I finally did it!

I've been meaning to start a blog for a long time, but I wanted to wait until now to start. Why? Who knows. Maybe it's because I always thought "blog" was a stupid word. Or maybe it's because Brian is downstairs playing Call of Duty on his PS3 with his friends and I can't watch my DVR shows because it's all connected to the same TV. When the kids go down for the night, I want nothing more than sit in front of the TV and watch mindless shows and movies. I'm going and going all day and this is when I have my brain break. Since I am a nice and understanding wife who wants nothing but her husbands happiness, I don't mind him playing so now here we are. I think the main reason I am doing this is because we live so far from our family and our hometown friends, we want them to know what goes on in our daily...or monthly lives. For the first time in my whole life, I am blogging. I hope you enjoy our fun and crazy life. This is The Drennan Crew

Brian and Kristal

We are like any average couple. We met in high school, dated shortly after, went to college in different cities while still committed, graduated college, got engaged, and after eight years of dating, we got married. Now it's been almost 13 years since Brian asked me to our first date, his Junior Prom. Little did I know that I was not only saying, "yes" to Prom, but I was also saying, "yes" to spending the rest of my life with this man...boy...but now man. Okay, so maybe we didn't do things the traditional way, but it works for us. We met in Sacramento, got engaged in San Diego, then moved to Las Vegas where we have been almost five years. We have three beautiful girls. Keira, who is three, Kallissa is a year and a half, and Obi-Wan, our yellow Lab is four. We love to travel and spend time as a family. Our kids are our life and we wouldn't have it any other way. We have been told that Brian and I are perfect for each other. We get along pretty well but we do have our disagreements. Like...um...um...oh, what TV show to watch first or what movie to watch at night. We even argue about who gets to hold the remote so we can fast forward through the commercials. Well we are not perfect, but we learned over the past 13 years that communication is the key to a healthy relationship and we both help each other out to make things easier. We both left our selfish behavior behind us when we got married and had children. This is not a "we are better than everyone" spiel, we just like people to know that you can have your differences and have a healthy relationship at the same time. And trust me, we do have our differences. Although we are both a little geeky. Who else do you know names their female dog a male name just because they love Star Wars?

They make their mama proud!

I enjoy dressing my girls alike, so shoot me.

Kristal's Girl's trip

Oh yeah, I do get to have a pass too. I got to go to Portland, OR with my younger sis, Rachel. Why did we choose Portland? Long story, but we went anyway. We didn't get to see a lot of what Portland had to offer so most of our photos were of us acting goofy. We had no car and we stayed downtown. But this was one great trip. For one, I got to spend quality time with my sister. We enjoyed going shopping and eating our hearts desire in steak at Morton's Steakhouse. We also spent 5 hours at a spa receiving massages, facials, pedicures, and make-up applications. Later that evening we attended a fashion show for Portland's own Fashion Week. What can I say about it, it's Portland. We found ourselves at a club dancing the night away feeling a little out of place because we were the only ones dressed from head to toe. But that didn't bother us because our dance moves were so awesome we had quite a few spectators. Finally, we spent a whole morning in bed eating room service before we had to catch our flights. No one to be responsible for but me, no one to remind to use the potty, (well I did ask Rachel a few times out of habit) it was a nice weekend. But I did miss my family and I must say that I have one amazing husband. I don't know many husbands who will let their wife go away for the weekend and take care of the kids. Brian had fun with the girls and he even did their hair everyday. I am very proud and blessed to have Brian as my husband.

Brian's Seattle Trip

Since I am the one writing this blog, I will tell you my perspective of Brian's "guy trip" to Seattle. He went with his BFF Dave and had fun. The End. Okay, I'll give you a little more. Once upon a time, in a magical city of Las Vegas, there lived a King. This King started a new job ruling over a different specialty from the land of Oncology to the land of Rheumatology. This had been very stressful on the King. One day, the beautiful Queen granted the King a leave of absence to travel the land with his most trusted companion, squire Dave. They chose to travel to the far away land of Seattle, WA. They dined, explored and visited with an old chum, Aaron. After a few days, the King missed his fair Queen and his little princesses and returned home. The King was refreshed from his journey and ready to rule the land of Rheumatology once again. Yeah I know, it's corny, but if Brian wants to, he can tell the story himself.

Slumber Party...sort of

For those of you who know us well, you know we are always very busy. I am a "stay at home" Mom, but I have a hard time staying at home. After a busy couple of weeks, I woke up one morning and just didn't feel like doing anything. I decided to have a slumber party during the day with the girls. We staying in our jammies all day and blew up the mattress in the living room and made a bed to watch movies and just hang out. I made popcorn, hot coco, and the girls helped me make cupcakes. They loved licking the beaters. It was nice taking some time out and just hanging with my girls. We had a great time and I think this will have to become an activity we do more often.

Keira's First (and Second) Day of School

I was not planning on sending Kiki (aka Keira) to preschool this year because she just turned three in the summer and I was going to wait until she was four. For some unknown reason, Kiki started to tell me she wanted to ride a school bus and go to school . After a lot of thought and research for a school, I found one that is perfect for her. Kiki attends a gymnastic/dance school twice a week. She goes to 45 min of gymnastics on Tuesdays and then an hour and a half of learning and 45 min of tap/ballet Thursdays with learning after. Since Kiki has a hard time focusing her attention on one thing for more than a few minutes at a time, this was the best fit. She is a ball of energy that has not napped in over a year and she will keep going all day until she goes to bed. She loves to go to school and is learning a lot. It's also nice that I get to spend more quality time with Kali (aka Kallissa) while Kiki is in school.