Play Ball

Water

This little boy LOVES to play with water! Here he is back in the fall, enjoying a good about of time with a couple buckets and cup.

I will try

In attempt to blog more I have decided to be less picky about the things I chose to post and just post what I have. It may get boring, but you can leave at anytime:) So, lets back up and go through some pics that are still hanging out in my camera.

Halloween

My Knight and Sock Monkey.

Favorite Quote from the night...after passing a very pretty princess Brayden follows her with his eyes and then turns around to say "I like pretty girls!"

Kentucky Christmas

We got to spend a portion of our Christmas vacation in Kentucky. Mason was especially excited to visit some states that he had never been to before and wanted to tell anyone that would listen that he was getting to go to Kentucky:) This was the first Christmas that these cousins have been together on Christmas morning, notice the smallest new cousin and main reason for our visit. Welcome baby Ryann Elizabeth, we are so excited that you are here!!!

If you watch enough HGTV you just might think you can do anything

When I woke up this morning my kitchen looked like this
What I love about the above kitchen: the window. Everything else, not so much! So say goodbye cabinets that I bonk my head on, the fake ceiling that serves no purpose, the dirty tile, the dusty popcorn, everything that is an ivory color...you are out of here!!!

Tonight as I go to bed it now looks like this.Ok, so we are not done or anywhere close for that matter. Can you see where this is going?

And this was not really planned, but my living room that looked like this,
now looks like this. You would not believe how easy it was to rip of that old 80's paneling, which underneath lies a nice piece of sheet rock just ready to be textured and painted:)

A big thanks to my dad and brother for helping us out today, and my mom for watching the boys!

First Day of Preschool

Here are a few pictures of Brayden's first day of preschool with out big brother. I tried to get away with letting him use Mason's old back-pack...that was a no go! We will be making a trip to the store today so this second child can pick out his own back-pack.

First Day of School (Mason Style)

As in the past, Mason wanted to do "first day of school" pictures in his own style. His backpack and lunch box are Mario...(on a side note, until recently I have had a no character clothing rule, but it was a losing battle with Mason and two grandmothers on one side and me on the other!)...anyway, so here are our Mario themed first day of school pictures.

His running pose

Throwing fire

Holding a brick

Mom and Dad with the school boy.

Mason walked into class put up his backpack and went right to his spot. He did not turn around to see where I was and it was hard to get through to his table, to avoid being on of "those" moms I just snapped a quick photo and waved bye. So there we are, a little bit more independent but none the less imaginative!