Update time!

So its been awhile since I have posted on here. Life has just been crazy!! We've been doing lots of really fun things this summer so I'll have to post those pictures in a bit. But our latest news is that we are moving... kind of last minute! We've talked for awhile how it would be so nice to have more space but our lease isn't up until December. So we just randomly one day posted our apartment on craigslist, not expecting anyone to really call on it or want it. Turns out someone called a few days later, saw it, liked it, and wanted to move in asap. We were both shocked! But we said OK since we weren't sure this opportunity would come up again. Bad news was they needed to move in July 11 and we are leaving for a week and half long Utah trip on the 2. So, we have had to completely pack up, move out, and clean before we even leave to go out of town. Talk about stressful! So for the last few days we've packed and then on Saturday, Guy completely moved us by himself into a storage unit. First of all, I don't even know how he did it. I'm talking all 3 of our couches, bookshelves, 2 queen size beds, a million boxes.... oh ya, and we live on the 2nd floor. I am like the worst moving partner ever because I am so weak! Never could do a pull up in elementary school and I still can't! No upper arm strength whatsoever so literally Guy did it all. I just carried down the light stuff!

So it was a long day but we were blessed in many small ways such as the storage place had a free moving truck that we thought was already taken for the day but when we showed up they said we could have it. So we only have to pay $4.72 in gas to get our stuff moved. And there were a few really heavy things (Brayden's dresser, bookshelf, etc) that Guy was pretty sure he could get down but not quite sure how he was going to do it, so we saved those for last and literally right when it was time to take those down the missionaries that live in our complex showed up and asked if they could help. Talk about goood timing! :) So we are all moved out and "camping" in our living room right now! Brayden thinks its the best thing ever! Now its just a matter of finding a new place to live. We've already found a few options. but for now we are homeless! But I'm excited to be out of our apartment for good soon. Yay!! :)

Thought I'd throw a few pictures on here of Brayden. He is still in major "choo choo" phase where he literally makes anything and everything into a train. For example...

Macaroni and Cheese at lunch

All his little people toys

And about a million other things that I never took pictures of like all the alphabet magnets on the fridge, all of mommy and daddy's shoes, legos... basically anything that you can set up in a line becomes a choo choo train around here!

Here's a few bath pics. I couldn't post most of them on here due to the full frontal nudity but here were a few cute ones.

Just relaxin

Blowing bubbles!

We tried to go to the fireworks last night but right when we got there it stormed like crazy so we left. I guess they still did the show at 10 but we never saw it! Have to wait until the 4th I guess!

He's 2!

It's official... Brayden is 2 years old! His birthday was on May 13 and we celebrated with a big Thomas the train party. First of all I just have to say that I am still in shock that he is 2. I tortured myself and brought out the baby album on his birthday and looked at all his little newborn pictures. I seriously can't believe that 2 years have gone by. It just goes way too fast! But I am loving the stage we are in right now with lots of hugs and kisses and hilarious moments. It's the best!!

So... on his birthday I decided to start out the day with a trip down to dallas to have lunch with Guy. And I thought why not take the dart down there and pretend its a train since Brayden's into trains right now. Seemed like a great idea. So we get on there only to have this scary and somewhat homeless guy sit right in front of us and face us the whole time. Needless to say, I was scared to death! He sang me love songs and repeated over and over how he wished he just had $2.50 for a nice big mac and fries. The missing teeth and droopy eye didn't help matters as well as the fact that I was the only girl on the thing. I was so afraid he was going to get off at our stop and follow me! So when Guy came to pick us up he took one look me and said "i'll drive you guys home." So that didn't go quite as I had pictured it going but we did have some good pizza at costco and Brayden loved it. So I guess it was a success...

Later on we had family over for the big party! My grandma was in town visiting so it was such a treat to have her here for his birthday! I literally bought all the thomas the train decorations from the party store ( I am such a sucker) and so we decorated the place in thomas style. We ate pizza and Brayden was able to blow out his candles on his cake... a few times. He got lots of fun presents which he's played with non stop since.

Opening a new dump truck from his great grandma

Blowing out the candles... a few times! :)

Takin a ride on his "choo choo train." We made tracks with tape on our floor!

The other day Brayden wouldn't let me get him dressed after taking a bath because he wanted to wear this towel. So he paraded around in it until he peed on the floor and I decided a diaper was a must. Notice our ghetto bedroom with 4 mattresses stacked up. I hate apartment living and no space!















I found Brayden in his play fort with the bag of doritos just stuffing his face with them. No wonder he was quiet for so long!

I love you Elise!!

I was able to run into my good friend Elise from high school when I was in Ohio. I haven't seen her for a few years so that was a fun surprise. She lives in Idaho now and was visiting her family in Ohio at the same time... what are the odds of that! Here we are at Buckeye Corner buying up some ohio state stuff. Can you believe this brutus buckeye stuffed thing cost $500?? Now I'm a huge buckeye fan, but I could never pay that much! :)

We ordered this pizza thinking we could eat the whole thing and each only had 1 piece. It was huge...where was Guy when I needed him!! :)

Home to Ohio

I spent the last two weeks visiting my family in Ohio and enjoying every minute of it! Brayden and I really had a great time and were able to be there for a lot of fun things! My sister Kelly had a birthday which was nice to be there for and we also had a little mini early birthday party for Brayden and my brother Kyle whose birthdays are in May. Brayden definately understands blowing out the candles this year and we ended up doing it 3 times because after he had blown them out he would say "lets do it again" and then start singing happy birthday! We'll see how many times we decide to let him do it on his actual b-day! :) We went to the Columbus Zoo twice which is the best zoo. Brayden loved brushing the goats and even decided that he should brush all the rocks there too. Lovely! We went to chuckie cheese one day and dave and busters which was fun. Spent some time down by the scioto river to feed the ducks and geese only to find that they had a big sign up saying you weren't allowed to feed them anymore. But we decided to anyway! I seriously grew up with my grandparents taking us to the river to feed the ducks all the time so I have to let my son experience it there, right! It was a great trip and Brayden became so attatched to everyone there that saying goodbye was hard. (Thanks Guy for letting us go so long... it was a great birthday present!)

Grandma and BB at the zoo

Brushing the goats was so much fun!

My little brother Kyle's first game as a pitcher! He did so awesome! :)

Brayden loved Kyle's pinewood derby!

But we did!

Grandpa and BB surrounded by the "mean" geese

Opening the present Grandma and Grandpa Richardson got him

My family took BB to build a bear and he made a monkey!

Boys at the park

Playin the big games at Dave and Busters

Happy Birthday to Kelly!

My little sister Kelly turned 18 last week! I still can't believe it! :)