a lil update... but dang I forgot mothers day. Maybe i'll post that later. or maybe not....

Kenden is now playing Tee Ball and its one of the cutest things ever. He is starting to really get it and gets better and better everyday

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Brady~ is now 5 months and I can't believe it. He is still such a good baby and so sweet. He's cutting his first tooth, but still has that slobbery smile for me.  I mean how could you not love this face.

And look at those Lashes... I may not of had a baby girl, but I got a beautiful baby boy with long curly lashes.

And what about this face? It cracks me up!!!!!

And who doesn't love a sleeping baby?!

Kenden~ Recently we found out Kenden has horrible vision. Poor guy has been seeing blur for who knows how long. So he got some glasses. I figured he wouldn't like wearing them all the time, that it would take some time getting used too. Um... No, He only takes them off at night. He absolutely LOVES them. His first day wearing them too school, all his friends were asking him why he was wearing glasses and he told them "Cause I can see. Watch (pulling his glasses down then back on repeatedly saying) blurry, clear, blurry, clear."  He also thinks he looks really cool. The other morning driving to school. He starts crying saying "OH NO MOM, I forgot my glasses! Now I'm not gonna be able to see" He was so upset and it broke my heart... so I turned all the way back around and got them.

Look how cute he is...

Tate~ Lil Man Tate Turned 4 on the 14th. I can't believe he's 4. Eric was out of town on his birthday and I wanted it to be special. He had school, it just so happened that they were going on a field trip to a ranch to ride horses. I usually go to the field trips, but I didn't on this one, but it was my turn for snacks so I brought some snack along with cupcakes. So he had a great day at school. While he was at school I decorated our house and wrapped his presents. He was so excited when he saw it. (fyi his favorite color is pink, so i used pink streamers and balloons. You don't even have to say anything. I know....) My friend Kristen was a big help with blowing up all those balloons. It was such a beautiful day we decided to go to the park. We hung out at the park with Kristen and her cute boy Alexander who is 3 weeks older than Brady and our friend Amanda who just had a baby boy on the 19th. After the park, I took all 3 boys BY MYSELF to Red Robin for dinner, cause that's what Tate wanted. Then, we went and saw 'How To Train a Dragon" in 3D. They loved that movie and were so well behaved. It was a rare moment...that I'll cherish always. Brady didn't even make a peep in the theatre. After the movie we came home and had cake and ice cream... He told me that it was the best day ever, and Kenden agreed. I usually always have a big party for my boys, but Tate's birthday just kinda snuck up on me. So I hope it was special enough for him.

Big Thanks to Kristen for this photo. I just realized I didn't get a single picture of him on his birthday. I'm so grateful she did.

  

7 years~ On the 17th my hubby and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary. We didn't do anything big since we had taken our San Diego trip. And we weren't gonna buy each other anything, but my husband surprised me with flowers and a new pair of Nike's that I had been dying for. He drove all over town looking for them too. Then he took me out to eat at Olive Garden. I can't say enough how much I love him, and appreciate him. He is such a hardworking man, who takes the best care for his family, and would do just about anything for me, and us. Love you Eric.

Here are my lovely new shoes they are actually alot brighter than in this pic. The pink is like hot pink!

San Diego

At the end of April beginning of May, we went on a family vacation to San Diego. Well it wasn't the whole family. We left Brady at home with my mom. Which was soooo hard for me, breastfeeding and all. Not too mention he was only 4 months. He did awesome for my mom and picked back up breastfeeding, no problem. I have so many pictures I couldn't post them all, but I'll post a few cool ones.  I have most of them uploaded onto my facebook page so if you want to see them all then go here and here. 

I'll just quickly break down our trip.
~Day 1.  Flew in and got our rental car and settled into our hotel room then played in the water. We stayed at the Catamaran, which was right on Mission Bay and a block from Mission Beach. It was beautiful. I would recomend staying there if you ever go down there. The hotel grounds were covered with cool plants and trees, ponds with huge Coi, and exoctic birds. Inside the Lobby there was  huge rocks and a waterfall. We stayed in the Tower on the 12th floor so we had an awesome view of the Bay and the Beach.

~Day 2.  We went to the Zoo on this day.  We were there most the day and didn't see everything it was so huge. They had moving sidewalks like they do in Airports, but they were up and down more like escalators. My boys love animals. It was so fun seeing how excited they would get over a bird or a monkey. They had a 8 month old Panda. which was my favorite. It was so cute. And apparantly it had slept all day and came out to play right before we got to its exhibit. so we got pretty lucky.

~Day 3.  Sea world day. I was so excited to go to Sea world, I may have been more excited to see Shamu, then my boys.  We went to a seal show, then the Shamu show, and a sesame street show in 4d. Sesame Street was actually really cool! We didn't ride too many of the rides cause some of them you had to be completely dry and well...we were drenched, pretty much the whole day. Kenden made us sit in the 5th row of the shamu show, and the soak zone goes up to row 16. So we got wet... and then of course Kenden was crying cause he didn't want to be wet. (which is weird cause that boy lives in our backyard playing in the kiddy pool all day long soaking his clothes) Anyway, we also got to pet and feed these Bat Rays. They were funny cause they liked  being touched they would swim right by your hand. There was also a shark in there, I can't remember what kind, but Tate got too feed it. Its mouth was like a giant suction cup, It was really weird.

~Day 4.  We went to the Wild Animal Park and played in the Bay. The animal park was even bigger than the zoo. We weren't expecting that so we probably didn't even see a 1/4 of it. We took a train ride out to see a bunch of the animals, I got some really awesome pictures. We walked so much on the previous days we were pretty tired so we went back to our hotel and played in the bay. It was so relaxing! And on that evening we took a boat ride on the Bahia Belle, it was cool cause it was right around sunset. Would have been quite romantic if it was just me and the hubby, but...it wasn't.

~Day 5.  We went home! We had such a good time, but the minute we flew into the Portland Airport I was ready to see my Brady Boy. We had to drive all the way back to Eugene, then I had to wait for my parents to bring him up. 

                                            Kenden and Tate ready for some sun and water

Lioness just kept walking up to the glass!

Shamu show and Petting the Bat Rays

View from our hotel room

Our room was 2nd to top right in the middle

Upon the Bahia Belle

I just thought this picture was awesome. I think at this point Kenden was pretending he was a Cheetah, and Tate was a Parrot.

Thank you everyone that helped out with Brady so we could go on this trip. We greatly Appreciate you.