wanna get to know us?

He:

does NOT like heights. He won't ever ride in a ferris wheel or hot air balloon, closes his eyes when a roller coaster climbs a big hill and will never cliff dive.

 Eric's dream is to retire young, build hot rod's and muscle cars for fun (he really wants quite the collection), and eat ice cream every single day until he dies. Not a hard man to please at all....

One of his pet peeves is when people chew with their mouths open. If he's in an especially good mood (totally sarcastic here) chewing food in general irritates him.... even if your mouth is closed. :)

Eric is a proud Red Sox fan! That "B" means more than just "Boston" to him... he is a Brinkerhoff after all. (Seriously, I think he thinks the "B" was made for him!)

 Eric loves to bake! And he is SO good at it. That man can out bake me any day.

She:

I could care less about weighing myself. In fact, the only time I've been weighed regularly was while I was pregnant. Since I've had Mia, I've only been on the scale once and that was at my 6 week check up. I care more about how my body looks, not how much it weighs.

I've never colored my hair anything but blond! Did I mention I'm a hairstylist? I'm supposed to be adventurous with my hair!! But I did chop off 15 inches after Eric and I got married. That's about as adventurous as I get :)

I have a horrible habit of cracking my knuckles that I just. can't. break. It's like the harder I try to stop, the more I crack. Ah!

My favorite feeling in the world is having my hair played with! I sure hope Mia will want to play with my hair, I may even pay her to do it as she gets older ;) Because Eric only does it once in a blue moon these days, ha ha.

I wish I could sing. I actually hate singing unless the music is turned up so loudly that I can't hear myself :) When I was young, I messed up during a voice recital and that has scarred me forever. I think my fear of messing up holds me back from ever developing a good voice.

Mia:

Is such a snuggle baby and I LOVE it! We have discovered that when she's snuggling you, she rests her forehead against you and keeps a serious face. You can't get her to smile for the life of you.... until she is done snuggling. Then she pulls her head up and gives you a brilliant smile :)

Mia loves to have the skin around her nose and mouth touched. Which is makes it easy when we need to clean out her nose. She just smiles while we use the nose sucker, ha ha!

We haven't found a ticklish spot on her body yet. I wonder if that will develop later? 

She has one binky that she favors above all, even if they are the same brand! Pray that we never lose it ;)

Mia is the smartest, happiest, cutest, funniest and most perfect baby in the world. And we're not biased in any way, ha!  

We:

Love to laugh!! Listening to Mia's happy laugh just reaffirms how important it is to have constant laughter in the home!

Eric's love for guns is rubbin' off on the whole famdamily. He taught me how to handle a gun safely, and how to shoot. And we will teach Mia the same when she gets old enough. We will have the knowledge and skills to protect ourselves if the need ever arose. 
 

We love to dance! Eric and I are looking forward to the days that we can have dance parties with Mia! We are going to have SO much fun :)

Eric watches chick flicks with me, I watch action movies with him, and Mia just loves to watch the TV in general (even though we don't let her watch it. But anytime it's on, her eyes are pulled to it like magnets, it drives me crazy!)
 

Sometimes we want to kill each other, but mostly we just love to love each other!