Brayden disappeared the other day and when Dave went looking for him this is what he found. He got the toilet paper away from Brayden before he destroyed it but didnt take the playboy away until after he had checked it out. It was a proud moment every father has to have I guess
Hey everyone! I feel like its been a while since I updated. Seems like every moment I had lately I was trying to work on work stuff. I am really trying to get my year started off right. So I have been creating all kinds of things for it, coming up with fresh ideas, and redoing my entire presentation. Its been fun to do it all because it makes it feel brand new to me and gets me excited about it again.
The kids and Dave are doing great. Nothing major to report. We have turned into pretty boring people lately. Mychael is counting the days til summer vacation already I think. He is so bored with school. He gets to go to the symphony though for his class trip in Feb and he is really excited about that. Brayden is getting around better and better so it is getting harder and harder to keep up with him. I have been leaving the gate open so he feels he has a little more freedom to roam around and his favorite thing to do is go in his bedroom and pull every sock out one by one and put it on the floor. I let him have this once it makes him so happy. So about 20 times a day I'm in the floor picking up socks. So cute though.
Next weekend my mom and dad are keeping Brayden all weekend and Mychael will be gone so we actually have the whole weekend to ourselves. I am so excited! We haven't had a whole night to ourselves since October when we went to New Orleans. No plans as of right now but hopefully we will get to plan something fun. As much as it would be nice to just sleep the entire weekend it would also be nice to spend some quality time together.
Well it is bedtime for Brayden. I will try to write more soon
See ya,
Christy
We were going to give Brayden a quick bath the other night so we just threw him in the sink. This is the first time we ever did that and of course he turned into a ham the minute the camera came on so I figured I would share. I dont have a lot to talk about because Ive been sick all week and have barely gotten off the couch. Doubt anyone wants to hear about it :)
I know I have mentioned to some of you before about our Christmas tradition of getting a new ornament every year. We get a family ornament and we usually get an ornament to represent anything great that happened throughout the year. It has been so fun for us to do this and then every year as we unwrap them we look through all of them. It definitely makes me smile and as we pull each one out we get to remember the good memories. So this year as I took the tree down I decided to take some pictures of some of my favorites and share them with you. Under each picture I have explained the ornaments in the picture.
These three are from 2007 while I was pregnant with Brayden. We were supposed to come up with names to put on the book on the one to the far left but the only name we ever came up with is Brayden. We never really debated. Then we had the family pregnancy one, and then we found a kid with a firefighter helmet on and on his shirt it says "big brother" so Mychael got his own to represent his soon to be role.
These four are the family ones throughout the years. Each one has our names and the year on it.
These are all ornaments that Mychael has made us in school starting in Kindergarten
The top one is Braydens 1st year ornament. The stocking and tree are ornaments that were made for the kids this year by Grandma Marlene and the two socks in the middle are each of the kids first sock that they wore. Braydens on the left and Mychaels on the right.
and these are ornaments from different occasions through the years. The first one is a dog holding a key that says "new home". We got that the year we moved into this house. The 2nd is a Cardinals Baseball ornament with Oct 27 written on the side. This is because we were married Oct 27 which was also the day the Cardinals (our favorite team) won the World Series. The third is a married couple obviously for the year we got married. The fourth is a Saints symbol with 2008 on it. We got that while we were in New Orleans when we went to see out first Saints (our other favorite team) game. The fifth is a football ornament with Mychaels name, year, team, and 1st place on it for when his football team won the championship. The last says "our first Christmas" on it from when we got together.
So that's all of them. Just thought Id share with you all. Now I am going to go put Brayden to sleep because my sanity is telling me he needs a nap :)
See ya,
Christy
