New Orleans trip

So I have having tons of problems getting the pictures up. I have everything written out to tell you guys about but I cant get the stupid slideshow working. I have no idea whats going on. I know Im doing it right because I just did it the other day for Braydens german pictures. It is driving me crazy but I promise to get them up soon!

See ya!
Christy

Ich heisse Brayden

My mother-in-law brought Brayden back a pair of lederhosen the last time she was in Germany. Even though they are still too big I figured that Marlene (my mother in law who is in Germany right now) and her family might enjoy seeing him in them. I haven't mastered posting pictures very well so I'm going to ATTEMPT to put them into a slide show for everyone. Hope you enjoy!

PS - We made it back from New Orleans tonight and I cant wait to share the stories and pictures from our trip. It will probably be tomorrow after we go pick up the kids before I can get to it because I am about to COLLAPSE! It was a wonderful vacation but exhausting.

As sad as it is I feel the need to mention that the beer used in these pictures were a prop just in case there is someone who isnt family or friends looking at this blog. (how sad I have to do that)

See ya!
Christy

We made it!

We got up this morning at 5am after about 2-3 hours of sleep and headed out. We landed in New Orleans around 10am. We stopped in the hotel and had them hold out luggage and then off we went. We walked around all day looking around the French Quarter. Eventually our feet were KILLING us because we didn't have out tennis shoes on. They were in our luggage at the hotel so we decided to head back and see if we could check in. Our room wasn't quite ready so we waited around until we could finally check in. We then got online to see what all we wanted to do (as you can tell we brought our laptop) and then took a nap. After that we ordered some food and now I am waiting on Dave to get ready so we can head out again. Tonight we are going to head to Bourbon St. for a while and see whats going on there. We decided we didn't want to drink too much tonight once we have a lot we want to do tomorrow but we will see :)

If I have more time tomorrow I will write a little more detail on what we have done. If not I will tell you all about it soon. Just wanted to jump on and let everyone know we made it safe.

See ya!
Christy

New Orleans here we come!!

Well we leave in about 6 hours for New Orleans!! We had a hard time saying goodbye to the kids. This morning when I dropped Mychael off at school I had to make him hug me...embarrassing or not. Then tonight we took Brayden to my parents. This will be the first time we have been away from him for more then a couple of days. We were both having a really hard time leaving and I think mom about shoved us out the door and locked it behind us. We finally left and now are sitting here looking at pictures missing them :) Hopefully we will be so busy the next few days it'll make it easier. I have some really cute pictures to post for everyone...especially our family in Germany and I will post them as soon as we get home. No time tonight. I still have so much to do and my sleep time is running out. I will definitely write when we get back and post pictures. Until then everyone have a great weekend!!

See ya!
Christy

My sweet Mychael

So I have got nothing done today that I wanted to get done. I am counting down the minutes until our trip and there was a lot I wanted to get done before then. Hopefully I'm a little more motivated tomorrow. It just seems like I have been going non stop lately and today while Mychael was in school I just stopped altogether. I did a few things this morning and then had no motivation to continue.

Tonight Mychael had football practice. This is the first practice where someone (Dave, Mychaels dad or his girlfriend) have not been there with me. I'm used to having a little help with Brayden and all the stuff that comes with us and boy did I get my workout being on my own. First of all they decided not to do it in the normal place because a cross country meet was going on so we walked for what felt like a mile (it always seems longer while carrying a child, diaper bag, chair, purse, etc). We finally get out there and its drizzling (there goes my hair for open house at the school!) but its not too bad. As we are sitting there Brayden wanted to do nothing but bounce. For any of you that have had the pleasure of doing this particular exercise with him you know its tiring on the arms! Then it starts raining harder so I decided to trek back to the car and feed Brayden out of the rain. So we finally get back to the car and guess what?!? yes of course it stopped raining! So I go back out to the field and a really nice guy sitting down from me brings me his umbrella and tells me to keep it in case it starts again. I was thanking God for him 5 minutes later as I sat huddled under it during a downpour. The coach kept glancing at all us parents and I returned his glance with a glare that I was hoping he could understand what I thought he could do with this practice in the rain and it involved shoving it somewhere. He didn't stop the practice though so I guess the message wasn't going through.

So after practice we had open house at Mychaels school. The practice had been behind the school so I just switched shirts and shoes and thought Id be good to go. Until I caught a glance in the window on the way in the door. Air drying my hair is not my look! I don't know what the teacher might have thought but hopefully she understood that the mean bully coach made us sit in the rain :). Mychaels dad (Tommy) and his girlfriend (Tracey) went with me. Dave had to work so he couldn't make it. I think the teachers are always surprised when we walk in as a group. They always make comments about how many of us there are. They also always say its good we all come. I think its great that we all love Mychael so much that we always take that extra step to show him we are a group. Like all of us will go out to eat together, or go to school functions together. I think that matters to Mychael so I'm glad we are all friends. So we go in and meet his teacher and she has a scavenger hunt for us to do. It mostly consisted of going place to place to see his work and meet different staff like the principle and nurse. When we were getting ready to leave I asked her how he was doing and she said that he was doing great. She said he always has great manners. Later we heard this from different people as we went around meeting them. Each one made a comment on how sweet he is and how great his manners are. I am just so proud! I know a lot of 8 year old boys that don't know what manners are and can be holy terrors but he has always been so polite to people. What a great kid I have!

Well I am about to try to go to sleep. I really feel like I need to catch up. I'm just drained lately and I definitely want to be ready to go this weekend in New Orleans!

See ya!
Christy

Nap time!!

I couldn't resist these pictures. They were melting my heart so I had to post them. The other day I caught Daddy and Brayden taking a little nap and took a few pictures before I woke them up.

I will write more and catch everybody up on the last few days later.

See ya!

Christy

Braydens first big boy bath!

It has been a crazy few days and its too late to write about it all tonight so I downloaded some new pictures and figured I would just post those for everyone to check out tonight.

The other day Brayden had his first big boy bath. No more baby tubs on the kitchen counter! Dave had bought this little bath seat for him so the other day when me and Brayden were here by ourselves I decided to try it out. He was AMAZED that he could slam his hands down and create a big splash and so that is what he did pretty much the entire time in the tub. That and a rubber duckie that I threw in there kept him entertained for a long time. He was so cute I called Dave while he was out running errands and told him he had to come home to check it out. So Dave came home and we enjoyed watching him splash around. After he had drenched me and our bathroom I decided to call it quits but while he was enjoying it I got a bunch of cute pictures. In one of them you can see that Harley also tried to join in the fun

ENJOY...

I will post more tomorrow when I have a little more time (hopefully!)

See ya!
Christy