Oops!

"Yes Honey! I promise to blog all the time!"

3 months later....

Life happens and I keep meaning to blog so I'm sorry for all those

who keep checkin and nothing new pops up.

Here is a post about our life since the last one...

Enjoy!

Mother's Day 2012

We took a drive up towards Mt Rainier & found this

beautiful spot and parked it for the day.

Got to enjoy the sun, water & most importantly...

my boys! I consider myself one lucky mom!

Easter Sunday

 

When we woke up, we saw that the Easter Bunny came!  He left his foot prints

on our couch and his half eaten carrot. The boys found their baskets and dove right into the candy.

We went to church, enjoyed a delicious

dinner prepared by Erin and her family & the kids hunted for eggs!

Couldn't have asked for better way to celebrate.

 

Oh yeah....and Erin did some amazing "planking!"

Brayden turned 8!!



He had a friend and his 2 cousins over for swimming, mini pizza's and movies!

Kellen's 1st Haircut

Before....

After....

What a cutie!!!

Moved Brayden In

When Brayden came to visit for Christmas,

he actually stayed and is now living with us. 

 So Kellen's room,

 (and also the computer room and where Brayden slept when he came to visit)

was turned into

 "the boys' room."

Jason and I decided to get rid of the bunk bed, move the computer into our room,

get Brayden a twin bed and move the room around a little bit.  Got them a little shelf

to put their books on and store some toys...and to top it off....

fish!!

This was actually a surprise for Brayden after a weekend with his grandparents.

He loved coming HOME to this!  He loved it!

(RIP "Swimmy & Nacho)

The Reptile Man came to Brayden's school so of course, we had to go and take the kids!

We invited Cait & Ashee too!

He had some really cool reptiles to show like turtles, lizards and snakes!

I'm blogging about this because, not only was it cool to have seen some of those things up close....

But 'Lil Ashee was PEED on by the turtle!!!

And that's all we heard about all the way home...
"Turtle peed on me!"

LOL 

Look at Ashee go..I think this is when "IT" happened!!

Kellen...

I can't believe how fast you're growing!

Here are some new things going on...

You are currently fighting some type of skin virus which I think is chicken pox.

Dr Hautala says it's "hand, foot and mouth" virus...but I still beg to differ.

Words you can say:

Mommy

Daddy

Ball

Balloon...which is really purnounced "ballee" but you can point one out a mile away.

Choo Choo

Owie

Shoe

Bubby

DziaDzia

and your favorite right now...

Rio!

You love the movie Rio and can pick it out of all the DVD's we have.

You still love bathtime, all foods (except fish...and maybe watermelon), coloring, reading, your backpack buddy "Cocoa," cartoons in the morning, you looove toy cars/trucks and make motor sounds while playingwith them, balls, balloons, Cait & Ashee, brother Brayden, and

hugs & kisses.

Mommy went through a rough time a few weeks ago but it made me appreciate and love you

more than ever

 I don't know what I did to deserve such a beautiful boy but I thank God everyday that he gave me you!

  I love you so very much and love watching you grow & learn every day.

xoxo

While I'm in here blogging, I put his favorite movie on and snapped this pic.

No, I didn't pose him, he really loves this movie and even cuddles with the movie case.

Brayden

Having Brayden here has been quite the adjustment...but super fun!

You are in the 2nd grade at a local elementary school.

You are currently working on telling time, money, reading, and writing....

oh yeah, and being "self manager" at school. (your so close)

You are playing baseball with the Yankees.  Daddy helps coach the team.

You are quite the hitter!

At one of your games, you hit a double...the only person on the team to do that!

Dad lost your brand new eye black we bought you so you wear my make-up under your eyes to substitute.

You like warm towels after showers and sitting by the heater to warm up.

Before dinner, we always say what our favorite part of the day was, and yours is always something that hasn't happened yet but what you know you're going to do later so we make you pick another one...

You love snuggling with us watching movies and wrestling with Dad.

Brayden, having you here with us makes our family complete.

We enjoy watching you grow & learn and also love teaching you new things.

We love you very much.

xoxo