Spring Time 5/2010

Our front door!  Bright & Springy....in full bloom!

(these topiaries where a birthday project that I made a few years back)

My Mother's Day & Pablo ends up in the lake!!!!! LOL!  We had a fun, girly, mommy picnic!

Tuck, AJ & Steven at the Elementary School Track Meet.  It was a fun/hot day to be outside & out of school for the day with friends!  Jack Elementary WON the meet!  YEA JACK!

Pretty Girl Mango!

This is our sweet Mango!  She hasn't been in a blog yet, so I thought it was about time!  She is posed on "HER" chair!  This is the only piece of furniture that she us allowed up on.  So she thinks she is big stuff!

Easter @ Numa & Pop's!

We spent Easter (4-3-2010) in Athens at Numa's & Pop's.  Having Aunt Kat here was a treat and we met Lady Boggs, the new member in Numa & Pop's family.  The Bunny came again, for the 10th year in a row.....Tucker must be doing something right!

Is it Spring somewhere?

This is a picture of an incredible rose that was blooming in "MY" yard this week! It measured almost 6" across! Seriously! The snow is Colorado Springs, yesterday! Yes, yesterday....April 23rd. My friend Mary sent the pic to me. The kids had a snow day on April 23. There is something not right about that! Anyway, Happy Spring!

Easter Fun!

This was fun for all.....kids and grown-ups alike! We colored Easter eggs with our sweet friends, the Fosters! Thanks for including us guys! Happy Easter!

Soccer 2010

Soccer Season is upon us and Tuck is on a fun team called Crush. This is the real deal! Big field and lots of rough and tumble! Spring Fun!

Juicing 101

This is me juicing with my new Hurom juicer for the first time!

Spring Break 2010

We had a BLAST in Dallas & Ft. Worth over Spring Break! Did a bunch on stuff in a couple of days......Dallas Aquarium, Ft. Worth Zoo, Stockyards Rodeo, Midevil Times, swimming at the hotel, etc.....! VERY FUN and much needed break!

The Aldredge House

The Aldredge House, Dallas TX.

We took Tucker to show him where we were married almost 17 years ago.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Here are a few pics of the Extreme Home in progress!

Quite a chaotic process to get this all done, but with all of

the volunteers help it was accomplished.

*Can you see Ty to the left, up on the scaffolding?

Extreme Makeover Home Edition

What an awesome and fun experience! Stacey and I had the opportunity to help out with the Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The one that Ty Pennington is on! Knew you would know it if I said that! Ha Ha! The Extreme crew visited a town, Mineola, that is north of Tyler and gave a very deserving family a new lease on life. Watch for the reveal on Sunday, May 9th.

Tuck's Violin Performance!

A family pic at the performance! Tucker loved having family and friends their to support him.

 Thank you to Numa & Pop, A. Leslie, The McLaughlins & The Foster's for coming!

Virtuoso Tucker performing Rondo by Jean Francois Dandrieu at Braithwaite Auditorium.

Snow 2/12/2010

What can we say? We had to squeeze as much snowman fun as we could into 1 day!

SNOW MUCH FUN!

It was February 12th and we woke up to a glorious sight!
SNOW IN TEXAS!

Returning from 2 Nights @ Camp Tyler

The 5th grade Camp Tyler trip is a "right of passage" for all 5th graders in the Tyler School District. It poured down rain all day yesterday, but from what we've heard he had a blast! He got home and headed straight outside to play in "the woods" aka. the empty lot beside us. We're going out to celebrate tonight....Tuck's camp experience and Pablo's great meetings in NC this week.

5th Grade Science Fair!

The 5th grade Science Fair was last week at Jack Elementary. Tucker worked so very hard and was excited about his entry! He kept saying, "I hope that I get an A"! He did more than that! His project was named, "Best Environmental", and one of the judges said that Tucker had the best presentation! He will be going to a Regional Fair with some of the other students from Jack at Kilgore College in March. We're not proud and excited for him, are we?!!!!

I did it!!!!! It's a miracle!!!!

Hello blogging world! Can't believe that I'm doing this. I've gotten the template set up, a title and a picture downloaded! That doesn't mean you will be able to view it, (ha,ha) but it is in there somewhere. I know that I've said the word I about 10 times already, but I am soooo excited that I was able to do this "ALL BY MYSELF"!

Tucker is off at camp for the first time in his life and here I am with all of this uninterrupted time. The school takes all 5th graders to overnight camp for 2 nights. It's sort of a right of passage in Tyler,TX! Tucker is a very cautious little guy and we encouraged him to go and he finally let go and was very excited about going! Praise God!

This is the Brinkman Family Blog and we are excited to share some of our Pura Vida moments with the Blogging world!

Over and out for the first BLOG!!!!