Thomas the Train Birthday Party

We celebrated Brady's 2nd birthday a little bit early this year by having our friends over to the park for a Thomas the Train celebration. He couldn't have been more pleased! Thomas the Train is Brady's whole life right now. Thank you everyone for coming!




After he opened all his presents he proceeded to organize all of his Thomas loot and just stared in awe. He literally didn't move for 20 minutes. He just kept lining all of the trains up and boy, did he get a lot of trains! I don't think he had ever seen so many Thomas items in one place before. It was pretty awesome.

Brady kept digging into the cake before we started. I tried stopping him at first, but then figured, "heck, it's your birthday and your two. Enjoy!"

He was so excited when we sang the "Birthday-Birthday" song to him (that's what he calls it). He has been practicing for weeks.

Happy Birthday To You...

Pics from Bear Lake

Wow...it has been forever since I have posted. I find that the only time I actually get pictures taken of Brady is when my mom is around with the camera (thanks mom). Neither John nor I are very good at popping out the camera, so I am grateful for family vacations!

We went up to Bear Lake for the 4th and spent time boating and playing in the sand. Brady really loved the boat, as long as mom was in his sight of course. In the picture above, Brady REALLY IS driving the boat. Let's just say we went around in circles for quite a while, before he eventually fell asleep at the wheel, hands still at 10 & 2. It seriously looked so uncomfortable!

We had a great time. Thanks for a fun trip mom and dad!

We're having a baby girl!

We are so excited to announce to everyone that we are having a baby girl! I was certain it was a boy (just like last time I was certain it was a girl), so it looks like I'm 0 for 2. Oh well!! We can hardly wait to welcome this new sweet spirit into our home!

Easter Weekend and Easter Egg Hunts

We attempted several Easter egg hunts this year for Brady. Our home owners' association put together an Easter egg hunt for all the kids to take place on Saturday morning @ 11:00am, not at 11:02am as we soon found out. When we arrived there were literally only two eggs left in the infant and toddler area. Well, to put it bluntly, I was a bit peeved (I do have to say that I am about seventeen weeks pregnant and I am WAY hormonal right now :) ). Anyway, I was so bummed that Brady only found two eggs. While John was telling me to chill out, he told me to turn around and look at my son. Brady had found a sprinkler box and was jumping up and down on it and laughing his head off. Well....this was a good learning experience for me as I realized (again) not to sweat the small stuff. He frankly could not have cared less if he had gotten any eggs. Kids are great! They really enjoy the simple things in life. What a great reminder.

Brady, however, did finally get his easter egg hunt as we spent Easter Sunday up at John's parents' house. And again, he really didn't care, but it was a whole lot of fun for John and I to watch him. Thanks for a fun weekend!

Surprise...we're having a baby!

So, yes it's official (I guess it was official three months ago), but we are having a baby. Our baby is due the day before Brady was born (and no we did not plan that) and we are super excited! Wahoo!!!

Valentines Day and Random Brady Pictures...

For Valentine's Day this year, I decided to show my love by going all out to make John's favorite meal...with a little twist...Is there a better way to say I love you than by a heart shaped meat loaf I ask???

I have to say I was impressed by my own handiwork, so I had to take a few pictures. I created the meatloaf masterpiece above, as well as heart shaped croutons and rolls. (This is definitely not going to happen again in the near future). Lots of fun and it all actually tasted pretty good too!!!


Brady trying to get the last dregs of frosting out of my Kitchen Aid bowl. This child takes his food VERY seriously! What a cutie!!!

Christmas and Hawaii!!!

This year for Christmas we split our time between families. We spent the week before Christmas (including Christmas Day) with John's family up in Santa Rosa and then flew to Hawaii with my family for the week after Christmas. We had fun all around. Since I am a horrible 'snapper' and fail to take pictures everywhere, I bummed a few from my mom from our Hawaii trip. It was a blast...kayaking, rope swings, ocean, LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of sand (Brady proved this to me quite early on)...what else could you ask for? Thanks mom and dad for a fun trip!!!

Brady appears to be training for the Olympics...he will be entering the discus throwing event.

This rope swing doesn't appear very impressive, but the top of the rope swing was hanging from a tree about 60ft-70ft. from the water. It was pretty intense and so much fun!!!

My sister and I teamed up to kayak down the river. (John was such a sweet heart and let me go while he stayed back with Brady...He's the man) It started out pretty rough as we couldn't get the hang of going straight and were literally zigzagging across the river while the rest of our family was WAY ahead, but eventually we mastered the paddles and flew past the rest of them (well...sort of, at least that's how I'm going to make the record).

New Years Eve...we stayed up to a whopping 9:00pm and man do we look tired! Woohoo, party animals!!!