Wow, I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to post, in fact I ask myself that same question "why does it take me so long to do anything (laundry, dishes, put make-up on, get myself or my son dressed, etc) these days." I guess it's because I spend my day chasing an ever moving toddler around all day and at the end of the day all I want to do is sit on the couch with my husband and relax. All that to say, this is long overdue and I won't bore you with the details, but this pretty much sums up our last few weeks:
In August, we went to Lake Michigan for Braden's first beach trip. As you can see, he loved wallowing in the sand and endlessly dumping it on himself -
The girls and the kiddos -
The boys, Max 2, Braden 13 months and Davis 4 months
Look how
blond my baby is
Max and Braden
life guarding the beach -
In other news, this is how I found Braden last week when I went to get him after his nap. Do you think he needs a haircut?
So we gave the boy a haircut. With a lot of snacks and a lot of distraction, here is the end result...a very grown up, not-so-baby looking little boy. This picture is a little fuzzy, but you get the idea -
On Saturday night we headed to the Tennessee State Fair with our friends for some good "people watching." Perhaps the best sight we saw were two little girls wearing matching air brushed tee-shirts that read "Free my Daddy"with a mugshot picture of their daddy. Actually it was really sad. Here are some of the pictures from the evening -
And finally, on Sunday, Austin and I celebrated 6 amazing years of marriage. We tried everything to get a babysitter for the weekend and had no luck so we decided to stay in, make a nice dinner and grill some steaks and reread our vows (something we do every year on our anniversary) with hopes to go out sometime soon to celebrate. We had a great menu planned, so after a trip to the park with Braden, we headed to the grocery to get the supplies. After we got home, fed Braden, bathed him and put him to bed, we started to make our dinner and quickly realized that we left a bag or two of grocery's at the store.
Sooooo...we had margaritas and steaks and cherry pie. Yep, that's it...so much for a nice dinner. It was actually kinda funny, we felt a little like Napoleon Dynamite with our naked plate and a big fat steak. Here is a picture to remember...and yes we are wearing our work out gear b/c we had been at the park with Braden.
Braden is 14 months old now and as his little bottom reads in this last picture "life is good." Not much to say today, as I'm tired from a crazy weekend w/ lots of friends in town for a wedding. Just wanted to post these pictures and I'll post more from the wedding in a few days. For now, Braden is sleeping and I'm off to take a nap myself.
My parents just recently bought Braden one of those super nice wagons that have the seats and seat belts in them so that an active little toddler can't just fly out the side when he wants to get out and run. We seriously use that thing everyday and Braden thinks it's his new Cadillac. He LOVES to push, pull, flip the seats up and down and crawl in and out of that wagon. Anyway, here are some recent pictures of Braden playing with his new wheels. It also has two seats in there for #2 to sit in there with him. Right now, his teddy bears always travels along for the ride. Thanks mom and dad. 
In other news, Braden has become quite the helper lately, he gets really excited whenever I open the dishwasher and he runs over and takes all the spoons out and walks them over to where I keep our utensils, opens the drawer up and puts (okay, throws) the spoons in there. Seriously, it's great! His new favorite thing is to use the broom and push it all over the house. He actually even knows where I keep it, so I often find him in that closet, digging out the broom. Here are some pictures of Braden looking "too sexy for this broom." Check out those thighs!
The girls and the kiddos -
The boys, Max 2, Braden 13 months and Davis 4 months
Look how blond my baby is
Max and Braden life guarding the beach - 
So we gave the boy a haircut. With a lot of snacks and a lot of distraction, here is the end result...a very grown up, not-so-baby looking little boy. This picture is a little fuzzy, but you get the idea -
On Saturday night we headed to the Tennessee State Fair with our friends for some good "people watching." Perhaps the best sight we saw were two little girls wearing matching air brushed tee-shirts that read "Free my Daddy"with a mugshot picture of their daddy. Actually it was really sad. Here are some of the pictures from the evening -
And finally, on Sunday, Austin and I celebrated 6 amazing years of marriage. We tried everything to get a babysitter for the weekend and had no luck so we decided to stay in, make a nice dinner and grill some steaks and reread our vows (something we do every year on our anniversary) with hopes to go out sometime soon to celebrate. We had a great menu planned, so after a trip to the park with Braden, we headed to the grocery to get the supplies. After we got home, fed Braden, bathed him and put him to bed, we started to make our dinner and quickly realized that we left a bag or two of grocery's at the store. Sooooo...we had margaritas and steaks and cherry pie. Yep, that's it...so much for a nice dinner. It was actually kinda funny, we felt a little like Napoleon Dynamite with our naked plate and a big fat steak. Here is a picture to remember...and yes we are wearing our work out gear b/c we had been at the park with Braden.
