nice Asian women...she loved it. She told me after it was over, that we need to come back every week so that our toes always look this good, I gladly agreed =).

The finished product...