Birthdays!

So we started out the beginning of last week with Brayden's birthday and ended the weekend with Shelbies birthday! I can't believe my babies are growing up, now "2" and "1" what an adventure this last year has been! They are both so much fun, and have such unique personalities.

Brayden is such a boy, he loves playing cars, trucks and loves his dog Scooter. He is talking more and more each day and I am amazed at how much he actually understands. His favorite new word would have to be mine. Which he will clearly say when someone takes something that clearly belongs to him. We just recently got him a scooter, and he is now zipping around on it with one foot! I'm sure by the end of the summer he will have it mastered and be flying down the street with the rest of them! We just moved him into his big boy bed and he is loving it. Couldn't fit the fact that he knew how to climb in and out of his crib by himself and open his door at night. The big boy bed has seemed to help keep him in bed most nights!

Shelbie is my baby! She doesn't look anything like the others, nor does she even resemble them in any way! I am always looking at her wondering where she comes from, but than look at Dave and see the resemblance in his family. She is my snuggle bug! She loves her blanket just like all my kids do, I would rather deal with a blanket than a binkie! She has just a few words she says all the time, "Hi" mommie and Daddy and her new one "OHH" I swear its oh boy! She still isn't walking but getting really close, she pulls up on everything and tries to take off! She loves following everyone around the house! I still can't believe how fast this last year has gone by. We are so lucky to have her!

The kids celebrated their birthdays together with family this year. Grandma made the perfect cake, cupcakes and Shelbie devoured her, Brayden as you can see from the picture carefully took each bite in between racing his truck across the table! Thanks to all the family who came and helped celebrate!

Happy Birthday Brayden and Shelbie

Dog Valley

So we grew up going to this place called Dog Valley and camping and shooting guns with the family and friends for a Mountain Men Rendevous(?) anyway me and my brother decided to take out the grandkids and enjoy a saturday afternoon with my parents and surprise them! The kids loved it, its a kids dream come true and the dirt in the world. Freedom to run wild, and lizards to catch if you can find them. Brody begged to take the BB Gun and shoot with grandpa, so we tagged it along. After the men got done shooting the shotguns we told the kids to round up the clay pigeons and we would shoot them. So we lined them up and Brayden decided he wanted front row seats to watch, what he didn't understand was that by placing his chair right in the center he was in perfect position to be the center target for the kids shooting practice. He wasn't to happy when I moved his chair back, but got all excited when they started shooting the guns! I think he enjoyed going out there more than anyone, he played in the dirt, drove his cars around and even took a bath before we left in grandma's sink! It was fun to take the kids out there and brought back lots of childhood memories!

Entertainment Baby Style

So as you can see we have had an extremely busy week, finishing out the end of the school year and than we celebrate the babies birthdays this week, plus Brody's graduation and last day of school parties. Needless to say it has been busy, and this post is me admitting in the running around and needing to accomplish a few things I am guilty like I'm sure others are of putting my kids in front of the television. The funny thing is, these two eat it up when it comes to Baby Einstiens. They imediately sit down in front of the TV and it gives me at least a half hour to finish up and hurry to get what I need done! So this past week here is my two little ones glued to the TV while I finished trying to get dinner on the table so we could head out the door! I couldn't resist taking this picture of them!

Face Painting

So last week for family night we decided to enjoy the school carnival at Brody's Elementary. SThey provided some fun entertainment with the generator filled air rides, slides and a rock wall. The kids were having a blast. But they insisted on getting their faces painted, I wouldn't of done it had I known in the end that we would be standing in line waiting for over an hour to get it done. The lady who did it, was very detail oriented and did a great job! Not worth the wait in my opinion though, anyway when we got home the kids wanted there picture taken of their faces. Brody as JOKER, and Maggie with a BUTTERFLY!

Maggie Preschool Graduation

So this past week was Maggie's Preschool Graduation! Now its on to Kindergarten next year. I can't believe how fast time has gone by, and how big she is getting. And how much she reminds me of me. I look at her and see myself as a child, the only difference is her locks of curls! She performed so well, wasn't her usual shy self and I am so proud of her for singing and reciting her poems! She has been working hard the past month to memorize them, and was more than willing to recite them for me in the car! I loved hearing her recite the "Dandelion" that glistens in the spring time air! The way she says it makes me smile everytime. My little Maggie is growing up!

Confusing!

So I will admit I have spent some time trying to figure out how to change the background on this blog with no success. I keep reading all the tutorials about it and still can't figure out why I didn't have an HTML option. Well today I'm convinced to try and figure this out, mostly I am tired of staring at the white background. Well I figured it out and now can say I feel like an idiot for not figuring it out sooner. It helps when you don't have your Blocker on and are clicking on buttons and nothing happens! Anyway now that I have that figured out I can add some new posts! Tomorrow though, I'm tired!

Brody Photo Shoot!

So I have been taking this photography class from Dave's wonderful sister who is a Photographer by profession. Me I'm just an amituer learning how to take photos. Anyway it has been a great learning experience! Thanks Jen. So tonight we went to this neat little spot and took photos of Brody and I have to tell you it was freezing cold, he didn't want to take his hands out of his shirt and was being a goofball when he would. Other than that, I will admit I did get some good shots of him under the circumstances! Next time I will know to bring a warm jacket, he picked the sleeveless SuperMan vest, not me! Anyway here is a fun slide show of the shots I got, and I haven't edited any of them yet. Its amazing what your camera can do when you know how to use it!

Springtime Fun!

So on a good day when it isn't snowing around here we enjoy going to the park that is down the street. We love our new neighborhood and the fact that the park is within walking distance. It is so nice! So we ventured out this week and took advantage of some sun! Shelbie couldn't quite figure out how to crawl through the tunnel no matter how many times I tried to convince her to come get me!

Maggie's Final Haircut

Here is the end result, a bag of all the curls and a smile from her!

Maggie and the SCISSORS

This is blog worthy. Yesterday I was upstairs cleaning, the kids are out for spring break and Maggie and me just got home from the movies. She was playing in my office, not sure what she was doing until she came to find me upstairs and said mom, I was using the scissors. She took the scissors to her hair, which I cried. If you fully understood the consequences of this, I have cut Maggies hair maybe 3 or 4 times since she was born. She is five. Her hair takes forever to grow and because it is curly it gives you a false mispresentation of how long it really is. Luckily it wasn't right to the root. So after her attempt to cut it, I took the scissors to her long locks of curls in the back and sadly cut them off. At least 5 inches worth of curls. And she is going to have to wear a bret in the front till her cut bangs grow out so more. She loves the new do, I miss the long lock of curls we took forever to grow. And she has been threatened with her life she ever uses scissors on her hair again. After we got done, she said look mom my hair is short like yours. I like it short. :( for now its going to have to be, we can't glue hair back!

New Family Blog

I'm not sure what is wrong with our old blog, but I can't change the background to make it cute. Plus the links on the side are messed up. So to avoid further frustration with it, I moved back to my blog that I started thinking I would have my own little area, never happened. But for now I'm going to update our family events here. So save this as your new link!

I have a blog just for me!