My five babas ~

I love them so much...

Brandon's cabbage

It's getting bigger and bigger!

When we harvest this cabbage, Brandon will take a picture of it and enter it into a contest and he's hoping to win a $1000 scholarship! Fun!

Brandon Robert is 9 today!

My baby!

Nine years ago, Mel took me to the wrong hospital and my water broke on my favorite shoes.

Nine years. My baby is almost in the double digits.

He is such a sweet little boy. Definitely a daddy's boy through and through.

A soccer freak, just like daddy and he begged for a Croatian soccer jersey. He was very happy. Mladen Petric. I think he likes the fact that this soccer player shares his daddy's name. And, Dido loves Croatia. Isn't he beautiful~




He wanted a sleepover, but I was a party pooper and said no to that...I'm just not quite into dealing with 7 nine-year-old-boys for a full night. Maybe next year.

We had a pool party slip-n-slide party instead.








Fun, fun, fun...


This cake was incredible. Brandon had a hard time deciding between Man United or Donkey Kong, but I'm glad he chose this one. It was a shame to cut into it.





Happy birthday my baba! I love being your mommy!

Aubree bit Colin ~

She looks too innocent here to believe it, though. Uncle Brandon just adores her.




Poor Colin just cried and cried. Ashley put Aubree in time out and we all were comforting Colin. She bit him right on his little boob!

Aubree was in time out right next to me. She must've thought nobody was paying attention to her so she quietly got up and TIPTOED away. It was so hilarious!!! She literally was tiptoeing away.

I couldn't let her see me laugh, but Ashley and I were dying!

God, she's precious.

I just love my little angel.

The star wars costume finally came!

And here's Ryan. He loves it.



Now, we're waiting for the UPS man to bring Brandon's Donkey Kong book.

Brandon is very impatient.

Swimming with Ry

Happy Fourth of July!

We all went to the fireworks. It was nice except for the big tree in my way. The boys loved it. Colin burned his little finger playing with sparklers. Poor baba. The pics with Colin in them are blurry (I'm trying not to be irritated over this), but here are Brands and Ry~

We went to the zoo~

Although I loathe the zoo, Ashley always makes a point to drag me there once a year.

Here I am with three of my boys~




And here is our sweet little Aubree checking out the turtle. This poor pathetic creature was intent on escaping and just kept ramming into the side of his cage. Aubree was fascinated. Brandon reached out and petted the turtle's shell and the zookeeper walked by and said, "Ohhh boy! ...make sure you wash your hands after touching that!" Ewww...





The kids love going, so it wasn't a wasted day. I'm just not an animal lover. Here are the boys. That's Colin's signature smile. It's a phase.