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! :)

MLK Weekend

So I thought I'd post some pics from our MLK weekend. Guy got monday off from work so we had 3 days to hang out and enjoy the 70 degree weather!! We took the kiddos to the park and Brayden got a little bike ride in
And had some fun pushing Tyler in the swing. Ty LOVES to swing and he literally laughs the whole time he's in there.

Brayden is very proud that he can now be pushed "high" in the big kid swings
Taking Tyler down the slide. He looks a little more excited then me, huh!

On MLK day, we took the boys to the zoo. The highlight of the trip was the giraffes which have become our favorite animal at our zoo. First, because they have 2 baby ones and second, because of these pictures:
You might have to enlarge them but do you see this giraffe's tongue!!!
Isn't that nasty! I had no idea their tongues were black and so long. It was kinda creepy!
Sweet little ty ty
The best way to see the elephants :) Brayden roaring like the lion

Feeding the birds the seed sticks

I love this picture of them peeking at the monkeys

I apologize for all the animal pictures. Guy will make fun of me for posting them but I seriously can't resist! I love the zoo :)

Almost big enough, but not quite!

"Maybe when I'm 4 mom!"

We haven't really been up to much else this month. Guy played in a church basketball tournament last weekend and had fun doing that. We are both starting to train for another race in april. Guy is going to run a full marathon (again) and I am going to run a half this time so we'll see how that goes. Brayden will be starting 3 year old spring soccer soon and Guy is looking into maybe coaching which would be fun. And Ty turns 1 in less then a month which is seriously freaking me out because this year has flown by way too fast for me. He is starting to stand and balance for a few seconds at a time but no steps yet. So we are all doing good here and enjoying the nice weather outside. I think I'm gonna have a rough time next winter if we move somewhere cold again that actually has "real" winters! I've gotten pretty used to wearing flip flops year round :)

Ohio-Part 2

Here's the rest of my pictures from our Ohio trip. My sister Melissa was there for part of it and we had SO much fun hanging out with her every day. My brother Jason was in band camp for most of the week and Kelly still had to work lots but we did manage to all go to zoomkbezi bay water park one day which was really fun. Here's a few pics of some of what we did:

This is the castle park in upper arlington that my grandma used to take us to all the time when we were little. Like a year ago, melissa and tried to find it and couldn't but this time we were successful and we were so excited to play on it!! Many good hide and seek tag games were played here back in the day! :) Melissa, Kyle, BB, and Eddie the dog. We took him with us and he loved it!
Ty was a happy little guy just hanging out in his stroller
And Brayden was really good at hanging just like his monkey blackie
Eddie and Kyle



Hello down there!
Lissa and Ty

All of us with a timed shot on the camera...not bad :)

Me, Kyle, and the boys all went on a tour of the anthony thomas candy factory and it was so cool. They were making buckeyes that day and it was cool to see how it was done...plus you got a free buckeye candy for going on the tour which is so worth it!!

This is a 235 pound chocolate buckeye. Gross! That is so much chocolate! It's only $3500 to buy!

Ty lost in the middle of Kyle's huge stuffed animal collection

Flying Eddie

Kyle and BB swimming

And Ty likes to swim too but he was happier rolling around on a towel in the shade

We went to the columbus zoo twice and had so much fun. I love this zoo!

They had a baby elephant that was the same age as Tyler. It was SO cute!
I thought Ty was asleep but then I looked down and saw this peeking out! Made me laugh

Brayden was excited to see Fluffy the snake. He saw a picture of him at the airport!

He looks a little scared, don't you think!

Just taking a little rest real quick

Riding on the train

Sweaty little Ty

So thats the rest of our Ohio trip. We had a blast and we miss everyone there so much! It was so fun to get to stay so long and spend so much time with everybody! Good thing we'll be back at Christmas!! :) Can't wait!