Me and Bobby

Kailey sippin a DP by the fire

Craig Profilin' in his gloves


My brother Brett, by the fire. Bobby hooking a hotdog:)

Check out the fire hazard in the background.

My sis in law, Kerstin, always comes up with these brilliant ideas to get together with family. This past weekend she suggested a bonfire out at my parents house and it was complete with truck beds, hotdogs, smores and lots of goofing off. The fire was perfect (props have to be sent out to my bro Craig for tending the fire;) although there was a few upgrades like Elmo playing in my brother Brett's truck and a nice cozy house near by.

Sleepover

This past Friday Bradyen and I went to have a sleepover with my sister-in-law, Katie, and her son Easton. Brayden and Easton had the option of sleeping outside in a tent, but one would say it was too scary and the other would say it's too cold, then they would run inside and do it all over again. There was lots of wrestling involved, pizza, chocolate chip cookies and a speed racer movie playing in the background of it all. Good times:)

I wasn't going to write tonight, but i thought I'd atleast post some pics:)

October 15, 2008

Miss Kailey Gracie got into lots of trouble today. Let me give you an example of the pre-3 attitude that hopefully never makes it to Kailey as a teenager....Today, she asked if she could play with play-dough and I said, in a little while, but not right now. She threw her hands up into the air, leaned down and hit the cabinet where the play-dough lives, ran around into some kind of semi-circle dance routine and then slammed the door on me. Here's a picture of my bitter baby. This one is not from today, but really...I have so many to choose from I could post all night.
(awww...but aren't they sweet after all of the drama)

Fall Break: Day 2

Yay!! I got off my lazy bum tonight and jogged/walked/almost gave Coda a heart attack. There will be a switch in dogs next time I go b/c the poor puppy was soooooo excited to go, but about half way through he lost his enthusiasm and we did the opposite of power walking for the remainder of our trip.

For any of you who don't know...Coda was Lauren and Brads dog....but when they were in Hawaii they didn't think the trip would be good for him. (He's a senior.) So he's part of our family now and we loooovvvveeeee him. He is a big messy puppy, but still, I think he has been loved more intensely (not just by us) than most..

So......day two of fall break.....we had lunch with Bobby at St. Jude's and then went to see King Fu Panda at the $2.50 theatre. Kailey Grace had a melt down full with tears and high frequency screaming when a turtle turned into stars but she recovered quickly and begrudgingly liked the rest of the movie. (Yea, don't know if Master Turtle saw the light or where they were going with that one, but I had to answer one to many questions from Brayden afterwards about the turtle going to heaven.) It was alot of fun though.
We finished the day off with Brayden's soccer practice, which is a blog all unto itself that will have to wait for another day.

It is my goal to write something everyday, more for my benefit than yours because I think this is a really cool way to keep a little journal about us, so until tomorrow....

My very first entry...

First of all....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SWEET LIL LAUREN!

So I am done with school and it's a little bit surreal for me. I have this habit of jumping on the computer and feeling like there's something important to do for school....only now I am left looking for how to hang drywall, diet or looking at myspace. I think it's time to venture out. My friend Lana is getting married soon. We talked tonight for the first time in...too long...and I was sitting there thinking about how one of my best friends doesn't know my kids and I don't really know anything about her day to day either, which SUCKS! Life is too short to let that good stuff go...so if you don't care about my day to day, week to week or even month to month ya might want to stop reading cause it'll be going downhill from here;)

Brayden is out of kindergarten today and tomorrow, so we have had big plans. My big plan today was to sleep in. Mission accomplished. Brayden and Kailey Grace's big plan today was to "eat popsicles all day". No kidding. That's what they came up with when I asked what they wanted to do all day. We came close with all of the junk we ate, but the real excitement today was going shopping with my mom. We bought a range of things from bananas to my kids wardrobe for the next year for $50 (maybe a little more). I made the mistake of throwing a bra into the mix for myself and for the remainder of the shopping trip we got to experience what it's like to have a five year old and his two year old echo saying, "LOOK MOMMY, I HAVE BOOBIES LIKE YOU!" Brayden held up the bra to himself as Kailey Grace had a new awareness of mommy and started curiously squeezing my chest. Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.