SNOW in TX and Valentines Day

SNOW in TEXAS! I know, its crazy huh! This happened a little over a week ago here (Feb. 11) and it was so fun! Texas never gets snow like this and it ended up being 12.5 inches total which broke all the records for the most snow ever at one time. It was SO pretty and it was fun because everyone was out enjoying it. It seems like every yard had a snowman in it! :) I love snow but I hate when it sticks around forever so it was the perfect kind of snowfall. It snowed all day thursday, stuck around friday, and then by late Saturday morning it had all melted. The crazy thing is we are maybe going to get a little more snow this week on tuesday! If it snows only 2 more inches it will be the most snow ever in a winter in Dallas. I'm telling you, this has been a crazy winter here.

Guy and Brayden building a snowman

Brayden could have played out there forever if we let him. He loved it!

And then we had snow inside too! My mom sent Ty's birthday present in a box with all these packing peanuts and the boys both had fun pretending it was snow

Brayden busted out his bulldozers and had fun putting them to work

And then when they were all done with the snow, guess who had to clean it all up?? We gave Tyler Brayden's old bike for his birthday...I know, we're cheap but I figured it was new to him so it worked! The boys had fun taking turns pushing and riding on it.

I'm hoping Tyler will figure out walking by pushing this around. My back is breaking!

I love Tyler's face in this one.

He screams every time Brayden pushes him forward really fast and it makes us laugh every time!

Tyler has discovered how much fun it is to unroll the toilet paper

Every child has to do it, right!

And finally, here's a few pics from our Valentines Day.

We had 9:00 church so it was kind of rushed but still a fun morning. We hung hearts with things we love about Brayden hanging from his door for when he woke up

And since the boys share a room, Ty got the hearts on his crib

I made a trip to the dollar store to make little heart baskets with surprises in them for the boys. Seriously, I love the dollar store by our house...it really has some good stuff! They were pretty excited about it which made me happy :) I LOVE my boys!

First Birthday Experience

Ty had a fun 1st birthday...I'm pretty sure he had no idea what was going on but once I set his birthday cake on his tray, he was pretty happy about it!

We ate our little cupcakes while Tyler had his HUGE one! Thanks Ashlie for the fun idea! :)

Here is the end result from digging into that cake, but I'll show you how how it all went down...

We started out here waiting for cake in the high chair all nice and clean.

I'm glad I remembered to take off his clothes!

We sang him Happy Birthday and BB helped him out with blowing out the candles

And then he was off! He started out taking tastes of frosting a fingerful at a time

And then he started to just dig in

He really ate way more frosting then cake

And when he started using it as a body lotion and hair product I finally cut him off.

He hardly made a dent in that huge cupcake, but he sure loved it!

Before the cake and all that messiness, he opened a few presents

He loves books so we had to read his new ones right away!

So there you have it...Tyler's 1st Birthday!

I still can't believe he's one and I'm sure by the time I'm used to the idea, he'll be two! :)

They grow up way too fast!

Happy Birthday Ty Ty!

Our baby is ONE today! Its a crazy thing how fast his first year has flown by. I am seriously shocked by it! We sure love this little guy to pieces and can't even imagine life without him. Here's a look at how he's grown over the last year...

Newborn

One Month

Two Months

Three Months

Four Months

Five Months

Six Months

Seven Months

Eight Months

Nine Months

Ten Months

Eleven Months

ONE YEARS OLD!!!

* Happy Birthday Buddy! We LOVE you! *

A Dental Discovery

Both of the boys have had awful colds and double ear infections this week so there's not really much to blog about over here unless you want to hear about all my methods of forcing antibiotics down their throats and drops in their ears! :) We have mostly just been hanging home trying to get them better. Soo, I'll share Brayden's latest dental discovery, since I'm sure you are all dying to know! I finally took Brayden in for his first dental visit earlier this week. He was a little nervous about it and I honestly had a hard time telling him the dentist was fun because truly I hate and dread going to the dentist more than anything! I was a little nervous about it too because at this age, when there's a problem with the teeth its all on the mom! And I will admit that I have forgotten to sometimes water down the juice, or brush his teeth twice a day, and we do let him get sprite when we go out to eat. Oh and I guess he was supposed to go to the dentist a lot sooner. Apparently they see kids at 15 months to put flouride on their teeth! Ah, I never knew! I just always thought I would wait until he was older because what toddler is going to sit still in a dentist chair with their mouth open...BB never would have!

Anyways, I took him to a kids only dentist that my aunt had recommended and I must admit, it was great. I seriously wish I could go there! They had a big play area in the waiting room and when we went to the back they let Brayden pick a movie to watch and then put it on a little flat screen that they pulled down right above him as they cleaned his teeth. They let him try out all of the dental tools before they used them on him and he left with 4 stickers and a little dog, which he currently is playing with more than his christmas toys. I will admit, I had to gag when they offered him the choices of toothpaste and out of all of them he chose cookie dough! I don't even want to imagine what cookie dough toothpaste tastes like! Gross.

So after cleaning his teeth, they took him away to try and see if he would cooperate for some x-rays. When the hygenist brought him back, she was all excited and said the dentist had something really cool to tell me. Now cool is not really a word that I have ever heard a dentist use. I was pretty sure if Brayden had some cavities or something that they wouldn't refer to them as "cool" so I wasn't sure what they were going to say. The dentist walked in and told me that Brayden has an extra baby tooth on top which is why on his right side he has a tooth that is sticking out more then the others. I had always just thought he didn't have enough room in his mouth for all of his baby teeth so he would for sure be getting braces. I never even noticed he had an extra tooth up there...I think there was a time he was getting so many in at once that I just lost track. So we'll see if he has an extra permanent one too when those start to come in.

So, its not really a big deal, just kind of "cool" like the dentist said. Seriously all I could think about while she was going on and on (and on) about this is how sad that he had to push an extra tooth through his gums when he was little! Poor baby!!! Maybe its because Ty is teething SO bad right now and he is miserable! Haha, so that was our dental discovery this week. That and apparently I am a horrible mom for not flossing my childs teeth daily which is something I haven't even mastered for myself yet. I guess we need to make this a 2010 goal or something.

And here is a picture of Tyler real quick. He LOVES to climb into everything right now and its all fun and games until he trys to get out. I was taking some pictures of him in this red bucket that he had climbed into when it suddenly just tipped over. I thought he was going to start to scream but he just laid there with his little lip sticking out. It was so sad and yet so cute at the same time because it was like he was trying so hard to be tough!

* Happy 5th! *

Happy Groundhogs day to the rest of you...

but over here we are celebrating our 5th Anniversary! That's right, we've made it 5 whole years and we are still going strong (not that I thought we wouldn't be!) I feel like we've hit a bit milestone now which is exciting...10 years, here we come!

Life just seems to be getting better every day and I feel so blessed and lucky to have Guy by my side through it all. He makes me laugh every single day and just makes life fun... I love that most about him. I love that we have doubled our family and added 2 little boys to it over the past 5 years. They are everything and I love all the adventures we have with them! I am so happy and I wish that there was a big stop button so we could just stop time and enjoy "right now" a little longer. It's flying by a little too fast for me! I'll have to put that on my wish list... I was looking at some of our wedding pictures with Brayden earlier and explaining to him that they were from before him and Ty were here. After he saw a few, he looked up at me with a huge smile on his face and said, "I didn't know you used to be Cinderella before you had me and Tyler!!!" It made me laugh and I guess its kinda true, I did feel like a princess that day! :)

Happy Anniversary Guy! I LOVE YOU with all my heart!