Halloween School Parade

We went to the elementary school to watch Brady in the Halloween parade. It was so fun to see all the kids in different costumes.  Brady was a pirate this year and he had a little pet parrot on his shoulder that was the hit in his classroom apparently. BB told me that everyone would come to his desk and try to feed it and make it talk.

 Brady's teacher, Mrs. Cundy, dressed up as a flower :)

I helped in his classroom after with the class halloween party. It went really well and it was fun to see him interact with all of his friends. Between the class party, Halloween, and Ryan's Birthday it sure was a crazy day! I think I'm going to need some time to recover!

Soccer Photos

Brady is having another great soccer season this year on team Stingers. Here are his team photos.

 He cracks me up in this one.

Oregon Game

 Guy took BB to his first Oregon Ducks football game when they played in Boulder.  BB was so excited to have a day out with dad. He made his own sign to hold up at the game.

I in no way support them going to see the Oregon Ducks. I stayed home with my younger boys and watched the buckeye game with them. We each have our own ways of brainwashing our children :)

First Day of 2nd Grade

I don't even know how it happened, but my Brady is in 2nd grade now! It just blows my mind to think about it.  He was so happy that he got to go back to the same school for 2nd grade and he even has a few friends from last year in his class. That made me really happy because changing schools when we moved from Florida was really hard for him. We are still living the hotel life so we took his first day of school pictures at a park by his school instead of our usual front porch shots. Sad, but hopefully we'll be moving in soon!

 His teacher, Mrs. Cundy, is SO nice. I am so happy he is in her class!

FOUR years old!

I am trying to figure out how our sweet boy went from this....

to this!!!

I can't believe he is FOUR years old today!

We have been telling him that he's not allowed to turn four... he has to stay 3 forever and ever. This morning the first thing he said to me was "Guess what Mom. I turned four and you couldn't stop me!" So funny! I guess I can't stop him from growing up, but I just wish it wouldn't happen so darn fast!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BB!

We sure love you buddy!

Kelly Comes to Play

My sister Kelly came to visit from Ohio and we had so much fun...of course! Kelly and I always have fun together and we managed to despite practically everything going wrong on the trip. Seriously why is this always happening everytime we have fun things planned lately? This trip included Kelly getting sick and me thinking it was from us, to her feeling better and us wondering if she had gotten food poisoning, to freezing ( like SNOW freezing) weather here over the weekend, to crazy delayed flights that made her have to leave earlier and end up flying way out of her way to get home in time. It was just crazy. Anyways, here are all the pictures I took while she was here. I love when Kelly comes because we act like 5 year olds and I totally forget that I am supposed to be a responsible adult/mom now!! Its great! We picked her up on St. Patricks day from the airport so Brayden and I made her a giant rainbow cupcake as a surprise

But the real surprise was in the middle! I wasn't sure it was going to turn out but we thought it turned out pretty cool.

We had some fun at the park and enjoyed the nice weather before the weekend of cold came along. Apparently everyone was doing this because the place was beyond crowded! Took a trip to Rainforest Cafe, a restaurant that is all decked out like a rainforest inside.

In my opinion, the food was so expensive and not the greatest. Maybe its just what we ordered but we all thought it was a ripoff. We had been saving a gift card we had been given for a "special" time and thought since Kelly was here we should go. Seriously I am glad we didn't have to pay for that food from our own pocket! Plus the place was SO packed since it was spring break so it was just crazy!

Brayden with his elephant balloon

And all Tyler got was a straw but he loved it!

Guy and I pretending to not have kids...even though the bottle up front gives that away

So the next morning Kelly woke up really sick and its a mystery to us if it was our yucky sickness that we picked up at the gross airport or if it was food poisoning from yucky rainforest cafe? Either way, she was really sick and felt awful. We had been planning on going to San Antonio for the weekend but canceled it and were just planning on hanging out. But the next day she woke up feeling much better (which is why we thought food poisoning maybe??) So we spontaneously decided to just go to San Antonio right then and there. And so we did and I was glad because apparently Dallas ended up getting snow! WHAT? Um, I'm glad we missed that. Seriously I just want it to get warm and stay warm here now (and I know I will regret that statement when its summer and we are roasting!) It was pretty chilly down in San Antonio too but we still went to Sea World and had some fun!

IHOP...Brayden tried bacon for the first time and loved it!

Gotta love Sea World!! I seriously do love it and even though it was kinda cold we had a lot of fun! Plus, an adult ticket is the same price as a pass for the rest of the season so we have passes now and will be going back for sure all summer while we are still living here! I am excited to have a reason to get away and it will be fun to go back when the water park opens up!!

Kelly with the boys...I was so happy she was feeling better
BB loved the shamu roller coaster for kids. I rode it once with him and Kelly did too!

We got to meet Shamu and we decided this was probably the one day where the person inside was actually glad to be wearing that costume. I always feel bad for them in the summer when its so hot but I seriously could have used a shamu costume to wear that day. It looked toasty!

Ty bundled in the stroller...again I was jealous of him too!

We loved seeing the sea lions

And feeding them fish

I have to say the shamu show is pretty lame now. The trainers do not swim in the water with them after that trainer was killed in orlando a little bit ago. Which I'm glad they are being safer but the whales just didn't really do much on their own. They just swam around in circles pretty much and occasionally splashed some water. Also, all the girl trainers have to wear their hair in buns now so the whales can't pull them into the water by their hair. I think the trainer in orlando had her hair in a braid and the whale pulled her in by it and wouldn't let her get back out of the water. So awful huh! I guess the best part was that they had a baby whale born in january so it was swimming by its mom during the show which was really cute! But other then that, not as exciting as before!

They had a really cute sesame street sing a long show which Brayden loved.

He went up in the mosh pit of kids and danced which was pretty funny

And my fav part of sea world is always the dolphins! There was a trainer training them in their tank so we got to see them do a few tricks

And feed them fish of course!

Ty was such a trooper all day and it warmed up in the afternoon which was nice. By the end of the day we were all so exhausted but it was fun and I'm glad we were able to drive down and miss the crazy Dallas weather!!

But the car ride back was awful. We were stuck in traffic most of the way and Ty decided it would be fun to cry most of the drive. Well except for the 5 minutes we gave him a granola bar which resulted in this awesome mess of chocolate. I didn't even see it happening because it was so dark or I would have put a stop to it sooner! Lesson learned...do not give babies chocolate chip granola bars because they will make it a full body experience! And the other thing I learned on this trip is that we need a bigger car! It is time to upgrade to more room because being scrunched in the back with 2 car seats was horrible! I'll just add that to my wish list :)

BB watchin his movies on the way home. He looks so comfortable, don't you think?? :)

So Kelly, I miss you and you need to come back and visit again so we can make up for this time around!! Next time no sickness and warm weather...I promise! It was seriously still so much fun to just see you though and hang out for a little while! Hopefully we'll see you the end of April...fingers crossed! LOVE YA and thanks for coming to see us!!!!! We all miss you! :(

Weekly Update 2/27-3/7

I decided that I'm gonna try to update my blog weekly for a little while and see how it goes. Life has just been so busy lately and there's just a million things I'd rather be doing then sitting on the computer and updating my blog all the time. Especially since the weather is finally starting to get warm here...I swear the sun didn't shine the whole month of February!! So here's the highlights from our last week.. Like I said earlier, Brayden LOVED the Olympics. He was beyond devasted when the U.S. lost the hockey game to Canada. He asked me if they would have another chance and when I said no, he pretty much lost it. And then when he found out that the Olympics were over it just about did him in. He cried for a long time about it. Poor kid! :(

Our zoo pass expired last weekend so we used the opportunity to go to the zoo one last time. We won't be renewing it since we'll be moving in August to somewhere unknown...still. Anyways the highlight of the trip for Brayden was we let him walk. I usually make him sit in our double stroller but we had a flat tire when we pulled it out of the car so he was happy to get his way! Plus he had some fun pushing Tyler around. What a good big bro! It was fun to see the elephants drinking the water while we were there. Brayden was fascinated by it so we stayed and watched for awhile

And Tyler was just happy to be out of his stroller! :)

Goodbye zoo...hopefully the next place we move to will have a fun zoo! We'll keep our fingers crossed!

Tyler is becoming quite mischeivious lately. He loves to dump everything out of things and then climb inside. He is still not walking but has gotten very good at standing up and balancing. I'm anxious for him to figure it out because he really is heavy! Plus it'll make it easier to play outside once he's walking. If he's still crawling when he's in shorts then he'll probably cut up his knees when he's outside ya know. I'm hoping that when we are in Oregon next week for our visit with Guy's family that his little friend Gwen will teach him how! ;)

He found all my headbands in the bathroom under the sink and looked so cute putting them on! He was making me laugh because he was so happy when I put them on his head. Its a good thing Guy wasn't home for our headband dress up! :) Man, I need a girl huh! We've been having so much fun at the parks this week. The weather has been perfect so we've taken full advantage of it. We live right by a nature preserve with a playground and a really fun trail. The path is a little over a mile long and Brayden walked the whole thing! Well, he started out riding his scooter but I should have known it wouldn't last the whole time. He quit after 5 minutes. So I tried to push Tyler and Brayden's scooter for the rest of the way which was difficult because I am not coordinated at all. And I really hadn't planned on doing the whole path with the kids but I missed the shortcut so we were stuck. But we made it fun and found lots of sticks to throw into the water over all the bridges. And we met so many cute dogs which got both the boys excited. Tyler would point and start going crazy every time he saw one coming. It was adorable! We spend most of our time at the playgrounds on the swings. Both the boys love them and Brayden is learning how to pump his legs and keep his swing moving. Tyler just laughs the whole time and it keeps me laughing the whole time too because baby laughs are just SO contagious! I love them! I just love kids...its the simple things that make them happy

Brayden loves to push Ty in the swing...look at that great form! :)

This is another cute story from the park. There was this little hill that brayden spotted and he wanted to try to run down it as fast as he could and win the "gold medal." So I told him to go for it and the first time he ran down he got going so fast that he totally wiped out at the bottom. I expected him to start crying but he looked at me and said, "It's ok, I'm tough mom. I can do this so I'm going to try again!" So he ran back up the hill and did it again without falling. It was so cute and I was so proud of him for trying again and being tough!

The best thing about the nice weather and playing outside is that it gets all my kids energy out so they are wiped out! I love it! Brayden has even been taking naps sometimes again and by bedtime they both go to bed so much easier! It's been heaven!
Of course they seriously can never take a nap at the same time which drives me crazy. All I want is an hour of peace and quiet...is that too much to ask? It was driving Tyler crazy that Brayden was asleep and he seriously would not leave him alone. He just figured out this week how to climb on his bed so he is always up there looking out the window now. And of course trying to wake up his brother.

Here's Ty being silly in the car. He kept putting the spoon in his mouth and letting go and then he would laugh and laugh and see how long he could keep it in. Seriously all this boy needs is a plastic spoon to keep him happy! I should have just wrapped that up for his birthday!

Brayden has been playing soccer these last few weeks and has been loving it. He's on the kickin' koyotes team and has been having one practice a week and then a game on the weekend. It's seriously great entertainment to watch a bunch of 3-4 year olds play soccer! Let's just say the majority of the goals scored are in the other teams goal no matter how loud all the parents are yelling for them to kick it the other way! :) Guy and I have already encountered some over the top parents yelling at their kids to step it up and go after the ball and things like that. It's pretty silly. I mean the kids are 3. They have no clue what they are doing!!! But Brayden loves it and loves being part of a team.

Last night, Guy and Brayden went to the BYU-TCU basketball game and had some boy time. Brayden was so excited to go with just daddy and spend time with him.

Ty also discovered he could climb up Brayden's step stool in the bathroom now. I guess I'll have to put that up now so he doesn't fall off and get hurt. But its been pretty funny to see how excited he gets when he makes it to the top. He can just barely see over the top of the counter and into the mirror.

Waving at himself

Cleaning the sink

And this is the mess you get when you give Ty just one chocolate chip cookie with seriously like 5 chocolate chips in it!
So thats our week in a nutshell. We're off to Oregon next week to visit Guy's family and friends so we are very excited about that. And my sister Kelly is coming out to visit us and play the week after so March is looking like its going to be a great month! I love having fun things to look forward to! :)