1905

1905.....that was the year my great-grandma Laura Sharer was born.  She was a wonderful Grandma that I have many fond memories of!  She passed away this past Tuesday in her sleep at Courtney Manor where she was living.  Her mind was so sharp and even during her last visit to my Mom and Dad's house she had to have her Budweiser!!!  This past summer she was able to meet Norah and I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to get a 5 generations picture.  We will cherish those pictures forever.  It was so amazing to see this new life being held by a woman who has seen 105 years of life-changing events.  I just wanted to commemorate Grandma with a few of my favorite pictures of her!  We love you Grandma!

Jimmy and I with Grandma on her 100th birthday!

Grandma's 100th birthday with our family and her son!

Mom and Dad ~ Thanksgiving 2007

I absolutely love this next sequence of pictures. Grandma insisted on putting her lipstick on!!!

The expressions on my Mom's and aunts faces are priceless!

Thanksgiving 2009 ~ Kelly, Grandma Kaczuk, Arianna and Grandma Sharer

This was at Kelly's (my Mom's sister) surprise birthday party last year. 

This is one set of the 5 generations in the family.  My Grandma Sharer, Grandma Kaczuk (her daughter), Uncle Tom (my Mom's brother), his son TJ and his daughter Lucie!

I was about 5 or 6 weeks pregnant in this picture.  I was dying to tell everyone, especially Grandma, but they had to wait until Thanksgiving to find out! 

I was just hoping to be able to get a 5 generation picture with our baby girl and we were blessed enough to get that opportunity!

So many great memories!  We will miss you Grandma!

Is that Patrick Swayze?

Nope.....Just Norah Brining!  Ha! Ha!  This is our tribute to Patrick........ :)

Happy Birthday Papa!

We had a nice pizza dinner out at Grammy and Papa's house the other night for Papa's 40th...or 50th....or 60th something birthday (no one's counting). Norah did great helping Papa blow out the candles, with Audrey and Lilly's help, of course! Happy birthday, Doug!

Peek-a-Boo

Happy Turkey Day (times 2)!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We spent Thursday out at Brining's house. Then, we had my family Thanksgiving on Saturday. We have so much to be thankful for and it was wonderful just spending time together as a family!

Gobble, gobble!!!! :)

Audrey thought Norah's hair needed a little brushing





 

Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Erin

Oh, what a baby will do to grown-ups!  Aunt Dinah and Uncle Kenny talking to Norah

Where has the time gone?

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!!!!!  Five years has flown by and I look back at everything that has happened in the last five years and what a journey it has been.  And now to make our 5th anniversary that much more special, we get to spend it with our beautiful little girl!  We are so blessed!

Flashback to our wedding, 5 years ago today! 

Yes, we are alive! :)

Yes, we are still alive. Life since Halloween has been chaos. Between school, Masters work (which I am done in 4 weeks!!!!!! Whooooohoooooo!!!!!) taking care of Norah, spending time together as a family and keeping the house up I haven't had a spare moment to sit down and update the blog. So here it is. I have about 3 or 4 posts in one, so make sure you read through the whole thing. Lots of exciting things happening in the Brining household. Enjoy!

Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Erin were home a couple weekends ago to visit. It was great seeing them! It was the first time since they have been married and since they returned from their 'eventful' honeymoon!

Tira giving Norah kisses!



Tira: "What is this thing my Daddy is holding?"

We arrived at Bri and Kyle's on Friday night and
Bri made an excellent dinner for us.  Her spinach
and meat lasagna was so pretty I had to take a
picture!



Yummy, yummy lasagna!

Norah and her Uncle Kyle :)  Preparing him for his little one that is due in May!

Auntie Bri and Norah

ooooo.....just the big boy Gus!  He loved giving Norah kisses!

Auntie Lyndsey and Norah.  Lynds and Grant are
having their first baby in February.  They are
having a little boy....so Norah is going to have
a little boyfriend to play with!!!!! 

Bri is hardly showing (Due May 10th) and Lyndsey just has
a cute basketball under her shirt (Due February 19th)!!!

The girls enjoying their non-alcoholic drinks!

The boys, Kyle, Grant, and Drew

Norah started rice cereal on Wednesday.  She absolutely loves it!
She does such a great job eating off of the spoon.  I swear she has
gotten chubbier the last three days since she started eating it!  She
is just getting so big!

Norah slept in until 8:26am on Saturday.  We always have to wake her
up out of a deep sleep during the week to get ready to go to daycare.  I
have a feeling she is going to be a sleeper like her Mommy.  The difference
between her and me though...............

she wakes up a happy girl......me, not so much!!! 
Love her!!!